The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-25

! chised one-third of the people of the United States in the matter of the ad- ministration of the federal laws in their midst"
 A Denial of Right.
 The present system Was. he said. denial of the right of the people in this respect, and the denial, sad Mr. Bacon was felt especially In the South. It never had been intended by the framers of the government that any community should be deprived of the right to be consulted in the selection of federal off, fcials any more than in State or county offices.
 In the State of Georgia. with 2,5OO. GOO people, he said there is not a single off, ticeholder with exception of an occasion- al postmaster, who would have been se-' lected by the people of the State. The State also Is without a single represen- tative in the consular service. What was | true of Georgia was practically true of every Southern State. Instead of con- sulting the Southern Senators about ap- pointments, the Federal authorities pass | them by and consult three Republican referees, men who represent nobody and are appointed by no one in the State and men who would not be sele ted by the State.
 Would any Republicans be elected there?" asked Mir. Spooner. Mir. Bacon answered in the negative, and when MT. Spooner. pursuing the in quiry further, asked if there were no good ones there. he replied Every few" Mir. Hoar asked whether if Mir. Bacon had been President instead of Mir. Cleve- land, he would have appointed all Re publican officeholders on the advice of the Republican Senators from Massachu- setts. but Mir. Bacon did not make dire t reply. He said that the division should be along lines of intelligence and charac- ter rather than of partisanship. Where there are normal divisions" he said, 'the party in power should appoint men of their own faith"
 Appointment of Judges.
 Mir. Hoar said that since the retirement of Mir. Cleveland the nominations to ju- dicial positions in the South had had the endorsement of Senators from Southern States, and Mir Bacon admitted this had l been the practice in most cases. He made the point however, that the judi cial positions are comparatively few in number.
 Mir. Bacon added that 1t was due the present President to say that he had asked him (Mr. Bacon) to inform him in case he knew of anything detrimental to an appointee. but that he had not been able to do SO as he knew nothing about intended appointments until names were sent in. Mir. Bacon disclaimed any desi~e to control appointments because of the patronage itself. but said that his only in terest was that of securing competent of- l fcials.
 In his illustration of his point that the South Is practically disfranchised in Fed eral appointments. Mir. Bacon said that only one of the 1sthmian Canal Commis- sioners Is from the South and that of the nine members of the Supreme Court only two are from the South.
 Mir. Hoar said that New England Is un, represented on the Canal Commission and MT. Bacon replied that if that was the case 1t was worth noting, for 1t was very rarely that New England is over. looked in such matters.
 MT. Bacon also said that notwithstand ing the South pays Its share of the taxes practically all the money expended on ac count of pensions Is distributed in tn, Northern States. The Senate then at 5:2 p m. went into executive session and a 5:25 adjourned