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Show Is, by providing that .the examination Bball be made competitive. "I alBO recommend that If provision provis-ion Is made that the census printing work may bo dono outside the government govern-ment printing office, It shall be explicitly ex-plicitly provided, that i the government govern-ment authorities shall see that the eight hour law Is applied in effective faBhlon to these outside offices. "Outside o these matters, I believe that the bill Is on the whole, satisfactory satisfac-tory and represents an Improvement upon previous legislation on the sub' Ject". VETOES THE: ; ' DIL President Says Work Should Be Bone on Competitive Com-petitive Basis. , Washington. Feb. 5. "The evil effects ef-fects of the system and of the customs of treating appointments to the public service as personal perquisites of professional pro-fessional plans are peculiarly evident in the case of a great public work like the taking of the. census, a work which should amicabiy be done for the whole people and with an eye single to their interest." In these words. President Roosevert today summed up a messago to the house returning without his approval the bill providing for the taking of the census because the provision provided that the appointments should be taken on the basis of noncompetitive ex- aminatlona. The reference of tho President to a division of the spoils "without a fight by the persons" provoked general laughter. After providing for a reprint of the census bill, as it passed the house, the house adjourned, thus postponing action on the message. The President says ne vetoes the bill with extreme reluctance, realizing realiz-ing the value of time in beginning the census, but declares It is to high Interest In-terest that it shall be conducted wltn care, that it shall not be open to suspicion sus-picion of bias on personal or political grounds, or to bring a waste of the people's money or a fraud. "Section 7 of the act," ho eayB, "provides "pro-vides in effect that appointments to the census shall be under the spoils system, for this is the real meaning of the provision that they shall bo subject only to non-competitive examination. ex-amination. The provision is added that they shall be selected without regard to political part affiliations. But there Is only one way to guarantee that they shall be selected without regard re-gard to politics and on merit, and that is by choosing them after com-petive com-petive examination from the list of ellglbles provided by the civil service commission." Continuing, the message says: "To provide that the clerks and other oth-er employes shall be appointed after noncoinpetitlve examination and yet to provide that thoy shall be selected without regard to political party affiliation, af-filiation, means merely that the appointments ap-pointments shall be treated as the perquisites per-quisites of the politicians of both parties, par-ties, instead of as the perquisites of the politicians of one party. I don't believe in tho doctrine that to the victor vic-tor belongs the spoils, but I think even less of tho doctrine that the spoils shall be divided without a fight by the professional politicians on both sides; and this would be the result of permitting per-mitting the bill in its present shape, to become a law. Both of tho last censuses, tho eleventh and the twelfth were taken under s provision of law excluding competition; that Is, necessitating neces-sitating the appointment being made under the spoils system. Every man competent to speak with authority bo-cause bo-cause of his knowledge and familiarity with the work of those censuses has state'd that the result was to produce extravagance and demoralization." After quoting from official reports on the support of his position, the President continues: "In view of the temporary character charac-ter of the work, it would be well to waive the requirements of the civil service law as regards geographical apportionments, but tho appointees should be chosen by competitive examination ex-amination from the lists provided by the civil service commission. The noncompetitive non-competitive examination In the caso like this is not only vicious, but Is In effect a fraud upon the public. No essential change is effected by providing provid-ing that it be conducted by the civil service commission, and to provide that the employes shall be accepted without regard to political party affiliations af-filiations is empty and misleading; unless, at the same time, It is made effective In the only way In which It ' isposslble to make It effective, that |