Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-19

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb, is.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Mr.. Hooper of Massachusetts will attempt to
pass civil rights bill in the house to- morrow,
but it is doubtful if he can find majority for
his bill, which is like that the senate voted on
ten days ago.
MIR. ABBoTT's CASE.
The senate elections committee have decided
a-ainst the claims of Abbott of North Carolina.
Only two members voted for him, but it is
thought that he will make a hard fight in the
senate, and his friends are sanguine OF his sue
cess.
THE SUMNER RESOLUTION.
The debate on the Sumner resolution may run
for some time yet, Though the investigation
will be granted, it is admitted on both sides
that all there is left TIC investigates whether the
government acted with prudence, and whether
any individuals connected with the government
were engaged in the speCuatons in arms. This
last idea is limited at merely in the resolution,
and in private circles one hears only of sus-
pcions and opinions. Nobody has any facts
duplicating Gen. ingalls,, or any other military
office, that one can hear Of
SCARLET FEVER.
The government architect, Mr.. Mullctt, and
all his family are i'll with the scarlet fever.
Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, also has it, and it
prevails in some sections of the district almost
as an epidemic. The doctors say the cause is
the universal digging up of our streets by the
board of public works.
When the senate resolution of adjournment
was up in the house. Gen. Butler was laughed
at by some for predicting the plague here next
summer, but the most experienced physicians
say that he was right. The board of public
works undertook TO do the work of ten years in
one, and the result is general i'll health and
great discomfort
ABLE SPEECH on CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
One of the ablest speeches yet made in ON
gress on civil service reform was delivered in
the house yesterday by Mr. Perry, of Ohio. He
is distinguished for his legal attachments, and
he is particularly noted for bis purity and lolti-
ness OF character. He argued with great force
in favor of Il sweeping change in the present
system
1t Isl startling fact that the advocates of civil
service reform in both houses are the present
nv" 1" IT, II 10 tHC UIu pOlltlCldliS VINO are
against it, and it is such men as Sumner, Will
son, Trumbul, Edmunds Dawes, Hoar, Perry,
Garfield, and many Others who stand firmly by
the president in his attempt to reform the pres
ent corrupt and degraded system.
TARIFF AND PIG IRON.
An attempt will be made tomorrow TO
discharge the ways and means COM
mittee of the whole of the tea and
coffee bill, and pass it by a suspension
OF the rules. If the plan is successful, it will be
great triumph Of the protcctionists. IL it
fails it is probable that the revenue reforms on
Tuesday will, by a majority vote, 90 into com
mittcc of the whole and take up the bill for
amendment
One of The first items which will be considered
in this programme is pig iron. The strength
of the movement set down for tomorrow lies in
the fact that large number Of revenue reform
ers dislike to have it go upon the record that
they voted against cheapcnng tea and coffee.
Even Fernando Wood voted to instruct the WAYS
and means committee to report the bill, while
privately admitting that it was piece of dema-
gogism used to prevent a general reduction of
the tariff SAM WELLER.