Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-25
Presidential Appointments.
CoNGaE .sIoNAx.
IN rKz SENATE

WASBtNSr0N, April aAh-AmonS the bills re.
ported ilem committees and plscea ON the cal
tain agreements with the Cteur d Alene Ipdisns
IN Idaho Territory and provide for the com.
puisory edncStlon Of lcdan children
Other bills placed on she calendar were the
bill to prevent desertionS from the army and thf
House pension appropriation bill The Senate
pHi appropEstlng so0Ct9 for gu equestrian
John stark was passed.
The House bill TO transfer the revenue cutter
service irom the Treasury Departments TO the
Navy Department was again saken M. Amend
ments were reported from she Committee on
Naval Affairs aud agreed to,
Iendlng the consideration - the revenue Ont
tS yer piil the committee on Privileges and Elec-
lions reported, as IN the original measure bill
TO amend ana supplement the election laws of
the United States and TO provide for the more
efficient enforcement of such laws II was
placed on the calendar.
Pugh said every Democratic member or the
committee opposed a favorable report On this
blll, which he said authorizes Republican SUI
pervlsors TO oversee State officers thereby in
Sn!tlng aud degrading these State officers II is
suDverslVe OF a fundamental pri1ciple of local
selt-goyernment. Il the bill becomes law its
execution Will insure the shedding of blood
ana the destruction OF the peace and good order
OF the country.
Hoar replied that the bill is in substance g.
inoulncatlon and perfection of the system which
mas peen the law IN the United States for many
years ana which has secured in the main hon.
est ELECTIONS and honest counts in the city of
I
fraudulent naturalization papers had gone ont
from two Judges within three days before the
election. The bill is hut an assertion of consti
tutional power that the United States may reCIl-
late the manner of electiug the members of its
own Congress or alter the regulations in a State
Ihe land forfeiture bill was then taken up as
unnnlshed business and the amendments re-
ported from the Committee on Public Lands
was agreed TO. Berry moved TO amend the first
section OF the bill by striking out the word
now and inserting the words ''within the
time specified in the Act of Congress making
the grants" The effect of the amendment he
SAID, would be not only to forfeit the portions
OF land opposite the lines not now constructed
but would forfeit all the lands granted TO rail-
road companies, where the lines had not been
completed within the time fixed in the Act and
in the subsequent extension of It, After some
debate the amendment was rejected, the Re-
publicans voting in the negative
Some other amendments were considered and
ia,d on the table, and the Senate then ad-
lourned.
IN THE ROUSE.
WASHINGTON, April 24th.--A large portion of
the time of the House to-day wss taken up in a
discussion OF the legislative bill.
When the clause appropriating the salaries for
the civil Service Commission was reached Cum
mlngs OF New York made point of order that
" was not properly in the bill, as the Commits
sion was neither legislative, executive nor
was overruled.
The motion by Dorsey of Nebraska to reduce
the number of Commissioners from three to
one was overruled. as was also one by Perkins,
OF Kansas, exempting ex-soldiers from the pro-
visions of the civil service law.
Houk OF Tennessee moved to strike ont the
entire clause. He desired the Government to
run on business principles and desired 10 SEQ
merit recognized, but he didnot believe in this
htth wheel TO the wagon. Furthermore, the
Commission was under Indictment and no ap-
preparation should be made until the commit
tee charped with the Investigation made fss 70
port.
Moore of New Hampshire announced himself
evil service retormer without qualification
Bisgs of California denounced the, civil serv-.
ice law. 1t was, he said, conceived in sin and
brought forth in iniquity. Pendleton was its
father, George William CARTS its granny and
Dormsn B. Eaton lis nurse and clothes washer.
Lehlbach OF New Jersey. McComas of Mary
land and Cutcheon of Michigan opposed Houks
motion.
Cheadle of Indiana opposed the wholetheory
of civil service reform.
Grosvenor of Ohio opposed 10 the con-
struction and operation of the present law.
Hopkins of Illinois said Houk was out of Joint
their platform.
Dunnell of Maine said that under the civil
service law intelligent men did not enter tho
civil service. 1t was the dudes that were get
ting in under the present system,
Hill OF Illinois characterized the motion as
an effort TO do by iDdirection what neither of
the great parties had desire or courage to do
openly.
Greenhalge of Massachusetts made a vigorous
speech in favor of civil service reform.
Coleman of Louisiana opposed it,
Henderson OF Iowa said civil service reform
had come to stay, and the political party that
deserted 1t would not stay in power, and ought
not to- 1t is not true that TINS administration
has not enforced the law. President Harrison
is enforcing it, and that's what's the matter
with the boys.
Mckinley of Ohio earnestly opposed the mo-
son to strike out. If the Republican party was
pledged to one single thing more than another,
1t was the maintenance OF the civil service law.
1t was not only according TO the tenets of the
Republican party. but according to the best
sentiment of the Republican party throughout
the United States II was sustained by the best
sentiment of the country, Republicans and
Democrats alike. The Republican party must
take no backward step.
Butterworth indorsed every word his colleague
had said. Nothing smacked of monarehial
forms much as the spoils system.
The motion to strike out was lost BY 6l to igO,
and pending further action the committee rose
and the House adjourned.