The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-12


lures and insisted the parties were ignor-
ing the principal legislation of the session
Ii order to provide lucrative positions for
favored henchmen of the dominant parties.
Representative Simpson, whose sobriquet
of
THE soCKLEss STATESMAN
has won him national repute, was the man
to prefer these charges against the domi-
nant parties and his speech was the most
amusing and exciting incident of the day.
The question of expenditure came UP under
a resolution reported by the committee on
accounts to appoint Walter E. Halleck, an
ex-union veteran, to the position of assistant
door keeper Of the House. After two or
three Democrats and one or two Republl-
cans had favored the resolution, paying
high tribute to Major HalIeck, Tithian,
(of Illinois), took the floor and insisted it
was time the Democratic majority of the
House was coming TO its senses Yester-
! day 1t passed a resolution giving two
! messengers to the minority of the House.
To-day another resolution was proposed
Tor an assistant door keeper and tomorrow
he supposed another resolution would come
IN giving some place to some pet of same
gentleman.
Simpson took the floor He charged the
two leading parties with logrolling and
dividing additional positions equally be-
tween Democrats and Republicans. at
appears" said Simpson, Legislation is lost
sight OF In this attempt to inRugurate
new system Of reciprocity. Why, Mr..
Speaker, l have a constituent of my own
from Kansas who has done more for this
country In regard TO valuable services
rendered in war than any man recon-
. mHnda1 nOSltiOO in thlo Con- Ia
actually
SAVED THE ARMY OF GENERAL POPE
from destruction in 1862 and saved the city
of Washington from capture by the rebel
army. He was in the employ of the secret
service and went through the lines into
RichmonI and got in Intelligence that saved
the army of Pope. Notwithstanding this,
l have been unable to get even a messen-
gers position for that man, simply because
he does not belong to the party in power;
simply because he is neither a Democrat
nor Republican. Laughter and ap-
pause. Yet the great Congress Of the
United States has been consuming two or
three days together making positions for
some men because members on one side or
the other want to get their friends in Office.
So you have gone on until the whole city of
Washington is besieged by
A HUNGRY HORDE OF POLITICAL PARTIsANs
who are anxious to reach down into the
pockets Of the taxpayers and take money
! TO pay their political followers and friends
for political services" TGreat applause
Simpsons speech had the effect of over
whelmlngly defeating the resolution. The
| House then went into committee of the
whole Oh the military academy bill, which
consumed the remainder of the day.
The Democrats of the west, it now ap-
pears, are to make serious attempt to re-
: peal the provisions of the Mckinley law
providing for bounties on sugar. Repre-
) sentative Scott, of Illinois, introduced a
: resolution instructinR the ways and means
} committee to report bill providing for
1 such repeal, and asserts with confidence a
majority Of the Democratic members will
3 favor such a bill. The resolution declares
since July last claims for bounties amount
! to millions Of dollars, imposing
A GRIEvoUs BURDEN UPON TAX PAYERS.
The payment of this bounty, it is con-
tended, is to be gift or gratuity by the
government to one class of persons engaged
r in private enterprise, the burden of which
4 is to be borne largely by poorly-paid wheat,
corn, cotton and other agricultural products
Of the country, together with the vast
army Of wage earners OF the land. 1t fur
e Their cites the decision of the supreme
T court by Justice Miller that to lay with
= one hand of the government on the prop
, erty of citizens, and with the other to be-
1 stow it upon favored individuals, to aid
e private enterprises and built up private
fortunes, is none the less robbery because
it is done under the forms of law. The
resolution was referred to the ways and
means committee.
S Mr. Scott, in an interview, said the
O sugar bounty is
= CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION
and violates every principle of republican
, government. If it is considered American
: patriotic and honest to donate money Out
o of the treasury to enrich private enter
u prises, there is no just reason why corn
0 wheat and other great industrial interests
), SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN BOUNTY
Chairman Springer of the ways anG
means committee, thought the resolution
should have gone to the appropriation.
r committee, as the law makes a permanent
a appropriation for sugar bounties and the
!, way to reach the question is TO repeal thi:
- law.
: Chairman Holman thought the subiec
J properly belonged to the ways and mean,
T. committee. a permanent appropriation
!. had been made for fourteen years to NEE
:, this bounty. On account of this, it require.
/ independent legislation and more properly
" belongs 10 the ways and means committee
3 Notwithstanding this opinion of Holman
u however, the resolution is likely to be re
Z ferred back to the committee.
y The secretary Of the treasury o-day ap
u pointed George A. Thobe, of Covington
u KY, inspector under that department fo
duty in connection with the immigration
: service. Thobe will be remembered as tn,
. Union Labor candidate for who contes teC
L John q. Carlisle's seat in the Forty-nin Il
= Congress.