The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-19

in the House by the delegate from
Utah.
Mr.. Stevenson advocated the bill as
tending to break up the oligarchy and
monopoly established by the Mormons
in Utah. He asked that the amend
ment suggested by Mr.. Hooper, OF
Utah, in regard to canons and defles,
be admitted.
Mr.. Dunnell agreed to the amend
ment and it was agreed to.
He also agreed to Mr.. Killingers
amendment and it was agreed to.
Mr.. Cox moved to lay the bill on
the table; negatived, yeas54, noes lo'.
The bill then passed.
The House then, at two o'clock,
resumed the consideration Of the civil
serice reform bill, bill to preserve the
independence OF several departments
of the Government.
Mr.. Bird argued that it was not
Andrew johnson nor Abraham Lincoln
who was responsible for the debasement
Of the civil service, but President Grant
and his advisers and supporters.
Mr.. Patton s1rke in favor OF the tl'i
as moyemeui III the right direction.
He expressed a preference for giving to
the people of the localities the choice
of all officers who could prop
erlv be selected by the localities
and beyond that tor giving to the heads
of departments all powers of appoint
ment and for exacting from them
absolute responsibility. He did not
wish anything to be done to attract to
the public service the rising young men
OF the country. He regarded that en-
ployment as most undesirable for them.
Mr.. Sargent argued at considerable
length against the bill as reported from
q, '-,mittee.
Tue co., ri Massachusetts, was
: MT. bu'ier "a movement and
opposed to the who., 49,
styled it a political trick spring on 81.
eve of the election. 1t was a trick
always popular with the outs md
never popular with the Gins" 1t was
no new thing, Calhoun having tried it
in 1885 in order to get Jackson out and
get himself in as President He did
not believe President Grant wished this
bill, but he was simply performing
his sworn duty in keeping in
running order the machines which
Congress set running. 1t was no
ticeable that these civil service move
ments always started just before
Presidential election and always in the
Senate, where there are always seventy
four Presidential candidates to seventy
four Senators. He concluded by COM
mending our civil service as the best
and purest in the world. Out Of the
enormous disbursements made by the
Government in the past ten years, only
one cent in 100000 had been lost.
During the late civil war the entire loss
by paymasters, from whatever cause,
did not amount to more than u
per cent. The First Napoleon lost
in the same service more than q per
cent, and the loss in disbursements to
the allied armies in the Crimea was p
per cent. Defalcations had occurred in
our Treasury, but every one that had
been developed during this administra-
tion was more than four years old. lie
was willing to give the committee
chance, and to that end entered a
motion to recommit the BILL
Mr.. Lynch submitted a substitute
and made a speech in its favor.
Mr.. Blair, OF Michigan, advocated
civil service reform and was in favor Of
a revision Of salaries and the abolition
of moieties and rewards.
The first question being on Mr.. But
ler's motion to recommit the bill, Mr..
Willard, who has charge of the bill,
moved the House adjourn, which pre-
vailed at 4:30.