Show CONGRESS by fly V W V U telegraph Teles Telez raph mih to the SENATE washington dec 21 in discussing ng the recess resolution confer conger said t the lie senator from delaware bayard need not be 10 at a lose loss to 10 understand the reasons which mado made republican senators so earnest in their desire to advance the public business at this time they have have been taunted by senators ena tors on the in I language alig u age fit only for shoe blacke blacks and been told the people condemn their pastas alun an and N ho lie would admit the people must certainly be in a strange and angry state of mind inthey if they could contemplate til ate the setting aside even temporarily pora mrily rily of the republican party which which caved saved the country and entrusting the government to the hands of the democracy laughter hed seen with intense sympathy the woebegone expression of the senator from ohio pendleton as he lie stood in the camp of the enedy laughter and begged his fellow follow democrats in vain to let the senate proceed to act upon his civil service bill there was something heroic in the attitude of that senator in standing there trying to save the country frum his political friends laughter but the senator from georgia brown also occupied a heroic position when lie ho declared it no time to pass a civil service bill which would keep republicans in in office and keep democrat democrats out laughter that senator is logical appl the senator from ohio could not him indeed the senator bimm from ohio I himself self was now coming forward in support of his civil service bill by the momentum which ho lie acquired in his past efforts for sage at the time when he lie dream there was any prospect of the democratic party coming into power and having a chanco chance to fill these of oldsea flues laughter the civil set vice bill being under consideration pendleton offered an amend anent striking out the provision that original entrance to shall be in the lowest grade and PO providing appointment appointments in tho the departments be apportioned portioned up as nearly as possible among he the states and territories and the district of columbia on the basis of population williams opposed the civil service bill as impracticable and worthless the only practical attempt ho lie had seen made to reform the service was lie the proposition of ilis his colleague beck beek to inquire into abuses perpetrated by republican officials in the last campaign and that was smothered by coupling with it another entirely irrelevant inquiry he ile was I in n favor of reform but would not noe vot voto u for this little eliam sham for the same reason lie declined at th the e last hession to vote for that sham little revenue bill this bill proposed a system of competitive peti tive examinations for lower offices a sort stuffer through j which each man must pass before lie fit could pet get in general strings laughter there was a great deal of nonsense talked about c civil vil service reform keal real reform would consitt in putting decent and honest men in high o places and letting 11 them brin bark back the glory odthe of the republic to the caples and practices of the earlier and d belter better days ho lie would like to bee u the democratic members of congress who would go back to his con and tell he lie had voted to make the tenure of the present office hulders permanent in order to keep ins his friende from being tempted into I office ec sc ekers laughter how many votes would that man geta get wh eliy he lie would be hooted the peo peon pie think tiling and I do too that whichever party is in power baethe has the right to put its friends in asfor As for th this poor little thing before us I dont thin think it amounts to anything old hickory hickory jackson would put his foot on it in a minute laughter I dont think it would bo be law if we passed it yet it might bother us a littie it when we como on and I dont want a any ny obstructions in our way laughter laugher the only way to reform is is to elect an honest president iu iii issa turn on the hose give him a big hickory broom aud tell him to sweep the platter clean laufter Laug ter cockrell made an argument to show this bill if passed would not give the president or heads of departments any more power to perform or control the service than they had already under existing laws the republican party had full power for ye years arato to enforce these laws and pais pass others if these wore were not sufficient but they have not done it because they had bad no desire for reform the efficacy of this bill would depend on the 13 and ho ho believe under republican bli administration it would accod anything in the way wy of tf reform under democratic administration it would but the democratic adminis t ration would reform the service without any such law but although ho he had no faith in the value of this as a reformatory measure lie fie would vote lor for it because the republicans wished to have it and he fie was willing vill rag to give afi em one more opportunity to reform the government abuses for abit which h they are responsible in sp speaking ealing of asse assessments scents cockrell alluded to the conviction of gen curtis of violating the law aw against them the hawley eaid said he lie wished to do justice to an honorable and bravo man gen curtis ho lie was elected treasurer of the stale state committee against his will and and protested against assessments HP ile was nas only technically guilty in spirit lie was as against these assess bents and when he lie controlled men j himself he lie told them not to pay any assessments unless they desired to do so 80 cockrell said he lie was glad to find that curtis did not levy assessments of his free will vill but was sorry that the republican machine wasso waa eo strong that an honest man could not withstand the he pressure and that therefore gea gen curtis had to violate his own conTic conviction tion of right and make these collections he ile went on to quote from the republican campaign text book for when he was interrupted by hoar who stated that the second hubbell circular and campaign text book were the act of one man the chairman of the congressional corns com cittee it was true but jn juring no person but himself let me add especially I in n the matter of chinese immigration and other thing things I r repudiate the handbook Clock crockrell rell was glad senators hail had the opportunity tv tr to make esplana cs plana t tans ip he lie lidna desire to last cast any reflections on any senator FAiia tor opposed to these aralds in die the course of ochia his remarks cockrell quoted frosi from a letter from david DAVIS to a gentleman in Was washingto hinato declaring the government liichi which had n ion loep been in the hands hamia of the kepul lican lic an party needed now blood the civil service bill vaa was drop dropped ed and the agricultural bill was consad ered davis stated the bill appropriated S ices than thola Atone the amounts to the agricultural bill reported by the were agreed to and the he bill passed adjourned |