Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-16
were SHY TWENTY Votes
EIGHTEEN DEMOCRATS DESERT.
Ed PARTY AND VOTED WITH
REPUBLICANS.
BILL Will Be CHANGED


WASHINGTON, Aug 15.--Honss
democratic leaders failed today In
their third successive effort to over
ride the president. when they sought
to pass the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill over Mr..
Taft's veto. The vote, l53 to 1O7, was
20 short OF the required two-thirds
OF those voting, as a result the bill
Will be taken In hand tomorrow morn
ing, shorn Of the provision to which
the president objected, fixing
seven years tenure for government
employees under the civil service. and
sent on It's way again.
The other feature to which the
president objected. the abolition OF
the commerce court, will be left in
the measure but the temper OF tho
senate on this program Is yet to be
Gscertained. II Is acknowledged at
both ends OF the capital that there is
strong sentiment against the cons
tinuance Of he court and objection by
the senate for this reason Is not ex-
pected SO strong Is the sentiment
against the tribunal that leaders Of
both the senate and house believe II
the president vetoes the bill as
changed II can be passed over his
objection.
In the vote In the house there were
many peculiar changes OF front by
damocrot. and in,urgant ranuhtfcopg
the latters' votes having been the de-
Gliding factors IN passing the wool and
steel tariff revision bills over the
pi Presidents veto. Eighteen democrats
deserted their party. while thirteen
insurgent republicans voted with the
majority. The democrats were:
Allen, Sharp, Whitacre. Ohio;
Brantley. Georgia.; Curley. Murray.
Peters, Thayer, Massachusetts; Dom
chue, Pennsylvania: Hamill. Kin
kead. Mccoy. New Jersey; Levy. Sui
zer. Talcott, New York; Lobeck, Me-
braska; O'Shaughnessy, Rhode Is-
land; Reilly Connecticut.
Representative Johnson, a member
OF the appropriations committee. led
the fight to pass the bill over the
veto. He laid stress on the necessity
for engraftlng the sevenyear tenure
reform on the civil service in order,
as he contended. to increase the eff
ficiency of the government service.
Nc competent clerks would suffer in
any way, he insisted but 1t would give
heads Of departments power and op-
portunity to drop incompetents from
the pay roll.
Pleading for the government clerk.
former Speaker Cannon twltted the
democrats with attempting n bogus
reform on defenseless employees In or
der to strengthen their political fences.
He charged them with cowardice for
such action.
81 am subject to the same coward-
ioe," Mr.. Cannon admitted. And 7
om crlticizing myself as much as any
other member. There have been
times when l was tempted to sing
that old hymn not Onward Christian
Soldier but Renew My Courage.
Lord"
Minority Leader Mann defended The
commerce court and termed as ridlcu-
luus action of one congress creating
such a tribunal only to knock II down
at succeeding congress before the
system had been tried out Represen-
tative Fitzgerald Of New York retort-
ed that the court was the Single pet
idea of the chief executive of the
United States" He added that the
PRESIDENTS criticism Of the house for
putting general legislation on an APP
rropriation bill 'came close to lmper-
Thence"