Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-24
HOUSE.


HOUSE.
On motion Of Mr.. Lodge Mass joint reso-
luton was passed for the appointment of Chas.
Devens Of Massachusetts and Jas. C. yelling OF
the District of Columbia to fill vacancies in the
board Of regents of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton.
On motion of Mr.. Baker (N.Y.) the Senate
bill was passed creating the customs collection
district OF Arizona.
THE PROPOSED ROCK CREEK PARK.
On motion of MIR. Spinoia (N. Y.) resolu-
ton was adopted directing the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia to report the as
sessed value of all property included within
the bounds of the proposed Rock Creek Park,
together with the names of the parties against
whom it is assessed
THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL.
The House then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Payson of Illinois in the chair on
the legislative appropriation DILL.
Mr.. Cummings (N.Y.) moved to increase the
salaries of three House laborers known as
CLOAK room men from $500 to $40 He did
80, he said, to make the salaries equal to those
Of the other laborers.
MR.. BUTTERwoRTH on THE LABOR QUESTION.
Mr.. Butterworth (Ohio) opposed the motion.
Outrages had been done upon labor i'll the
name of labor. The corn fields in his state
were literally robbed under pretense of doing
something for labor. The men here who
worked four or five hours day
and piled their trade as BARRIERS at
other times received $500 year.
Four-ffths of the taxpayers in Ohio did not
ceiye as great salary as these men. They
had right to be consulted Something should
be done to tighten the burdens that rested on
the back of toll. but not by taking money from
the pockets Of the men who earned sl.25 day
and worked ten hours a day and put it into
the pockets of men who worked six hours q
day and received 100 per cent more salary
Sixty million people were looking on nova
reading. thinking. free peOpie-and Congress
WAS not going to get ahead of them by paying
tithes of anse and cummin and neglecting
weightier matters of law. IApplause.I
Mr.. Cummings-The gentleman is making a
beautiful speech
Mr.. Butterworth-And an awfuly truthful
one.
Mr.. Cummings inquired why these laborers
were Disseminated against.
MIR. Butterworth repeated that these men
piled their trade, besides performing their
duties i'll the House.
Mr.. Clements GA. was glad to hear the gen.
tlemsn from Ohio admit that taxes were paid
by the people OF this country and not by i'm
porters.
The motion Of Mr.. Cummings WAS rejected.
REPLYING TO Mr.. KELLEY
In speaking to verbal amendment Mr..
Hooker Miss. }. in referring to the speech of
Mr. Kelley Kan J. deprecated the idea of hold
ing state and political party responsible
for outrages which may be committed.
He alluded to the assassination of col
ored man in Henry county, Ind, in Feb
ruary last. How would he Mr.. Hooker have
looked If. before the House and county. he
undertook to hold the republican party or the
state OF Indiana responsible for the murder?
He was friend of the colored race. and he
wished to protest against this race being ground
between the upper and neither millstones of
petty political trickery III the struggle between
the two great parties. tApplause. He was
their real friend, not their simulated friend
To say that the white men of the south op-
pressed and assassinated the colored people
was a vile slander upon them as well as a vile
slander upon the black race. He insisted
that the party or parties. man or men.
who undertook now to breed bad blood
between the old white people and the old
black people of the south, to the detriment,
damage and destruction Of both, was neither
true AS patriot to his country nor true as
Christian to the obligations which rested upon
him to treat with good will and good feeling
his brethren all over the earth. lAppIause.l
Mr.. Gambler (Mass. J, in reply to reference
made by Mr. Hooker to Massachusetts, con-
graduated that gentleman on the tone and
temper of his speech and extended
his congratulations to Mr.. Cothran $50
for the tenor O; his remarks
yesterday declaring that they stood in marked
contrast with the doggeral of another gentle
man and the labored. long -drawn-out speech
OF another gentleman.
THE CIVIL SERVICE CLAUSE.
When the clause appropriating salaries for
| the civil service commission was reached Mr..
Cummings (N.Y.) made the point of order that
it was not properly in the bill. The commits
sion was neither legislative, executive or
Judicial.
Mr.. Butterworth called attention to the fact
| that the title OF the bill included the words
"and for other purposes.
Mr.. Cummings replied that the commission
was for no purpose at all. 1t should be named
the great supervisory commission of the gov
ernment and turned loose upon the land. Its
usurpatiOns were getting to be monstrous. As
conducted it had been
SCANDAL TO THE GOVERNMENT
Instead of confining itself to the simple
duties, as indicated by law, it came before Con-
gress in the bill as legislative, executive or
judicial institution.
The apparent ignorance of some of these
commissioners had been largely displayed
What they lacked in intelligence and expert
ence they made up in arrogance and supercili-
BUSINESS.
The insolence of Office was never better ex-
emplified.
The first Commissioner gave more ungram-
matical sentences in his letters than were 70 be
found in English as she is spoke"
PROSPECTIVE ARMY OFFICERS. - Lawrence
Long of Shelbyville, KY, and J. j. McCanna OF
Flatbush, \. Y. have been appointed military
cadets at West Point
The BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINERS for
the'War Department have compiled their list
Of questions for the forthcoming examination
for promotion, to which about two hundred of
the clerks in that department are to be SUBJ
jected, and have sent them to the civil service
commission for approval 1t is not expected
that they will be returned for some time yet,
for the commission is at present somewhat
shorthanded. There are several different sets
of questions-ope for each grade of clerks to