Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-12

ton of salaries, claimed by Mr.. Holman to
be made on the bill. called attention to the
fact s16,O 900 was appropriated for assist.
ant clerks to the Committee on Aporopria.
tons.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said that
the sum had been appropriated in former
years, but he expressed q willingness to
vote for a reduction if Mr.. Morrison made
the motion. The two gentlemen then en-.
gagged in IL colluquy which aroused the mem.
bers and upon Mr.. Randall, OF Pennsylvania.
Attempting to answer q question pre-.
pounded by Mr.. Morrison, that gentleman
exclaimed: II was lot asking you. You
are not an economist up to the standard
of the gentleman from Indiana"
Mr.. Cobb, of Indiana, offered an amend
ment making an appropriation to the first
assistant doorkeeper OF the House. The
hill fails to make any provision for this
Warder.
Mr.. Howard, OF Indiana. supporting tho
amend .uent, protested against legislatinG
Warder out of Office, and hoped the com.
mittee would not attempt to do so. The
amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Allen, OF Mississippi, offered an
amendment providing that none Of the
money appropriated for the Contingent
Fund should be used in paying the expenses
of the funeral Of any member of Congress.
The amendment was rejected by a vote OF
twelve to seventy-three. A clause appro.
priating for the salary OF the President
having been reached, MIR. Bayne, OF Penn.
sylvania, offered an amendment providing
that non OF this money shall be paid until
the Civil Service rules shall have been
changed as recommended by the Commit.
tee on Appropriations in the latter ton
OF the bill. A point OF order having been
raised against the amendment, Mr.. Bayne,
while not contending that it was not in OF.
der said that if it was germaine to the bill
at all it was germaine at this point. Mr..
Findlay, OF Maryland, said the pro-
vision whether in the form presented by the
gentleman from Pennsylvania or in it's
original form was a proposition conceived
n the spirit OF purest buncomb for the
baIdest purposes OF most transparent DEM
agogury. There was no man here h
it was subject to the point OF
order, and therefor would be thrust out OF
the bill as an irrevelant and impertinent
There was no man who doubted
that, ii by any miscarriage, such should not
be it's fate, when it got to the Senate hat
body would trample it under foot with the
scOrn and contumely it deserved.
That the effect of the amendment requir.
ing a certitication OF the lull list OF eligibles
to the appointing power would be to give a
and not a nOn-partisan service,
was not a mere matter Of conjecturel
but was a matter OF exper-
fence, demonstrated, boosted OF and
over by he Baltimore postmaster.
This Ingenious young man had got the
whole list of eligibles into his hands, and
what use did he make OF it? According to
hIn nu-, ~ ~, oH,N l E.~a
the Civil Service Committee who was in
Baltimore, he made such good use of it
that in less space than a year he had
turned out every Republican in that Office
and had put a Democrat in his place with
out missing fire once.
Mr.. Compton, OF Maryland; said that the
assault his colleague had made on the late
at Baltimore was as unde.
served as any one man had ever made on
another. Who was that postmaster? He
was the peer OF the gentleman from Mary.
land (Mr. Findlay) or any other gentleman
on this floor, or any where else as a man
Of character and intelligence. A Demo.
cratic civil service commission had sought
by every effort and by every means it
could employ t., show he had violated the
law OF the gel vice because he had removed
rom Office a lot OF political scalawags and
a lot OF unprincipled scoundrels, associates
Of his colleague in the last falls campaign,
when he (Findlay) had sought to defeat the
ticket. Applause on the Demo-
side
Immediately tn House was in an uproar
but above the noise Mr.. Findlay was heard
to inqnire angrily whether his colleague
meant to say that he associated with
scalawags and scouudrels.
Speaker Carlisle, who was in the cham
Der, approached the Speakers desk and
was apparently readyto seize the .avel and
exert his authority in case the demOnstra-
became more threatening, but Chair
nan Biount WAS equal to the emergency
soon succeeded IN securing comparative
luiet. After a further debate, largely Of a
PERSONAL character between the Maryland
members, the Bayne amendment was ruled
out OF order aud some little discussion
arose as to the proper mode Of appropriate
ng for the salary OF the presiding officer OF
The Senate. 1t was finally agreed to strike
out the clause appropriate SIS. 900 for the
IaIary OF the vi e President and to appro.
'riate $4,000 to pay such Senator as may
,e selected to preside over the Senate. The
Evil Service section having been reached
dr. Morrison made II point OF order against
he provision as it changed the rules Of
be c mmittee, and pending the decision
he committee rose.
ENIN SESSION.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-When the House
net this evening, it Immediately went into
Committee OF the Whole on the Legislative
bill, but owing to the small
attendance Of members, the Civil Service
was passed over till tomorrow. On J.,
notion OF Mr.. Holman the salary OF the
public Printer was reduced from 81, 500 to
1000. Adjourned.
Genera Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Secretary OF
received a cable message from Minis
er Cox at Constantinople, saying that the
Of Turkey desires to send a wedding
to Mr.. Cleveland and asking that
t be received. The President, while appre-
iating the motive Of the sender, felt that
is acceptance would be in violation of the
pirit il not the letter Of the Constitution,