Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-03-11

PATIENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
CzAR REEDS TYRANNY AGAIN. MUIR
DER OF A POST MASTER IN s. G. SIM
ATE coMMtTrEEs REPORT ON CIVIL
SERVICE. ADDITIONAL ARTILLERY
REGIMENTS.
President Mckinley is proud of the
patient iorbearance displayed by the
American people during their try
ing wait for the verdict Of the Naval
Court of Inquiry that is investigat-
ing the Maine disaster, in the face
of many unjustifiable and inilamable
publications, although he is not sur
prised. He knows that whatever
may be said or done by few indi-
viduals that the great mass of our
people recognize that it would be as
great an insult to the brave officers
who compose that Court to take ac-
tion in advance of the report of the
Court as it would be to a judge and
jury of any other court to take an
accused murderer in the midst of
his trial and lynch him. Every
preparation that wisdom and pa
triotism can suggest is beirg made
to place our military and naval forces
in position to meet any emergency
that may arise If there is to be
war; we shall be ready for it, and
we shall win.
Another step forward was taken
by Speaker Reed when he ruled that
lit was a violation of order for Il
member to get the floor, when the
House was sitting as a committee
of the whole for the purpose of
speaking upon "A bill under consider
alton and then to make a speech up
on something entirely foreign to the
bill. Because it is an old custom for
members to utilize any old bill that
happened to be out as the basis for
a partisan political speech is no reas.
on thar II Is right. OF course, the
Democrats claim to see in this rul-
ing fresh attempt ON the part of
tine Speaker to suppress free speech,
Dnt it was nothing of the sort. As
Representative Dingley stated, after
tno Democratic howl, which follow
( ad the application of this ruling by
representative Payne, who was pre-
siding over the house sitting as a
committee, the enforcement of the
rule against irrelevant debate was
necessary to correct a growing evil
and to expedite public business. II
does not interfere with the making ol
political speeches; only confines
their making to proper times.
President Nc Kinley and every
member of his cabinet feel great in
dignation at the disgraceful affair al
Lake City, South Carolina, which
resulted in the murder of the Post
Master and one of his children, and
the wOunding of three others, an
official report of which has beer
made at the Post Office Department
AT the last Cabinet meeting it was
unanimously decided to increase the
Governments reward to 81 800, fol
information that will lead to the
conviction of the perpetrator or per.
petrators of the cowardly ana das
tardly crime, and that all the facil
tiles of the Post Office Department
and of the Department of Justic,
should be utilized in the effort tC
run down the murderers.
The Senate Committee on Civi
Service, which made an exhaustiv,
Investigation of the subject, has re
ported in favor OF removing from the
classified service all deputy collec
tors of Internal Revenue, store
keepers, and gaugers, and all deputy
collectors of customs. The repor
also adopts the contention of Sena
tor Pritchard, Chairman of tn,
Committee, that the GoverDmen
printing Office was never legally pu
within the classified service and i
not, by right, now in that service.
The delay in getting a special rul
which was made necessary by Dem
ocratic objections when unanimou
consent was asked, reported to tn
Honse from the Committee on Rule
for the consideration of the bill pro
viding for the enlistment of tw
additional artillery regiments ha
not been caused by opposition to tn
bill on the part of Republican mem
bers of that Committee, as has beei
declared by sensation mongers. N
Republican member of the Com
mittee is opposed to the bill, but al
of the Republican members of tn
Committee were opposed to any pre-
cipitate action, such as would caus
the country to get the idea that tn
bill was an emergency measure
whereas tits only carrying out tn
requests of the War Department
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