Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-16
IN THE HOUSE.
Large Part Of the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Bill Disposed Of.

| Washington, Dec. 15.-The House spen
| the day in the consideration of legisla
| tive, executive and judicial appropriation
| bill. Eishty-nine of the 112 pages of the
| bill We're covered and only one amend.
| ment Of Importance was adopted. 1t re
| duced the clerical force of the pension
office by 80. involving reduction il
| salaries of $4,000.
terday. was the chief topic of discussion
today, and the proposition of Assistant
| Secretary of the Treasury Vanderlip tC
retire clerks for age was made the text
for denunciation by Mr.. Moody of Massa-
| chusetts, and Mr.. Johnson of Indiana
both of whom are defenders of the civil
| service law.
At the opening of the session of the
| House today, a resolution for the holiday
| recess from Saturday. Dec. is to WedneS-
| day Jan. 5. offered by Dingley from the
committee on ways and means, was
adopted.
A resolution for the payment of the
| employees of the House and Senate for the
month of December on the 18th was
adopted.
The House then went into the commit
| tee of the whole and resumed the con-
| sideration of the legislative, executive
| and judicial appropriation bills.
Livingston, Dem, Ca. submitted some
| general remarks in opposition to the civil
| service law, which he denounced as a
| humbug and fraud.
De Armound. Pa, under the latitude al
| lowed in debate on appropriation bills
followed with an impassioned speech re-
preaching the majority for not voting
upon the Cuban belligerency resolution
passed by the Senate at the last session.
His remarks We're given added impor-
lance, in view of the action of the Demo-
cratic caucus. last night. declaring from
an aggressive support of the recognition
of Cuban belligerency. He declared that
he could not be mistaken in his belief
rr,;xl Il
tinction of party sympathzed with the
Cuban cause The war on the island had
been characterized on the other hand by
heroism. devoted to the cause of free
dom and independence, and on the other
by all the cruelty and devastation of the
darkest ages of the world.
He described graphically the despair
ing times during our Revolutionary war
He should not forget, said he. those dark
and forbihding days in our own struggle.
He inveighed against the selfish agencies
at work TO prevent action by this govern
ment and asserted that every hours de-
lay of our recognition of Cuban belliger-
ency lent aid to the Oppressor and placed
us in the attitude of doing what we could
to stif1e freedom within sight of our own
shores. The triumph of tyranny in Cuba.
he said, would prove Il menace to liberty
the world over and in conclusion. amid
a round of Democratic applause, he APP
pealed to the majority to give the House
an opportunity of voting on that resolu-
ton.
Gallinger, N. H., secured the adoption
of a resolution directing the secretary of
the treasury to transmit to Congress all
correspondence regarding the legal right
of collectors OF internal revenue to APP
point their own assistants and also the
correspondence with the civil service
commission relating to the right of the
commission to review appointments made
by such collectors.
Allen, Neb., presented a resolution re-
questng the President. If not incompati-
BILE with the interests of the government,
to send to Congress the instructions given
sioners. the reports they have made and
the correspondence relating to the sub
ject On objection. the resolution went
over until tomorrow.
The concurrent resolution adopted by
the House. providing for a recess of Con-
gress from Saturday, Dec. IS, 1897. to
Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1885, was laid before
the Senate and referred to the committee
on appropriations.
At the request Of Mills. Tex, speech
on civil service reform delivered by 8. S.
Cox in the House in 1873, was ordered
printed as document.
Mcbride, Ore, called up his resolution
the secretary of war to pur-
chase food and supplies and to transport
such supplies as may be offered for the
relief of the American miners and other
sufferers in the valley of the Yukon river
and appropriating $4,000 to defray the
necessary expenses.
An amendment to the resolution, pro-
viding for the transportation of the sup
plies by means of RENDERS, was adopted |
Hawley of the committee on military
affairs expressed the hope that the reso- |
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