The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11
SENATE PASSES
THE CENSUS BILL
Senator Bailey Attacks Civil
Service Law, but Finds
Few Supporters.
ALLEGED THREAT BY TAFT
WHAT WILL HAPPEN If HE FOL-
LOWS ROOSEVELT.

z washington April IV-ihe uih III
!. to provide for the taking of the ::
I. next census was passed by the -
:, senate today in a form, which, II :. :
Z. is understood. will meet the views :: I
:. of the president regarding ap- =
:. continents for census work under :"
!. regulations by the civil service -
: commission Efforts by some SEN =
!: ators to allow these appointments =
:: to be made upon recommendation = q
:: of senators and representatives = I
:. without examination received but = 7
: slight support
- In a speech, Mr.. Bailey said II :.
:. was reported that # the bill, as
:. passed, did not provide for APP "
:. pointments under the civil service ."
:. the president would veto il, and -
:. added that if any such threat :"
:. were made it would stir up severe ::
:. criticism of the president ."
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Washington, April 10.-Asserting that
he had heard il reported that President
Taft would veto the pending census
bill if it did not provide for placing the
appointments of census employees UNI
der the civil service commission, Sen
ator Bailey, in j speech on the bill to-
day, declared that if the president had /
thus early in his administration under |
taken to cOerce congress, he would find /
that the experience Of the last seven /
years was a holiday with what the next |
four years would be"
Senator Lodge made a spirited reply
to the Texas senator.
Hopes for the Best.
Among other things. Mr.. Bailey said;
Il am one of the men who sincerely
hope that the president of the United
States viii distinguish himself in his
great office. I hope his administration
will be an unmixed blessing to all the
people, but I do not hesitate TO say
that no man ever had a less desirable
preparation for it than the present Oc-
cupant of that high Office. He went
from the bench, where the tendency is
toward a certain kind of tyranny. There
/ is scarcely a federal judge in the United
/ States of twenty years service who has
not become arbitrary, irritable and
/ sometimes tyrannical. ] do not mean
that his experience would corrupt him
in the sense of making him venal, but
it tends to corrupt him in the sense
that it teaches him to oppose his will
against all obstacles
That, and the power to advise con-
gress. is the power he has"
Civil Service Law Denounced.
These remarks followed a general de-
lnunciation by Senator Bailey of the
r civil service law, which, he declared, he
had opposed for twenty years as "a
humbug and a pretense." He stated
that former President Roosevelt had
not hesitated to appoint men to public
Office within the classified system upon
his own judgment and without exam
/ inatiOn. Instead Of appointments be-
B. ing made by political bosses. they are
, now, ne said, made by departmental
t bosses" If there was TO be a boss, he
preferred a political boss.
Mr.. Bailey said he had heard that a
certain member of a legislature had
J introduced a resolution framed in laud-
% atOry language in relation to the for
mer president. and that later he had
. had this resolution taken to Mr.. Roose-
welt with request that he be given a
p place, and that he was appointed with
= out examination to a position paying
I 81 a day.
! IF any senator doubts that story,
+ said Mr.. Bailey, let him ask Senator
g Scott of West Virginia whether it is
true"
Reply of Senator Lodge.
II Senator Lodge, in reply, said the civil
J
! the spOils system. Mr.. Lodge said n,
! attempt had been made by congress t,
pass the census bill over Presiden
- ROOsevelts veto. for the reason that i
. could not be done. He declared it wa
: evident that everywhere except in con
,e gress ii was recognized that the classi
fed service was an improvement owe
II what went before.
\ Mr.. Lodge said he did not assume {
3 speak for President Taft, and that an
sr member of congress could judge 70
le himself what the president would b
- likely to do in the event the bill wa
ID passed with the spofls system included
1T is well to remember" he saiC
d that we are sending this bill to a pres
IS ident whose views on the subject of tn
- classified service have been eXpresse
" in executive decisions on numerous OC
ID lcasions It is my belief that he favor
e. the classified service"
& Mr.. Newlands endorsed the bill as To
ported.
he 6aiIey's Amendments.
II, Mr.. Bailev's statement concerning II
- report that Mr.. Taft would veto Il
n census bill if it did not place appoin
s. ments under the civil service commits
We sion was made in speaking upon a
u amendment to the bill proposed by hiT
81
&c senator's and representatives to nan
nc employees of the census. His amen,
n ment was the exact language whiC
m caused Mr.. Roosevelt to veto the b
ne passed at the last session.
~ Before the vote on the Bailey ament
nent was taken, Mr.. Carter declare
that il the OLD census bill passed by Il
last congress and vetoed by Mr.. ROos
welt had come before the senate f
another vote, he would have voted
override the veto Of the president. II
present bill, he said. provides for
special test open TO all applicant
while the old bill was "non-compet
49, tive" and open only to those desi
30 mated by the senators and represent
tives.
The Bailey amendment was then d
feated. The bill. without any impo
tant changes from the measure as ?
ported to the senate from the comm
tee on the census, was then passed.