The Washington times., 1911-03-10
JUDGE VAN ORDSEt
SCORES PRESIDENT
Censures Dictation to Con-
gress What Bills Shall Be
Voted Upon.
DISCUSSES EXTRA
SESSION THREAT
Views With Alarm Tendency of
Executive Branch to Dictate
to Legislative. 81:

Claiming that President Taft is ig-
noring the principles upon which the
United States Government is founded
when he dictates to Congress what bills
shall be voted upon, Justice ]. A. Van
OrsdeI of the District Court of Appeals,
in an address delivered at the Bachelor
Club banquet in me Y. NJ. c. A. last
night, took occasion to criticise the Ma
TONS Chief Executive.
II look with alarm on the tendency
Of the executive branch OF the Govern
ment to dictate TO. the legislative
branch" declared Justice Van Orsdel.
warmly 1T is a new thing in this
country and 1 do not believe 1t was
intended that the Executive should say
tn Congress-: You pass this law or I'll
call an extra session and compel you
to stay here till you do pass It l. as
q member Of the judiciary, may have
goAe beyond the bounds Of preprtety
making this criticism, but I am sure
that that theory was not the one on
which our Government was founded
Drift Toward Socialism.
Justice Van Orsdel said that the ex-
ecutive. legislative and judicial branches
Of the Government should be kept sep
arate and that the present tendency to
make them overlap should be aban-
dOned.-
Before entering upon discussion or
the extra session threat, the justice de-
cIared that he had become alarmed
at the tendency of this country to drift
toward socialism He claimed that the
so-caIIed democracy of the present day
Is a getting-away from restriction and
that there is a tendency to relegate
everything to the individual person. He
opposed the direct election of Senators
the iniatiative, the referendum ana the
recall
the Y NJ. c. A. preceded Justice Van
OrsdeI and made reference to the pro
test of some OF the members OF the
Bachelors Club against the renting OF
one of the association dormitorfes 10
:.Tbe gossip of a. few men has placed
us in a compromising position with me
DeopIe We have befriended. SAID MI
Cooper dispatches, letters ana news
papers, dealing with the Incident nave
come to US from all parts OF tne ., cIun
trv, and l expect that Then aoViceS
reach Asia we will hear from there.
Regrets Chinese Incident
Mr. Cooper referred TO the PrOte9I
against the Chinese Y. NJ. Q? A. worker
as "a most regrettable incident. TO
Further emphasize how the washington
Y. NJ. c. A. is watched throughout the
country, he said that during the last
few days fifteen papers had printed pic
lures cf the building in connection with
an articLa about certain Senator nv
ing there. Senator Lorimer occupies a
6ormftory- in the Y NJ. C, A, MI.
Sooper said that the men in the build
ing must cooperate with the officers TO
maintain the good name OF the assocla-
ton. ,,uaI
dinner for the men living in the assocla-
tion building. Besides Justice van Ors-
del and Mr.. Cooper, W. o. H1ltabidle'
bcuse secretary, made an address
John r. Kennedy, president Of the
RacheIprs' Club, was toastmaster: VIII
liam Radford, who was referred to by
the toastmaster as a paradox, an. Eng
Iisbnan who could see the point Of a
ioke- gave several humorous readings.
Nessrs. Hull and Brown presented sew
erai parodies on popular songs, working
in the names of the men living in the
! building.