Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-17

| the Hawaiian treaty. Immediately after
that treaty was called up Senator Pet
tigrew offered his motion for conduct
ing the debate with open doors, which
was antagonized by Senator Davis,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, and others, the principal
portion of the debate for the first two
hours of the session being upon that
motion. A majority of those favoring
open doors are opposed to ratification.
It was finally decided not to debate
the treaty in open session.
Postmaster General Gary sent to
the senate his reply to the resolution
asking what positions should be ex-
empt from civil service. He says In
my judgement the following positions
should be excepted from the rules gov
erning the classified civil service, in
addition to those OF private secretary
and confidential clerks to postmasters
and unskilled laborers now exempt:
Chief clark of the postoffice depart
ment; disbursing clerk; appointment
clerk; private secretary and chief
Ipostmaster generals; private secretary
and confidential clerk to the assistant
attorney general for the postOff1ce de-
partment; confidential clerk to the
chief postoffice inspector; postal card
agents; postage stamp agent; stamped
envelope agent; five postoff1ce inspec-
tors; watchmen; fremen; assistant
messengers; pages; laborers of all
kinds and choreWomen. In postottices
throughout the country, would rec-
ommend the following exceptions:
superintendent or clerks in charge of
carrier stations; assistant cashiers;
private secretaries and stenographers
to postmaters in large Office, messen-
ges, porters, cleaners, janitors, watch
men and labOrers.
Secretary Bliss also submitted a re-
port in which he stated that a number
of positions in his department now I'M
der civil service regulations should be
taken out.
Washington, Jan. TO- The oppon-
ents of the civil service law had much
the best OF the debate in the house
so far as the number of those engag
ing in it were concerned. Eleven
speakers supported the opposition.
Friends of the law are very anxious
to shut off further debate and in this
will have the cooperation Of Speaker
Reed and the rules committee.
Those who participated in the de-
bate we're: In opposition to the law,
Messrs. Coney (dem., MOI, Door (rep.,
w. Va.), Cox (dem., Tenn.), Little
(dem, Ark, Brumm (rep., Pa),
Cowherd (dem., Mo-, Sulloway
(rep., N. H.), Low (rep., II.
W, and in defense of the law
Messrs. Mccall (rep., Mass.) and Par
ker (rep., N. j.,
Washington, Jan. lin the senate
Mr.. Allen (pop., Neb.) secured the
adoption of a resolution calling upon
the president for the information in his
possession relative to the boundary
line between Venezuela and British
Guiana and requesting that he inform
the senate whether the United States
now has any clerks or other employees
at work upon the Venezuelan boundary
question and also what part of the
$500 900 appropriated for the Venezue-
Ian commission has been expended.
The work that the commissioners
of Wisconsin lands have been doing
here the past few months through
State Timber Agent Mullen has ended
in the introduction by Senator Spooner
Of bill to adjust the claim of Wis
consin under the swamp land grant to
the state. 1t was proposed by the
commissioners year ago to secure a
cash indemnity for such swamp lands
as have been granted by the govern
ment to railroads and other public i'm
.proyement companies or set apart as
Indian reservations, but little progress
was made in this direction. 1t is now
the plan to secure indemnity in the
form of other lands from the remain
ing government lands in the state. The
bill introduced has for it's object the
bringing of the subject to center by
adjusting the states claims.
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service debate which was inaugurated
in the house week ago has ended.
When the bill was reported to the
house it was discovered that those
: who desired to vote to strike out the
appropriation for the civil service
commission had neglected to make
such a motion in the committee OF
whole. No vote, therefore, could
be taken and the bill passed without
division The republicans who are
seeking to modify or repeal the law
decided when the house met to let
the debate come to close, but it re-
quired the casting of the vote of the
speaker to accomplish this. There
are conflicting statements as to the
situation in which the future conduct