Show ne I be TflE ADMINISTRATION anti I park Dud rgoiug an Overhauling u tp in the House app = ITS NONPARTISAN STAKD lPo pbate Concernlne the Pension OMee < ijpolntment Proceedings In tne Senate on Wednesday etn and 1 I SENATE qs I 1 yMnilietoN June DDuUer read a 1 telegram from Die mayor and a large ark number of citizens of Spartansbnrg 3 C urging Senators from that State lrp In Congress to use their influence in deem de-em fecUngthe oleomargarine bill which tn gners declared was the worst form of protection Let the people buy oleomargarine 1 ate they say as they would any other arT ar-T 11 oI food J ter the routine ba mess the Senate of prc eeded to the consideration of bills p on be calendar under the five minute a tlC t-lC roAao2Rthe tIle 1 10g the measures passed were following The bill to relieve the late of Colorado from charges on account rk of ordnance stores furnished to the Territory and State amounting to or 3x91 ft A bill providing for the purchase oi the portrait of General George H Thomas A bill to establish a new land disWct in Wyoming The blJ constitutes the Counties of Johnson and Crook in that Territory a new land district A bill to legalize the incorporation ol national trades unions A bill amending section 3893 of the revued statutes relating to the transportation s trans-portation of obscene publications through the mail The bill extends the d cope of the old section A bill authorizing the payment of rl 1250 to Mrs Louise A Jackman and n 2500 to tho legal representatives of Mrs Martha Vaughn for patriotic services i ser-vices rendered and hazards and losses incurred in carrying information of great value to the Unjon officers in Keatacky in 1SG3 A bill relating to the supreme court fi the Territory of Montana and provid ing for the establishment of judicial districts 11 dis-tricts in that Territory The bill makes tie court to consist hereafter of a chief justice and three associate justices toe to-e hold office four years The Territory 1 is divided by the bill into four judicial district rt a A bill to create two additional land districts in the Territory of Dakota ti This bill authorizes the President to appoint a register and receiver for each district diStrictbin A bill to grant the right of way through the Fort Bliss military reservation reserva-tion in Texas to the Rio Grande Hail road Company Before this bill passed it was amended ou motion of Mr Ed I mends by the addition of a clause for I i feiting the tight of Way it the road be I not built within three cars after tile passage of the bill A bill referring to the court of claims I I for property seized by the General John I son Utah expedition of 1857 In the consideration of this bill some little I I warmth of debate was develo ed crow I ing out of Mr Edmunds objection to I the character of proof permitted there being danger he tb jouSht of its being ex iarte air Teller aeclsredfft to be a burn ing shame for a great Government like I that of the United V ymled States to keep push tog honest claims ol for a quarter of a I century Mr oar And than rejecting thaw I as stale I b Edrnundi had not so por 3n opinion of the government If a wrong was done the claimant had his rights under the law r Mr TeUer < sid the 1 C3tlon here was whether the claim was within the law The facts were all admitted tiHo r marked that the scandal of the English court of chancery which had been immortalized i v the genius ot Dickens did not surpass treatment by Congress of claims of American citizen Mencanie hero year after year with claims that nobody knowing the facts would disput but some Sen ator who knew nothing about the case would git up and guess that the facts were not as rereenled though the committee on claims had exhaustively investigated the case When the debate csd the bill was passed A considerable number of bills for PrIvate relief were passed and the Senate Sen-ate adjourned p SE The House went Into committe of the whole on the legislative executive and Judicial appropriation bill Complon of Maryland proposed to address himself to the civil service re form provision of the bill and he expressed ex-pressed liia admiration for the cour i age of th1 committee on appropriations placin provisions ill the pending Dolt but in nnnoancinp his opposition to the rales adopted by the drill service commission he gave voice to the scud mania ot the People he represented Thi The law was he contended nnconstilu inn Tand he protested against It as an Sn Demorauc and antiKepublican usurpation of the peoples rights He was against the law as it stood radically and irreconctliably hT Hitt of Illinois commented on what lie termed thA txtraordinary provision wbdl hId kl1 u forced upon the ap fropimtloai bill to nullify the civil ser celaw If it wtre not ruled out on a Jlt of oritri be Loped the House TPPresttin < tU wu try and advanced thougbt the day would Defeat it with 11 square vgte The law had been triedit has no longer and ias speculation binf It had > pona moot thorough trial been foor < J t1 be condutive to efficiency honesty a rjtv of the civil service the tenth oil appropriations did no refus at iTfPriutt for the civil rrrieeeotu a Lut coupled the appropriation with a proviso which broke down the barrier which prevented the spoilsmen rom appointing ap-pointing their workers to office He believed that the response of the country to the provision would prove a quietus to nn attack upon the civil service system He reviewed what be asserted to be theindirect violation of jhc lair J bv the FystniajterOeneral antj l the cornnltssioiieroFpenaionTand commended com-mended the more direct course pursued by the Secretary of the Treasury itl the appointment Hivcin He also criticized the action of the resident In appointing Oberlyas civil service commissioner declaring that the gentleman was a type of a party boss Bsync of Pennsylvania protested against the provision and called attention atten-tion to the fact that the change proposed pro-posed to be made conld be made br the President To put this proposition in the bill was to vote a want of confidence In the President and his cabinet he believed the President was doing his best to carry out civil service reform and that mo > t if not all of big cabinet were endeavoring in faith to execute the law Price of Wisconsin Mid m inv oI the ppr ipriaiiona were cxtravogint There wa rottenness everywhere petty larceny In every provision and grind larceny in the aggreg tti Springer of Illin us defend the commissioner of pension and the Republican Re-publican beads of divisions who were not protected by the civil service Jaw Springer said history would show and facts demonstrate that Clevelands administration was the most nonpartisan nonpar-tisan since that Georgd Washington Townsbend of Illinois contended that figures would show the Democratic Demo-cratic party had always been and still was the party of economy He quoted various tables In support of his assertion asser-tion and passed on to the defense of the pension office He attributed the assaults made upon Commissioner Black to an grieved feeling on the part of the Republicans that Cleveland had not appointed some man who served in the Confederate army in order that their stump orators might go before the country and declare the Confederates bad captured the capital Towmbend dared when Commissioner Black came into office there was not a Democrat Demo-crat on the list of special examiners The first special examiner appointed b < r Commissioner Bract had been a Re pubican yet the Republicans sneered at him as a violator of the civil service law lawMcAdoo McAdoo of New Jersey supported the provision Cox ot North Carolina chairman of committee on civil service reform said this reform was the very essence of Democracy The country had an Executive Ex-ecutive who was attempting to carryout carry-out the law in its integrity and the question was whether Congress should stand by him If not the people of the TJrfited States would Randall said the effect of this law was to prevent more than half of the people I who voted for members of Congress from securing any portion In the classified I classi-fied service He would directly and Indirectly in-directly agitate the repeal of such a monstrous nnjustIndefensibe proposition tion The law was made by Congress The power of legislation rests here This one man has legislated and deprived de-prived Congress of the power which I should be lodged here It is not nn as anlfc on the President but I lay hero today that the representa tives of the people by the enactments I en-actments of these regulars have been deceived and cheated and deprived of the rignt which they ought II to have defended m behalf of the people peo-ple who sent them here I Randall wanted to remind the House bat the law to be permanent must be fair must be just and that those who advocated this amendment were trying to etrip it pt its injustice to the one arty dominant in this country This closed the general debate and the reading of the bill was commenced Morrison of Illinois raised the point of ordertpainst the words in full compensation com-pensation where they occur in the I general appropriation section of the bill Pending the discussion of the point of order the committee rose and the House adjourned I |