Show CIVIL SERVICE LAW REPUBLIC IN METERS FAIL TO fixa IT VIOLATED senator cokes opposition to givins widow U aile correspondence of the senator coke in opposing the bill by the senate to pay the widow of chief justice anito said that he boli oved in equality before the law of all the people of the one good respectable widow was exactly the same before the law as another there were hundreds of thousands of good widows in the united states who were as much entitled in law in equity aadot right to congress asta estimable whose billias bill was pending senator berry in opposing the bill argued thai every dollar due to the late chief justice had to him solf or his widow and that the sum proposed to be paid was simply a do nation or gift inthe chief justice had not been able to save money out of his salary of a year he must have lived in a very extravagant rayj t judge thurman who was here this week to argue the government side of the telephone cases before the supreme court was the recipient of much attention he was the guest of mr cleveland at oak view for two days and was compelled to bold a levee every where he went the old ron an has a warm in the hearts hoople here as well elsewhere and when ho is elected vice PresT dontas he surely will be on the november nowhere will thero bo more sincere rejoicing than in washington speaker carlisle will address a democratic meeting in baltimore next thursday the republican members oft senator halos smelling committee which has beon nosing around for some months to find some violations of the civil service law have made their re ort it consists of a rehash of a exploded newspaper charges The Democratic members of the com matteo have not yet submitted their report tho house in response to a recommendation men dation from acting secretary thompson of passed a bill appropriating to tocarra carry out the provisions of the chinese exclusion bill representative burns speaking on the general deficiency bill which has at last become a law stated a rock ribbed truth when he said that the people had turned tho republican party out of power not on account of extravagance in appropriations but because of the waste and want of integrity in the expenditure of the money the republican senators are rehashing tho old worn out chestnuts that did duty in the houte during the discussion of the mills bill that they are only killing time in the hope of making political capital was fully shown on the day that their tariff bill was introduced senator harris proposed that the debate on the bill should bo limited to ten days but senator allison who is in charge ol 01 the republican bill declined mot positively to agree to limit the de bate does that look like the laicans really want to pass the tariff bill which they have introduced I 1 think tAnd no botand here is another straw nearly every republican senator haa stated within the last ahrea days that if the bouso would pass a resolution to take a ryness until after tho election or for an adjournment they would vote for it in the senate the are perfectly willing to adjourn without passing their tariff bill provided that they can go upon the stump and say that the house forced them to adjourn this the bouso has so far refused to do and if the advice of the longest headed men in the party is followed they will centime to refuse botho end of the chapter the house adjourned from wednesday until today to day and it will not c surprising if it continues to adjourn over tarpe days at a time the limit of the law until the senate takes some action looking towards a recess or adjournment the house has passed the senate bill appropriating to compensate the C freudman fre for lands taken from them several years ago the bill changing the law as to the date when electoral votes must be delivered at the capital to the fourth monday in january has been passed by both houses and is now in the hands of the president chief justice fuller who for the first time presided over the supreme court this week has made a very good impression ex secretary McCullough who had charge of the treasury department under lincoln johnson and arthur has come out for cleveland he cannot stand the position of tho republican party on the tariff washington oct 13 1888 |