The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-22

report against the proposition to con-
fer Statehood upon New Mexico, but
they would not by any means use the
same language in doing so.
THE CENSUS.
The new bill which Mr.. Cox, chair
man of the census Committee, has re-
ported to the House providing for the
| taking of the next census is practically
| the same as that under which the
census of 1880 WAS taken with looping
| off of those subjects of special inquiry
that were found to be practically value
| less and at the same time very cumber-
some. 1t will still, however necessi-
tate its employment in this
city of large clerical force
under the superintendent of lthe cen-
sus. There will be between 700 and 900
of such employees. AS the census
bureau will bs an independent one,
those employed, unless it shall be
specially so designated, will not come
within what is known as the classified
service, and will not, therefore, be sub
| ject to civil service examina alton be-
| fore they can be appointed. There is
no such special designa ton in Mr..
| Cox's bill, and 1t is for that reason sub
| jeot to criticism by Republicans. When
the bill comes up for consideration, an
amendment to bring the census bureau
within the civil service law. 1t will
not pass that body. but it will be re-
newed in the Senate with much better
chances of success. The Republican
will not be consistent in this. but it will
not be the first time that they have
| shown that consistency is not one of
| their virtues. The civil service law
was enac ed, after the last census
| bureau was already organized, and
| consequently none of its employees had
| been subjected to examination. When
the work connected with the census be-
gan to fall off, the Republicans adopted
very shrewd scheme by which to look
out for their friends who were dis
charged from the census bureau be-
cause of lack of work. Being already
,, in the service of the government, they
were simply transferred to other de-
partments or vacancies occurred there.
and thus escaped the civil service.
THE TARIFF TALKERs.
Speaker Carlisle, short time ago,
began the making of list of the mem
bers of the House who desired recogni-
ton III order that they might deliver
speeches on the tariff bill when that
measure came up for discussion. TIE
very first day that it became known
that the Speaker was making up such a
list, he received fifty odd subscribers
Since then other names have been
added until now Mr.. Carlisle has the
names OF $50 mem bers on ais list with
the prospect of daily additions to it.
HlUn1 Loo IrNfy Hr. r,e
is down for tariff remarks, and of
course many members who are not
leading and who never will De, but in
free-for-su talk no invidi
GUS distinctions are possible.
The present dimension of the
Speakers list shows very well what we
may expect in the way of tariff Discus
sion as regards quantity but the speeches
themselves can only develop their
quality. II is not thought, however,
that all of the gentlemen who desire to
be heard will be heard, for that would
consume too much time. But those
who do not get their views orally before
the country will be consoled by that
great soothing agent, the Congressional
Record, under the convenient privilege
of leave to print
THE BESSIE BULKLEY SUICIDE.
The death, the other evening, OF Mrs.
Bessie Buckley, the wife OF young De
Grossie Buckley, of this city, is still the
topic of conversation IN Washington
social circles, owing to the mystery
which the family has seen fit to sur
round it with. And the more that
there is found about all the ciTcum-
stances of her recent marriage and her
separations from her husband the more
unfavorable is the light in which her
father appears. 1t was he who seua-
rated her from her husband immedi- |
ately after her elopement with young
Bulkley, and who again induced her TO |
leave him when she had rejoipfd her |
legal protector after his efforts |
to get q divorce on the ground OF undue |
influence had poved frultless. The gen.
eral Impression now is that it was the |
father who was morally responsible for |
his daughters death. He is a wealthy |
man, who, as a lawyer, made money in
California, and then came here PEG
pie from California say it would not be |
healthy for him to go back to thatSta.e.
he is tyrannicai, overbearing. and |
seems to possess bone of the virtues
which might render eompanionship
WtIh AlH dSTecdOie. mdny Stories are
told of the brutal manner in
which he has treated his family.
He drove both of his sons
FROM heme by hie condUct tow .rds
them. One OF them went to work on
the canal and along the wharves here.
The other went TO New York and
secured position in the Bellevue Hos
pital, and leaving there went to South
America. When he was about to leave
bis fathers elegant residence his
mother gave him $40 The father
learned this, took the money from him
and fercibly put him out of door.
Once when he had consented to his
daughters giving social entertain
ment. he, after the invitations were out
and accepted. refused to allow her to
provide any refreshments. This was,
Of course ,hu milaitingto her and the rest
Of the family. Many other examples
could be given of his boorlsh
and brutal conduct. He is now no
onger regarded as the Martyred father,
but people regard him IN his true light
Ill the pathetic things which have
been said about his political devotion
viii have 20 be revised If truth is to
have any chance. de is no longer
held to be thriving example of politi-
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