The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-06
In the House.

: WASHINGTON, GAug. bingham, of
Pennsylvania, moved to lay on the table a
motion which had been pending some time
10 reconsider the vote by which the House
passed the bill to grant leaves of absence
TO clerks in the first and second class post
officers. The motion 10 reconsider was
tabled.
Snyder, of Minnesota, rising to ques-
ton of privilege denounced as fasehood
an article in a Detroit paper stating that at
the conference between the Minnesota
delegation and Speaker Reed, relative to
certain improvements of Sault Ste Marie
canal, the speaker declared ITO h with
Your inland seas.m
MIR. Mckinley, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on rules reported las a substitute
Tor Cummings resolution) resolution
asking the secretary of the navy for rea-
sons for the increase of the force at Kittery
navy yard. In speaking of the resolution
Cummings, of New Y ork, said he rose in
defence Of public morality and public law
which had been menaced by high official
order increasing the force of the Kittery
navy YARD. 1t looks as though the design
was to use the executive power for parti-
san purposes. He referred to the great
evil which would result from the introduc-
ton Of politics into the navy yards, and 90
lit DdCh W OllC administration Vi Ilp navy
department by Secretary Robson, he com
mented severely upon action that official
in filling the navy yards with partisan
friends just previous to congressional
election. He charged that the Kittery
yards was used for political purposes, and
quoted figures TO show that previous to the
elections the list of employees was much
larger than 1t was month or two after
wards. The majority of the men employed
came from Ma re, the state of Thomas
Bracket Reed.
The committee on rules had reported as
q substitute for his resolution, which re-
ferred the whole offense to the offender
hlmself-the secretary of the navy. The
answer of the secretary would be sent to
the committee on naval affairs, the chair
man of which, in an interview in a New
York paper. has characterized his Cum
mings') resolution as the 'mosU perfect rot
imaginable" and stated that when the re
port came in that would be the end of the
matter.
Boutelle said he felt like making an
apology for answering the remarkable
demonstration that had been made by the
gentleman from New York. The gentle
man, IN his search for sensations, had
worked himself up to high state of excite
lnent over the fact that the secretary OF the
s1avy had really possessed the hardihood to
obey the mandate and instructions of Con
gfSSS. in Ule femdrkS MADE, ana IN the
newspaper comments, there was strong
implication that somebody had an idea
that in Maine and New Hamp-
shire there was a purpose to prac-
uice the ccloni alton method The
constitution of Maine provides that every
voter should have a legal residence of three
months at the place where he was to vote.
The gentlemen with whom he had the con-
versation would bear him out in his state
ment. The whole tenor, of his remarks
was that the resolution offered by Cum
mings was SO silly that the answer of the
secretary nf the navy would be conclusive
to every sensible man. He was free to admit
he did say to the correspondent that he
could hardly believe so bright a
man as Cummings had perpetrated Sc
grave a thing as an injustice
TO his colleague, the speaker. He only de-
sired to say, after all feeling that the gen
tleman from New York had piled in his
own bosom, the over alleged packing OF
Kittery yard in the interest of Reed, and
that the greatest majority ever cast for
Thomas b. Reed was 2.4S2 over his Demo
cratic opponent and 1,62S his round major
ity in 1888, when the navy yard had been
packed by Democratic administration.
The resolution was then adopted
Lacy, OF Iowa, submitted a majority re-
port on the Observation-Disclosures election
ease 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