The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-06
THE HOUSE.
Substitute for the Kittery Navy ard Reso-
lution-Clayton Contest

Substitute for the Kittery Navy ard Reso-
Naturalization Contest.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-In the House to-
day Bingham of Pennsylvania moved to lay
on the table the motion which has been
pending for some time, to reconsider the
vote by which the House passed the bill to
grant leave of absence to clerks in the first
and second class postoffices. The motion
to reconsider was tabled.
Snyder of Minnesota, rising to question
of privilege, denounced as a falsehood tlIo
article in Detroit paper stating that at a
conference between the Minnesota delega-
ton and Speaker Reed, relative to certain
improvements of the Sault Ste. Marie
Canal, the Speaker declared, To - with
your island seas"
Mckinley of Ohio, from the Committee
on Rules, reported substitute for the
Cummings resolution, asking the Secretary
of the Navy TO give his reasons for the in-
crease of the force at the Kittery Navy
yard.
In speaking to the resolution Cummings
of New York said he rose in defense Of
public morality aud public law, which had
been menaced by high official. The order
increasing the force of the Kittery Navy
yard looked as though the design was TO
use Executive power for partisan purposes.
He referred to the great evil which would
result from the introduction of politics into
the navy-yards, and going back to the ad-
ministration OF the Navy Department by
Secretary Robson, commented severely
upon the action of that official in filling the
navy-yards with partisan friends Just pre-
ylous TO Congressional elections. He charg-
ed that the Kittery Yard was used for polit.
ical purposes, and quoted figures to show
that previous to the elections the list Of em-
ployes was much larger than it was month
or two afterward. The majority of the men
employed came from Maine, the State Of
Thomas Bracket Reed.
The Committee ON Rules had reported as
a substitute on his resolution, whi n re-
ferred the whole 0ffense to the offender
himself, the Secretary of the Navy. Ths
answer of the Secretary would be sent to
the Committee on Naval Affairs, the
Chairman of which, in an interview in
New York paper, had characterized his
(Cummings) resolution as the "most perfect
rot Imaginable" and stated that when the
report came i'll that would be the end of the
matter.
Boutelle said he felt like making an apoi-
0gy for answering the remarkable demon
stration that had been made by the gentle
man from New York. The gentleman, in
his search for sensations, had worked him.
self up to high state of excitement over
the fact that the Secretary of the Navy had
really possessed tile hardihood to obey
the mandatory instructions of Congress
In remarks made, and Ill newspaper
comments, there was strong Implication
that somebody had an idea that in Maine
| and New Hampshire there was plan to
| practice the colonization method. The
| Constitution of Maine provides that every
| voter should have legal residence of three
months at the place where he was to vote
| Gentlemen with whom he had had con-
versatlon would bear him out in the state
ment. The whole tenor of his remarks was
| that the resolution offered by Cummings
was so silly that the answer Of the oecre-
| tary of the Navy would be conclusive to
| every sensible man. He was free to admit
| that he did say to a correspondent that he
could hardly believe so bright a man as
| Cummings had perpetrated so stupid a
thing. In justice to his colleague.
the Speaker, he only desired to say
that after all the feeling the gentleman
from New York had piled up in his own
bosom over the alleged packing of the Kit
terry Yard in the interest of Reed, that ths
greatest majority ever cast for Thomas B.
Reed was 2492 over his Democratic Opp0-
nent, and 1923 majority in 1888, when the
| navy-yard had been packed by the Demo-
| cratic administration.
The resolution was then adopted.
| Lacey of Iowa submitted the majority re-
port on the Clayton n-Breckinridge election
case. The report, which declares the seat
vacant was ordered printed and laid over.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the General Deficiency Bill.
and without disposing of the bill the eoul-
mittee rose and the House adjourned.