The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-12
A ROW AMONG DEMOCRATS.
A Pair of Maryland Democratic States
men Display Their Bad Tempers.
Hr. Findlay Opposes the Proposed Change Of
the Civil-Seryice Rules. and Engages in
an Angry Debate with Mr.. Compton.

WASHINGTON, June lion motion OF Mr.
0Neill, of Missouri Senate bill similar to the
one introduced in the House by Mr.. ONelll, was
passed, to legalize the incorporation OF national
trades- unions.
Private business having been dispensed with,
session was ordered for tonight for considera-
hon of the legislative appropriation bill, and a
session for tomorrow night for consideration OF
pension bills
Mr.. Cobb of Indiana, from the committee on
public lands, reported back the Atlantic & Pa
biRc land forfeiture bill with Senate amendments
Rnd moved q concurrence in the amendments
No action was taken, and the motion was laid
nver until Monday.
The House then went into committee of the
shole-Mr Blount, of Georgia. in the chair
On the legislative. executive and judicial appro-
Driation bill.
In discussion of the paragraph relating to
sommittee clerks Mr.. Morrison. of Illinois,
Ironically referred 90 the reduction of salaries
claimed by Mr. Holman to be made in the BILL
md called attention to the fact that 81 500 was
appropriated for an assistant clerk to the COM
nittee on appropriations, when there was no
law which prevented reduction being made
Mr.. Holman said that that sum had been ap-
propriated in former years. but expressed a will
hDgness to vote for the reduction if Mr.. Morrison
made the motion. The two gentlemen engaged
10 coiloQuy which amused the members and
10 answer question propounded by ar. Nor
BISON, that gentleman exclaimed: II was not
asking you; you are not an economist up to the
standard of the gentleman from Indiana"
Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, offered an amendment
baking an appropriation for a First Assistant
Door-keeper OF the House. The bill fails to make
any provision for this Office, which is now filed
by Luther +. Warder.
Mr.. Howard, of Indiana, in supporting the
amendment protested against the legislating of
Mr. I'd mt Of off md
committee would not attempt to do indirectly
what the House had refused to do directly few
days ago. The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Allen, of Mississippi offered an amend
ment providing that none of the money appro-
priated for the contingent fund should be used in
paying the expenses of the funeral of any mem
Der of Congress At home, he said, when pau
per died the municipal corporation appropriated
the exorbitant sum of $40 to bury him, but when
millionaire died here the House appropriated
from S., 600 to $4,000 to bury him. Gentlemen
Who went away upon these funeral excursions
did not recover their spirits for the balance of
Hhe session. He had heard remarks like this
"Do you know So-and-sop 'Oh, yes; he's jo
BE looks to be very quiet, but you would be sur
prised to find how jolly he is when he gets away,
and what good game of cards he plays, and the
number of drinks he takes"
Mr.. Gibson, of West Virginia, hoped that the
amendment would be rejected If government
eficer died while he was away from his home, on
public business, the government could not refuse
10 see that his remains were transported to his
family. There was no truth or justice in the as
eaults made upon funeral parties. The amend
ment was rejected-12 to So.
AT this point Mr.. Bayne offered an amendment
modifying Mr.. Randalls amendment, that the
names OF all persons who have passed the civil
service examination shall be certified to the ap-
pointing power On this proposition warm de-
bate ensued
FMr E;n5lor ~ MarvIand s.;d that +ba rro
vision, whether in the form presented by the
gentleman from Pennsylvania or in its original
form, was proposition conceived in the spirit
Of the purest buncombe for purposes Of the most
Transparent demagosy. There was no man
here who doubted that it was subject to point
Of order, and therefore would be thrust out of
the bill as an intruder. There was no man who
doubted that if, by any miscarriage, such should
not be its fate, when 1t got to the Senate. that
body would trample IL under foot with the scorn
and contumely it deserved. If, contrary to rea-
son and precedent it should pass that body, it
would confront hostile executive who would
give it his approval only under the compulsion
OF forced position to which he had been driven
by his own political friends. This House-and
by this he meant the Democratic majority-Ead
already rudely turned its back on one of the
principal reforms in the currency of the
p0untry recommended by the President;
and, as If that had not been enough
b now proposed to knock from under him the
public success. And this was politics, and these
we're leaders! II it were not SO serious sub
iect, man might sit down and laugh at this old
party preserving its succession in tradition and
hame If not in policy and principles, through
BALI a century of conflict and varying fortune.
Sighting battles for twenty five years only to
lose them, without one break in the long chain of
peverses, and then, at last after all this long
Dostponement, disappointment, modification
and defeat of party, victory had brushed aside
aladt Ia ell
Inning to its ravished gaze, whether intoxicated,
Or mad from excess of JOY, the grand old party
unequal to the task of deliberate contemplation
Of its own splendid achievements, had to be dis
missed in the very moment of its triumph, and
on the very spot where ii had achieved il. 1t
had voted down an honest dollar. Let no gentle
man deceive himself The gentleman from
Indiana Mr.. Holman, in response to a question
q few days ago, had said that the object of the
amendment was to deal out even-handed JUS
tice, and the gentleman from Illinois Mr..
Bpringerl had still more plainly let the House
know that it was intended to give partisan in
stead of a non bipartisan service That the effect
OF the amendment requiring the certlicaton of
the full list of eligibes to the appointing power
would be to give partisan and not non-par
tisan service, was not a mere matter of conject-
nre, hut it was matter Of experience demon
Dtrated, boosted of, gloated over, by Baltimore
postmaster. This ingenious young man had got
The whole list of eligibles into his hands
A voice-What is he?
Mr.. Findlay--He is a Democrat. He was a
Democrat in Office. He was appointed by the
present President of the United States. That
likes his Democracy, Isuppose. though that is a
question Of some doubt Laughter and ap-
plause.] He got the list of eigibles into his own
bands and what use did he make of itl Accord
Ing to his own statement before an examiner of
the Ciyil-service Commission, who was in Balti-
more, he made such good use OF it that in less
space than year be had turned out every Re
publican in that efice and had put Democrat
IN his place, without missing fire once.
While Mr. Findlay was delivering his speech,
members of both sides of the House cheered him,
end his last sentence was received with burst
Of mingled Kisses and applause, the applause be-
ing partly for the sentiments expressed by Mr..
Findlay and partly in appreciation of the action
Of the Baltimore postmaster.
Turning towards the Democratic side, Mr.
Findlay exclaimed, when you applaud the eff
feet of this amendment then you mean to say
that the certfcation of all the eligibles will re-
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