The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-04
GEN. BENET'S CIRCULAR.
STAR ROUTE DAYS THROWN IN
THE FACE OF THE REPUBLICANS.

! Mr.. Cockrell Reads the Famous Jay
| Hubbell Circular of the Campaign OF
1o82-The Civil Service at the Bot
tom Depths of Degradation When the
Pendleton Bill Was offered.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Sat the conclusion
of Mr.. Sherman's speech on the tariff to-
| day the Senate, at | o'clock, resumed con-
| sideration of Mr.. Hale's resolution of Mon
day last, calling on the Secretary Of War
for an explanation of Gen. Benet's circular
as to the discharge of republican employees
in United States arsenals and armories.
Mr.. Cockrell proceeded to discuss the reso-
| luton and opened bis remarks by reading
Jay Hubbell's circular, issued on the occa-
sion of the presidential campaign of 1882,
calling on government employees to con-
tribute to the republican campaign fund,
such circular having been signed by Messrs.
Allison, Hale, Aldrich and Hiscock (the
latter then in the House,
THE OLD STAR REUTERS.
He also quoted President Garfeld's letter
to Stephen A. Dorsey, ''of somewhat star
route notoriety," asking him to have Mr.
Brady, second assistant postmaster gen
eral, called upon for aid, and one from Levi
P. Morton to Mr.. Dorsey stating that he
had contributed $4,000. Mr.. Morton's
name, he said, was familiar as the present
republican candidate for vice president
He simply read these letters, he said, to re-
fresh the memory of the senator from
Maine (Mr. Hale and to show the depth Of
degradation to which the civil service of
the government had been brought under
the republican administration in 1880 and
1882 1t could never sink into lower depths
than it sank then.
THE PENDLEToN LAW
1t had become SO utterly degraded that
the Republican party was forced to take up
ana pass the Pendleton civil service bill.
The position now occupied by Mr.. Hale I'M
der the pretense of defending that law was,
Mr. Cockrell asserted. 1.-THE stab of a pre-
tended friend" President Cleveland's ad-
ministration had enforced the civil service
law, and in his (Mr. Cockreil's) Judgment
its spirit had been too strictly adhered to.
MIR. Cockrell, at the close OF his speech,
asserted that President Cleveland had re-
deemed and sacredly kept every pledge that
he had made III relation to the civil service.
AS to the Benet circular, he understood
that that officer was in political sympathy
with the senator from Maine, but he had no
objection to the adoption of the resolution,
and had no doubt that the Secretary of
War would furnish satisfactory explana-
ton. He saw no wrong in turning repub-
licau soldiers out of Office and putting
democratic soldiers in their place.
SEVERAL SENATORS REPLY.
Messrs. Edmunds, Hale, Chandler and
Hawley replied to Mr.. Cockrell. Messrs.
Chandler and Hawley, referring to the al
legged contribution of $4,000 by President
Cleveland to the democratic campaign fund,
asserted that if such a contribution had
been made land they had never seen any
denial of the charge) the conclusion was
inevitable that he had committed crime
punishable by fine or Imprisonment or both.
Without action on the resolution or any
other subject of discussion during the after
noon, the Senate at 5:35 o'clock adjourned