Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-12-04
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
The Law Make ers at Washing ton Busy
senator Vest Wants Change
in the Senate Rules-A Pres
fGentlal Pardon.

Washington, Dec. 4.--There were ex
actly 100 members on the Aoor when tht
house met at noon to-day. The Demo
cratic leaders decided, just before tht
house WAS called to order, to plunge i'm
mediately into routine business. Outh
waite, of Ohio, for the committee on mill
tary affairs, called up the bill for the ded
ication of the Chickamauga and Chatta
nooga national park. The bill appropri
ates $4,000.
The date for dedication was fixed fo1
September 10 and 20, 1896, and the bill
| was passed. Outhwaite then called up the
bill introduced by Henderson of Iowa for
the establishment of a national military
park at the battlefield of Shiloh. 1t car
ries an appropriation of $l5O,OOO. Op-
tions ON land for an average of $12 an
acre have been secured. The bill pro-
vides for commission of three from the
armies of Tennessee, Ohio and Missis-
sippi. After an adoption of the amend
ment reducing the appropriation to $780,
600, the bill passed.
When the senate convened at noon TO-
day large number of bills, petitions and
memorials were presented, most of them
of local character. Blanchard, (La.) Of
fered resolution reciting the circum-
stances under which the sugar bounty was
cut off after the sugar crop for 1894 was
put in. It directed the committee on ap-
propriations to include in the urgency de-
ficiencv bill a sum sufficient to pay the
bounty of the present year. The bill
went over. Vest, (Mo.,) offered an amend
ment to the rules with the view to cutting
of protracted debates. It provides that
after measure has been debated thirty
days it will be in order for any senator
to move to dx a day for final vete.
This motion is then to be put without
debate or delay, and, if carried, the origi-
nal question is to be voted upon at the
time fixed. Mr.. Vest said he would ad-
dress the senate to morrow on
Senator hodge, of Massachusetts,, of
fersd resolution which was adopted
without dissent calling on the secretary
Of the navy for the official letters of Ad-
miral Walker while in command of United
States naval vessels at Hawaii. Lodge
raised another international question by
resolution calling on the president for
correspondence concerning the attitude
of Nicaragua. The resolution was
adopted without comment.
Quay, of Pennsylvania, offered reso-
luton of respect to the memory of Myron
B. Wright, late member of congress from
Pennsylvania, and as further mark of
respect, the senate at 1890 adjourned.
THE NEED OF THIS RULE.
After the senate had adjourned the.
nau, norakfn ;ok~
The senate committee on finance was in
session an hour, but did not agree to any
course of action on any of the important
financial and tariff bills before the senate.
The Republican members intimated that
a majority of the Republicans would
not stand any piecemeal amendments to
the tariff law at present.
DISCUSSING FINANCIAL MEASURES.
Representative Cox, of Tennessee, of
the banking and currency committee, and
Representative Bland, chairman of the
coinage, weights aud measures commit
tee, held conference to-day and dis
cussed financial measures. Cox says that
his COMMITTEES will report some measure.
Bland maintains that there is nothing to
do but to pass q free coinage bill. He
voices the sentiment of the free silver
men in the house in saying that they
favsr no financial measure that does not
include free coinaFe. In every part of
the house to-day, there was general e1-
preston that nothing more than talk
would come out Of all the financial propo-
sitions at this session.
A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON.
The president has granted pardon to
Renee Moore, convicted in Texas, of
horse stealing.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Tho eleventh annual report of the
United States civil service commission
shows that from July l, 1893, to June 80,
1894, there were 1872 appointments made
in the classified service, an increase of SO
ever the previous year. The whole num-
of applicants examined for the five
branches of the classified service was
37,379, of whom 22,131 passed and 1928
failed to pass. The total number ex-
amined is an increase for the year of
II, 541, an increase of 8,124 in the number
who passed and 4,41S in the number who
failed.
The commission claims that experience
shows that all positions in the government
service, with possibly few exceptions,
Gan well be filled under the competitive
system. About one half Of all the en-
ployes of the qualified service are in the
50 classified postoftices. The law, it is
said, is now better observed in the SER
vice than ever before. Politics is said to
nave been practically eliminated in max
ing appointments and removals in almost
Ill of the large postofiices as we'll as in
most branches of the departmental SER
rice at Washington.