The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-16
DEMOCRATS FAIL ID
 RE-PASS JUDICIAL BILL
LACK TWENTY VOTES OF ENOUGH TO OVERRIDE VETO
 OF THE PRESIDENT.

Washington. Aug. l5,-House demo- cratic leaders failed today in their third successive effort to override the president when they sought to pass the legislative, executive ana judicial appropriation bill over MT 1'kffs veto. The vote, 153 to l07, was twenty short of the required two thirds of those voting As a result, the bill will be taken in hand tomor row morning, shorn of the provision to which the president objected fix ing a seven lear tenure for govern ment employees under the civil service, and sent on its way again.
 The other feature to which the president objected. the abolition of the commerce court, will be left in the ate on this program is yet to be as certained. 1t is acknowledged at both ends of the capitol that there is a strong sentiment against the eontin uance of the commerce court and ob iection by the senate for this reason is not expected.
 So strong is the sentiment against the tribunal that leaders of both the senate and house believe if the presi- dent vetoes the bill as changed 1t can Dc passed over his objection
 In the vote in the house there were many peculiar changes of front by democrats and "insurgent" republi- cans, the latters votes having been the deciding factors in passing the wool and steel tariff revision bills over the presidents veto. Eighteen demo- oTats deserted their party while thlr- teen 'fnsurgent" republicans voted with the majority. The democrats were: Allen, Sharp, Whitacre. Ohio, Brantley, Georgia; Curley, Murray, Peters and Thayer, Massachusetts. nCnohoe, Pennsylvania; Hamill, Kin kaid, Mccoy. New Jersey; Levy. Sul- ger New York: Lobeck, Nebraska; c'Shaughnessy, Rhode Island 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 engrafting the seven year tenure reform on the civil service. in order, as he contended, to increase the effi- cieney of the government service. No competent clerks would suffer in any way. he insisted. but it would give heads of departments power and op portunity to drop incompetents from the pay roll.
 Pleading for the government clerk. former Speaker Cannon twitted the democrats with attempting a bogus reform on defenseless employees in order to strengthen their political fences. He charged them with cow ardice for such action.
 T am subject to the same coward ice" Mir Cannon admitted And am criticising 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 ridiculous" action of one congress creating such a tribunal only to knock l5 down al a succeeding congress be- fore the system had been tried out Representative Fitzgerald of New York retorted 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 appropriation bill "eame close to i'm ] pertinence."