The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-13
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WASHINGTON, June H. 1874
After the presentation OF several petitions, Mr..
| HALE, (rep) OF Me-. from the Committee on APP
proprations. reported bill appropriating $500, 600
to enable tie secretary OF War TO execute the
OF April 49, 1874 and May Is, 1874 for the relief OF
| persons suffering from the overflow OF tue Lower
1 Mississippi River, OF the Tomtlgbee, Warrior and
! Alabama rivers, ana OF the Tennessee River. the
authority OF the Secretary to expire on the LIST OF
| September next.
| Passed.
Mr.. BUTLER, lrep) OF Mass, moved to suspend
| the rules and make IN order to the Sundry Civil
Appropriation Dill, section directing preference
III appointments to ONCE to be given to soldiers
and sailors and their dependant relatives, to
diminish and stop the expense OF carrying on ex-
amlnations by Boards OF Commissioners or others
travelling around the country at the public charge
and to stop the detailing of clerks OF the depart.
ment 10 sit in Judgment on their fellow clerks ex.
ercising thereby the appointing power which is by
the constitution vested in the neads of the several
| executive departments, who ought to be men OF
| suficient discretion TO appoint their own clerks
without being tied up by rules and regulations i'm
| posed upon them by boards composed, In whole or
| In part OF those very clerks themselves.
The rules were SUSPENDED and the amendments
made III order. Yeas 155, nays 81.
Mr.: Z. K. HoAR, ,treo1 OF Mass, moved TO sns-
| pend the rules and make In order to the Sundry
i
Home for the Aged, under the charge OF the Little
Sisters OF the Poor, tor the completion OF their
1ui dng as nome Tor the aged IN che District OF
Columbia.
Mr.. GARFIELD. rep) OF Ohlo-No one will object
! to that
The motion was agreed to without dissent,
The House then, at i0fty-lve minutes past
/ twelve, went into committee OF the whole Mr.
/ Dawes, OF Massachusetts,, III the chair on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bin. The debate on Inc
evil service re.orm WIS resumed, being limited by
the House 10 twenty-five minutes
/ ODenp0 n
discussion by an indignant protest against the
criticisms OF the President yesterday. It would be
found, when the history OF these times was con.
sdered, that the President would not suffer in
comparison with any OF me gentlemen who had
| Grant mad been equal to the occasion, and he had
been equally great in civil as IN military lie.
! These fine rose water speeches and those who
made them would pass into OBLIVION while the
great acts and the recorded uterances Of the Pres
dent such as, UNCONVENTIONAL surrender II mean
to fight 1T out on TINS line II 1t taxes all summero
Let us have peace" would become immortal.
| hungry stomachs and diseased imaglnations who
wanted TO get back 10 power. The people mad dis
| favor OF the President and OF an honest
administrator, and they would do 1t again.
Se I, were @ ysy things that would
mnstratlon and they would do it whenever they
got square SOU. t, issue at the polls;
Connecticut.
Mr. STARKwEATHER-The issue in Connecticut
was one Of whskey, and when the democrats
found that out tney kicked around in their collins.
Mr.: NIBLAcK, (dem.) OF Ind, regarded The efforts
at civil service reform as complere and total
failure, because, instead OF giving the clerks and
other subordinateS some sort OF tenure OF office
It simply emba raised the President III making
Mr.. POTTER, nem.l Of N. T., agreed with Mr..
Nlblack as to the failure OF the experiment. He
believed that the evils in the civil service were
the necessary results OF the existing condition OF
things, and that they would not be remed,ed with
out change IN the constitution, which would
ocaze appointments and thus aid In the DE.
Capitalization OF power.
Mr. orC
OF his proposition for the carrying out OF the civil
service rules.
was not whether the civil service examlna-
be done 1t was whether the government would
any longer try to do anything to better the civil
service. He hoped the gentleman would make that
issue fair ana square, and would meet IL. Ii no
further effort was TO he made, If the whole matter
was to be Abandoned et It be said that 1t plain
and square work. II 1t was proposed to return to
the old democratic system and regard the TO- 900 or
|. $4,000 Offices as so many pawns to be PLAYED
with in politics, to be traded and made merchan-
disc OF, lie. that be openly said and defended; but
IT, on the contrary, it was believed that the public
offices were made Tor the service OF the nation
and not Tor party perquistes, then the experiment
should De continued ia order to see whether there
could be at least in part abated.
MT. LAWRENCE, (rep) OF Ohio. made another
effort to get IN an amendment Tor a bill plan for
recognizing all the departments OF the govern
Inent, so as to equallze salaries and to reduce
far as practicable the expenses and increase the
efficiency thereof; but on a point OF order made
BY Mr.. Butler. of Massachusetts. 1t was excluded.
Mr.. Kelloggs amendmen. was then rejected by
Alter debate on .he amendment OF Mr.. T.. r.
Hoar to appropriate $4,000 in and Of the building
Washington, II was rejected.
The The next item, being one OF $4,000 for the
Womens Christian Association OF Washington.
was struck out OF the bill on point OF order.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
MI. CHAPMAN, Ten.) delegate from the District OF
columbia, moved an appropriation OF $500, 900 for
continuing the Washington monument and con-
VAS n IN to q OF order that
last century providing ior monument to WASH
Mr.. E. r. HoAR said that that law had been twice
executed in GreenougA's statue In the East Capitol
PARK and IN Clark Mlls' equestrian statue In the
Mr. CHAPMAN replied that these were statues, not
monuments
me CHAIRMAN (Mr Dawes ruled that the unfin.
ished Washington Monument was not a work or
the United States heretofore authorized by law,
and consequently the amendment was not In
order.
On motion OF Mr.. HOOPER, rep.) OF Mass, an
item OF $4,000 was inserted for ligntshlp near
the entrance of New York harbOr to mark the site
OF the wreck OF the steamship Scotland; also, for
log bell near the entrance OF New York harbor.
strike out an item OF $40, 600 for a lighthouse and
beacon at Matthias Point. Va, discussed for
against Striking OUT IN Which n he sssere sas ce
motion was made on the basis OF some observations
made BY members OF pleasure trip, the expenses
Mr.. LAMIsoN stated that the lighthouse at
Mathaias Point was OF no earthly use, ana that
there were enough lighthouses on the Potomac to
supply the whole country II they were fairly dis
triDuted.
Mr.. SENER suggested that Mr.. Lamison had '.seen
dOuble' on that occasion.
MIR. LAAIsoN retorted that Mr.. Sener never
drank too much unless the liquor was supplied by
somebody else. Naughter.) man might be
drunk when he made recommendation for that
lighthouse, but he would be inexcusable II he IN.
sisted on 1t after he got sober. Q4aughter.)
Mr.. SENER had the last word, and suggested that
before that famous trip down the Potomac in 4
government cutter Mr.. Lamis0n had never seen q
lighthouse.
out was adopted-S7 to 10.
Mr.. PLAT (rep.) of Va, moved to insert an
item OF SIS, 600 for q lighthouse at the mouth OF
York River, Virginia.