Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-22
HOUSE..

Mr. Dingley (Me.). from the committee on
ways and means, reported "a bill providing for
the classification of worsted cloths as woolens.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized
and directed 70 classify as WOODEN cloths all
imports of worsted cloth, whether known under
the name of worsted cloth or under the names
of worsted or diagonals or otherwise Com
mittee of the whole.
THE WORLD S FAIR BILL FINALLY PASSED.
Mr.. Gambler Mass. moved that the House
concur in the Senate amendments to the
worlds fair bill This being agreed to. the
bill is finally passed and will be sent to the
President for his action
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL
The House then went into committee of the
whole. Mr.. Payson CIi) in the chair, on the
legislative appropriation bill.
Mr. Butterworth (Ohio) in a brief explana-
ton of the bill said that in some of the bureaus
of the departments there was substantially a
civil pension list. 1t consisted Of number of
old persons who had faithfully served the gov
no longer able to perform their
duties. They were carried on the rolls. but
were OF no service to the government. The
committee on appropriations had allowed an
increase in the clerical force of the civil service
commission substantially as requested by the
commission.
CRITICIZISG THE BILL.
Mr.. Dockery (Mo. criticized certain features
of the BILL especially the increase made in the
number of government employees. The bill
provided for the appointment of 141 new Of
hcers at a cost of Sl6l. 500
He did not say that all of this increase
was unnecessary. but in many instances
it should not have been made at this
time. Referring to the civil pension list.
he said that hurried axap,natio,
had shown the fact that in the departments
there were employed 397 persons who were
wholly or partially inefficient, but who drew
salaries amounting to S450, 200. He believed
that if there was
NEW BLOOD IN THE DEPARTMENTS
Fifteen hundred clerks could be discharged
at saving to the taxpayers of Sl,5OO. 900 a
year. He called the attention of the commit
tee on civil service reform to this fact. In
stead of carrying on an Improbable investiga-
ton let the committee take into consideration
the subject of the inefficiency of the clerical
force of the departments.
MR. ALLEN SARCASTIC
Mr.. Allen (Miss confessed that he was some
what disappointed in the bill. He quoted from
| a speech delivered by Mr.. Cannon and used as
a campaign document. declaring that the re-
publican party was devoted to the country and
would, if it came into power, administer the
government with great economy and greatly
reduce expenditures.
1t was this promise which accounted for his
disappointment He failed to find that there
was any reduction in this bill. Now and then
he liked to meet his republican friends on
| the street and chat with them, but after
the 4th Of March, 1889, it was impossible for
him to keep up with them in their
| wild rush to the departments to get Offices and
show their devotion to their country. Laugh
ter. He then quoted from the civil service
plank Of the republican party and from Presi-
dent Harrisou's letter Of acceptance. But the
republican party had gone back ON its prom
ises, and he wanted to call the attention of the
country to the civil service pretensions Of the
administration.