The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-22
THIRD VETO HOLDS
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND
JUDICIAL BILL RETURNED
BY PRESIDENT.
BILL TO BE MODIFIED
shorn OF Provision Limiting Term Of
Civil Service Jobs-Court's
Abolition Insisted
Upon.


Washington, ID. C.-House Demo.
cratic leaders failed in their third
successive effort to override the presi.
dent when they sought to pass the
legislative, executive Snd judicial bill
over Mr.. Taft's veto, which was re.
turned to them. The 1853 to 107 was
20 short of the requisite two-thirds
Of those voting. AS a result, the bill
will be taken in hand again, shorn
OF the provision to which the presi-
dent objected, that fixing a ~seven-year
tenure for government employees un-
der 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 measure. but the temper of the
senate on this program Is yet to be
a~scertained. 1t is acknowledged at
both ends OF the capitol that there is
a strong sentiment against the con
tinuance of the court, and objection
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, it
can be passed over his objection. In
the vote in the house there were
many peculiar changes of front on the
part Of the Democrats and insurgent
RAnnhtirono tho Iaffarta t,ztoa l. ary;oD
been the deciding factors in passing
the wool and steel tariff revision bills
oye the presidents veto. Eighteen
Democrats deserted their party on the
roll call, while Is insurgent Republi-
cans voted with the majority. The
Democrats were:
The Vote.
ALLEN, Sharp and Whitacre, Ohio:
Brantley, Georgia; Curley, Murray,
Peters and Thayer. Massachusetts,
Donohue, Pennsylvania; Hammil,
Kinkaid, Mccoy, New Jersey; Levy.
Sulzer, Talcott, New York; Lobeck,
Nebraska; O'Shaughnessy, Rhode Is.
land; Riley, Connecticut.
Republicans who remained with the
Democrats on the vote and who have
voted with them throughout on the
veto roll calls were:
Anderson, L~indbergh, Davis, Mime
sofa; Good, Green. Haugen, Pickett,
Kendall. Iowa; French, Idaho; Jack
son. Young, Kansas; La Toilette,
Washington; Morse, Wisconsin.
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
ENGRAVING the 7-year tenure reform
on the civil service in order, as he
.coptended, to increase the efficiency
of the government service. No COM
petent clerks would suffer In any way,
but 1t would give heads of depart
ments power and opportunity to drop
incompetents from the federal pay
roll.
Washington, ID. c. - Repeating its
action Of Tuesday. when 1t passed the
wool tariff bill over President Taft's
veto, the house repassed the steel and
iron tariff bill. within two hours after
1t had been returned from the white
house with the presidents veto mes
sage. The vote was 173 to SO, a
margin Of only two votes over the
two-thirds necessary to override the
president. The senate at almost the
same time was engaged in passing the
democratic cotton tariff bill, sent them
a week ago by the house. Senator La
Follette's substitute, which represent.
ed the views of the tariff board, was
voted down. 46 to 16, and Mr.. La Fol-
lette and eight other progressive re
publicans later joined the democrats
and passed the cotton bill. S6 to 10.
An amendment was attached repeal
ing all but the pulp and paper section
of the Canadian reciprocity law. The
repassed steel bill was sent immedi-
ately to the senate and reposed with
the wool bill among the papers tech
nically on the desk of the president
OF the senate. Both measures will be
called upon at once by Senator Sim
mons and an attempt will be made to
repass them. But the democratic lead
ers have little hope that they can
obtain the necessary two-thirds vote
In the senate as they did in the
house.
Insurgent forces in both the house
and senate contributed to the success
OF the democratic tariff program. In
the house the 16 insurgents who voted
with the democrats Tuesday again
Joined them in e riding the presi-
dents veto, while nine insurgents in
the senate Joined them in the passage
OF the democratic cotton bill.
Republicans who voted with the
democrats in the house we're:
Republicans Who Voted.