Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-17
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.

George ID. Wise, OF Virginia, introduced
IN the House to-day the Blair educational
Dill, with an unimpOrtant section omitted.
1t was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation. There MIR. Willis will make an
euort, at its next meeting, to have it IA
Vorably reported. If the committee votes
adversely. or votes to postpone, he will
then feel justified IN charging that the
committee want to smother the bill, and
IN moving in the House to discharge
the committee from the consideration
OF the bill so as to bring it to a vote in the
House. The resolution introduced by Mr..
Reid. of North Carolina, instructing the
Committee on Education to report the
bill at once will probably be held in the
Committee on Rules, to which 1t was
referred, until Mr.. Willis has had a chance
to execute his maneuvre.
THE TARIFF BILL.
Having heard all the arguments it
deemed necessary, the Ways and Means
Committee began to-day the cOnsidera-
tlOn of the Morrison tariff bill prepara-
tory to reporting it TO the House. The
discussion today was on the free list. 1t
was entirely general, and no votes were
taken. Mr.. Reed did most of the talking
on the Republican side in opposition to
the provisions of the free list affecting
New England products, especially lum-
Der. Messrs. Morrison and Hewitt did
most of the talking on the other side. The
bill will be reported. by strict party
vote substantially as it was introduced,
within the next two weeks.
MR.. CRIsP's PENSION BILL.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, to-day intro
duced a bill in the House pensiOning
Elias Clark.
The following patents were issued to-
dQU. w n RIopahard nf NaInnaViI1n
Ca, machine for filing cotton gin saws; (;
Alexander Lively, of Sardis, Ca, fer
tiliZer distributor; George Blum, of Or
landO, Fla, artificial stone; Daniel g.
Zeigler and II. Copes, of Orangeburg, s..
c., vehicle hill hoeing machine.
MR.. Cox's BILL.
1t is believed that the bill introduced
to-day by Mr.. Cox, Of North Carolina,
authorizing the creation of a commission
to examine the civil service, will be ia
vorably reported by the Committee on
Civil Service Reform and passed by the
the House. 1t has the approval, it is
stated, of the President and the members
of the Cabinet.
1t is designed to secure information as
to possible improvements in the civil SER
vice not now attainable in any official
way, and to provide recommendations for
which Congress can act.
The reclassifcation of the employees
with more regard to just proportion
between their duties and their salaries,
and with reference to an arrangement
by which clerks of the same class
will be interchangeable among the de-
partments, so that when one department
is short it can borrow from another, is the
principal object of Mr.. Cox. Politically
the bill pleases the Democrats, because it
will, if passed, enable them to assure
their constituents, of whatever political
faith, that steps have been taken to
gather information upon which they can
legislate more intelligently than now.
MATTHEWS NOMINATION.
The Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia announces that it will con-
slider any representations which citizens
of the District may see fit to make in re-
gard to the nomination of James @.
Matthews to be Recorder of Deeds now
pending in that committee. A number of
requests for his confirmation have been
received by the committee from persons
outside IOf the District, but while no
formal protests have been filed against
the confirmation citizens of the District
have privately urged members of the
committee to report the nomination ad-
versely, not on the ground that Matthews
is colored man, but that he is non-
resident. 1t is said that the committee
will so report.