Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-07
SCORED CARL SCHURZ.
Grosvenor Gave Him a Fearful
/ ongue-Lashing.
PRESIDENT rATEs sYCoPAASTs.
In His speech, the Congressman Said He
Was Still an Adherent Of Mckinley,
Though Fighting Civil Seryice-John-
son Defended the Law.

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE friends
and enemies of the civil service law
have exchanged broadsides again in the
house. The heaviest guns of each side
were brought into action. Mr.. Gros-
venor (O.) and Mr.. Johnson Qnd.) each
made exhaustive speeches and kept
their respective sides in a constant
furore. The interest in the debate was
much more lively than the day previous.
The crowd in the galleries, which were
plainly in sympathy with the oppon-
ents of the law, became very noisy in
their demonstrations of approval at one
iun ture and the chair was compelled
to call them to order.
Mr.. johnson was swarmly sustained
by the friends of the law on the floor,
but he got very little applause from
the galleries. Mr.. Grosvenor did not
define his attitude in detail, but gave
his adhesion to the billagreed on by the
opponents OF the law in caucus, and
warne,l his colleagues that unless modi
ficat4ons OF the law were made he and
his friends would, by cooperation, find
a way to completely destroy it. Mr..
Lloyd (Mo.) was the only other speaker.
He favored the repeal of the law.
any leadership of the anti civil servic
reform forces and any purpose to speak
for aey officer of the government, ex-
ecutive. legislative or judicial. ''All
efforts to entangle me in collision
with the president. said he, "wastes
so much powder. If | believed that ny
relations TO the executive would he
changed or modified because | differ
with him in any representative capacity
[ would depise him as he would depise
me if | faltered i'll my convictions"
Mr. Grosvenor said he had watched
with admiration the presidents public
career and one of his most prominent
characteristics had always been that he
not only did not demand subserviency,
but despised man who sought favors
by sycophancy.
Mr.. Grosvenor proceeded to pay his
respects 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 unsparingly
those who sought to read out of the Re-
publican party those who believed in
the repeal of the civil service law.
With vitriolic language he sketched
the political career of Mr.. Schurz,
which he characterized as the 'check-
cred, spotted, leprous career Of one who
betrayed every party and every duty to
which he was bound and whose betray-
ais had been his only stock in trade in
the arena of politics"
He traced Mr.. Schurz' political his
tory and defed anyone to point out 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 rosolu-
tions adopted at the Cincinnati meeting
branding them as infamous beyond de-
scription.
Grosvenor denounced George Will.
lam Curtis and other high priests of
civil service reform, who, he said, had
been traitors to the Republican party
and argued that as Mr.. Cleveland ex-
tended the civil service system enorm-
ously after the st. Louis platform was
adopted. Republicans were not bound
by the platform as regarded these ex-
tensions. He warned Republicans that
the people were overwhelmingly op-
posed to the law.