Riders
additional provisions of a tive assembly, having little connection with the subject-matter of the bill. They in themselves to insure their adoption in are usually without enough specific merit any other way. attached to important bills, in order to Sometimes riders are gain the chance of passage , tive veto, but as a part or proviso of an selves they are likely to incur an execиage, since by themimportant bill they important bill they are absorbed in the the "veto" and the "table."
Appropriation bills are The consequence of this custom is, prac- more than others "saddled with riders." tically, a limitation of the veto power of the executive. It has been proposed frequently that the quently that the Constitution of the that the President could veto single objectionable items, without affecting the main purpose and a navigable depth of 42 feet. The navigable portion with connections to the bore much of bills. commerce in the years following its linking up, but in later years the development of the railroad system took away from its navigation.