Show lIS LEFT L T OUT t e floiiseWolges iii i its An J oiial Joke J k I in Appropriation I I Appro-priation Measure f O AY FO OFHLS FR I OFFICALS I Provision for Civil Service Commission Eliminated l IT WILL BE RESTORED r Action was Taken in Committee of I 1 the Whole Where the Members Do not Go on Record When Bill Gets 1 Back in the House Where Congressmen I gressmen Have to Respond to their Names Upon a Rollcall the Appropriation I Ap-propriation will be Placed in thej Measure Most of Time Yesterday Devoted to Attacks Upon the I Speech Made by Mr Sims of Tennessee Ten-nessee on Wednesday In which Ho Furnished Some Figures Showing I tho Number of Applications for I Pensions Account Spanish War I I Ida I Washlgton Feb IGThe House today to-day Indulged In Its annual Joke by striking from the legslatlveftppropria ton bill provision for 1 civil service ser-vice commission This action Is taken t ac each year In committee of the whole I where the members do not go on record I and the provision Is then invariably restored when the bill gets back in the House where members have to respond to their names upon rollcall The vote today to strike out was 75 to 07 Tomorrow To-morrow the House will reverse this action as usual on an aye and noe vote SIMS CALLED TO TIME I Most of the time of the House today J I beyond that occupied In the discussion of the civil service law was devoted to attacks upon the speech made by Mr Sims Dem Tenn on Wednesday In which he furnished some figures of the i pension office showing the number of I applications for pensions filed by soldiers sol-diers of the volunteer regiments engaged en-gaged In the Spanish war to show that the Northern soldiers were much more clamorous In that regard than the Southern ones and attributing this to the debauching of public sentiment In the North on the pension case PEARRE RAISES STORM Mr Pcarre Rep Md raised the storm by a reference to these llgures und the statement that hundreds of Massachusetts soldiers who never smelled powder had applied for pensions I sions This bought out an indignant reply from Mr Fitzgerald Dem Mass who detailed the record of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts volunteers in the late war He was followed by others who defended the records of the soldiers from their several States Mr Hepburn of Iowa I vigorously assailed Mr Sims Considerable Consid-erable temper was shown CONFEREES ON FINANCIAL BILL II When the session opened announcement announce-ment of the receipt of the currency bill I from the Senate was made and on motion I mo-tion of Mr Uverstreet of Indiana by unanimous consent the Senate amendments amend-ments were disagreed to The Speaker appointed Messrs Overstreet Rep Ind Brosus Rep Pa and Cox Dem Tenn conferees APPROPRIATION ATTACKED I The House then went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation appro-priation bill Mr Pearre Rep Md vigorously attacked the appropriation for the civil service commission and charged lhat the departments were full of Incompetents CAUSES A ROW When the provisions relating to the civil service commission was reached Mr Pearre suited that if he thought the striking out of an appropriation would put an end to the civil service law he would make the motion He announced an-nounced his unequivocal opposition to the law He reiterated the charge made sevcra days ago that the departments depart-ments were full of incompetents Where are they asked Mr Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald Dem Mass Vhere were they under the old system sys-tem asked Mr Pearre replying with a question Everywhere There were thousands of them replied Mr Fitzgerald I the bars were down now you would have the departments crowded with Marylandors Massachusetts need not sneer at I Maryland retorted Mr Pcarre A few days ago a gentleman read a list of hundreds of Massachusetts soldiers lchusel8 who never smelled powder during the Spanish war but who were already clamoring for pensions Mr Fitzgerald Indignantly denied that the Massachusetts regiments hal never smelled powder In the Spanish war The Second Massachusetts he said had three men killed three officers cers and fortyone men wounded in thc Santiago campaign in all the Second Massachusetts lost lIasachustUs t ninetynine men time Fifth Massachusetts Hftyflvo the Sixth lOS the Eighth 197 and the Ninth 130 I 130What I What was the cauiw of their death 7 asked Mr Wachter JRep M |