Show NATIONAL CA P ITA L some exciting times in the house COOFER STILL MILL ealm n he charges nim him mill storine storing potatoes in the pension building Dull din to sell to the ali employees bolher items item L ine THE holse HOUSE washington WASU INGTON feb 12 in speaking ot of the pension office cooper ot of indiana na made an attack upon the superintendent In nten dent of the pension building asserting that be he had stored several hundred bushels of potatoes in the pension ennion office and sold them to employees plo thus turning the government department lepart ment into huc huckstering ketering listi ments enloe ot of tennessee attacked the A administration of the pension p c 13 r ion office and nd offered an amendment ent reducing to vow the salary of the commissioner perkins of kansas defended commissioner raum and arid after some debate enloe withdrew bia his amend ment the reading of the bill concluded he the committee recurred to th the e consideration of the clause making an a appropriation P for the civil service c commission in selon grosvenor raised a pointon point of order against it except eo so far at as it refers to the commissioners tho chief clief examiner and so detary on the ground that it violates the tile existing law tho statute designed that the clerks should be divided into tour four classes and that none bo be appointed until they were found qualified by a board of th three ree examiners under toe tile law establishing the commission it was provided ill that L t clerics clerks should should be assigned from one 0 of f the departments now it was proposed to appropriate tor for them under the bead head of the civil bervice slon and therein the bill was in violation of the law the chair sustained the point of order as to the ee se creary because his salary was raised and as to all the clerks and employees except one messenger mesa enner and one ole laborer McCo maso maryland appealed from the decision considerable do debate ensued tracey of new york said this wag was an effort to carryout carr carry out the policy followed by the present administration I 1 to represent to the people that it was trying to reform the civil service while at the same time it was making maklar every effort to cripple he lie com in lesion in au at underhanded way it cannot be denied that it was the I 1 intent to cripple the commission hooker of mississippi Misais referred to the printing of Clev elands letter in the record he ile wished to say there ther e was no man in this country cou whether be he bad had held a distinguished position or whether ho be bad ambition to hold the highest position wit within bin the gift of the Ame american tiran people be he be of one party or another ft ho bo could lay down the law to the tile great masses of this country who thought for themselves whatever ever might be the opinion of any one man be had bad no right to speak tor for the great laboring interests of the country which stood behind the constitution atit ution and the law he ile bell believed eve coul big his constituents want free coina coinage 90 of both the mf atals atals cannon 1 I would like to ask the gentlemen whether he I 1 is 9 in avor of mr cleveland for the next president hooker 1 I will say I 1 do not think that a man on the continent of america will wil ever be a candidate of the democratic party for president of the united states who is opposed to the free coinage of silver without disposing of the bill the committee rose and the housa rouse adjourned jour ned I 1 THE smil washington feb 12 the senate today to day passed a bill for the creation of the fourth judicial district in utah among the bills reported and placed on the calendar was ona one to incorporate the pan american tran transportation a por tation company the copyright tor bill ill was laid aside informally and the district of columbia appropriation bill was amended and passed the tle fol following I 1 ow ing also passed the senate bi bill 11 to increase by the limit ic for r the purchase ot of a site bits tor for a public building bu U ding in sau francisco the house bill granting a pesi pension ot of a month to general banks the liotine bill to authorize ake tho albany and astoria railroad company to construct one or more bridges across the willamette river in oregon and establish them as post roada roads ad journea jour ned TOPICS washington feb 12 abe giouse committee on foreign affairs agreed though not unanimously to report to the house with some modifications a bill to incorporate the pacific cable company the principal change made in the bill hill waa was to reduce from to the sum to ba paid to the company annually for fifteen years by compan the united ailed states government ern ment after the tile cable is to completed and open for business the sub judiciary committee commit tea has found judge alexander boorman orman of the western district oi of louisiana Loui aiana guilty of one of the charges preferred prefer reU against hira by congressman boatner relating to his personal use of moneys paid into the registry office of 0 his court tho the judiciary committee has authorized a report to the house rouse with a recommendation that doorman boorman be impeached acting secretary chandler ot of the interior department sent to the tile house bones a letter from the commissioner commie eloner of indian affairs recommending an stem item be In inserted in the indian appropriation bill to enable the secretary of tile interior to negotiate with the navajo indians ol 01 new now mexico an and 4 ariz arizona ona for such changes in th their e it reservation boundaries as may bo be deemed desirable the commissioner calls at atten tenion vion to the fact that for more than two years rumors have been rife rite of the existence of rich gad and silver deposits in the calizo mou mount nt ains alna within the ilia navajo a reserva tion and the indians have been watching with keen apprehension the visits made by whites to the place for purposes of prospecting there are also statements la in the local newspapers to the effect that a determined purpose exists t to 10 gain possession os session of the mines whether abo 1 indian I ditl els extinguished or not the conferees on the fortification bill have agreed to an appropriation for the purchase of steel for eight ten ton and twelve inch high coast defence guns at the amount fixed b by tile senate tho tile house recedes from its disagreement to the I 1 t ariy amendments of the senate redo on the ap appropriation pt lations iati ons a for or the con construe etrue tion agat of b batteries teres for the defence of sun san francisco and other barbora harbors from 1 1 I to the senate recedes from its amendment striking etri kinn ont the appropriation of for a tor torpedo station aa a yerka guena island tedo california all fornia the president has granted amnesty in the case of john Fae erell convicted in utah of bigamy before the coinage committee today frederick parley farley president of the nacional na ional board of trade and joel cook financial editor of the philadel philadelphia phia public ledger made a long argument against free coinage walker then moved to adjourn until next tuesday and immediately the old troubles tro ahles as to when the hearing should cease was revived after much discussion it ws was agreed to meet tomorrow to morrow |