The San Francisco call., 1909-04-11
BAILEY SCORES
TAFT IN SPEECH
ONCENSUS BILL
Says Next Four Years Will Be
''HOt" if President Trys
to Coerce Congress
Declares Executives Training
on Bench Tends TO Make
Him TyrannicaI

WASHINGTON, April 10.-The bill to
provide for the taking of the next census
was passed by the senate today in
form which, IL is understood, will meet
the views OF the president regarding
the appointments for census work un-
der regulations by the civil service
commission.
Asserting that he had heard It re-
ported that President Taft would veto
the pending census bill if it did not
provide for placing the appointments
Of census. employees under the civil
service commission. Senator Bailey in
speech on the bill declared that ifNthe
president had thus early in his ad-
ministration undertaken TO coerce con-
gress he would find that the experience
OF the last sseven years was a holiday
with what the next four years would
be-"
senator Lodge made a spirited reply
70 the Texas senator.
SCORES TAFT'S. TRAINING
Among other things Bailey said:
I am one Of the men who sincerely
hope the president Of the United States
once. I hope his administration will
be an unmiSed blessing TO all the people,
but j do not hesitate TO say that no
man ever had a less desirable prepara-
tion for II than the occupant of that
high Office. He went from the bench.
where the tendency is toward a certain
kind OF tyranny. There is scarcely
federal Judge in the United States of
20 years service who has not become
arbitrary. irritable and sometimes
tyrannical. I do not mean that this eX-
peTience would corrupt him in the
sense Of making him venal, but ii tends
TO corrupt him in the sense that il
teaches him TO oppose his viii against
all obstacles"
FLAYS CIVIL SERVICE LAW
These remarks followed a general de-
nunciation by Bailey Of the civil service
law, which, he declared, he had op-
posed for 20 years as "a humbug and a
pretense." He said that former Presi-
cent Roosevelt had not hesitated to ap-
point men TO public Office within the
classified system upon his own judg-
ment and without examination. Instead
OF appointments being made by politi-
cal bosses. they are now, he said. made
by departmental bosses" If there was
10 be a boss. he preferred a political
boss.
tain member of a legislature had in
1rodUced a resolution framed in lauda-
tory language in relation to the former
president and that later he had had
rhis resolution taken to Roosevelt with
a request that he be given place
and that he was appointed without ex-
animation 10 position paying 81 a
day.
LODGE HINTS AT VETO
Lodge said he did not assume to
speak for President Taft and that any
member Of congress could judge for
himself what the president would likely
30 in the event the bill was passed
with the spoils system included.
Bailey's statement concerning the re-
port that Taft would veto the census
bin if il did not place appointments
under the civil service commission, was
made in speaking upon an amendment
TO the bill, the effect of which would be
10 allow the senators and representa-
tives to name employees of the census.
His amendment was in the exact Ian
guage which caused Roosevelt to veto
the bill at the last session.