The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-22
SURE TO SCRAP
UNTIL THE END
No Hope of Peace Between
Congress and President Dur
ing Remainder of Term.
PROPAGATION VERY GREAT
SENATE MAY REFUSE TO CON-
FIRM NOMINATIONS.
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Washington, Dec. 2i.-A prominent west
ern senator. who is an ardent supporter
OF President Roosevelt, said today;
i regret exceedingly that controversies
are continually arising between the pres
ident and congress. | can see nothing
for the coming two months but contin-
nous scrapping between the executive and
the legislative bodies, with all kinds of
unpleasant recriminations. | hoped to
see President Roosevelt end his wonder
full term as president in harmony with
congress. and il Is "A matter of much
sorrow TO me that this is not to be the
case"
The fears of this senator seem to be
we'll justified. for sufficient grounds of
contention have arisen since congress
opened TO keep it busy for the rest of
the session. There is the dIndignified
lating TO the employment of secret serv-
i've officers. There is the controversy
over Panama, which congress may inves-
tigate There is the Colonel Stewart
case, growing out of the detail of this
officer to an unoccupied army post in
Arizona and his subsequent retirement
matters, the long list of squabbIes over
appointments
Patronage Scraps
To start with. on this phase of the
question, the president has Withdrawn
from the patronage of congress thou
sands of fourth-claSS postmasters in four
states and virtually applied civil. service
rules to fOurth-ciasS appointments in all
OF the states. in so much as a postmaster
whose record is satisfactory TO the de-
partment is to be retained in office re-
gardless of the wishes of the congress
man of his respective district. In some
instances in making important appoint
ments the president has departed from
the usual rule of consulting senators and
and recently he made an
MIA without consulting the senators of
that state or the representative of the
district in which the appointment was
made. Within the present week the pres
ident fatty refused 10 appoint Paul
GrOsscup as collector of internal revenue
for the district of West Virginia, al
though he was endorsed for the post by
both of the West Virginia senators. and
instead appointed his own selection,
George e. Work. This action will prob
ably align the West Virginia senators
against the confirmation of Work. and
the place possibly viii be tied up until
after the An of March. The nomination
of Oscar r. Hundley TO be the United
States district judge for the northern
Alabama district is being contested by the
senators for that state. who have sue
eeeded in preventing the confirmation
of this appointment for two years past,
Opposition to Keefe.
Opposition has also developed TO the
tItSiutnN u D DDnneliN
as public printer and to the nomination
Of ID. J. Keefe as immigration commits
siOner.
II the tension continues between con-
Sress and the president, appointees and
appoinsees will have a hard row
TO hoe during the coming two months.
The senate will refuse to confirm pres- !
Dental nominations and the president will
refuse to appoint candidates endorsed by
members of the senate. As stated by the
western senator. prospects for a peaceful |
ending OF the presidential term of Mr.. |
Roosevelt are not very encouraging.