Show HOue Discusses Di Civil Service Se vice I aid Objects tf Variety Snow Show by f L I Jan 11 The house vv assumed of 01 the executive and ju judicial bin bill in committee the MIe i 1 of Georgia taking up the tb report of fourth Assistant Post t j ter Ge ral addressed j r tl sy re I IE E Mr r that fit rn the ap of the of the supply I of the department to the report of General Brig tU the civil service had been violated I attention to this he sId said be because cause it is on the very ery threshold of this resort report It meets you at the start at the very door and stands as a bold bald jd violation of the law but ut the theman theman man who violated the man who en encouraged it the man who started it the man who asked it is a former first assistant general Perry S SHeath SHeath Heath now secretary of 1 the national Republican committee e Mr Cowper of s said d that every one of the men under Indict Indictment fluent ment except one in connection with frauds went into the service under the spoils spells system He Hei i read the letter of explanation addressed I by the late civil service co t Proctor erector to the postmaster general in Reply to statements contained in the report vela relative live to the appoint appointment mont ment prefacing the te reading with the statement that Sin Mt Bristow had done donea doneK a K great arid and heroic work and that he hewan was wan absolutely fearless Hr Mr Grosvenor of Ohio spoke against the yie civil service as it now exists asK asKIng Ing ng why an appointment should not be beas beas as properly adopted upon the recommendation of a representative of the people as to have the president ap appoint appoint point a a Foulke to be purveyor of all the appointments He asked why the committee on civil service reform had id Ithen sitting on the safety valve saying that If IC a vote was permitted the civil service commission would be stripped of a vest vast amount of its power Mr Mv Clark Mo suggested that a bill billbe billbe be brought before the house so no the subject could be debated and voted c upon upen I Mr Grosvenor GOsvenor said the gentleman t from Missouri Mr Clark could im un immortalize himself If lie he would intro introduce duce and pass Paso a bitt amending enlarging I ing altering or affecting the theold old law lawI I which he be is regarded as the per perfection perI I Of human wisdom Concluding his remarks Mr Grosvenor said that an oligarchy of three men had been built up and to a recent date was controlled by one man Mr Lacey la In said the present system tern tem was not a merit system as it now exists Men he said hat had gone into the government service without ex ea examination and had since been covered in the civil service and are now ir IrI I r movable Mr Norris Morris of Nebraska in fa favor favor vor of civil service because he said it takes the appointment from partisan politics After a lively debate lasting three hours the house by a vote of 78 to toI 65 I struck out oat the paragraph providing for forthe forthe the salaries and expenses of the civil service h commission and clerks em employed under the commission The iet was taken oa on motion of Mr I Hepburn laj T He Was supported by byboth byth both th Republicans and Democrats both L hi t speeches and the vote VOtO |