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Show BAILEY Of TEXAS fAijjfSIDEIT Plainly Declares That Taft Must Not Undertake-to Coerce Congress. SAYS SERVICE ON BENCH IS BAD PREPARATION Speech Made During Debate on Census Bill Which Passes as Reported. WASHINGTON, April 10. The bill I to provide for the taking of the next census was passed by the senate today in a form which, it is understood, will meet the views of the president regarding regard-ing appointments for census work under regulations by the civil service commission. com-mission. Efforts by" some senators to allow these appointments to be mado upon recommendation of scuators and representatives without examination received but slight support. In a speech Mr. Bailey said it was reported that if the bill as passed did not provide for appointments under the civil service tho president would veto it, and added that if any such "threat" wcro. mado it, would stir up severe criticism criti-cism of tho president. Senator Bailey declared tha,t if tho president "had thus early in his administration ad-ministration undertaken lo coerce congress con-gress ho would find that the experience of tho last seven years was a holiday with what the next'four years would be." Lodge Makes Reply. Senator Lodge mado a spirited reply to tho Texas senator. Among other things, Mr. Bailey said: "I am ono of the men who sincerolv hope that, tho president of the United States will distinguish himself in his great office E hopo his administration will be an unmixed blessing to all tho people, but I do not hesilato to say that no man over had a less desirable preparation prepa-ration for it than the present occupant of that high office. Ho went from the bench, whore tho tendency is toward a certain kind of tyranny. There is scarcely a federal nudge in tho United States qf twenty years' servico who has not become arbitral, irritable and sometimes tyrannical. I do not mean that this experience, would corrupt him in the sonso of making him venal, but it tends to corrupt him in the eoubo that it teaches him to opposo his will against all obstacles." Thcso remarks followed a general denunciation de-nunciation -by Senator Bailey of tho civil service law, which, he declared, ho had. opposed for twenty years as "a humbug and a pretense." Ho stated that former President Roosevelt had 1 not hesitated to appoint men to public oflie.0 within tho classified system upou his own judgment and without examination. exami-nation. Instead of appointments of b5-ing b5-ing mado by political bosses, they aro now, ho said, "made by departmental bosses." If there was to bo a boss ho preferred a political boss. "Taffy" Illustrated. Mr. Bailey said he had hoard that a certain member of a legislature had introduced a rcsoluliou. framed in laudatory language in relation to the former president, and that later he had had this resolution taken to Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt with a request that he bo given a place and that ho was appointed without with-out examination to a posiliou pacing $7 a day. "If any senator doubts that story." said Mr. Bailey, "let him ask Senator Scott of West Virginia whether it is true." Senator Lodge in reph" said the civil service was incomparably superior to the spoils "system, Mr. Lodge said no attempt had been made bv congress to nass the census bill ovor President Roosevelt's veto, for the reason that it could uot bo done. He declared it was evident that everywhere, except in congress, it was recognized that tho classified service was an improvement over what went before. Confidence in Taft. Mr. Lodge said he did not assume to speak for President Taft. and that nnv member of congress could judge for h'nnsolf what the president would be likelv to do in the event tho bill was passed wilh the spoils svslem included. "It is well to remember." ho said, "thai wo aro sending' this bill to a president whose views on the subject of the classified service have been expressed ex-pressed in executive decisions on numerous nu-merous occasions.- Tt is mv belief that ho favors the classified service." Mr. Newlauds indorsed tho bill as reported- Mr. Bailey ' statement concerning the report that Mr. T.-ift would veto tho I census bill if it did not. place appointments appoint-ments under the civil .service cpmmis-sion cpmmis-sion was made in sneaking upon an amendment to the bill proposed bv him. tho effect of which would be to allow senators and representatives to name employees of the census. His amendment, was in the exact language which caused Mr. Koosevolt to veto the bill passed at the last session. Beforo the vote on the Bailey amendment amend-ment was taken Mr. Carter declnred thnt if tho old census b:ll passed bv tho Inst congrrs and vetoed bv Mr. Roosovelt had come before, the senate 1 for another vote ho would have voted j to override the veto of the president. The present bill, ho said, provides for a 1 "special." test oneu to all applicants,! while the old bill was " non-compcl i-I tive." and open only to those designated desig-nated by tho senators and rcpresonta-1 rcpresonta-1 ivos, The Bailov amendment was then defeated. de-feated. Tho bill, without any important import-ant changes from the measure as re- 'Continued on Pngo Two. , .1 BAILEY OF TEXAS WARNS PRESIDENT Continued l''rom Page One. ported to the senate from the committee commit-tee on the census, was then passed. |