Evening star., 1897-05-11
HOUSE.

Inc House Oh representatives Contlnued
the legislative day of yesterday when it
met today, and took up the subject of for
est reservations again.
Mr.. Underwood (Aia.) spoke briefly. and
was followed by Mr.. Ellis (Ore.). both of
reservations made by President Cleveland
to the people.
Mr.. Castle (Cal) proposed an amendment
by which any settler whose lands might be
included in q forest reservation might ap-
ply to the Secretary Of the Interior for an
appraisal of his lands: the Secretary to in
clude the amount OF the appraisal in the
estimates for his department II the settler
accepted the appraisal within six months.
Mr.. Cannon Qll) deplored the practice of
including general legislation in appropria-
tion bills. He had no doubt that President
Cleveland's action had been somewhat ILL
advised, but opposed the Senate amend
ment which would put it out of the power
of any President in a generation to include
any of the 1).O0O.0D acres in a reservation.
Short speeches criticising President Cleve-
lands order were made by Messrs. Knowles
Is. d., Lacey Uowa). Brucker (Mich.), De-
Vries (Cal.) and Bailey (Tex.).
Mr.. Hartman (Mont.) declared that by
the reservation order 15,000 citizens of
South Dakota had been deprived of the
right to maintain school districts or munic-
ipal governments. He wanted the order an
nulled absolutely.
Mr.. Lacey remarked that Mr.. Hartman
assumed that President Mckinley would re-
peat the mistakes of President Cleveland.
Il don't think there Is another man on
the face of the earth such a blunderhead
that he could make one thousandth part OF
the mistakes made by President Cleveland
retorted Mr.. Hartman.
II did not support President Mckinley
but, thank God, he Is an American Presi-
dent, the first one we have had in four
years."
The House NOn-COncurs.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Shafroth
Of Colorado to enable the President to ir-
clude any of the lands in the reservations
in future reservations with proper protec-
tions to the settlers, was lost. Mr.. Lacey
withdrew the amendment proposed by him
yesterday.
Other pending amendments were with
drawn and the House voted-1OO to ;9-to
ron-concur in the Senate amendment with
the understanding that instructions be
made to the conferees later.
The Senate amendment providing that
the mineral land commissioners be ap-
pointed by the President with the advice
and consent of the Senate was opposed
by Mr. Dockery CMo). who asserted that
its only effect Vas to take the officials out
of the classified service. He taun.ad the
republicans with repudiating their plat
form declaration in favor of civil service
reform.
Mr.. Cannon replied that such officials
could be best selected by the President. Only
clerical positions, iE his opinion, should
be included in the classified service. and
those who sought to include other positions
desired to break down the system.
In view of this assault on the civil serv-
ice law Mr.. Dockery concluded. Il call
upon the chairman of the committee on
civil service reform (Mr. Brosius) to give
the views of his party"
Mr.. Brosius did not respond. l. was con-
tended by Mr.. Lacey that the twelve COM
missioners were democrats appointed by
Mr.. Clevela nd, who endeavOred by his order
to continue them in Office
Mr.. McRae (Ark.) replied that one men,
Der of each of the four boards was a re-
publican. The House concurred in the
amendment.
Mr.. Canron offered an amendment to
make available s., 5G3333 for Improvement
of the Mississippi river. in the fiscal year
1S9I-'9S, of which $5O0.O0O should be de-
Quoted from the appropriation for 1SS-'s9.
The effect of the amendment was to ex-
pend half million year before it would
otherwise be available, and it was agreed
to,