The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-06

Packing Of Kfttery Navy Yard-Repor
Agninst Breckinridge.

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Against Breckinridge.
WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. SIN the House.
Bingham OF Pennsylvania moved to lay on the
table the motion which has been pending some
time. to reconsider the vote by which the
House passed the bill to grant leaves Of absence
to clerks in first and second-class postofices
The motion to reconsider was tabled
Snyder of Minnesota rising to question of
privilege, denounced as q falsehood an article
in Detroit paper stating that at conference
between the Minnesota delegation and the
speaker recently, relative to certain improve
ments on the Sault Ste. Marie canal the speaker
declared ITO hell with your inland seas"
Mckinley of Ohio. from the committee on
rules, reported, as substitute for Cummings
resolution, resolution asking the secretary Of
the navy for reasons for the increase of the
force at the Kittery navy yard. In speaking of
the resolution. Cummings of New York said he
rose In defense OF public morality
and public law which had been
menanced by q high official. The order
increasing the force at the Kittery navy yard
looked a. though the design was to use the
executive power for partisan purposes He re-
ferred 10 the great evil which would result from
the Introduction of politics into navy yards, and
going back to the administration of the navy
department by Secretary RobesOu. he COM
mented severely upon the action of that official
in filing the navy yards will, partisan friends,
just previous to the congressional election. He
charged that the Kittery yard had been used for
political purposes, and quoted figures to show
that previous to elections the list of employees
was much larger than it was Q month or two
afterwerd. The majority of the men employed
came from Maine. the state of
Thomas Brackett Reed. The committee ON
rules had reported . substituted for his
resolution. which referred the whole offense to
the offender himself, the secretary of the navy.
T3so ,ff he orIA -
the committee on naval affairs, the chairman of
which. in an interview in . New York paper.
had characterized his (Cumminas) resolution
- the most perfect rot imaginable, and stated
that when the report came in that would be the
end of the matter
BoutelIe said he felt like making an apology
for answering the remarkable demonstration
New York. That gentleman in his search for
sensations had worked himself up to n hjzh
state OF excitement over the fact that the secre-
tafy Of the navy had really possessed the hartii-
hood to obey the mandatory instructions of
congress. In remarks made ana in newspaper
comment there was strong implication that
somebody had an ides that in Maine aud New
Hampshire there was purpose to practice colo
nization methods. The constitution of Maine
provides that every voter shall have had legal
residence OF three months ct the place where he
votes. Gentlemen with whom he had con-
versed would bear MIN out in the statement
that the whole tenor of his remarks was that
the resolution offered by Cummings was 20 silly
that the answer OF the secretary Of the navy would
be conclusive to every sensible man. He was
free to admit that he did say TO . correspondent
that he could hardly believe 80 bright man al
Cummings could perpetrate 30 stupid thing.
In justice TO his coileagas (the speaker he only
desired TO say that after all the feeling the
gentleman from New York had piled upon his
own bosom over the alleged packing OF the
Eittery yard in the interest Of Reed. the grcst-
est majority cast for Thomas B. Reed was 24s2
over his Democratic opponent and l,62S round
majority in lSSS whom the navy yard had been
packed by the Democratic administration.
The resolution was adopted.
Lacey Of Iowa submitted the majority report
on the Cisyton-Breckinridgc case. The report,
which declares the seat vacant. was ordered
printed and laid over.
The House went INTO committee of the whole
ON the general deficiency bill without dispos-
ine of the bin. the committee rose and the
H0ase adjourned