The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-19
FINDLAY IN WAR PAINT
HIS BIG VICTORY IN THE HOUSE.
lie Goes for "That Ingenious Young Man
MIR. Veazey-Compton Tries to Reply
and Gets Mad-A Most Remarkable

+ MIR. Veazey-Compton Tries to Reply
and Gets Mad-A Most Remarkable
Scene.
: WAsHNCTOE, June II.
The Maryland Democracy was on Il Q
war-path to-day. An open and pitched
battle took place on the floor Of tie
House of Representatives., and it must
be recorded that Mr.. Flndlay added at
other scalp to his belt; for, although Mr..
Compton tried his best to hold up t.
Grandmother's Fund Democrats, he fell
into the trap which has wrecked far bet
ter speakers. lie lost his temper, grow
personal, and finally, when pinned down
as to his remarks, tool; back part of them.
1t was great day for the washing Of
Maryland's S dirty linen, and the display
made the galleries hold their breath IN
excitement, and caused the members on
the floor to rush with one accord to the
space around the contestants, and by
cheers or groans urged them on to the
almost bloody fray. Civil service reform,
of course, was at the bottom of the whole
affair, and Mr.. Finday championed the
law and its methods, and quoted the ac-
| tionS of eX-PostmaSter NeaZey. Mr.,
| Compton sat an attentive listener to the
address, and managed to get the floor
and began to answer. Evidently, lis
| temper had been raised, for he had not
| spoken long before his face grew crimson
and his long white locks intensified the
| comparison. Each word seemed to add
! tire to his face and voice. lie advanced d
towards Mr.. Findlay, who stood in his
seat and who, though pale, was remark
| ably cool, considering the circumstances.
Compton's personal remarks grew ticrcer
| and tiercer, until lie called all the re-
moved men in the Postonice 'scalawags''
and "scoundrels' This was too much
for even Mr.. FIndlay, and he sprang TO
his feet to defend the Old soldiers, aud
| asked, amid the din, if Mr.. Compton
meant that ali those dismissed were seal
awags and scoundrels. Mr.. Compton
noticed his mistake, and then began his
backward crawling. 1t was remar,ka-
bic scene, and one of the most extraordi-
nary of this remarkable session. Comp
ton had number Of ahti civil service
men around him to and him; but FindIay
stood alone, for it seemed as if Ee had
got among a crowd Of anti-cyil service
bees, and they were singing him. But
he stood it well. Mr.. Findlay has re-
markable faculty OF never making a COM
mon place speech. Whenever he gets
the floor he says something that attracts
the attention and makes point. Early
in the day he took up the fight against
Warden, the assistant doorkeeper, who
was convicted by the House committee
OF gross improperly. An amendment
was Offered to pay Warden his salary.
Springer, of Illinois, and FIndlay oppos-
ed it. Mr.. Findlay's speech was spler-
did piece of oratory, and Won the dav.
for Warden lost his pay and the amenC-
ment was defeated.
Nh, FipIIa.y bnl bno, b,,-yr Ill, a.
although lie had given out that he in
tended to speak On the civil service ques-
ton, it was hardly thought he could do
SO to-day.
MIR. GIBSON FAILS AGAIN.
There was one sad, sickening dsap-
pointment in the days proceedings.
Early in the morning Mr.. Gibson, from
the Eastern Shore, who has yet to make
his maiden speech, announced TO several
of the correspondents of the Baltimore
papers that he intended to make his long.
deferred, but much talked-of, civil serv-
ice speech. ''Be in the gallery to hear
me, ne said to one of the newspaper
men. But, alas Mr.. Gibson evidently
was scared by the Democratic fight on
the floor, and the speech was lost, and as
the dcbatable clause is to be ruled out,
the speech will be forever lost, at least
on that subject. But the galleries were
well filled when Mr.. Fiudlay arose to
make his speech. +. Bayne made an
amendment to make the President re-
sponsible Tor the law, and not pay him
his salary until the entire list OF eligibles
was certified to. This amendment was
only made to get ruling on the point,
and to let Mr. Bayne speak on the sub
ject.
MR.. FINDLAY BEGINS.
Mr.. Findlay also got a chance to speak.
lie opened his remarks by saying that it
was buncombe amendment, conceived
i'll the spirit of buncomba and offered in
the most transparent demagoguery, be.
cause it was subject to point OF order
and would be thrust out as an Irrelevant
and impertinent intruder. If by any mis-
carriage such should not be its fate, the
Senate would trample it under foot with
the scorn and contumely it deserved. If
contrary to reason and precedent, it should
pass that body, it would then confront
hostile Ezecutiye to give it his approval
only under the cOmpulsiOn of forced
situation into which he will have been
cornered by his own political friends and
supporters. "Thcn," he continued, ''if
it were not SO serious a subject, n man
might sit down and laugh at this old
party preserving its success in tradition
and name, if not in principal and policy,
| through half century Of conflict and
varying fortune, fighting battles for -
years only to lose them without a break
in the long chain of TeverSes, and at last
when tardy victory brushes away the
black cloud of disaster aud reveals the
silver lining to its rayished gaze, whether
| intoxicated at the unexpected spectacle
ni,fr ,nf from x,F,
venerable old party-content with the
bliss of a transient vision, and UNEQUAL
to the task of deliberate and constructive
contemplation fits own splendid achieve
| ment-asks to be dismissed in the very
moment of its ccStacy and on the very
spot of its triumph
ARRAIGNING HIS PARTY.
He then arraignel the Democrats for
rejecting the Presidents silver policy,
and calling themselves leaders. You
have voted down an honest dollar, ard
now you try to vote down the most val
ued law on the statute books" This
House (and by that lie meant the Demo
| cratic majority had already turned its
back on one OF the principal reforms. on
the currency of the country, recommend
| ell by the President, and as if that had
| been enough, 1t now proposed to knock
| fIom under him the very foundation stone
of his political creed and public success.
| Aud this Was politics and these were
| leaders.
lie spoke earnestly and deliberately.
and the Republicans, as well as the DEM
ocrats, who had seats in the back of the
House, crowded around him. Mr.. Comp
ton came from his secluded seat in the
last row, and took a scat almost directly
in front of Mr.. Findlay. When the
speaker began on the civil service qucs-
ton proper, he said;
Let no gentleman deceive himself.
The gentleman from Indiana Iolmanl,
in response to question a few days ago,
had said that the obi3oS of the amend.
ment was to deal out even handed Justice,
and the gentleman from Illinois Spring.
erl had still more plainly let the House
know that it was intended to give par
tisan, Instead of a non partisan, service.
That the effect Of the amendment leouir-
ing the certitcatiol Of the full list of
eligibles to the appointing power would
be To give partisan, and not Il uou-par-
tlSau, service, was not matter of con-
ioctural speculation, but it was matter
of experience demonstrated, boasted Of
gloated over by Baltimore postmaster
THE INGENIOUS YOUNG MAN.
This Ingenious goung gentleman"
said Mr.. FIndlay, in his clearest voice,
got the entire list of cligibles in his
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