The Washington herald., 1911-08-10
TAFT WILL VETO
STATEHOOD BILL
to Express Disapproyal in
No Uncertain Tone.

During the next few long summer even
ings when President Taft will be work
ing in the White House study with Secre-
| tary Hiles his efforts will be centered
| upon a message to Congress to accom-
pany his veto of the Statehood bill.
President Taft will veto the bill He
will veto it because of the provision for
the recall of the judiciary, and he will
indite a message to Congress to send
along with it which will register in no
uncertain terms his absolute and uncom-
| promising opposition to any plan which
will place the judiciary of the country
| under threat of recall.
1t is possible that Congress will over
ride his veto. House leaders declare that
| this will certainly be done there. The
vote in the Senate, Sc to Is, by which the
measure was passed, indicates that there
is serious probability of the bill being
passed over his veto there, though Senate
leaders say that two-thirds vote cannot
be secured on such a proposition. But
what Congress may do is not concerning
President Taft to-day, so far as his pol
icy with regard to the recall provision Of
the Arizona constitution is concerned.
His veto will be prompt and emphatic.
The Statehood bill will probably be the
first measure of the extra session. fol-
lowing reciprocity, which will be placed
before him. He will open his fight i'm
mediately upon it. Arizona and New
Mexico will not become States so long
as the recall feature is kept in the Ari-
zona constitution, If President Taft can
possibly help 1t.
The vote upon the bill in the Senate,
winch was placed before him in detail,
surprised him a good deal. The vote on
the bill was 56 to 1S The vote on the
nelson amendment, which provided for
the elimination of the recall provision,
was 43 to %. That so many Senators
should have waived their opnosition n
the recall principle simply to secure the
passage of the bill seems incomprehcn
siole to Mr.. Taft. There is a provision
IN the bill that the judiciary recall shall
again be voted on by the people of Ari-
zona as a separate proposition but this
plan does not satisfy Mr. Taft. He is
opposed to the recall Of judges as a dam
gerous principle, and does not consider
that 1t should under any circumstances
be allowed in a State constitution
Representative Flood, of Virginia.
chairman of the House Committee on
territories, who sponsored the resolu-
ton In the House, called at the White
House yesterday and discussed the mat
ter with the President. He professed to
be greatly surprised at Mr. Tafts at
'ituuo anu dSSeFleu tndt ne na0 under
stood when the resubmission provision
was added to the bill in the House that
Mr.. Taft had waived his opposition He
said that he believed that all Mr. Taft
wished was to be freed from approving
the recall provision, and that II could
be shown beyond doubt by a sepa-
rate vote that the people of Arizona
wanted 1t placed In their constitution
themselves. This was the reason for
placine the resubrnission provision IN the
bill
He added that the House would stand
by the bill as II was, and could pass It
over the >President's veto. He asserted
further that the House would not accept
such provision as the Nelson resolu-
ton eliminating the recall provision nor
consider any suggestion for new bill.
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