Show V THE PEOPLE To Elect Senators Under Ultchtl Constitutional intend mtnt SILVER AND THE CIVIL SeRVICE IN THE HOUSE Exten iTO Distress and Suffer dosed lay Floods In the South A DECEIVER FOILED AT THE ALTAR Woodruffs Confrstion Ittpardln Cronlns Murder DIs tttlittaV V V I By Telegraph to lie SEW 1 IX COtGKCSS IDtcrnlfne Proceeding In tbe < Pienltle and llon c rerdat VTASlltXOltur D C April 22 Mitchell addressed tho Sena In favor of the constitutions amendment proposed by him fur the election of bcnntors by a popular vote Already fifteen chaogua had been made In the Constitution ando and-o could gar that any of them had nut been will aJvis xJ7 All three araendmcnts logically to thee pending proposition Tile present sytteta of electing 8enatorpiie Ue claret WM nnrepubllcan and vicious It was In purpose a declaration decla-ration that for some rcawon it was unsafe commit the credion o Ben atqra to tx role of the people and a reflection oil tho honesty or capac ty or both of the voting elates Among other things Mitchell declared de-clared that secret exeCUtive cessions were no longer in harmony with the fplrit of the age It was a RELIC OF JIOXAKCHY and should find no recognition in a republic At the conclusion of mg gs = Mitchells remarks the reralutlo l was refcrnd to the committee on l privilege and elections The Houe amendment to the Na Uonal Zoological Iark Mil was agreed to and the bill now goes 10 tie t-ie President The District Columblaappropr allan bill was passed and after o ecutivo tcIon the Senate 1I1 ournc < j Jlone WASHINGTON April 22After concurring in the Senate amend ucute to the Worlds Fair bill the loute went into committee of Ute whole on the legislative apnronria Uon bill Buttcrvrorth in a brief txplana tlon of the bill said that In some bureau of tile lieparlmcnts ther was substantially a civil pension list It consisted of a number of old per EOns who had faithfully served tli government in the past but wh were no longer able to perform their duties They were carried on the rolls but were of no service to the government The committee on appropriations had allowed an increate in-create in the clerical force of the Civil Service Comm Eion suWau lally as requested by the committ ion Dockcry criticifed the bill It provided for the appointment of 14 new officers at a cot of 1G150 Referring to tho civil pension list lesald Uiat in departments there were employed 397 pertons on bo I were WHOLLY OR lAnrIALLY ISEITI CaRS but who drew salaries amounting to W50000 He believed > If tlicru was new blood in departments fifty or a hundred clerks could be din charged at n taring of 150000 a yearAllen Mica quoted from speech delivered by Caunon and used as a campaign document declaring that the republican party was devoted to the country and would If I it came into power administer the government govern-ment with greater economy and grtatly reduce the expenditures tie then quoted from the civil net site plank of the republican party IIf and from President HarritouVlctitr I of acceptance but the republican party had gone back on Its promUos and bewoulJ call the attention of the country to tbe civil service pretensions pre-tensions of the administration Allen recalled recalledACTOBV STORY as showing the republican opinion of the Administration which I was to the effect that meeting a republican > repub-lican and asking him what he thought of It he received the following follow-ing I reply Wanny run the Sunday echool Len ran the bar Baby run the White Home AnddIt here we are Bland addressed himself a div I ussiun of the monetary qucttlou He had never regarded this question as a party one but from the fact that the republicans were holding caucuses It would teem that they were going to male it one Let hoe bill be brought In as any other busies busi-es bill would be brought In net under tho gag law or the caucus He jreccedeJ to rpeaklnfavor of silver and characterized the bill as a demonetizing de-monetizing bill Cannon replied to Dockeryg ritlchm In view of the last administratIon Ad-ministration and the last caucus it seemed that the gentleman had wallowed a camel then and now was draining at a gnat In the ifticth Congress there were created 985 offices with an aggregate expenditure ex-penditure of 1164000 Tho Increase crease in eUarits made by the pending bill was only 0 The ncrea e in salaries made In the Fiftieth Congress 8 1200000 William 1 criticised the n Hiblican home for not bringing in t bIll for the settlement of THE SILVER QUESTION and thus relieve the oppressed p pie of tho country Grosvcnor said the anxiety man ested on the democratic side In r gorol to the popularity and success of the administration was the best sIgn that the republican side ought to b satisfied with tho admlnlitra ton Speaking of the civil scr vice system be sId he could not believe that the law and its a Inistratlon was approved by one V fifth of the members either House Congress He was told that there wereon the eligible list l enough OU ns men ond women t fill all of the places for twentyfive yean to come yet the young men and wo men in his district were cajoled and urged to spend their tIme and money mon-ey in pnd examined when the men who issued the invitations knew the chances were that only one in a thousand would get a p nltlon stonL defended the Civil Service law and resented its being ware erized as a humbug ant fraud Without finishing the bill the louse adjourned In IuooOroflshaaley BnussELS April 22A comjill mf entary fete Was given on the Bun this afternoon by the S dety of Engineers In honor of Stanley Ihsioyal family took an dive 1 pa |