Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-05

| uOt TuDOeQ 2rOun right smart chance,
Ez poets say, "a wild free lance"
But blamed eff l amt here to say,
From now till arter Judgement day,
That jis' for grit an biz, an SAN,
I'm holdin' up fur old Shyann.
Northwestern Live Stock Journal
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Washington Wirings. ..
| WAsHINGroN, May Mr. Findlay. O
Maryland. from the Committee on Gvi
Service Reform, herettf0re submitted q re
port on the resolution offered by Mr.
Taulbee, of Kentucky, directing the Secre
tary Of the Treasury to inform the House
by what authority the practice of per
mitting the employers in his departments tc
appoint substitutes is allowed. The com.
mittee, in it's report, says there can be no
reason for questioning the good faith OF the
statement by the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury that the substitution is allowed
| when permanent employees are absent on
| account Of sickness. Accepting this as a
| valid reason for the temporary appoint
ments Of substitutes, the committee asks
! to be discharged from further considera-
tion Of the subject.
Mr.. Iauibee thought the statement of the
Acting Secretary of the Treasury couldn't
be construed SO as to mean that substi-
tntes were appointed only wh..n perma-
nent employees were absent on accou Of
sickness. Such Il statement, to his personal
knowledge, would be unwarranted. The
practice was an abuse to public power Ind
an abuse OF tic Civil Service law. That
law was parcel OF hypocrisy. 1t has been
conceived in sin and brought forth in
iniquity; but while it was II bad law, the
Government. was committed to it, and
while it could not be repealed it could be
ROO tod IT,,
of appointments, at the time Of the passage
OF the law there were inequalities, and the
law itself prohibited correction OF these in
equalities. The District Of Columbia, out
OF 1000 appointments since the passage
OF the act which it had been entitled to,
had received "a. The State of Kentucky,
which had been entitled to 33. received
only II. This was not fair.
Mr.. Milard, of New York, inquired
whsther the gentleman held that the Presi-
dent and the Secretary OF tn: Treasury had
not influenced the law.
Mr.. Taulbee replied that he believed the
President and Secretary were earnestly
trying to enforce it, but that q lieutenant
under them missled and imposed upon
them SO as to make it abse lutely impossi-
BILE for them to give faithful execution to
the law. t-f
Mr.. Cannon. of Illinois--Is there any thing
in the Civil Service that prohibits the Sec
retary OF the Treasury and the President
from remov ng chief clerks, and every head
OF a bureau in that department?
Mr.. Taulbee-There is not; but when the
Democrats took possession OF the execu-
tive branch OF the Government the Presi-
dent announced as his policy that while the
Civil Service law should be carried out III
it's letter, it's spirit should apply to all
officers. The President may have differed
with some o: the most jealous leaders of
the Democratic party on that point, yet it !
was his policy, and with few exceptions he
has carried it out-carried it out more fully
than any of his Republican predecessors.
Mr.. Cannon-You are satisfied these
abuses arise from the heads OF bureaus. II
this is true, is the President incompetent |
or knavish in refusing 10 remove them?
Mr.. Taulbee-Neither. The President |
has been occupied for the last three or four
months in trying to hold the Senate in
check and tr keep them from bes,nirching |
his character wrongfully, because he exer-
cises with discretion the rights the Consti- |
tuition confers upon him.
Mr.. Cannon-As / understand the con-
troversy the gentleman refers to. it is the
between the Senate and the
President as to whether the President
shall profess to do one thing to please one
~
and do another thing to please gentlemen |
like my friend from Kentucky.
"Are you in good health?" queried
Taulbe. 81 think something must be the
matter with you"
II leave it to the country to say whether
the gentleman is sick or well." replied
Cannon.
Taulbee did not wish to be understood as
making an assault upon the President or
Secretary, because they had enough to con-
tend with in their controversy with the
Senate; but those abuses ought to be cor
rected. The Democratic party, with its !
doctrines and practices. stood as far above |
the Republican party as the stars above
the deep caverns of the ocean; but if his |
party did wrong, and abuses grew upon |
Democratic admnistra tions, ne would call |
attention to them.
After some further debate the report was
tabled and the House adjourned.
The following recapitulation OF the debt |
statement was issued to-day: Interest |
bearing debt principal and INTEREST,"
and interest,) $6,O63. $40; debts bearing !
no interest, $54O, $3.50, ,444. Total debt |
(prircipal and interest,) $1,786, ,365, ,552.
Total debt, less available cash items, |
81 ,484, ,O57 BAT. Net cash in treasury,
81, ,O37 ,999; debt, less cash in treasury |
May l, 1856. 81, ,4O7, ,O26, ,S48; debt less |
cash in the treasury Apri, I, 1885, 81 Ill.,
992. .235; decrease Of debt during the month. !
$40, ,9G5, ,3S7; cash in treasury available |
for reduction OF public debt, S2O2, ,3O7, 7O6.
Total cash in treasury, as shown by the |
Treasurer Generals accounts. $492, ,462,-
SO
THE SCIENTIFIC BUREAUS.
The Joint Commission of Congress On the |
OF Scientific Bureaus for the |
has been in session all day. |
The members have been unable to reach |
any conclusion regarding the several mat
ters which have beer under consideration, |
and it has been determined that two or
sion is only divided with respect to the |
to make the Weather Bureau |
a branch of the Civil Service, and three |
will repor, for and three against |
the proposition. Four members OF the |
will recommend that |
the Coast Survey be retained as
an independent Bureau and two |
favor its transfer to the photographic |
oil ce of the Navy Department. The Com |
mission has also decided to recommend =
modification OF the bill introduced last |
week in the House by Mr.. Herbert relating |
to printing of reports from the Geological
Survey and requiring the sale of its labra-
tories. The modified bill will authorize the |
printing of reports showing the results OF
the work OF The Bureau, and will not re-
quire the sale OF labratories.
He Used up the Time.
Deacon Bonney, of Log City was q very
pious man. but good deal OF a politician.
He was also very practical man. He