Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-06
House.

WASHINGTON, Aug In the
House, Bingham (Pennsy lvanial
moved TO lay on the table the mo-
ton which had been pending some
time 20 reconsider the vote by
which the House passed the bill to
grant leave Of absence 10 clerks in
the first and secOnd-class pOst0iiices-
The motion 10 reconsider was tn
blei.
Snider CMinnesota), rising to a
question Of privilege, denounced a
a falsehOOd an article in a Detroit
paper stating at 4 conference be-
tween the Minnesota delegation and
Speaker Reed relative to certain i'm
pTovements of the saul. Ste. Marie
canal, the Speaker declared: ITO
hell with your inland seas
Mckinley, from the commit
tee on rules, reported las a substi-
tute for Cummings resOlutiOnl n
resolution asking the Secretary OF
the Navy for reasons for the in-
crease Of force at kittery navy yard.
In speaking Of the resolution, Cum
mings IN. Y. said he rose in de-
Tense Of public morality and public
law. which had been nlenaced by a
high official IN an order increasing
the force OF the kittery navy yard.
II looked as though the design WAS
to use
THE EXECUTIVE TOWER
for partisan purposes. He referred TO
the great evil which would result
from the introduction Of politics
into the navy yards, and, going hack
TO the administration Of the Navy
Department 10y Secretary Robson,
commented severely upon the action
Of that official in filling the navy
yard with partisan friends just pre-
vious to n Congressional election.
He charged that the kitteTy yard
was used fo= political purposes, and
quoted figures 10 show that, previous
10 the elections. the list Of employees
was much larger than il was n month
or two afterwards. The majority Of
the men employed came from
Maine, the State OF Thomas Bracsett
Reed.
The committee on rules had re-
ported a substitute for his resolution,
which referred the whole ofieuse TO
the offender himself (the Secretary
of the Navy The answer of the
Secretary would be sent TO the COM
n1ittee on naval affairs, the chair
man Of which. in an interview in n
New York paper, had characterized
his Cummings resolution As 1.-THE
most perfect rot Imaginable and
stated that when the report came In
that would be
THE END OF TIE MATTER.
BoutelIe said he felt like making
an apology for answering the re-
nsrkable demonstration that had
beeu made by the gentleman from
New York. Tho gentleman, in his
| search for sensations, had worked
himself up 10 a high state OF excite
| ,npnt over the fact that the Secre-
rary OF the Navy had really possessed
| liz hariihOOd TO obey the manda'
torv instructions Of Congress. In
tb, remarks made, aud in the news
raDer comments, there was strong
in,nIicstion that somebody had an
-; - that in Maine and New Hamp-
sbire there was a purpose to practice
oo 49, methods The Consti-
tDt;on Of Maine provide. that every
,,at.sr should have a legal reslushcs
y ,,,rse n1onths at the place where
h. was TO vote. Gentlemen VIII WIN
vbom he had conversed Wouiu III III
Inn cut in that statement. me
wbaIe tenor Of bis remarks was thaI
a r,.Solution offered by Cummings
was "a silly that the answer OF the
49, "a voujd be conclusive to every
l ~, man. He was free to ADMIT
,6st he aid say TO 4 correspondent
that he could hardly believe tiia' -