The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-06
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WASHINGTON, August s. = In til
House to-day, Mr.. Bingham, Of Penn
sylyania, moved to lay on the table til
motion to reconsider tho vote by whicl
the House passed the bill to gran
leaves Of absence To clerks in first an,
second class postoillees.
=, Ihis was advocated by Mr.. Flower, O
New York, who held that the Govern
ment should act towards It's employe,
Just as a wise merchant or banker wouli
act towards his. No business ,nan who
was not mean would decline to give hi.
employees two weeks leave OF absence
with l,ay, knowing full well that he
would benefit In increased efficiency by
The rest and recreation accorded them
The motion to reconsider was tabled
Yeas, 13s; nays, 60. i
MIR. snider, Of Minnesota, rising to q
question of privilege, denounced as a
lalsehood an article appearing in a De.
tfolt paper stating that conference be.
tween the Minnesota delegation and
Speaker Reed, relative 10 certain i'm.
provements Of the SauIt Ste. Marie canal
the Speaker had declared ITO hell with
your inland Beas.n ..--.-,.,,.I-' 80!
Mr.. Mckinley, OF Ohio, from The Com.
mittee on Rules, reported (cs n subs,i.
tute for the Cummings resolution), a
resolution asking the Secretary of the
Navy Tor the reasons for the increase of
Tho ioyce at the kittery Navy Yard,
IN speaking to tho resolution, Mr..
Cummings, OF New York, said thut he
rose In defense OF public morality and
public law, which had been meuaced by
high public official, The order IN.
creaaing the force Of the K;ttery Navy
Yard looked rs though the design was
TO use executive power for partisan pur-
poses. lie commented On tho fact that
certain shops Of the Kiltery Navy Yard
had been burned in january, and
that the chairman Of the Committee ou
Naval Affairs (Mr. Boutelle) has appro-
prlated money Tor their repair in the Ma.
val Appropriation bill. He contended
land in support Of his contention he quo.
ted from remarks made by Senators ALI
son and Hiscock) that it was not in the
interest Of good government, Of econ.
omy, or olthe Navy, to reconstruct these
shops. Despite the remarks of these
two eminent Republican Senators
the Secretary OF the Navy had ordered
an increase Of the forcs at the kittery
yard to reconstruct the shops and to re.
pair the Lancaster and the Nlonongahela.
Fifteen years ago Republican Secre-
tary Of tho Navy had stated that the
Lancaster was not worthy Of repair, and
that the Monongahela was in a tolerable
condition with speed Of 10! knots.
Laugh1erl ~
He referred to the great evil which
would result from the introduction Of
politics into the navy yards; and going
back to the administration OF Secretary
Robson, he commented severely upon
the action OF that official in filling navy
yards with partisan friends just previous
to the Congressional election. He charged
that the Kittery yard was used for poiit-
ical purposes, and quoted figures to
show that previous to elections the list
OF employees was much larger than was
a month or,two afterwards. A majority
Of the men came from Maine, the
State OF Thomas Bracket Reed. lie
quoted at length from the testimony
taken by the Whithorne Committee in
1876, to show that the policy Of the Re-
publican party had been to use the navy
yards to expedite political ends. This
policy was worse than the shotgun
policy.