The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-23
IN THE HOUSE.
Appropriation Bill Passed-Debste te
ON Civil Service.


WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-The house to-
day passed the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation biz and then ad-
journed fer the holiday recess. This is
the first time In the history OF congress
that the legislative Dill has passed before
the holidays. The day was devoted 10 the
annual debate on the civil service law.
and. as usual the attempt 10 strike out
the provision for the commission was over
whelming.y defeated. There was good
deal Of threshIng over of old straw and
sparring for political points. Bros.us.
chairman OF the civil service committee.
defended the law. Others who partici-
pated In the debate were: Baker OF New
Hampshire: Walker. Of Massachusetts,
Williams of Mississippi, Bowers. OF Call
fornia, and Neil OF Arkansas. Settle. Of
North Carolina. made a motion 70 strike
out the paragrph relating TO the civil serv-
ice, which was defeated, % 10 o. The
bill. as passed. carries So gfs, ,3e9. .e2. 1885,
SO more than the current bill.
During the morning hour a biz was
passed authorizing the railroads in the
I-dian territory TO change augnments.
Baker OF New Hampshire alta cked the
method OF administering Tie civtl service
laws under the present administration
He asserted that leS Georgians had been
appointed TO places In the interior depart
fff ftEt IN lIfiN A8Ufiffl-kI aA4Dfis Stak OF kftf
SIS dismissa's from the department ls5
were veterans, and that the treasury de-
partment had also Disseminated against
Republicans in appointments and dismiss
ais. leaving but one Republican in the Sc
cret service. Under the sp0ns system. the
public business had been better handled
than now, when clerks are kept under Sc
cret espionage and are no better of than
factory hands. Yet the civil service COM
usf1 y - au4fuzf such
maladminlstration.
Brosius replied Al some length TO Bakers
structures. He euiogized the merit sys-
tenn and arraigned the remnant of the
spolls system which remained. He charged
that the complaints against the classified
service were in fact complaints against
the spoils system. The civil service rules
he declared. precluded the possibility of
political influence In admission 10 the SER
vice Brosius defended the presidents
recent order extending the scope Of the
civil service as thorough going merit
system" order.
After the president secured those Of
fees" interposed Baker, was not the
order an attempt 20 keep then%
You done suppose" replied Brosius.
turning TO his interrog7tor that he made
the appointments for the purpose OF hav-
Ing his appolntees dismissed"
''It ls FER that reason" said Baker sar-
castically. "that he should not be enti-
tied to The usufruet of his sin"
Il have always believed" responded
Brosirs that what man has done in
his degenerate days ought not TO be
thrown IN TO him when he has repented
ard occupies front pew IN the church"
Richardson Of Tennessee expressed the
hope that II any further extensions OF the
civil service law were made they would
be made operative before March l.
Then" said he we viii see whether
cur Republican friends viii stand by the
law they themselves enacted"
Walker of Massachusetts warmly in
dorsed the principle Of the civil service
law, which. he declared. was the control
ling principle OF every weli-reguiated
business concern.
A remark OF Walkers about the poor
white trash OF the South drew from
Williams Of Mississippi. an eloquent and
stlnrinx reouke. He characterized the So
called poor white trash 81 the South as
the most magnificent raw material in this
rountr, fer the making of manhood and
wonaanhood The South. he safd. Was to-
day the only American part % America
and from the poor white trash" OF the
South sp=anc Henry CLAY Andrew Jack
son ana Abe Lincoln. The iattefss mag
nlGcent courage and keen sense of hamor
was Southern. and poor white trash" at
that
Walker repld1a5ed the suggestion that
a slur vas contained n his reference %
the poor white trash. He sad Ne had re-
ferred 20 a c.ass vel knoWa In nsstory
who. before the war. we're ex.ied 70 the
mountains ard had the contempt both 81
the wealsAy slave owners and tne negroes.
Villains IN reply declared the class had
never sad any existence save In ere minds
Of uoveilsts and negroes. Expire ssng aim
self or tsse civil serVlce .av. ne gave e as
as optusou that ro business Fnaa % CON
mon sense wou}d aFp.v L7e prime pie % a
ocn1.set.t tive exam t.ou 60 tse selection
OF - ernploycs. lie announced hlnaself
urresed to hfe tenure in Office
Seftle OF North CErolias moved 20 strike
oaf All provision for civil service
'-Daart yoa know youT amendment would
striks dowa tae commission Inquired
HroslG=.
ia yVouli nof. - reF..e5 settle. "It would
sr+r..te the Ias and w3sA I csald Grip
81. ff san -rsre~ TA.s statement was
heartily app.auaed ay many Republicans
3. re aoor. ard was voctferously hailed
ey the galleries
settles Ameaanes, vas defeated. =
20 s2
y as passed.
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Assa ?. n. tAe house adjourned gnta
aeon January
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