St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-07
SENATORIAL sPEECH-MAKING.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The postmaster
general sent to the house a letter in refer
ence to Maine pOstmasters. alleged to have
been appointed through the corrupt influ-
ence of S. S. Brown, chairman of the Dem
Ocratic committee of that state. Mr.. Hale
said the country desired pure civil service.
When President Cleveland came into office
the business was generally well conducted.
He made no appeal for the men who had
been turned out. The Republicans expected
20 go out, but objection was made to the
methods of Mr.. 5. 5. Brown, who insisted
upon persons receiving appointments pay
ing something for the expense incurred in
their behalf. He had never heard that
under Republican administration public
offices had been for public sale. He had
heard that there had never been a summer
in Washington when there were so many
Democrats there, and the Indiana Demo
Gratis had not gone home at all. Mr.. VOor-
hees warmly denied the truth of the state
ment. saying that of his personal knowl-
edge it was untrue. Mr.. Vest said the
ADMINISTRATION COULD NOT KNOW
every man who solicited Office. If it had
not been for the Democratic successes of
1882 there never would have been a civil
service law passed by the Republican party.
Mr.. Vest said he and his colleague (AIr.
CockrelD had found unmistakable evidences
of the use of money by Republicans in the
attainment of offices. After further re-
marks by MeSsrs. Voorhees,, Vest. Logan
and Hoar. the matter was referred to the
committee on civil service reform. Mr..
Hoar introduced bill to fix the time for
the meeting of congress in 1886 and every
second year thereafter on the first Monday
in October, and in 1887 and every second
year thereafter on the second Monday in
December. Mr.. Gray called up Mr.. Beck's
silver resolution. He said we were all en-
barked on the same great voyage-debtOr
and creditor. One fate awaited us all. We
should therefore honestly endeavOr to ad-
just our differences. in order that the inter-
ests of all our people may be honestly and
fairly advanced. Persistence in our present
plan of silver coinage would bring us to a
silver standard. We would be descending
TO the basis of an eighty-cent dollar, and
thus the government of the United States
would be
SCALING ITS OWN DEBT.
This would be species of dishonesty.
Mr.. Mcpherson said we had now got to a
point in silver coinage beyond which it was
dangerous for us to go. The need of cur
rency was created not by law. but business.
Bad money drives out good money. A
fuctuating currency encouraged speculation
and fastened monetary ruin. Referring to
the effect of silver in India, Mr.. MePher-
son exclaimed: ''God forbid that the
American laborer should ever come to a
condition like that of the laborer of Indial''
The blow aimed at the ''bloated bondhold-
err would strike with tenfold force on the
head of the. laborer. Mr.. Brown gave
notice that he would ask to be heard on the
Beck resolution tomorrow. The senate
then took up the Utah bill, the pending
motion being to strike out the section that
would disfranchise the women of Utah.
The amendment was rejected-yeas IL,
nays 81.
THE YEAS WE'RE:
Messrs- Aldrich, Blair, Brown, Call,
Dawes, Dolph, Hoar, Mitchell (Oregon),
Palmer. Stanford and Teller. The section
disfranchising women therefore remains a
part or the bill. Mr.. Edmunds' amendment
providing that marriages within, but not in
Guiding the fourth degree of consanguinity,
shall be deemed incestuous and punisha-
Bile by Imprisonment. Mr.. Van Wyck's
amendment discharging the Utah commits
sion was rejected. Mr.. Morgan opposed
the provision for trustees. He character
lied polygamy as an offense that ''stinks in
the nostrils of civilization" 1t should be
torn up root and branch. Mr.. Edmunds
said the trustees were simply 10 deal with
the of tho ohuroh Mr. Tal1ar