The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
The NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Congressional Proceedings ana other
Items Of Note.
SENATE

supply O6Qcl6nCy Ii the apprOpf1a-
ton for expenses of collecting the rev.
enue from customs.
Allison, having charge of the bill,
explained, in answer to questions put
by Edmunds as to the causes of the
deficiency, he ascribed it largely to the
legislation of 1874 repeating ''the
Merely system,'i and said that since
then the receipts from fines, penalties
and forfeitures had been constantly
falling of, while the expenses of col
Letting the revenue had been constant
ly increasing.
Edmunds suggested sarcastically
that while there might haYe been ex-
travagance in the collection of the rev.
enues under former administrations,
there could not, of course, have been
any extravaganza under the present
administration.
The amendment reported by the COM
mittee ON appropriations to strike out
| the clause repeating the law making a
permanent annual appropriation of S.
500, 900 for the expenses of collecting
| the revenue from customs was agreed
| to.
The other amendments reported were
| also agree to, and the bill was passed.
Hoar from the committee on the Ii
brary, reported bill to incorporate
the American Historical association.
Calendar.
The senate then proceeded to the
consideration of the executive business,
and when the doors were reopened ad-
| jOurned till Monday.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The house
went into committee of the whole on
the legislative and judicial appropria-
ton bill which was read by paragraphs
| for amendments.
The greater part of the afternoon
was consumed in discussing upon the
| proposed increase of salary for house
employees, and tedious debates on
points of order. No material charges
were made in the bill.
Cobb, of Alabama, opposed the ap-
preparation Tor the Botanic garden.
He said that when he first came to
| congress he had said to an old member
that he would vote to abolish the gar
den, and this member, on economy and
reform democratic, to tell him that il
he did he would be damned fool. y
| Laughing He had then asked what
was the use of it, and the reply was
that one of the uses was that favored
members could procure flowers there.
| His informant could not tell where the
flowers were, but knew that they did
not go to members wives. Laugh
ter.
McComas, of Missouri, offered an
amendment increasing the clerical
| force of the civil service commission
He called attention to the fact that
there had been no published report OF
the commissioners since August, 1888.
| AT that time the president had cOnfid-
ed civil service reform to the jealous
care of congress, but now there was nc
better way for gentleman to earn the
applause of the other side than to
throw up his hat and cry ''to the victor
belongs the spoils." The president him.
self seemed to be so much concern ed
in other matters that unless the re-
publican party took care of civil ser
vice reform it would be wounded unto
death by the present administration.
Clements, of Georgia, suggested that
1T was great disappointment to repub.
lican politicians and leaders that
Cleveland had not trampled under feet
the civil service law as had been done
under republican administration. The
last republican administration with
twelve months before the coming OF
the present administration, had more
removals than had been made in any
one year since.
McComas declared that in a whole
country there had never been such &
clean sweep of general officers as there
had been under Cleveland, and now
this sweep was under the guise of the
most colossal hypocrisy that had ever
graced the Office of the high execu
toner. The man who would stand OF
the civil service plank of the republi
can platform would carry out the Law
| in good faith, and the democrats would
deceive nobody but the mere dyspepti
mugwumps who for free trade haC
dickered away civil service reform
The president was committing every
day and week the mortal sin of tinker
ing with the tariff to the destruction
of American labor and American in
dustry.
Hopkins, of Illinois, asserted anC
commended the assertion that through
} out the United States Cleveland'S fed
eral Office holders had captured demo
cratic state committees and electe'
/ delegates to St Louis regardless of tn
J wishes of the people.
Herbert, of Alabama, contended tina
/ the provisions of the bill for the SUP
J sort of the commission were ample, AM
{ he cOntraSted this action on tn
part of the democratic committee O
: appropriations with the failure of tn
republican committee during Grant
C administration to make any apprOpria
f ton to carry out the civil service law
: Butterworth suggested that the dem
: ocrats were always satisfied when thei
J.. best came up to the republicans worst
: Reed said that he could remembe
i, how the gentleman on the other sid
+ in season, and when out of season
5 used to point the melancholy spect;
q Gle of federal office-holders participat
v ing in nominating conventions. II
f remembered that they used languag
Y of violent reprobation at. the appoin
ment or removal of men for polite;
purposes and they asserted that if the
ever came into power that they wOul
8 end that thing and declared that it Wa
b to the interest of the republic that
y should end carrying out the sentimen
of virtuous oratory. President Clev
+ land at the beginning of his term hs
: proclaimed that he intended to ste
n federal Office holders participating
!, nominating conventions, not ha
q ing a prophetic eye on tt
= recent Pennsylvania convention,
: the New York convention. Laughter
y; 10 what the republicans pointed out wi
% that the gentlemen on the other sid
: after all their yirtuous oratOry, as sOC
~ as they got into power, did precise
= the same thing about which they we
so indignant before they got into POI
or. They retOrted by saying You d
it," That was just what they b;
10 said before the election; that was pI
cisely the gravamen of their charge
that was just the 1aulG Cney were goll
=, to correct, and now, when they col
s. mitted this fault themselves, they I
"a peated what they said before the ele
n ton. The accusation made against t
IN gentlemen was land he hoped he W
y not supplementary that their CO
re- duct, compared with their previo
N declarations, saVored of hypocris
% Laughter. That was the gist of t
90 charge, and the gentlemen could 4
10 get rid of it by repeating old speech'
because those old speeches had be
accompanied by promises of correctiC
promises the nOn-fulfllment of viii
n were pointed out.
Pending a vote upon McCom
u amendment. the committee rose 3
n the house adjourned.
"a Dakota Crops.
FARGO, Dakota, May 25.-The Sc
% ing of wheat in north Dakota is abb