The age-herald., 1898-01-07

MT GroSVenor said ne had watched With the administration the presidents public careers, and one of his most prominent characteristics had always been that he not only did not demand subserviency but despised a man who sought favors by
 Pays His Respects.
 MT. Grosvenor proceeded to pay his re, spects to the national civil service reform league and to Carl Schurz, it's president, His excoriation of the latter was the most scathing that has been heard on the floor of the house in months. He denounced uii- sparingly those who sought to read out of the republican party those who believed in the repeal of the civil service law. With vitriolic language he sketched the political career of MT. Schurz, which he characterized as the "checkered, spotted, leprous career of one who betrayed every party and every duty to which he was bound and whose betrayel had been his only stock in trade in the arena of poli- tics." He traced Mir. Schurz's political his- tory and defied any one to point out a point in the trail which was not tainted with political corruption. Yet, he said, this was the man who, with other foul political demagogues at Cincinnati, under the name of the national civil service league, "had denounced him and those who thought with him on this question. He read the resolutions adopted at the Cincinnati meeting, branding them as infamous be- yond description.
 MT. Grosvenor's description of the hab- it's of the cuckoo teemed with wit and kept the house in roar. Mr. Grosvenor, in replying to the charge made against himself and his colleagues that they were betraying the republican party, adverted to what he called the list of traitors among the high priests of civil service reform, at the head of which he placed George Will liam Curtis, who abandoned the republican party to show that the present position oc- cupied by the majority of the house was not inconsistent with these declarations. For give the members of the civil ser- vice commission" he said, notice that we have a majority on the floor, and you cam not strangle majority fin the American congress-" (Applause).
 He argued that when the St. Louis plat- form was adopted the extensions contained in the Cleveland order of May, 1896, had not been understood. It was not until No- vember, 1896, that the enormous scope of that order, covering 46,0GO officials, was pub- licly declared. The republicans coming into power on a platform adopted before these extensions, were not in honor bound to agree to them, and it was proper the presi- dent should announce in his message to congress that there were portions of those orders which never ought to have been made. MT. Grosvenor discussed the prac- tical effect of the law and the examina- tions of the committee giving many illus trations of applicants who through years of service had proved their ability, but who failed to answer questions asked.
 Evoked Enthusiastic Outburst.
 One of MT. Grosvenor's statements which evoked an enthusiastic outburst from the galleries was in the nature of a warning, that if members refused to listen to the voice of the people in hostility to this law they would not be members of the Ffity- sixth house of representatives. He argued that the people were overwhelmingly op- posed to the law, and said hundreds of thousands of republicans felt secret symA pathy with Mayor Van Wyck of New York, who announced none but democrats would be appointed to office under the new city government. Gov. Black had said a few days ago that when the late change in the republican government of New York came into power there were 15,000 Tammany men in office, and when 1t expired there were still 15,0O0 Tammany men on the pay roll. The republicans, Mr. Grosvenor said, had