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Show TAFT ADMINISTRATION ROASTED BY SPOONER NEW YORK. Juno 3. Former Senator Spooner of Wisconsin appcarod hero ns a critic of tho administration at the dinner last night of the graduates of the. New York Homeopathic college. Mr. Spooner told tho graduates that for many years, while In public life, he had advocated tho appointment of a new cabinet officer one who would have supervision of tho public health but that even then he felt tho position was sure to bo occupied by a politician and that a politician would regulate tho medical profession to death. "I am no statesman." he continued, "and I never pretended to be. T am afraid I do not know whnt a statesman Is. 1 never know that tho president was permitted to do everything that Is not positively prohibited In tho constitution. I have read the oath of ofTIco which ho takes and It specifies that ho Is to execute and not make tho laws. "I never could discover any theory by which the laws must be passod as drawn by the executive department. When you commingle tho executive nnd legislative you destroy the government." |