The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-30


fed. while Mr.. Beck glowers in his seat,
locking like an old grizzly" that has
Ueen trihsd with.
But these two Senators have not done
all the talking. Mr.. Ingalls, don't like
the Fendleton bill and said he didn't 60
very much on civil service reform any
Low. He thought there was good deal
Of cant and juggle about it. Mr.. Yoor.
hoes expressed himself as much of the
same opinion. He said the real demand
was for penal laws to punish wrong doers
in high places, not for contrivance to
wrong Government clerks. He ridiculed
civil service examinations and gave the
following as few of the questions con-
cocted by commission under Secretary
Schurz: "Name the four largest islands
OF the globe" "Give approximately the
latitude of Washington and London, "
I'm what direction is Havana. Cuba,
from Washington, D. CT" "What State
of tie Union extends from the latitude
of Boston to the latitude of Richmond?''
"Where are the principal table-lands of
the globe?" "Cive the course which q
measure must take to be introduced to
Congress, and supposing it to be vetoed,
to become law of the United States" "
Bring up all your young men," said
Mr.. VOORHEES,, 'Irom all the States, end
if they can answer those questions they
may get $500 clerkship. Then the
examiners passed to mathematics, and
one of the questions was: Two thirds OF
seven-ninths of What number is one
eighth of what number is one-half OF
| eight and two-flths, divided by fourteen
and seven-tenths less than fourteen and
two sevenths.' Another was: A man
weighing seventy-two pounds runs with
a velocity of six against standing but
not resisting man whose weight ia nine.
ty-six pounds; what is the resull?' OF
course this raised laugh, and Mr.. Voor.
hees said that if Senators wanted this
humbug continued they might vote fol
it, but he would not. Then there was
quarrel raised by Mr.. Mcpherson, who
made the remark, on the authority oi
Pendleton, that the departments were
filled with idle clerks. Window said hc
was tired of this sort of thing, and wher
he asked Mcpherson to nome one or two
the latter told Window that that was
petti-fogging way of dealing with grea
public question. 1t would be hazardoul
perhaps, to predict the final fate of III,
Pendleton bin, but it is believed grea
many will vote for it who have no hear
in its purposes. 1t is said that Dol
Cameron and Malone will both cast thei
votes for it, but l doubt if the millennium
is quite so near as that.
DR.. L0ring, Commissioner of Agricul
ture, has been crushed again. The doc
tor has soul above turnips and potatoe
aspires to be statesman and an orator
TO say nothing of being Cabinet officer
THIS last project was cruelty sat dow
upon, and then the wicked Cox and til
nnieeling March, in Congress the othe
day, complained that the worthy CON
missioner dubtled in politics ard use
too many technicdlities in his report
1t is a pity that man Of DR.. Loring
admirable social AID personal qualitic
should have got such bee in Iii bonnC
as the ambition that has been btingin
him iuriously for the last year H
house is the great resort of foreigners
and his Sunday evening r. ceptions al
voted among tie most agreeable in tow
: General Boale's is likewise hoadquartel
for foreigners, aud be has a Monday ey,
ming tea to which all the diplomats &
, rs relief from their stuyendors labor
These laIors consist in writing solen
= little notes to the State DEPARTING Mt ubo,
nothing, aud despatching them by fco
i men covered over with buttons. n
Frclinghuysen, who is always trcmon
( onsly busy about diplomacy and sue
. receives them from q salyer as lie sits
d solemn splendor in las room at the sta
{ Department, IsruSss them auxiousl
L sends iSr son-in-law Davis, who rom
Ia bustliug with importance, then sen,
d for Attoruey-Gencral Brewster, aud Il
j. tntc old ladies put their heads togeth
and gossip unxiously for an hour or vs.
&c Then the diplomatic note is written ,
W State paper, which is copied by the bu
j. clerks and despslcbed hy colured ne
1t seager, and general foreign war
y avsrled fer another day.
X Tie question OF holiday recess "
re agitating Congress last week, and sor
" time spent in discussing it developed t
y fact that nearly all the membtrs wou
" like to adjourn, but TO use the scho,
" boy phrase, "dasn't," Some of the
Ir,e Nirtuously about the great respo
m sibil.t,es Of Congress az this time ~
at publicly declare against the recess, VIII
n perhaps privately intending to skip o
n for home just as socn as po~ibl. II
5. vas pr position t. fae every m. m >