Show CONGRESS by W U to the 11 rr A TD T D sr SENATE washington dec I 15 anthony reported the house amendment to the tile resolution for printine printing the tariff cam om mission re report lorl agreed to it provides for printing ing copies with willi the tes testimony M pa the french spoliation bill was wag re umed after debate the bill passed pawed and the civil service bill was resumed 31 illIer said the senator from georgia feared that this bill if passed would tend to establish a life tenure of egre office but in fact it would si imply M put ut back tho the tenure of ap appointive office ece where it wa was during the first fifty years of our national life that senator alio also professed to fear the bill would establish an aristocracy this talk would not do to frighten frieh fria liten ten a child with much less would it serve to frighten braye senators on the democratic aids side from supporting eup this bill if the evils of the present prevent system continue to increase in the same proportion as a in tho past the government could not outlive another century raid eaid the passage of this bill would inaugurate the most important and necessary reform for the ceils which it sought to remedy w most momentous character affecting deeply our governmental adminis tra tion and even th threatening reat ening the stability of our institutions be tho the cause of the change in the democratic sentiments which Is so remarkable at the last session civil service reform was sneered at and the sella senator from ohio pendleton regarded as insincere or as visionary th the pressing it upon public attention while political assessments were defended a as a justifiable means of raining gaining and retaining power but now the general opinion pinion seemed to be that political iral assessments were a crime tir even in the d a aeri eri i oue ous blunder and that the mo monopoly noply of office by the right of conquest von quent waa was not the tile surest of cretai retaining 11 IM power republicans are now en 00 lh thoroughly conscious or tile guilt of I alil ra ral aMess assessments ments that they came to congress on the first day of the seq PC sion and with fleir president naked asked the speedy passage of a law to prevent them from relapsing sina sinz into the pin sin I hie lie senator from georgia brown seemed to think there would be no chain chaine e for fhe the democratic party it could promise ita its the he lie georgei george repudiated the idea ideal lie denied I that t I the lie dem democratic party was dependent upon the arhe he give sive power of public pl plunder inder and said it would go into the rampa campaign ign of 1884 as it went into that of 1870 1876 under the motto of Reform fidelity to public trusts economy in adminis administration tm i n and ad not with nith the miserable bat tj tle c cry r y boot booty t to the victors 11 woe voe to the tile vanquished e 11 on motion of pendleton the tile first section tion of the bill was a amended so as to require that the civil service commissioners ners be confirmed by the sen ate the question was on aloisous Alli sous amendment providing there shall be three commissioners commissi onera instead of five and that they shall not be connect connected ed with any of the departments bayard spoke of the importance if f reforming the civil service and the demoralizing effects on public men of the tile spoils system he ile would support the pending bill morgan offered two amendments ordered printed one of them provides that no advice or ree recommendation m menda of any applicant for ez examination a mi nation for appointment given by a ae senator aar or Representatives ball be r received c id or considered by the elamin examiners rs unless unless it shall have been previously asked in in writing bv by one or more of them thern the tile other authorizes a commission to designate in each odthe of the biye examiners four persons not in the service of the united states and not more than three of them belonging to the same party panty who shall examine applicants residing in their state states voorhees ea called up his resolution directing the secretary of the interior to send to the any papers or information ia in his possession in relation to any dia dispute ute between the cherokee indians and ind the united states arising out of treaty stipulations ot laws in relation thereto adopted blair offered a resolution which was agreed to directing the secretary of the interior to furnish the latest and fullest information in p possession of f the bureau of education in n relation to technical education in schools endowed in whole or in part by the government and als also ia ila certain other oolf adjourned HOUSE Kass kasanof enof iowa from the committee on ways and Mean reported back the bill amending the act to repeal discriminatory dr duties on goods produced east of the capa cape of good hope passed the bill relieves from the dayment payment of duty such goods as may be a in bonded warehouses or on shipboard on the 1st ast of january 1883 the day when the general relief goes into effect reed presented the case of mclean elected from the second missouri district to succeed alien allen deceased and certificate refused only on the lie ground that the legislature abolished the second district ho asked the house to seat him clardy of nf missouri said bro broadhead Broadh cad rival candidate never intended ti to contest the election and difant t wili to prevent mclean bruni taking the beat seat bland and carlisle thou plit the tile committee on ele elections eions should cun con B lder sider ilia the rape case as its there were prece dents sustaining inin the secretary of state springer favored immediate inc ing howitt hewitt wanted to refer the matter r trie house to IA aj voted tos in mccaan who then took the oath i the house then resumed tho the poet a bill for two houra hours debate with ida calkins of indiana rn in the t thair hair townsend of illinois delivered an argument in favor of an amendment which he lie proposed to offer for a bill abolishing postage on second claes class matter atkinson of tennessee thought thoughts there would be considerable danger of creating a pretty la large I e deficiency in the revenue of ihfe at office do part merit if the reduction was made willis of kentucky stated that du r I ine n ill th clr last congress ho be introduced eed a b bill to reduce postage forthe for the purpose of bringing about an investigation of the question and that investigation he was glad to eay ray had shown its propriety biety dunnell anell of minnesota did not think my any me measure asure could be b passed b by con ram which ich would bo received receive with more approbation than one reducing the rato rate of bosti poga a holman olman Il of I indiana 11 ll liana thought t the 11 eresell present plan of inland tran transportation gjori at I by y railroads aloi ds open to objection and considered it Ht mt ranc to remedy its i defacis as to land grants to lie the roads they shoUld bo required to transport transi ort ohp malls on oil a basis f fixed by a deer ion of or the tile united tales states supreme court heagan reagan of texas opposed the reduction holding that its effect would be to remove a small tax from persona persons best able to bear it robeson of new belsey closed the tile discussion the bill proposed iro posed to reduce post postage ve tax on oil the tile individual people H per tnt cent it waa A as a reduction n which the experience experience of the th world lias has shown to be the interest to spread a thread intelligence and t lie tiofil ion of knowledge whatever d dan an himself r might be in t the experiment for himself aad and those associated with him ho lie accept accepted ed the responsibility before the american people this was a measure of great creat interest to the individual deop people c and if an additional lax tax was wag to be levied for its it support let it fall on the as ag greated cAll capital itai of or tile country another change in the bill n was as thin this omission odthe provision for the benefit of certain sections and in certain interests what was shown alion n as facilities instead of spending WO which had been appropriated the postmaster jf noral found it necessary to spend only yet at the last session there was aan a creat clamor for apeci al cheil I ties all those facilities facil itic were given i certain special trains train s that left new york paid a tax these rhese I interests were interests idie rests which demanded a it reduction and congress was going down on oil ita its knees am and lakIng aUn pall all the burdens off ou them an and I pa plating them on the poor people iw ny gentlemen on the other side who vot voted ed for thia this reduction vote to take tax from froni cotton ties springer of illinois favored the i reduction bevamae ho I I a bel bell iced eyed the postal service u would be pelf support ing in even e en after the reduction blanchard of louisiana an all increase with for trans porta por tation timi by steamboat steam oat from to il 00 rejected Cas clavell Cj avell Niell wisconsin Vision Mn in in behalf of th the e committee rill oll ap l of fen dan an amendment inari abina the tile apri natan for suir fer eric ice from froni b t of texas ninver a farther I in of ejected lZ Rf jetted I I CaSwel CuS lm allien am CD 11 clinent tn put was i I Ro it hinnon ll ir mif ai liu offered an ap ti bomb OW lor for ary and mail a r ili deock of new arh offered an to lie me amendment fix f ix ing the amoun tat pending action the commit te arose Uni inell of minnea ita offered a relation re lution rc atins the allegra tims khrt tors of customs alone along the northern fro frontier wier are in in receipt of laif lago fees from the fair sait of or banks manks hiah h have not been turn C d alit into I 11 he e treasury and ond that said arc fire ill in antheia tile theia pay ol 01 imp ster and corpor actions ami all chic the tile committee of va davs band and meins me ins to inquire into th truth of these allegations adopt ed |