Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-18
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY IN BOTH
BRANCHES.
The House Meets Only to Adjourn In Re-
spect to the Memory OF
Randall.
M telegraph to tho pIsps.ch.l

WARRINGTON, Apfil lf.--htSsio' S.-.
aud Power. the new Montana sehatu,s,
were in their seats this morning, .hJi
desks having been placed on the RepuDn-
can side since adjournment YESTERDAY
The desks were first located on the Demo
cratic side after the four new States Wery ,
admitted and there they renamed ubti
the action of the Senate yesterday SEAT
ing the Republican contestants cnuer
the terms of resolution presented IN eA-
ecutive session yesterday by hr. tloai
Messrs. Sanders and Power were asslgneu
by lot to the class of senators Wn9so
terms expire in 1893 and 1895, respectively.
Mr.. Power drew the long and bir. Sanders
the short term.
Among the petitions and memorials pre-
sented was one by Mr.. Butler, from ine
Charleston Board OF Trade, protestIne
against the passage of the Butterworth
anti-option and future bill; one by MI
Harris, containing resolutions ny .he cOe
ton and Merchants Exchanges OF memphis
asking that liberal appropriations De nlaoe
for the work OF the Mississippi-hlyer Coh-
mission.
The bill making an appropriation TOT
public building at Tuscaloosa, Ala,
1S40, 000-House bill, was taken from the
calendar aud passed.; also. House 1ll %
regulate the sitting of courts OF the Oniteu
States within the District Of South caro-;
lima, with amendments; also, House OIL
for the appointment and retirement OF
John G. Fremont as Enlargement IN the
United States army.
At 2 O'Clock the Senate took mp the
House Joint resolution for the appoint
Tnent of thirty medical examiners tor the
Bureau Of Pensions without reference 10
the civil-servIce law
Mr. Faulkner spoke against the proyi-
sion taking these appointments from the
control Of the civil service. II was impos-
sible for HIM. he said. TO understand why
such provision was inserted IN the Jolht
resolution. The seventeen medical exam,
ners now in Office had been appointed
under the civil-seIvice system. and 1t was
proposed now to appoint thirty others
without reference 10 that system. There
was no exigency demanding il. The eligi..
bic list TO-DAY contained the names OF
more than thirty men who had passed
their examinations for medical examiners,
and appointments should be made from
that list. He moved to strike out that
provision of the joint resolution.
MIR. Cockrell called for the yeas and nays.
The vote resulted-yeas Is, nays Z2-not
quorum. -,
Three Republican senators. Messrs. AID
rich. Hoar, and Sanders, voted IN the
affirmative with the Democrats.
The roll was called and forty-four sena-
tors. q quorum, answered to their names.
Mr.. Hoar moved to amend the amend
ment by inserting the words under regu-
lations to be prescribed by the President
of the United States" go,
AIR. Faulkner asked Mr.. Hoar the differ
ence between the two proposed amend
ments.
Mr.. Hoar replied that his purpose was to
accomplish the thing proposed by Mr;;
Faulkner, for whose amendment he had
voted. IL the bill were passed. amended as
he (Hoar) proposed. it would bring dis
tinctly TO the notice of the President these
particular appointments and would require
from him new exercise OF dlscretioh.
II was said on one side OF the
question that the thirty medical examiners
were to disappointed only for brief
for an emergency, and that that was the
reason why the.general civil-service rules
should not apply. He was not in the least
affected, much less convinced, by the sug-
gestion. II was perfectly clear to him that
the record of no party, OF no President,
and he suspected of no senator or repre-
sentative. would be found to be absolutely
in accordance with the strict letter OF their
declarations in regard to civil-servlce re-
form.
MIR. Plumb: I hope that the Senator
from Massachusetts, will limit his confess
sions to himself. Laughter on the Demo-
cratic side.l
Mr.. Hoar, at Mr.. Faulkner's suggestion,
modified his amendment so as TO make 1t
read THAT the examination for the APP
pointment of these medical examiners shall
be under regulations prescribed by the
President of the United States"
The amendment was agreed to-yeas, 80;
nays. 8.
Without finishing the bill the Senate, at
5:25, adjourned until tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
After the reading of the Journal, Mr..
Butterworth. of Ohio, arose and said it was
seemingly proper aud Just tribute Of re-
spect to the memory Of the distinguished
man whose funeral took place to-day that
the House adjourn. A motion to this effect
was Immediately adopted.