The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-12

| that the appflprlatlOnS committee haQ | taken up tlme There were five gen. | eral bills reported and there was a general demand from the senate and | the country to proceed with either con- Sideratlon. When the Senator-a good | natured man at bottom-would read to-
 morrow his ebullition against the com
 mittee he would not be proud of it. The consideration of the urgent de- ficency bil was then proceeded with. Attention was called to the fact that teh amount included had been increas-
 ed from four and a half to six millions and considerable discussion was had
 upon the habit of the house to omit
 necessary appropriation and to leave them to be put in by the senate. An amendment authorizing the ap- pointment of twenty-five expert count
 CTS in the treasury outside the civil ser vice rules led to a discussion on exam nations. Mir. Hale explained that such
 examinations could not possibly touch
 the question of expertness of money counters; and suggested satirically that since a member of the commission
 meaning MT. Roosevelt-had left that position it had been found that a man or woman was able to do duty in the departments without going before that board.
 l MT. Allen, speaking on the amend ment. declared two of the most gigan- | tically useless institutions in the coun- | try were the civil service commission
 and the interstate commerce commis-
 sion.
 Senator Wolcott, rep, of Colorado,
 spoke very earnestly in defence of the
 civil service commission and in arraign- ment of the president and the secretary
 of the treasury. He hoped that civil services rules would be so extended that fitness alone should govern in ap- | pointment.
 IN THE HOUSE. | Consideration of the bond-eilver coin- i age bill was resumed in committee of
 the whole to-day. MT. Hill, rep, of Con-
 necticut, opposed the senate free coin
 age substitute. He said that free coin age would not be an issue this year ex- | cept in the democratic national conven- | ton, and there it would be crushed to death in one more dying struggle for spells and place. Already, he said, the
 shifting process had begun. The old
 speeches addressed to my fellow citi-
 zens" were being delivered over again, and permission to print was fully im-
 proved by padding the Congressional
 Record with the records of a past cam paign. (Applause.) The living issues
 that republicans must stand upon if 1 they would Win this fall were these: | 1-Revenue laid upon protection lines to fully meet expenses and to some ex- tent reduce the debt and develop the re-
 sources of the nation.
 1.-The establishment of a sound sys-
 tenn of national finance which would give peace to the business interests of the country.
 3-The protection of American people
 everywhere, abroad as well as at home, and the expression of sympathy, en- couragement and hope to men in other lands who are fighting for freedom Messrs. Lacey, rep, of Iowa, and Bur ton, rep, of Missouri, opposed the sen- ate substitute, and Messrs. Ogden, dem., of Louisiana, and Deamand, dem., of Missouri, favored it.
 l At 5:30 the committee rose and the house took a recess until o'clock The debate upon the bill was resumed
 at the evening session. Messrs Harris, rep, of Ohio, Brown, rep, of Tennessee, Howe, rep, of New York, Fowler, rep, of New Jersey, spoke in opposition to free coinage of silver, and Messrs. Otey dem., of Virginia, and Baker, pop, of Kansas. in it's favor
 | c. w. Stone, rep, of Pennsylvania, stated that advocates of silver coinage
 were prone to quote the condition of Japan as evidence of the prosperity that
 attended the use of silver as standard
 money. He submitted paragraph con- tained in letter from Tokio to the New
 York Herald, written by Colonel Coker- i'll, stating that Japan was on the verge of season Of hard times.
 At 10 o'clock recess was taken to 1O:SO tomorrow.