The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-17
ROBSON NOT
 DISCOURAGED Alabamian Stillf ,eeking
 Retiregys 1t.
 70, GETS LEAY, OF ABSENCE
 $-- He Will Then Go Before An
 other Board. Condition of His Eyes is Such That It Is Believed That He Will
 Be Taken from tho Active List.

Washington. June 1s.-(Special. .)-Late developments here indicate that Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson has his heart set on retiring from the navy and that he will leave no stone unturned in his efforts to have matters arranged as he wants them.
 Instead of being discouraged by the ao- ton of the House Naval Affairs Commit tee in refusing to report the bill provid- ing for his retirement, on account or ms eyes. he has set to work on another tack and will ask to be allowed to appear again before retiring board. believing that notwithstanding the adverse action of the board before which he appeared only few months ago. he will be able to demonstrate that the condition of his eyes warrants his retirement He has been granted three months leave of ab- sence from his post at Elizabethport, N. J.. where he Is at present supervising the construction of torpedo cratt. ana at the end of that time he will, unless something occurs to prevent go peiore another board.
 It is freely stated here, although not officially, that if he is not allowed to re- tire this time, he will resign. preferrine to do this rather than wait until the next session of Congress for action on the bill providing for his retirement. which bill has the approval of the President.
 That Hobson wishes to enter AlsIbams politics is regarded as certain, and while some think that he wishes to be can- didate for the State Senate, others are still of the opinion that he wishes to op- pose Representative Bankhead of the Sixth District.
 Constructor Hobson appealed today to Secre Moody for a three month leave of absence. The Secretary con- ferred about this application with Ad- mIral Taylor. Constructor Bowles and Surgeon-General Rixey and decided to allow the leave. It is reasonably certain that Robson cannot remain in active ser vice. At the expiration of the three months leave, if his eyes have not ma terially improved, he will be ordered be- fore another retiring board and 1t is be- lieved he will this time be retired.
 Miss Taylor's Dismissal.
 The fact that the laws governing the employes in the classified civil service of the government may be set aside when ever it's suits the pleasure of officials was demonstrated this morning when the House by almost a strict party vote. laid on the table Representative Shallenber- gers resolution calling on the Secretary of War for the cause and reasons of the dismissal of Rebecca J. Taylor, the War Department clerk, whom Root ordered removed because she wrote and published in a local newspaper an article criticizins the administration policy in the Philip pines.
 Chairman Gllett of the House Com mittee on reform of the civil service. re- ported the resolution this morning recommending that it be laid on the table.
 The Democrats demanded the yeas and nays, and all the Republicans present with three exceptions, voted to adopt the report. Cromwell. McCleary and Miner voted with the Democrats.
 Miss Taylor was never formally charged with any offense SO that she could make answer thereto as Is provided for in the civil service regulations. so that her dis mssal was clearly a violation of both the letter and spirit of the law. and showed that persons employed by the government may not expect to exercise the right of free speech.
 With his report Gillette submitted a letter from Root, written Saturday, in which. after attempting to excuse the plain violation of the law. the following statement is made:
 No head of a department can main tain effective administration if he is obliged to depend on the services of the clerks who are so violently opposed to the success of the work in which they are engaged, that they are unable to re- frain from publishing Accommodation of the purpose of the work and public insult to the President"
 Even some of the Republicans who voted to adopt the committee report, ad- init that Roots action in dismissing the clerk was a mean one, and one for which