Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-09
F0rty-sscond Congress
SECOND SESSION.

SENATE. WAEHIEsToE, March s.
Senator Wilson introduced bill
providing for the pay of female nurses
during the war.
Senator Wilson also submitted an
order, which, on his motion, was laid
on the table, requesting the President
to suspend the board OF public works
of the District Of Columbia until the
house committee, now investigating
the charges against it, shall have re-
reported
Senator Pratt introduced bill pro-
viding for refunding to State officers
taxes paid on their salaries.
| Senator Trumbull referred to the
resolution offered some time sgO by
Senator Conkling requesting the Pres
ident to transmit to the senate state
ment of the recommendation to Of
fee made by the senators from Hi
nOis, Missouri and Nebraska, and eX-
pressed surprise that it had not been
called up by the mover Of 1t.
Senator Frelinghuysen said he I'M
derstOOd that the reason that Senator
ConkIiDg had not called 1t up was
that he had promised Senator Morton
not to call it up IN his absence.
Senator Trumbull then gave notice
of the following amendment to the
resolution of Senator COnkling, inquir-
ing Of the President as to the recon-
mendations for Office made by certain
senators:
Also, that be furnish the senate with a
COPY OF the record or list kept in the re-
Epective departments, showing the sp
pOiEtments or removals therein which
have been credited or charged to each of
the senators Aforesaid, and to what sena-
tor, togsther with the names of the per-
Sons recommended to or for removal from
Office, by each Of the said sen stors stating
the particulars in each case, whether it
was requested f0r appointment or renlo-
val, the indoSs3m6ut Of recommendation
made by others, giving names of such 9TH
ers, or OF the character OF such parties re-
commsrdiDg them without sny reference
to the applicant in reference to the papers
OF others 70 him by the head ofthe depart
ment without any expression of
opinion by the senator in regard there
to, and whether the appointments
or removals have been in any instance
made st the suggestion or request Of any
third party, who has acted as a go be-
tween either of said senators and the ap-
pointing power, as represented, or in any
msnner caused it to be understood that
ApDULubUl5uSH OF r6LlONAiH WOulu %
agreeable TO or even desired by any seua-
tor; and, If so, giving the name of the
5enstOr and of the pHrson who so repre-
Eented or caused it to be so understood;
and particularly whether any such sp
pointments or removals have been made
at the suggestion of Roswell Hart, an
assistant superintendent of the mail ser
vice in the State cf New York, or Of 4. b
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of the port of New YORK
At one O'Clock the statues of JOna-
than Irumbull and Roger Sherman
were formally presented to the United
States in the name of the people Of |
Connecticut, to tie placed in the old
hall OF the house Of representatives.
In making the prese entatiOn, Sena- |
tors buckingham and Terry made ap-
prOpriate addresses.
Senator Anthony offered resOulu-
ton accepting the statues and return
ing the thanks Of congress to the peo- |
pie of Connecticut for presenting
them, and briefly addressed the SEN
ate on the subject. The resolution
was unanimously adopted.
The senate then resumed the cOnsid- |
Grafton Of the legislative appropria- |
ton bill.
The question pending was on Sena-
tor Sherman's motion to reduce the |
for carrying out the |
cIvil-service reform to twenty. five |
thousand dollars.
Senator Howe addressed the senate |
on the subject Of civil service reform.
Whatever was the condition OF the |
system, the Republican party was re-
sp0nsible and not the president. Sen.
atOr Trumbull was more responsible
Tor existing defects than anybody else,
because for the past eleven years he
had been at the head Of the Judiciary |
whose business it was to
consider defects in legislation az pro-
pose amendments. Senator Howe |
sketched a plan of his own for improv-
ing the civil service by the establish
ment Of national university.
Senator Sherman withdrew his
amendment, ard Senator Carpenter
called for the yeas and nays on the
pending amendment-the apprOpria-
ton Of fifty thousand, dollars, TO be ex
pended, by the President for the pro-
motion of the civil service reform.
The discussion of the subject was
continued by Senators Edmuads and
until half past four o'clock
IN the afternoon, when, without vot-
Eg, the senate went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned till
Monday.