Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-07
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1885


 committee of Maine. MT. Hale said it wa
 every day becoming the belief of the peopl
 that the civil ser ice of the government should not be used to reward party service
 Above all, the country desired we shoult
 have pure civil service; there should be n
 taint of bargain and sale about it. MT. Hal said he made no appeal for the mel who had been turned out. The Republican, expected to go. The Presidents course hat been conservative, and though the Presiden had refused to make a general sweep, person had, however, been appointed in Maine whom nobody recommended. The chairman O the Democratic State committee, MT. s. s Brown, gave up his law practice, closed hi office and came to Washington. Democrat and Republicans alike complained of MT Browns course and it appeared that out o one hundred appointments made in Main' eighty seven were made on MT. Browns en dorsement. MT. Hale acquitted the Post master General of any endorsement of Brown The Postmaster General has turned over hi appointment matters to his assistant, who relied on Brown, but no explanation hao the proceedings complained of had beer based. MT. Hale said the Republicans hao not always been perfect. But in twenty-foul years he had never heard that public offices had been matters of public sale.
 MT. Vest characterized MT. Hale's position as mere can't His colleague MT. Cockrell and himself had found unmistakable evi dences of the use of money under Republican administrations in the attainment of public offices.
 MT. Voorhees sympathized with the Re- publican postmasters who had been turned out. They would get used to it after while as the Democrats had got used to it.
 MT. Vest thought that the President hac honestly and conscientiouslv endeavored tt
 
 him, and he was astonished that any com plaint should come from Republicans in tha regard. Debate was closed by the reference of the communication to the Committee or Civil Service Reform.
 MT. Gray, of Delaware, then began his answer to MT. Beck's silver speech: Reviewing the history of ou, coin legislation the action of 1878 MT. Gray said, was tentative. It was based on the idea that silver would shortly reach an international ratio with gold. It was the hope of attainment of the interna- tional ratio that actuated many thoughtful men in voting for that bill. This hope had been disappointed, the object of the bill had been defeated and the dollar worth ninety two cents in 1878 was now worth less than eighty cents. Passionate invective on the value of the silver dollar. The actions and T commentators of the President and Sec retary of the Treasury on the silver ques- tion were right. He (Mr. Gray was not here to defend anyone, but economic laws were always the same. He was not bond holder, nor the son of a bondholder, but he was for paying the bondholder in honest money. The true in the ques- tion was whether the true relation of gold and silver could be reached by the continu- ance of the present plan of silver coinage. This could not be done. Silver coinage had served useful purpose as subsidiary coin, but no country desired basis of silver coin alone, and if gold were supplanted by silver we would have silver basis. The gold the rest of the world Bimetallism could not be reached by any one country alone. France had long ago stopped her silver coin age, and should we, by continuing our pres ent course, drive out of the country several hundred millions of gold coin If we did so we should have contraction indeed. The act of 1878 having failed to raise the value of silver persistence in our present plan of silver coinage would bring us to 6 silver standard. We would be descending to the basis of an eighty-cent dollar and thus the government of the United States would, in fact, be scaling it's own debt. This would be public misfor- tune as eyidencing a condition of public dis which, to say the least, was equally reprehensible with individual dishonesty. Many of those who favored the silver coin age were not, in MT. Gray's opinion, the sol i'd conservative business men, but those of speculative turn. He desired to see silver in circulation concurrently with gold, but the failure of the best efforts to get it into that condition was sufficient proof that our con- .inued coinage would be of no avail in that direction. We were all embarked on the same great voyage-debtor and creditor Go% ike, oJ1 NTo 11, honestly endeavor to adjust our differences in order that the interests of all our people may be honestly and fairly advanced.
 This was MT. Gray's first speech in the Senate and he was listened to with great at ;ention. At the close of his remarks he re- ,eived the congratulations of several of his senatorial friends.
 Mr. McPherson followed on the same sub- ect The United States treasury, he said, lad become a vast and complicated machine. There were seven different features in our circulation in the form of various kinds of lotes. If coinage were not suspended silver night be got to a proper relation with gold, md, in the opinion of the best authorities ill he world, we had now got to. a point in sil- yer coinage beyond which it was dangerous o go. All history taught that with cur ending to become, speculation was encour- Iged and monetary ruin hastsned. The loss would always fall on the producers of our country as the importers would protect them elves.
 Mr. Beck inquired how much the purchas- rs of the bonds had paid for them.
 Mr. McPherson replied that that made no difference. The government having held ut such representations could not now ig- lore them; could not play fast and loose with it's creditors.
 On motion of MT. Edmunds the Senate hen took up the Utah bill, the pending question being on MT. Eoar's motion to strike ut the section that would disfranchise the vomen of Utah. The amendment was re- ected; yeas Il, nays 37: The Senators vot ng yea were Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Brown, yall, Dawes, Dolph, Hoar, Mitchell of Ore on, Palmer, Stanford and Teller. The sec ion disfranchising the women, therefore, re- mains part of the bill.
 MT. VanWyck offered an amendment dis ,ensing with the Utah commission. The du- ies of that body could he said, be just as yell erformed by army officers without ex- ra expense and his amendment provided hat board of three officers should take the lace of the commission. His amendment 7as rejected.
 MT. Teller in the course of some general emarks said he did not believe in polygamy, ut he would say that if we had sent the ight men to look after Utah polygamy would ave been dead long ago. We had sent len there who irritated and perseeuted he people. It was by our prosecutions that ye had kept polygamy alive. Religious en- husiasm had done much for civilization, but Ie could not forget that two-thirds of the eople of the world to-day believed in olygamy. Great Britain had never put ands on the polygamlsts within its domin- ,ns. The Mormons had their faults, but he ad seen Salt Lake City when not grog- nop, gambling house, or den of infamy ould be found in it. It could not be ex- ected that men who had married wives 1irty years ago would put them aside now } so many prostitutes and declare ! leir children bastards. The bill un- CT consideration MT. Teller looked on as | Ill of blood. It was too severe. l Ve should treat the great evil existing in | Ttah rather with velvety hand. Hen who 1 id not believe in polygamy, he said, ad by the severity of our government been | riven into condition of opposition to the | olicy of the people of the United States.
 MT. Edmunds denied that there was any ,ing oppressive 1.-the bill. It was simply | D attempt to cut off the one man power ex- | ting among the people of Utah. After further discussion the bill went over ntil tomorrow, MT. Ednunds saying he ould then ask the Senate to ''sit it out" nd bring the bill to vote.
 MT. Blail, from the Committee on Educa- T a1>