The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-16
Objects to Seven Year Term for the Civil Service
 Employees
OPPOSES ABOLITION
 OF COMMERCE COURT
Strong Sentiment in Both Houses Against Continuance of Court. Taft Holds Up Pay of Many
 Officials by His Veto

cratic leaders failed today in their third successive effort to override the Presi- dent when they sought to pass the legis- lative. executive and judicial approprla- ton bill over MT. Taft's veto. The vote, l5S to 107, was 20 short of the requisite two-thIrds of those voting. As result the bill will be taken in hand tomorrow morning and shorn of the provision to which the President objected, fixing seven year tenure for government em- ployes under the civil service, and sent IL on it's way again.
 Sentiment Against Court l The other feature to which the Presl- dent objected. the abolition of the com merce court, will be left in the measure, but the temper of the Senate on this pro gramme is yet to be ascertaned. It Is 1 acknowledged at. both ends of the capitol that there is a strong sentiment against the continuance of the court and ob- ,eefious. by the senate frs tsit Sifss r.'s not expected. So strong IS the sentiment against the tribunal that leaders of both the Senate and House believe if the Pres ident vetoes the bill as changed 1t can be passed over his objection.
 or the vote in the House there were many peculiar changes of front by demo- crats and "insurgent republicans, the lat ter's votes having been the deciding fact ors in passing the wool and steel tarim revision bills over the Presidents veto. Eighteen democrats deserted their party, while 13 '1nsurgent republicans voted with the majority. The democrats were: Allen, Sharp and Whitacre, Ohio, Brant- ley, Georgia; Gurley, Murry, Peters and Thayer, Massachusetts;..D .Donohoe, Penn l sylvania; Hamll, I<inkead, Mccoy, New Jersey; Levy. Sulzer, Talcott, New York; Lobeck, Nebraska. OShaughnessy, Rhode Island; Reilly, Connecticut
 Johnson Leads Fight
 Representative Johnson.s 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 I service in order as he contended, to in crease the efficiency of the government service. No competent clerks would suf- fer in any way, he insisted but it would give heads of departments power and op- portunity to drop incompetents from the federal pay roll. Pleading for the government clerk; former Speaker Cannon twitted the dem ocrats with attempting bogus reform cn defenseless employees in order to strengthen their political fences He charged them with cowardice for such action.
 q am subject to the same cowardice,' MT. Cannon admitted. and l am <criticis- ing myself as much as any other mem Der. There have been times when I was tempted 10 sing that old hymn note, Onward Christian Soldiers" but Re new my courage, Lord"
 Mann Defends Court
 Minority Leader Mann defended the commerce court and termed ridiculous" tnc ction of enc Congress creating snch | tribunal only to knock 1t down at succeeding Congress before the system had been tried out. Representative Fitz- gerald 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 came close to jmpertinence.
 The Presidents Letter The President wrote in part
 When 1T is thought wise by Congress to include i1 general supply bills sub- staItial improvement Legislation and the executive cannot approve of such legisla- tion 1t is his constitutional duty to re- tuln the bill with his objections and the responsibility for the delay in the appro- priatio of he necessary expenses to run the government cannot rest upon the ex- ecutiye but must be put where 1t belongs, ppon the majority in each house of Con- gross. which hts departed from the ordi- nary course end united with an appro- rriation bill aCmendments to substantive law The importance and absolute ne- cessity of furnishing funds to maintain and operate the government cannot be Used by the Congress to force upon the executive acquiescence in permanent leg station which he cannot conscientiously approve.
 'I am utterly opposed to the abolition Of q court because it's decisions may not always meet the approval of a majority uf the iegislaiure It is introducing a re- call of the judiciary which in i.s way is quite as objectionable ts the ordinary popular method proposed"
 Amendment Defeated
 Washington. August 15.-The House voted, 90 to 93 tonight against ,concurring to the senate's amendments to the bili re-codifyipg the laws relating to the ju- dietary by striking out the House provi- sion compelling the publication by the President of the names of the indorsers of candidates for the federal bench. There was considerable excitement on the democratic side when the roll call neared