The morning times., 1896-02-12
Accused Appropriations Commit
Tee of Cracking Slave Whip.
WANTED TO ANSWER VEST
Mr.. Hall Would Not Yield and This
Stirred Up the Senator From Ne
braska-Mr. Wolcott Scores the
President and His Cablnet-Mr.
Lodge Agrees With All He Said.

III WHICH tne missouri senator ndu 81 Creu
Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING Nebraska withseeds
Mr.. Alien desired to reply. Mr.. Hale, having
In charge the urgency deficiency BILL would
not yield at first. Finally Mr.. Allen got
the floor, and among other things said:
u regret very much that the Senator in
charge would not permit brief statement
in answer TO the Senator from Missouri
but have observed that every time the APP
preparations Committee marched into this
chamber with a bill that every other man Is
supposed TO take. a back seat and not ques-
tion their authority or what they want, but
TO calmly submit to the dictations and
was going TO say obstreperousness. Per-
haps the remark is little too hard, until
theAppropriationsCOm COmmitteebasg gotthrough
and see fit to announce that they are ready
to retire and receive other businsss.
ENTERED HIS PROTEST..
81 wanted to enter my protest, however
public. ] do not know no w long the custom
has been i'll existence, OF the Senator in
charge OF an appropriation bill walking
into the Chamber and buttoning his coat
up tight to the throat and saying, we want
unanimous consent to con slider all the COM
mittee amendments before any other man
is heard, and after that is done, to sit like
a watch dog and object strenuously to
every amendment which may be offered
by any other Senator.
II am perfectly willing to concede. Mr..
President, that the Committee on Appropria-
tions Knows much more than the entire
Senate. think possibly their selection indi-
Gates that. and forecloses the ques ton.
Loo 4 hot
SO far as the Senate OF the United States is
concerned, it is a government OF the COM
mittee, by the committee, and generally
for the committee, and not for the country.
what is there about these appropria-
tions which are being brought in here from
time to time, which should give the hon.
orable Senator from Maine for instance,
an opportunity 10 stand like a slayo-driver
and crack his whip over the backs of Sena-
tors representing other States upon these
appropriations
Mr.. Allen in the course of his remarks
took occasion TO make his point against
MIR. Vest, and tod the Senator from Maine
about 1t. Mr.. Hale in answer said the
Senator from Nebraska, who was usually
Good-natur,d, would feel more ashamed of
his remarks when he saw themiu the Record
than Senators did at that time.
But this did not end the intereStiD e
scenes of the afternoon. A lively debate
sprung up over the effort to elect an
assiStan Mt doorkeeper in place of Capt.
Bassett, and civil service debate sprung
up over the urgency deficiency bin.
URGENCY DEFICIENCY BILL.
After Mr. Hale had finished answering
Mr.. Allen, the consideration OF the urgency
deficiency bill was then proceeded with.
Attention was called to the fact that the
amount included in the bin had been in
creased from about S., 250.00o to about
$6,o0e.0O0, and coGs derable discussion
was had upon the habit of the House OF
Representatives. TO omit necessary appro-
priations and TO leave them to be put in by
the Senate.
The discussion was interrupted in order
to allow Mr. Sherman, Rep, Ohio, to offer
a resolution choosing Alonzo II. Stewart
of Iowa, one of the Senate employees. as
| assistant doorkeeper OF the Senate, TO fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Capt
Isaac BasSett. An amendment was Offered
by Mr.. German, DEM. Maryland, choosing
Bernard W. Layton of Ohio, also a Senate
employe, as acting assistant doorkeeper
After brief discussion, in which Mr.
Stewart was spoken of as Republican
who had been employed in the Senate foI
| nineteen years, and Mr.. La yton as a Dem
| ocrat, and both as very active. energetic
| and ambitious young men, the cons dera
| ton of the resolution was objected to by
| Mr.. George, Dem. Mississippi, and it went
| over till tomorrow.
| The consideration OF the urgent deficiency
! bill was resumed, the discussion going OF
as to the rights and duties OF the Senate
| on the subject of adding new subjects tC
appropriation bills. An amendment au
| thorizing the appointment of twenty-five
expert money counters in the Treasury out
| side OF the civil service rules led to a dis
| cusson of the merits of civil service ex
| animation, in whic hMr. Hale explained tina
such examins tion could not possibly toucl
the question of the expertness of none!
counters: and suggested satiricaHy tha
| since member OF the commission-mean
| ing Mr. Roosevelt-had left that position
1t had been found out that man or worial
was able to do duty in the department.
| without going before that board.
MIR. ALLEN AGAIN.
| Mr.. Allen, Pop. Neb., expressed his
| qualification that the civil service law wa
being violated in its letter and spirit; other
| wise hefeared that in twenty yearstie public
| service of the country would be in the hands
| OF slot OF cigarette-smoking dudes.
| Nevertheless he did not believe that the Sec
| retary OF the Treasury should be given th
power which the amendment gave him
| II the law were obnoxious it should be made
| more so by being lived up to.
! Two of the most gigantically useieS
| Institutions in the country were the civi
| service commission and the Interstate com
nleree commission. The latter was as pow
crless as an infant TO carry out its Judgment
| and findings, ana. as to the civil service com
| mission, whenever 4 member of il developed
the slightest amount of backbone or in
dependence, he heard a voice from the Whit
House telling him that there was vacanc
in the civil service commission.
Mr. Wolcott, Rep, Colo, broke into tn
| discussion with his usual vehenence ant
impetuosity. The danger in this coun
try be said. sis not through the civi
service commission. 1t is through the
exercise by The Executive and his Cabiae
of the power of removal and the power o
appointment, which have been mereilessl
exercised in this last administration, a
never before in the history of the country
In 1898 there never was chance TO preven
the passage of free silver measure through
the House Of Representatives had it no
been for the power of the patrona ge of tn
/ administration. and especially the power o