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MI Logan moved to make the salaries
QI the commissioners $4,000 year. Lost.
Mr.. Allison moved to reduce the salary
Of the chief examiner from 81. 900 to S3. 500.
MI. Plumb moved to make it S2,5OO
Lost.
Mr.. Plumb moved to make it $1,000.
Agreed to.
Mr.. Plumb moved to strike out all re-
lation to the chief examiner. Lost.
Mr.. Brown offered an amendment pro-
Yldlng explicitly that when vacancies
occur selections should not be confined
10 persons IN Office at the time, but should
be open to other citizens desiring position.
and that an outside competitor should re-
celve the appointment if superior in quail
hcatlOns to those in office. Lost. Yeas
20. nays %.
Mr.. Jonas said he was in favor of re-
form OF the civil service, and he had
waited patiently in the hope that this bill
would De put IN such shape that he could
support IL, but he was disappointed. If
the amendment offered by Mr.. Pugh, ap-
plying examinations to those in office as
Well as to those outside, had been adopted
he would have voted for the bill.
But as 1t stood now it was mere pre-
tence, and while he did not oppose the
Dill as party man or as an enemy to its
professed object, he believed that the civil
service was in a large measure incom-
petent, II not corrupt, and that it needed
to be reformed
In his own city New Orleans) there
was a custom house, which was used as a
vast house of refuge for political outcasts,
and he could not vote for a bill which
proposed to subject new applicants for an
pointments to examinations while it left
those gentlemen untouched.
Mr.. Brown said his amendment pro-
posing an approximately tair division of
patronage" between parties before the
era of non-partisan civil service should
commence, and other amendments tend.
ing toward fairness has been voted
down by the Republican party
vote. This seemed to show very clearly
that the Republicans did not desire that
there should be fair distribution of the
offices, but intended to hold on to them so
that they might be prepared for any mis-
fortune that might befall them hereafter.
lie could not vote for a bill which was de-
signed to give monopoly of the offices to
a minority party, nor could he see how
the Democrats could support it.
Mr.. Coke regarded the bill as an utterly
worthless response to the popular demand
Tor reform of the civil service-a measure
which was binding upon nobody and
which would leave the question still to be
the foot ball of party politics. Neverthe-
less he would vote for the bill in the hope
that by its passage the author of it might
be encouraged to stronger and more prac-
teal efforts in the same direction.
The bill was then passed by a vote of
yeas 80, nays 8, all the Senators present,
exclusive of the pairs, voting in the affirm
ative except Messrs. Brown. Call. Jonas.
MCPHERSON and Morgan.
Mr.. Brown moved to amend the title of
the bill so as to make it read can act to
perpetuate in office the Republicans. who
or <,F ~,
ment." Laughter Lost.
The Senate, at O'clock, adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The House was called to order bv
Speaker Keifer.
Mr.. Neal, of Ohio, introduced bill to
punish larceny from the person in the
District of Columbia by Imprisonment for
not more than six years, or by fine of
not more than 1000. Referred.
Two or three private bills were passed,
but Mr.. Rice, of Missouri, then proceeded
to object to all requests for unanimous
consent.
The regular order being demanded, the
Speaker then proceeded to call the COM
mittees for reports.
Mr. Steele, of Indiana, from the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to
Increase the efficiency of the Inspector
Generals Department. Referred to the
committee of the whole. 1t increases the
number of Inspectors General from five to
ten.
The Speaker laid before the House the
report of the joint committee on the Wash
lngtOn monument. Referred
After granting several leaves of absence,
at l2:45, the House adjourned until Satur-
day.
SPANISH-ANERICAN CLAIMS.
The Spanish-American Claims Commits
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OF yesterdays proceedings, and having no
further business before it adjourned sine
die. The commission has been in exist
ence for eleven years, during which period
one hundred and forty claims were con-
sidered, representing in all about
I$20, 100000. Awards we're made in
'twenty-eight cases, including the three
awards made yesterday, amounting to
81, 100000. There are eight cases now in
the hands of the umpire for decision,
viz: Those of Felix GOWN V Pinto. in
which the claim is for $4,000, CristabOl
Madan's claim for Sill 600, Antonio NJ.
Morals claim for $3,000,000, Mrs. NJ.
DeMOra's claim for $4,000, Fausta Morals
claim for $40, 200, Ramon r. ZOmar's claim
for $4,000, NJ. A. Monty's claim for $4S, 900,
and NJ. Reva's claim for $36. 1000. These
claims aggregate $4,54S600. The four
cases of Angaraca, the Casanova Broth
ers, Cryado, and j. Gown, which were
dismissed yesterday, represented claims
for $2,06l 900. The claims in the three
cases in which awards were made
yesterday amounted, in all, to $4,000
600, as follows: j. Casanova $3,5O0,-
900, NJ. Zolidivar $400, 900, L. NJ. DeZenea
100000. The awards in these cases
amount in all to about $4,000, distributed
as follows: Casanova $4,000, Zoldivar, $10,-
900 with interest, Zenea 81, 700 with inter-
est. The report of the work of the COM
mittee will be made to Congress as soon
as the umpire, Count Lewenhaupt, shall
have acted upon the cases before him. He
is to announce his decisions at his own
convenience.
FRENCH-ANIERICAN CLAIMS.
The French-American Claims Commits
sion to-day made the following awards:
Jean NJ. Bares VS.. the United States for
$3.50, Jean j. Mouserrat VS.. the United
States for 1925, with interest in both cases
at per cent. from January 1, 1864. The
claim of Jean p. Bilac vs.. the United
States was disallowed.
DUTIES ON RICE.
The Ways and Means Committee met
this morning and resumed work upon the
Tariff Commissions report. In the
schedule of provisions duties were adj
vanced One-half cent per pound over the
commissions report on all grades of rice,
and on rice flour the rate was changed
from ~ cents per pound to 20 per cent.
ad yalOrem,