Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-22
Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-In the senate Mr..
Pendleton presented petition for an al
lowance of rebate equal to any reduction
tbet may be made on the tax on tobacco.
aAd Mr.. Davis one praying for repeal of
taxes on tobacco.
Mr.. Pendleton said he had received tele-
grams from prominent dealers in whisky
asking that immediate action be taken
upon the bonded whisky bill.
Mr.. Bayard, from the finance committee,
reported an amendment for the McPher-
son resolution relating to the reduction of
the tabacco tax. It provides that whenever
the tax on tobacco, snuff, and cigars shall
be reduced, a proportionate rebate of tax
paid on stocks on hand be allowed.
Mr.. Bayard gave notice that he would
ask consideration of his resolution to-
morrow in order to quiet the apprehen-
sions of the tobacco business all over the
country.
Mr.. Morgan gave notice that he would
offer an amendment to the resolution of
| the finance committee in relation to the
tax on tobacco providing that any rebate
allowed be in certificates to cover future
taxation on manufactured spirits or
tobacco.
Mr. Saunders offered resolution declar-
ing it the sense of the senate that the pre-
emption law which allows lands to be en-
tered or purchased at $1.25 per acre with
| out requiring permanent settlement should
be repealed, and that hereafter all govern
ment lands should be held and reserved for
actual settlement only. Referred.
The resolution providing for adjourn
ment over the holidays was taken up.
| Mr.. Garland offered an amendment
giving the consent of the senate to the
| house taking a recess. He didn't think the
senate could afford to adjourn for SO long.
The amendment was rejected, ayes II.
nays 45.
The question then required on the origi-
nal resolution providing for recess from
Dec. % to Jan. 2, and it was lost % to
&c.
Consideration of the civil SER
| vice bill was then resumed.
Mr.. Conger said the senator from Della
ware (Bayard) need not be at loss to
understand the reasons which make Re-
] publican senator's SO earnest in their de-
sire to advance the public business at this
| time. They have been tainted by senators
on the other side in language fit only for
shoe blacks, and been told
| the people had condemned
their past action, and he would admit the
| people must certainly be in strange and
angry state of mind if they could contem-
plate setting aside, even temporarily. the
Republican party, which saved the country
and entrusting the government to the
hands of the Democracy. Laughter. I
He had seen with intense sympathy the
| woe-be-gone expression of the senator
from Ohio, (Pendleton,) as he stood in the
! camp of the enemy, laughter, and begged
his fellow Democrats in vain to let the SEN
ate proceed to act upon his civil service
bill. There was something heroic in the
| attitude of that senator in standing there
| trying to save the country from his
political friends, laughter but the senator
from Georgia, (Brown) also occupied a
heroic position, when he declared it was no
time to pass civil service bill which would
| keep Republicans in Office and keep Dem
ocrats out. Laughter. That Senator
was logical. and the senator from Ohio,
(Pendleton eeYould not answer him. In
deed, the senator from Ohio himself, was
now carried forward in support of his civil
service bill by the momentum which he &C
| quired in his past efforts for its passage
at time when he did not dream there was
any prospect of his own party coming into
power and having a chance to fill these
Offices. Laughter.
| Mr.. Williams opposed the civil service
bill as impracticable and worthless. The
only practical attempt he had seen made
to reform the service was the proposition
of his colleague (Beck) to inquire into the
abuses perpetrated by Republican officials
in the last campaign, and that was smoth-
cred by Conkling with another entirely ir-
relevant inquiry. He was in favor of
every real reform, but he would not vote
for this little sham for the same reason
that he declined to vote at the last session
for that other sham, the little revenue bill
The bill proposed a system of COMPETE
tive examinations for the lower ofices-a
sort of sausage suffer through which
each man must pass before he could get
into general strings. Laughter. There
| was great deal of nonsense talked about
] civil service reforms. Real reforms would
consist in putting decent and honest men
in high places and letting them bring back
| the government of the republic to the
principles and practices of its earlier and
| better days. He would like to see the
Democratic member of congress who would
60 back to his constituents and tell them
he had voted to make the tenure of the
present oficeholders permanent, in order
to keep his friends from being
empted into Office seeking. Laughter.
How many votes would that man get?
| Why, he would be hooted. People think,
| and do toe, that whatever party is in pow
er has right to put its friends in Office.
As for this poor little thing that is before
US, don't think it amounts to anything.
Old Hickory Jackson would put his foot
upon it in minute. Laughter I don't
think it would be law if we passed it. Yet
it might bother us little when we come
on and don't want any distractions in
our way Laughter. The only way to re-
form is to elect and honest president in
1884, turn on hose and give him big hick-
DRY broom and tell him to sweep the plat
cl can. Laughter.
The amendment proposed by Mr.. PEN
dleton striking out the provision that en-
trance to the service shall be at the lowest
grade and substituting one that appoint
ments shall be apportioned as nearly as
possible among the states and territories
and District of Columbia upon the basis of
population was agreed to.
Mr.. Cockrell made an argument to show
that this bill if passed would not give the