Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Civil Service System
Roughly Handled.
THE DAY FOR ISOLATION PAST
Inquiry into the Instructions Givel
TO the Richard Rush-The
Lambs Of Europe.
Associated Press Dispatcnes to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatcnes to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, February 6.-In the
Senate, the Senate bill granting the Big
Horn Southern Railway right-of-way
across the Fort Custer Military reserva-
ton in Montana passed.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Chandler instructing the Committee on
Appropriations to investigate the matter
of naval officers claims, was taken up.
After a long debate the resolution went
over without action, and the Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was
taken up.
The pending question was the amend
ment to increase the clerical force
of the Civil Service Commission.
A long and uninteresting dis
cussion, which turned principally
upon the derelictions of the Post
office Department, was carried on by
Cockrell, Teller, Vest and Stewart.
Then Daniels attacked the Civil Service
system itself, as being un- American, I'M
Republican, and unDemocratic. While
he regretted the defeat of the present
administration, he felt there would be
some consolation in it if the incom-
ing administration should mani
fest no affection for the mod
ern machine system of appointments.
He hoped it would lead the Government
back to the old principle in which the
people were recognized as having right
to share in the peoples offices. If the
Republican party would go about it
sincerely and help to rid the country of
that humpug, he would pledge them at
least one democratic vote to assist them
in doing it. He longed to see the time
when a plain American citizen might
feel there was not a bar to any office
under the Government of which he was
worthy, and he hoped the new admins
tration and its advisers would find some
way of amending the system, as as to
throw open the doors to all applicants,
although they might be subjected when
necessary to proper examination.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 6.-Consider-
alton of the conference report on the
Nicaraguan Canal bill was resumed, it
being agreed that the debate should be
closed at O'Clock.
Nelson, of Minnesota, opposed the con-
ference report. Chapman, of Michigan,
said he favored the bill as it came from
the Senate. He had not favored it as it
passed the House, the amendments
which had been placed upon it having
served to emasculate it. They had been
incorporated on the idea that the United
States should be free from entaDgliDg
alliances, and that it should isolate it.
self. The day for isolation had passed.
Voices from all parts of the world were
warning the United States of this; voices
| from the Isthmus, from Canada, from
nations had planted their flags. The at
tempt to make it impracticable for
American enterprise to place itself in
foreign countries was too late, we are
carrying the flag into that region of Cen
trail America. We are carrying it with
the endorsement of this Government.
We have put ourselves where, though
we may not be pecuniarily liable, we
shall be morally responsible for the
safety and protection of great American
enterprises, which will help to spread our
country over the world. 1, for one,
hope that this step is only the prelude to
the day when. the nation will follow and
we, as a people, will plant our feet on
| those regions, and when our flag shall
wave over the Safe of Nicaragua as a
State of the United States Of America.
Applause
Dingley, Maine, favored the report.
O'Neill, Missouri, said he was in receipt
Of many kilograms from prominent men
in ST. Louis in favor of the bill. He
said it was not case OF extreme sensi-
tiveness concerning bondholders. The
trouble with the American people was
lack of self-assertion. They were con-
tinually quibbling, afraid to do this or
| that on account of the consequences.
The greatest nation on earth should be
the first to lead in giant enterprises, and
conservative, moss back statesmen need
not be alarmed.
Scott, of Pennsylvania, said the gentle
man from Alabama Cobb had supple
mented his constitutional argument by
an expression of the interest he took in
the lambs of Europe, and of his fear that
Congress might do something by which
those lambs would be inveigled into in.
vestment and lose their money. If the
lambs of Europe, as represented by the
Rothschilds, the Barings, and other great
banking houses, were not able to take
care Of themselves and look out for their
own investments. he did not think the
Congress Of the United States could help
them.
Clardy, of Missouri, closed the debate
in support of the conference report, and
it was agreed to; yeas III, nays 60.
Dingley, Maine, from the Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, re-
ported a resolution calling on the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for information as to
what orders were given to the COM
mander of the United States revenue
cutter Rush in regard to the protection of
the seal fisheries in Behring's Sea in the
spring and summer of 1883, and whether
such instructions differed from those
given to the commander in the spring
and summer of 1887, and if 80 what
reasons existed for any material change
in such instructions. Adopted. The
House then took recess.
At the evening session, Peel, Arkanas,
called up the House bill to divide por-
tion of the reservation of the Sioux In
dians in Dakota into separate reserva-
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