Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington 13 Maxey Vest Groom and Ferry presented petition for the prohibitisn of unjust discriminations discrimina-tions in railroad charge Hoar from the committee ou rules reported re-ported back the resolution for a select committee ef seven to fee appointed by the chair on the extention of sufferage to women and the removal of their legal disabilities He asked unaniMoun consent con-sent for present consideration of the resolution reso-lution u i Test objected Ransom moved to appoint a select committee of five on the condition of the Potomac River front in Washington for navigation healthfulness etc Adopted JUnson Jones Nov Kellogg Conger Con-ger and Vest were constituted the committee com-mittee After the morning hour Pendleton spoke on his civil service bill He referred re-ferred to Guiteaus motive in killing the President The fact is patent that he wanted an office did not get it and believed be-lieved the President responsible for his failure He wanted a new distribution of offices and believed a new President would make a new deal and give him anutuer chance and believed that the President could and ought to divide the spoils He had helped to show the brutality of our politics which traduce character and vilify motives mo-tives whenever a difference of opinion exists and which made his crime possible possi-ble The assassian asserts that he thought he was doing his party and country a service These are the fostering foster-ing beds in which fools are born and in which such madmenland schema of deviltry devil-try are hatched He depicted in strong terms the dangers of expectation and love of office its corruption and degre dation of public sentiment and declared tht we must eradicate this system We must transact our business through business busi-ness men and on business principles Ho invited a discussion and criticism of his bill He closed with an appeal to repub linan senators who have the power and emoluments of the administration and to democrats who would sooner or later have the offices to declare that merit alone should win the place His peroration perora-tion was eloquent and effective Dawes replied to Pendeltons criticisms criti-cisms and aid because he had not adopted adopt-ed Pendletons schemes the latter thought he desired no reforms He wished to make some practical advance and not adopt an emperical scheme Hill of Georgia said that while everybody preached reform nobody practiced it Pendletons bill was then informally laid on the table and Becks presidential presiden-tial succession bill was taken up in order of precedence tomorrow l Adjourned ROUSE Washington 13 Tayleri resolution was unanimously adopted for the selection selec-tion of eleven persons to audit claims for services during the Presidents illness and burial and to consider the question of a pension for his family Robeson moved to appoint select committees on the census civil service reform the laWHp cting the election of President and VicePresident epidemic diseases interoceanic ship canal payment pay-ment of pensions bounty and back pay payKnott objected that moat of the committees com-mittees were unnecessary The resolution for a census committee was adopted Bills were introduced for the settlement settle-ment of theNicaraguan claims to repeal tax on matches bank che ke snuff cigars and spirits distilled from fruits By Morrison reducing the tariff on imported goods 10 per cent By Springer for the appraisement of telegraph line and effects to secure infer oration about t e postal Service in other countries By Shelly to equalize the homestead guarantee and to reduce the price of public pub-lic lands to settlers By Page to restrict Chinese immigration immigra-tion |