Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-21
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
What Will Be Done in Con-
gress This Week.
LIEUTENANT T0TTEN IN BOSTON.
Deeming Appears Before
the Magistrate.
LIEUTENANT .To1TEA IN BOSTON.
CApRIvl IS FAR FROM REsIGNING,
A Secret Reply From Lord
Salisbury.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
Work to be Transacted In the Hous,
and Senate the Coming week.
Representative Andrews Bill Z.
Exclude Political Influence in tn,
Employ ment of Laborers Und@l
the Authority of the United State.
reconsideration of the Bland Silver
Bill in the House-The Russian
ExtraditiOn Treaty - Other Busi
ness.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Representa
tive Andrew of Boston has completed thu
report upon his bill "to exclude politica
influence in the employment of laboreri
under the authority of the United States
and will submit it to the house tomorrow
The bill will affect some 81 900 employees
in various departments and will require
that henceforth they shall be appointed O,
employed without regard to political con.
siderations. The report states that the
only purpose of the bill il to compel ap-
pointment of properly qualified men in
the order of their application. The official
force of the governments in the executive
departments is 173, 76O, and of this
number only 3O,736 are actually
subject to competitive examination. The
bill does not require competitive examine
lion of laborers, nor subject them to any
scholastic test. The framing of the rules
oy which they are to be appointed or en-
oloyed is left to the discretion of the
;ivil service commissioners, but it is inl
ended that these rules shall simply pro-
vide for proper evidence of the physical
itness and the good character of appli-
,ants. All that is to be required beyond
Ibis is the registration of applicants in the
order of their applications.
The simplicity of this system proposed
makes it practicable to extend it to much
arger number of men at small expense
han the system of competitive examina-
ions could readily be extended to-.
Mr.. Andrew states that system of non
PARTISAN appointments has already proved
'Mcient in improving the service in the
work of the cities of Massactu-
etts and in the navy yards of the United
States. The ystem, he argues, should be
Established by law to protect officials
rom importantly to overturn or evade it,
{ should be established under the protec-
ion of the civil service commission, 80 that
he commission may apply the gem
raj system of rules to laborers
lnder different departments. Mr.. Andrew
that the bill proposes to take
way from inscriptions politicians the
to divert public funds to per-
onal and party uses by employing public
servants as personal and party tools. 1t
proposes to relieve the people when they
thousands of employees, paid for by taxes
,pon the people, but employed as the
ools of faction or party. It proposes
o increase the efficiency of the public
ervice, raise tho standard of American
,olitics and place all the working of the
United States upon an equality in seeking
he public service by the simplest meth
'ds
THE SILVER BILL
1t is probable that the army appropria-
ion bill will be called up tomorrow in
he house and that its consideration will
consume the whole day. Tuesday, We'd
lesday and Thursday are set apart for the
of the Bland silver bill. A
,reat many members desire to speak on
he silver question, and an effort has been
made to reach an agreement between the
riends and the opponents of free coinage
o provide that the debate and considers
ion by paragraph shall run the whole
# the week. No understanding has
7et been reached, however, as the silver
men want the agreement to include stip-
,lation that vote shall be taken at the
md of the week without indulgence in fill
tactics, but the anti-free coinage
democrats are not, as a body, willing to
bind themselves in this particular. Some
If the opponents of the bill discourage fill
but others believe they should
Use every proper means within their reach
20 defeat it.
IN THR SENATE.
In the senate the Indian appropriation
dill will be taken up tomorrow. The
West Virginia direct tax bill is the order
or Tuesday, and when this bill is disposed
# the senate will consider the Mississippi
md Columbia river bills, involving a good
of about $19, 900 600. The
most interesting proceedings of the senate,
are expected to occur in execu-
i've session. The Behring sea arbitration
treaty is pending, and action upon it will
1oubtles be taken. The senate has been
much agitated during the last few days
over the Russian extradition treaty
This precedes the Behring sea treaty on
the calendar of executive business aud
promises to give rise to much more dis
cussion. Strong opposition has developed
to that clause of the treaty which relates
to extradition of persons charged with cap
ital offenses. 1t is understood to be sub
stantially similar to other treaties in that
respect, but in view of the peculiar polit-
ical condition existing in Russia an effort
has been made to secure an amendment of
the clause the effect Of which
would be to except from extra.
dition persons committing even murder
for political reasons, which ia construed tc
exempt from extradition nihilists attempt
ing regicide. 1t has been stated that if sc
amended the treaty will be obnoxious t,
the Russian government, and incidentally
strong arguments were made to show that
it should be ratified as it lands, if no
from spirit of comfy, at least from in
ternational considerations. 1t was urget
it would BIZ foolhardy for the United
States to impair the strength of the ties o
friendship and interest which now bint
together the United States and Russia, ant
thus lose the moral and perhaps the physi
cal support of one of the first militar
powers in the world at time when diplo
matte complications exist in the relation
of the United States and Great Britain
which might in certain contingencies re
sn1t in actua1 war