The Portland daily press., 1898-06-08

treaty that had ever peeh naue WIN
| them by the government
During the consideration OF the meas
ure several committee amenoAA0A0' VI q
verbal character were adopted.
The reading of the In dian Dill was m
terrupted at this point and the oehase
conourred in amendments maue Wy Ono
House to the war and navy urgency piii
passed yesterday.
At O'Clock the unfinished business,
the census bill, was Temporarily iaiu
| aside in order that the Indian Dill nlsn'
| be completed.
Mr.. Quay, Republican Of Pennsylvania
| presented the report of the oonIereos, ~ -
the post office appropriation Dill aA" ~
was agreed to-
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut one of the
members of the Indian affairs continues
opposed that amendment of the con- ihi "
zee which provided for the paynenass .o u
Soo4. o00 interest at five per cent on Ssso,
QUO from 1910 to 1889. Mr.. Jones. Demo-
| GRAFT OF Arkansas, in reply to MIR: FlasU,
said that the s240, 600 was a trust funo IA
the hands of the government which be-
longed to the Chickasaw nation.
The government had agreed to pay nVe
per cent interest upon this trust fund ana
he maintained that it was perfectly clear
that the government should pay the IN
terest claims. The secretary of the IN
| terror, after investigating the matter de-
cided In favor of the Indians and recon-
mended the payment of the claim. ~.
| The amendment was agreed to. Inc
bill was passed. Consideration was then
resumed of the measure providing for the
taking of the twelfth census. Mr.. Gar
ter, Republican of Montana, in charge OF
the bill, proposed an amendment provlo-
ing that in addition to the director and
assistant director Of the census and i've
expert statisticians not more than 25 per-
sons shall be appointed to the caucus
establishment before January /. 1899.
Mr.. Cockrell, Democrat of Missouri, 40
cepted the amendment, in lieu of these
offered by him yesterday and it was
agreed to.
The provision for special disbursing
officer was stricken out and provision
| inserted that the disbursing officer of the
| interior department. should perform the
duties OF disbursing officer of the census
| bureau.
Mr.. Money Democrat of Mississippi,
offered an amendment providing that in
| the preparation of the statistics all terms
expressing weight, measure, distance OF
value, be expressed In terms Of the Eng
lish language. 1t was agreed to.
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striking out the provision that the census
force should be subjected to such ex-
| animation as the director, with the ap-
prevail of the Secretary Of the Interior
may prescribe. In lieu thereof, he pro-
posed that the employees should be ex-
| amined and certified by the civil service
commission.
Mr.. Carter vigorously opposed the
| amendment. He felt that it was no more
| reasonable TO select an army for service
| in the field against Spain by the civil SER
vice examination than it was to select the
clerks of the census work in that way.
| The work was purely temporary. The
| average employment would not exceed,
! probably, six months. He maintained
| that no better or more Intelligent body of
men was ever gotten together for census
work than was the force of the eleventh
census.
| MIR. Lodge. Republican of Massachu.
| setus, heartily supported the amendment.
He said that the force needed would be
| largely coypists and clerks and the civil
Eserv1ce commission was even now pre-
pared from its lists and quota to supply
these people Immediately.
| Mr.. Wilson, Republican of Washington,
| made vigorous attack upon the present
administration of the civil service. The
| service itself, he made clear, he was not
particularly opposed to, but he did oppose
uuo Iu0oaOtlS Oil plOySu Nv Ulo civil SSFvlCe
commission. He re,ited some of his own
experiences with the commission. all of
which indicated that the people of Wash
| ington, in his opinion had in every case,
been imposed upon. The people of the
| United States Mr.. Wilson declared, were
paying $500, 600 year for civil service ex-
aminations which were practically useless
| to the country.
| Mr. Turpie, Democrat of Indiana, an
tagOniZod the amendment declarino that
under the arrangement made by the bill
| for the census work, he was satisfied
better results would be obtained than if
the amendments of Mr.. Cockrell were
adopted
Mr.. Chandler, Republican of New
Hampshire, also opposed the amendment
He was in favor of the civil service idea
as originally advanced but the elaboration
and extension of the system did not meet
his approval and he thought the people
would SION revolt against it.
! Mr.. Hoar, Republican of Massachusetts,,
in brief reply, to MIR. Chandler, de,
bounced the former sspoils'' system
which had been succeeded by the present
civil service system. Under that old sys-
tenn, Mr.. Hoar said, every man in Con-
gross had his band of devoted followers
who expected to be rewarded for work
done for him. with public office. It
was an intolerable system, he declared
and had gone never to return.
| Without passing upon the amendment
the Senate at sos adjourned.