The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-27
CIVIL SERVICE AND WHISKY
TOPICS DISCUSSED BY THE
HOUSE YESTERDAY.
Cannon Declared the War Would $50
to the Devil" if Members Took Up
Their Hobby.

Washington. May 26.-In a long ses-
sion today the house passed few bills,
but the discussion involved a wide
civil service, brought on by a para
graph in the deficiency pension bill,
providing for some temporary clerks in
the war department, the house consid-
cred a bill to amend the internal reve-
nue. laws, listened TO lengthy spec, q :
from Mr.. Shafroth Of Colorado and --r.
Grow of Pennsylvania upon the free
coinage of silver -and greenbacks as
legal tender, respectively.
Pending yea and nay vote upon the
internal revenue bill, the house adj
journed.
The vote will be taken Immediately
after the house meets tomorrow
The house passed bills providing for
the sale of unalioted lands of the. Pot
tawatonle and KickaDoo Indians in
Kansas and amending the law Tor times
and places of holding the United States
courts il Idaho and Wyoming.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois called up the
pension deficiency bill as amended and
passed by the senate yesterday. The
bill carries a paragraph inserted by
the senate, providing that temporary
appointments of clerks may be made
without civil service examinations. Mir.
Cannon said the temporary character
OF the appointments and the urgent ne
cessity of them made the provision
wise.
Mr.. Mahany (Rep., n. " and Mr..
Underwood Dem, Ala-) questioned the
civil service provision, the latter insist
ing that temporary appointments
should be made from the eligible lists
furnished by the civil service commits
sion. Mr.. Underwood moved to nom
concur in the provision.
Mr.. Cannon took occasion to call at
tention to the nature of the pending
measure as an appropriation bill, and
l don't propose" said he, ito open a
debate upon the civil service or any
other hobby. If you interject the ques-
ton of civil service in this bill and let
1t go to the house and senate, then pen
Sions and the war can both go to the
devil so far as some men are con-
cerned if they have opportunity to talk
upon their hobby"
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the bill.
The house then went into committee
of the whole to consider the bill to
amend the internal revenue laws relat-
ing to distilled spirits. Mr.. Evans and
Mr.. Brentwood (Rep., o. briefly ex-
planned the measure. Its chief proVls-
ion reduced the bonded warehouse per-
iod from eight years, as fixed by the
law of 1894, to seven years, and in
creased the outage period from four TO
seven years, making the periods OF
equal length. Other provisions of the
measure are intended TO reduce frauds.
which are now committed in connection
with the stamp feature OF the present
law.
Mr.. McRae Dem, Ark.) vigorously
attacked the bill as framed to give the
distiller improper concessions.
Mr.. Berry Dem, Ky) advocated the
measure as calculated to place Amer
lean distillers upon an equal footing
with foreigners and also to discourage
distillers in rushing their whisky to
sale and consumption before properly
matured and causing American cfti-
zens to drink it to the risk of their
systems and the destruction of their
stomachs."
incidentally to the discussion, Mr..
Shafroth of Colorado and Mr.. Grow
(Rep., Pa-) made speeches upon silver
coinage and legal tender currency.
An amendment offered by Mr. Ding
ley was adopted, declaring that any
spirits exported and subsequently i'm
ported should pay the same internal
tax that it would have been required
to pay at the time of importation had
il not been exported 1t was intended,
Mr.. Dingley explained, to prevent ex-
port of spirits for bonding purposes, 10
which reference had been made in the
debate
A vote was taken upon the bill as
amended. The yeas and nays were de-
rnanded, but pending the roll cal, the
.house adjourned at 5:15 O'Clock