Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-02
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.

1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.
 SKNATE.-A number of bills were reported 1 from committees and placed on the calendar
 The Presidents message to Congress an- 1 nouncing his approval of the Chinese exclu- 1 sion bill and submitting some suggestions and recommendations on the subject was laid be- fore the Senate and read.
 l MT. Sherman moved that the message be printed and referred to the committee on foreign relations. So ordered.
 DEMOCRATIC REFORM" MT. Hale offered resolution reciting the 1 circular of Gen. Benet, directing the dis charge of Republican employees from the United States arsenals; stating that under it ! honorably discharged soldiers of the Union army and widows and daughters of soldiers have been discharged and directing the secre- tary of war to transmit to the Senate forth with full information as to such order, stat ing fully whether the necessities of the de- partment required that the order should be issued and why an order issued on public business should be marked confidential" :" MT. Hale remarked that he would not have brought the matter before the Senate if there were not some remarkable things connected with the transaction. It had passed into common aeceptation in the public mind that while the present administration claimed to be carrying on the government on the princi- ples of civil service reform, it was really be- ing conducted in partisan and proscriptive fashion.
 THE PRESIDENT DESERTED.
 The editor of the New York Evening Post, one of the ablest, and, he feared, one of the blindest supporters of the president, had de- clared some two months ago that there was not presumably one single sincere believer in civil service reform who would place any further dependence on the promises of the administration. Why was it that in time of peace circular relating to public business should be marked confidential. He ventured to say that there was no precedent for it in the history of the war department. Such an extreme evidence of proscriptive partisanship in that conservative department was matter of wonder to him. He did not know an in- stance where the dogma "to the yictors be- long the spoilsn had been carried to that ex- tent He had letter read from the Indian apolis Journal, in which the writer spoke of the discharge from United States arsenal of the widow and daughter of 8 Union soldier (because they were Republieans), and ex- pressed his belief that if MT. Endicott, (with his kindness of heart and good purposes) had known of such marked instance of political prescription, he would not have permitted it. He also quoted from the New York Sun an editorial paragraph approving General Ben cts circular, and welcoming Mr. Endicott to the ranks of the great, happy and invincible army of spoilsmen.
 MT. Cockrell objected to the immediate consideration of the resolution and said that he would tomorrow answer fully the re- marks of the Senator from Maine, and would state what the Democratic party was respon- sible for, what it was not responsible for and what it should have done long ago. The resolution went over till tomorrow.
 After some debate on the unfinished busi- ness the Senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned,
 ~HoUsE.-The following bills were intro- duced and referred: By MT. Dougherty of Florida to prevent the introduction of conta- gious diseases from one State to another; also to establish scientific bureau in Jackson vile to gather facts in relation to yellow fe- yer, its origin and the best means of sap- pressing and preventing it. By MT. Wheeler of Alabama proposing 8 constitutional amend ment providing that one third of the mem- bers oi each house shall constitute quorum. By MT. Lanham of Texas the following: That it is the sense of this house that appropriate legislation for the prevention and suppress sion of trusts is imperatively demanded in behalf of the great body of the American people and that the remainder of this session, or so much thereof as may be necessary, should be devoted to the perfection of such legislation, and to that end all other legisla- tive business except general appropriation and tariff bills should be subordinated until the purpose of this resolution be attained.
 The Speaker laid before the House the message from the President announcing his approval of the Chinese bill. Its reading was attentively listened to and at it's conclusion MT. Breckenridge of Kentucky moved the reference of the message to the committee on foreign affairs.
 MT. E. B. Taylor of Ohio offered to amend by referring the message to the committee on invalid pension. The amendment was rejected and the original motion prevailed.
 There was no more business transacted for lack of quorum and the House at 2:25 p.m adjourned.
 Four Points Unsettled i'm she Dea-
 cIency RIII.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The conferees on the general deficiency bill have disagreed in regard to four items of the bill as follows:
 Providing for the payment of the balance of the years salary to the family of Chief Justice Waite. Extending the laws of the United States over No Mans Land. Provid- ing for the payment of a years salary to the widow of Lafayette Dancer, an officer of the internal revenue who lost his life by yellow fever while engaged in the discharge of his duty The Senate amendment making pro- vision for the Woman's Industrial Christian Home. The last named is the principal ,e r-aky- iv,ir