The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06


 of the unusually large number of nomi- nations made by President Roosevelt which were not confirmed by the Senate This was regarded as showing that the Chief Executive was not enjoying the best gof relations with the members of the majority in the upper House, and a glance at the record of the legislation :. which he recommended and Congress failed to act on shows that this lack of harmony was not confined to the Senate.
 The assertion that the number of non- combinations on the part of the Senate exceeds the number of similar cases dur ing the administration of any other one President is a very broad one, but it is borne out by the facts. The Senate ab- solutely rejected the nominations of Messrs. Harvey and Harbert as postmas- ters at Ladonia and Commerce, Texas, respectively, and in addition to these it failed to confirm nineteen other post mastership appointments. Among these was that of Frank A. Posey at Baton Rouge, La.. against whom charges have been made and who Is not expected to be favored with recess appointment be-
 
 Senate would act adversely when it be- gins the short session next fall.
 Another man who will not be made q recess appointee. notwithstanding the fact that his name was sent to the Sen- ate some time ago and was not favorably acted on, is George c. Rooster, who as- pires to be Collector of Internal Revenue for South Carolina. The charges against Rooster and Posey are said to be identi- cal. namely. that they have both been leaders of mobs which lynched negroes. There are also large number of other appointees to various Federal offices who were not confirmed by the Senate and who may have to wait until the next session of Congress for any action on their cases.
 When the matter of the failure of Con- gress to enact legislation recommended by the President, is considered 1t will be seen that MT. Roosevelt has been turned down. in a variety of ways. The fact of the matter Is that the President, impul- sive, as every one who knows him knows him to be, accepted practically all of the suggestions made to him last fall with respect to the m alter to be contained in his message. Some Republican would go to the White House and suggest this or that and the President would say: Cap ital! I'll use that in my message" or Delighted! That's just the thing to make an impression on the country # used in my message" etc. The result was that when he actually commenced the preparation of his message he found that he could not use more than half of the suggestions that he had adopted with out any urging. But, even after he had finished sitting his original list, there still remained enough matter to fill forty six pages, whereas most Presidents have in the past occupied only from twenty eight to thirty-eigi1t. What he actually did recommend was legiglatton:
 Against anarchisnn.
 For government supervision of corpora
 For .pubiictty' fin the affairs of trusts
 Creating a Department of Commerce and Industries.
 For inc further exclusion of Chinese.
 Protecting free labor from the compe- tition of convict contract labor.
 For an eight-hour day, capable of being strictly enforced.
 For factory regulation in the district of Columbia.
 City.
 Further restricting immigration by ed- ucational and economic tests.
 Establishing reciprocal trade relations with foreign countries. .',
 subsidIzinR the merchant marine.
 For a currency more responsive to tnc demands of trade"
 Amending the interstate commerce laws
 For the protection of the forest re- serves.
 Transferring all the scientific bureaus to the Department of Agriculture.
 Establishing a national irrigation sys- tenn.
 For the better administration of the public lands in Hawaii and Porto Rico.
 Reducing the tariff duties on Cuban su- gar imported into the United States.
 Providing for a system of civil govern ment in the Philippines.
 For a cable to Hawaii and the Philip pines.
 For an isthmian canal.
 increasing the navy, both ships and per sonnel.
 Creating a general army staff.
 Reorganizing the militia.
 For a civil service system in the Dis- trict of Columbia.
 Reforming the consular service.
 To break up the tribal relation. compel independence and sateguaro marriage among the Indians. To protect the aboriginal races from the liquor traffic. For the encouragement of the Charles ton and St. Louis sxpositions. To relieve the urgent needs or the Smithsonian Institution, the National Mu- scum and the 'Zoo." For A permanent census of1ce. To extend the rural free delivery ser vice In support of the attempted reform of second class postage abuses Reimbursing Mexico for the Well and | La Abra claims. It must be admittef that this is very | long list, and, as has before been stated, | nearly one-half of the matters originally | decided on by the President were reject l ed before this list was made. And large | number of the various pieces of legisla- tion mentioned above were utterly ignor- | ed by Congress. The reason for the lack | of action on some of these has no con | nection with the feeling in Congress to- | ward the President but in many other in- | stances the opposite is the case. The list of matters which were urged | by the President in his message and not | handled by Congress during the session, | must, of course, be headed with the Cu- | ban reciprocity bill. which was by far the | most important from the Republican l point of view. Nothing was done regard | ing the recommendation regarding trusts | and nothing was done with the anarchy | Dill, that is to say, the bill was never | finally gotten through. although 1t was | passed by both houses and there was | plenty Of time given the Conference |