Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-07
Also a Bill to Provide for
Two Additional Supreme
Court Justices in
Dakota.
Senators Vest and Voorhees, Take a
Hand I'm the Discussion Over
the Maine Post5ffces.
An Invitation to Villas to Show
up the Charges Against
Fostmasters-Speaker
Carlisle's Commit
tees Announced.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE,

SENATE,
Washington, Jan. G~-Replying to Mr.
Hale relative 10 sales of postoffices
Mr.. Vest said 1t WAS impossible
that the administration should know
every man who solicited
office. Ii he had his way he would
make it e misdemeanor for any mar to
solicit office; but what was the post
master general to do? 1t had become a
sort Of a common law in both parties
for men to recommend people for office.
| Was the postmaster general to go to
the republicans for recommendations?
Vest characterized Hale's position as
mere cant. He West) had before now
seen in the departments at Washington
such endorsements as this: "Ihis mar
is endorsed by Vest and Cockrell," and
therefore the appointments had been
refused, yet, the senator from Maine
had discovered what he pretended to be
success of 1882, there never would have
been a civil service law passed by the
republican party. Civil service had
been in the senate for years without
attention, and until the prospect
of democratic ascendancy had become
clear to the republicans.
Mr.. Hale said that bad nothing to
do with the question under dispute.
Mr.. Vest said his colleague (Cockrell)
and himself in the course of their in
yestigations heretofore under a repub-
lican administration had found unmis-
taxable evidence of the use of money in
the attainment of public offices, and
though they could not put their fiugerr
on the letter chewing any use of money
they could convince the moral sense Of
any mar that money had been used.
Mr.. Voorhees, said the fact seemed
that three presidential postmasters and
some other minor postmasters had beer
changed by the present administration,
1t seemed to Voorhees, that that simpl,
showed that not as many changes hat
!. been made in the p~ostoffices of Name al
the people by their votes last fall in
tended should be made by the admins
t%ration. Voorhees, sympathized witt
the republican postmasters who wer'
turned out, but they would ge
used to it after a while
as the democrats had gotten used to il
Voorhees, was not here to defend Brown
He thought Hale had done a service t
the democracy by exposing such a man
but did Hale suppose he could make al
impression on the country that tn,
democracy OF the United States favored
the course pursued by Brown? Voor
bees differed from Vest 10 one thing
He (Voorheee) was willing to put il
power and Office men who had helped Il
elect democrats and he believed if tt
have been the intention of the framer
of the constitution that the government
should be administered by the friends o
an administration which the peopl,
should place in power.
AIR. Vest said President Cleveland hat
honestly and conscientlously endeavoret
to carry out every particle of pledg,
made by him to the people of the Unitee
States before his election, and he (Vest
was astonished that any complaint o
him in hat regard should come from
republicans. IT was certain that mucl
complaint had come from democrats be
cause he had not made removals enough
The debate then closed and on motion
of Mr.. Hale the communication of th,
postmaster general was referred to the
committee on civil service reform.
Washington, Jan. THE chair Iait
before the senate q letter from the sec
rotary of war, transmitting q petition
from West Point students who are to b.
graduated in June, 1886, praying tina
provision may be made for thoir APP
pointment to the army. Referred to til,
committee on military affairs.
A resolution was offered by MI
Henderson, which a agreed to
calling on the secretary of tn,
interior for information as t.
whether any surveys of public land
had been made within the last two year
in Nebraska, and whether there are an,
nnsurveyea public lands in that state
end what recommendations had beer
made within the last three years to tn.
surveyor general of that district as to a
continuance of said Office, and whether
it was advisable to discontinue the Office
of surveyor general.
Mr.. Dolph, from the committee or
commerce, reported favorably on the
bill extending the city of Portland, Ore.
provisions of the law of 1880, relating tc
immediate transportation of dutla5le
goods; also, similar bills relating tc
Omaha, Nebraska, and Port Townsend
Oregon. These bills, on Mr.. Dolph'f
motion, were at once passed.
HOUSE.
A call of the states was resumed and
the following bills and resolutions In
troduced and referred:
BY Mr.. Golf of West Virginia-To re.
peal the internal revenue tax on tobacco.
BY Mr.. Caswell of Wisconsin-To