The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-15
XLVII CONGRESS--2d Ses ion
SENATE.
WAsHINGToN 7

w Aod1NdION, O6C. H.
| At the close of the morning hour the Senate re
sumed the consideration of the bill to promote the
efficiency of navy chaplains by increasing their
! salaries.
Mr.; Logan opposed the bill. The bill was rejected
| year %, nays 81.
The military and agricultural appropriation bills
were referred to the appropriate committees
MIR. voorhees, offered resolution directing the
Secretary of The Interior to eport the result Of any
investigation he may have completed relating to any
dispute between the Cherokee Indians and the
United States growing out of treaty sipulatons OF
laws relating here to.
MIR. Edmunds said the resolution opened mn old
matter and he obiecLed.
The Senate resumed the Pendleten civil service
Mr.. Hoar addressed tho Senate in favor of the
DILL he discuss d some details of the bill and ex-
pressr tne oellef that its pas age would mark an
important era Ia American poll les and be regarded
IN the future almoet equal to the adoption of new
and better constitution.
Mr.. Brown did not believe this bill would remedy
the evil On the contrary he believed if passed it
would prove sham and greatly disappont uopu ar
expectation He saw no reason why the Democrats
should vote for this bill at this time certainly not
without amendment to destroy The aristocracy of
the Republican office holders that the bill proposes
70 establish. The doctrine that to the yictors be-
long the spoils may be as coarse as the gentleman
from Massa husetts says but it is one which has
peen pIacuced from the beginning of the govern
menl ana Will be practiced until the funeral knel
OF The government is heard
Mr. George charsed Mr. Brown with inconsistency
IN arguing hrst that the bi was unjust because it
would prevent the Democrats from getting fair
snare OF the offices, and then that it was nulty
because III would prevent Demreratie esfdent
from giving his followers fai share Of The ofiices
While moi going into the merits of the bill he would
say II embodied in the form Of statute the best
conscience and Judgment of this country against
political prescription and SO received his hearty ap
probation. sf
MIR. Brown offered an amendment striking ont tba
provision that entrance to the service shall be at the
lowest grade and providing tn at competition shall
be for offices of all grades and not be confined to
pers ms already in office; also amendment ex-
plicitly authorizing removals by the President or
heais OF departments without assignment of cause.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Pound of Wisconsin, chairman of the com
mittee on pub lands, reported back a resolution
calling on the Secretary of The Interior for inform
alton as to whether any lands granted by Congress
to any raiir ad company to aid in its construction
and co which such mpany not entitled to
patents at the time the period expired within
which such railroad was required to be completed,
nave been patented to such company since the ex-
piraion OF that period aud by whose authori such
pa EMS issued. Adopted
Mr.. Upson of Texas offered resolution calling
on the Postmaster General to report all failures to
carry out or comply with the contracts for carr wing
the United States mai ST tho first of Ja uary
1852, the names OF the falling contractors and 10
furnish info nation on the subject Referred
Mr.. swell moved that the House 90 iuto com
bill Carried. ~ = i''''-
Mr.. Caswell explained the provisions of the bill.
The total amount of the appropriation is S43. 9pS-
62U, being $2,792, ,b9l less than the estimates
and $3.50 $50 less than the appropria ion for the
current year For the cOmpensaii ion Of postmasters
$9,zoO,OUo Is appropriated or 1854 ,OUO less than
the estimates.
Mr.. Robihson argued that the bill should C ntain
appropriations which would continue to the people
the benefits of special mail facilities
MIR. Anderson suggested that observation-disclosures
getting somethin out OF thes- facilities and in re-
ply Mr. Robinson stated that sixteen States paid
their own postal bills and the bills of the rest
The first ten on the list the six New England
and four Middle States. There were six more
which paid their own bills and yet the gentleman
from Kansas sad Mass sachusetts was getting some
thing out of these special facilities but sh should
get something.
Mr.. Anderson said there seemed general i'm
pre- sion IN that 8 rip of country known as New
Englai d thai when God Almighty made boulders
up there AMI framed them in rand and put upon
that region the brightest and bravest of the Ameri
can race lie stopped. He did not stop. New Eng
land ha somewhere about four mi lions of popula-
tiou d he rather faneied the remaining fifty mil
lions OF the american people were just about as
god and had Just about as much brains to the
square inch as the inhabitants of New England
The inference drawn from the valua ion which
New England put upon itself was that when the
postal service was contIived special regard should
be paid TO that section. If it weIe mere matter of
dollars and Genus it might be a good proposition
that in Massachusetts contributing surplus revenue
was entitled to special advantages, but the true
spirit of the government that mail facilities
should be adopted which would more largely serve
the largest number.
Without closing the general debate on the bill
the committee rose and the House adjourned.