The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-08

the most credit for the administration of
that law were, he said, Senator Hawley,
Dorman b. Eaton and Mr.. Roosevelt He
did not think that Mr.. Cleveland, who
had done great many good things, de-
served to be written up very high on that
score.
Mr.. Wolcott, rep. of Colorado, made an
earnest civil service speech, in which he
said he did not agree with Senator Cor
man that the corner grocery was the cor
ner stone of the republic He did agree
with that senator, however in denounclng
the habit of cabinet officers making
speeches all over the country He himself
had had a great mind to call the attention
of the country to that abuse on the part
of the cabinet officials of the present ad-
ministration. The last cabinet officer that
he had heard of doing it was "barn-stalk-
ing down in Georgia in favor of gold
recommendation" He should have called
attention TO it earlier, had it not been the
at Washington, so far as his public duties
were concerned and his performance of
them.
rs the point you make" Mr.. Hill asked,
that a cabinet officer has no right to
make these speeches throughout the coun-
try to the neglect of his duties, or is it
that he has no right to make political
II take it," Mr.. Wolcott replied, that
he has no right to make speeches to the
neglect OF his duties
Mr. Hll-That is the point of your criti-
cisrn?
Mr.. Wolcott-At this time
Mr.. Hill suggested that it had been the
custom heretofore for cabinet officials to
make political speeches, and that ii was
also the custom of English statesmen, like
Mr.. Gladstone, lord Salisbury and others
Mr.. Wolcott, in reply to that suggestion
said that those statesmen We're also mem
bers of the British parliament and there
fore were entitled to make speeches in pub
lie, Justifying their action Therefore, the
analogy did not lie. He commented upon
the neglect of the Secretary of the Interior
to carry out the acts of the congress in re-
Sard to the lands of the Uncompahgre In
dian reservation in Utah and in regard TO
the Pacific railroad lands, and said that
the secretary might just as well be making
stump speeches IN Georgia as sitting in his
executive office. Besides he added, the ar
guments which the Secretary Of the Inte-
rior was unloading to the public in Georgia
were making converts by the score to the
cause of bimetallism. But the very lack of
attention to public duties which charac-
terize those cabinet officials was an addi-
tional reason why the power of making
Mr.. Stewart, pop, Of Nevada, argued
against civil service reform as having a
tendency to replace democracy with CON
solidated despotism.
Mr.. Allison. in charge OF the bill. after
remarking that the question of civil SER
vice reform had nothing more to do with
the pending question than it had to do with
the war in Cuba, moved to lay Mr.. VOL
colts amendment on the table.
The. motion was agreed to, and the
amendment was laid on the table yeas
As; nays Z, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allison, Bacon, Baker.
Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler
Call, Carter, Chiffon, Clark, Cockrell, Cul-
lom, Daniel, Davis. Faulkner, Gear, Cor
don, German Hale, Harris, Hawley, Hill,
Jones Of Arkansas, Lindsay. Mcmillan,
Mitchell Of Oregon, Nelson. Pasco PETER,
Perkins, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Proctor
Pugh, Roach, Sherman, Stewart, Teller,
Turpie, Vest Walthan, Warren, White,
and Wilson'S
Nays-Messrs. Chandler, Gray, Hoar,
Lodge, Villas, Wetmore and Wolcott-7.
Mr.. Wolcott's amendment, which was
ever Dostoftice is consolidated with an
other Dostoffice so as to make it a sta
ton or sub-station, the secretary, superin-
tendent or clerk, may be paid out Of the
appropriation for clerks
The result of the vote was unfavora-
BILE to the extension of the system of post
office consolidation.
Mr.. Pasco offered an amendment that
nothing in the bill should authorize the
establishment and maintenance of any
station, sub-station or branch postoffice.
beyond the limits of any city or town.
This was adopted: Yes, IS; nays %.
The committee amendment appropriat-
ing $50 900 as additional CONDENSATION 10
ocean mail service from San Francisco
to New Zealand and New South Wales,
was agreed to-yeas, go; nays, 81 and
the item OF 1885,, GA for necessary and spe-
cial mail facilities on trunk lines from
Boston to Atlanta and New Orleans by
way of New York and Washington was
retained in the bill. Mr.. Villas motion to
strike 1t out having been voted down.
yeas, 10; nays, 80. An amendment requir-
ing the expenditure Of $4,000 for expert
ments in rural free delivery was offered
by Mr.. Butler. pop, OF North Carolina,
was agreed to-yeas. q; nays, 25.
The bill was then passed and the SEN
ate at 5:55 O'Clock adjourned until to-
morrow.