The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-08

that far with the President. if l am COM
peeled to part company with him when he
says the civil service system has the off.
cial sanction of the people"
Nj Grosvenor declared ne had kept in
touch with the sentiment of the country
and that if the question was submitted to
the people west of the Allegheny noun
tains, it would be buried under their over
whelming condemnation. This was a gov
eminent Tor the people and by the peo>
pie. he declared, and no man should be
excluded from participation in the execu-
tive branch of the government by acct
dent of birth or the misfortune of early
education, who was otherwise qualified.
Mr.. Brosius, rep, of Pennsylvania, the
chairman of the committee on civil ser
vice, defended the law and the President 5
Interpretation of it,
Mr.. Bailey, dem, of Texas, commended
Mr.. GrosvenOr's utterances against build
ing up an office-holding class in this
Countrywide doctrine he said which was
almost literally embodied in the Chicago
platform.
That Is the only good feature of that
platform" calculated Mr. Steele, rep. of
Indiana, amid laughter on the republican
side.
Il am glad to relieve the other side of
the charge of total depravity," retorted
Mr.. Bailey to this thrust.
Mr.. Wheeler DEM, of Alabama, avowed
himself a spokesman in sympathy with the
proposition to repeal the law.
Mr.. Johnson. rep, of Indiana, after some
opening remarks about the stupendous
folly of appointing a bmetallic commits
sion to roll over Europe, made a strong
speech in defense of the civil service law.
Gen. Grosvenor, he charged with being
derelict to his duty as a republican. That
party, he said, was unalterably pledged
to the support of the law. Benjamin Har-
rison and William Mckinley, the most
distinguished opponents of its policies, had
fought for the law in no uncertain Ian
guage and Gen. GrosVenor, he Thought,
well merited the rebuke administered to
him by Mr. Bailey when the latter charged
him with supporting the Chicago platform.
Oaughter.) He marvelled that the mouth
piece of the administration had fallen so
low No portion of the Presidents mes
sage met more hearty Endorsement from
him than that relating to the civil service
and he warned his colleagues that if they
put bill through in antagonism to the
law it would be vetoed.
Mr. Cochran, dem, of Missouri, in a sa-
tirical speech, spoke of the injustice of
turning over a subject which Mr.. Walker
had freely admitted he knew all about to
Mr. Dingley, who had fathered a tariff
bill that had already produced $40,0OOOO0
deficit.
was well understood that nothing would
be done with the currency problem, and
Mr. Bodine, dem, of Missouri, alleged
that the civil service law. was a humbug
which the west and south opposed. The
latter gave some amusing illustrations OF
its operations and caused a laugh by the
statement that Mr.. Cleveland had been
some time in the white house before he
discovered the United States was bounded
on the west by the Allegheny mountains.
During the progress of the debate
Messrs. Walker and Johnson had consult
ed with Mr.. Dinghy. and a modification
of the resolution of distribution was
agreed upon. 1t struck out the words
"the national finances, the public debt tbs
preservation of the government credit, -
and gave the ways and means committee
Jurisdiction over all matters In the mes
sage relating ito the revenue, the bonded
debt of the United States and to the trea-
ties of the United States affecting the rev.
enue."
When this amendment was presented the
opposition withdrew and the resolution
was adopted without division.
The House then, at o'clock adjourned.