The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-07
PROCEEDINGS.

the only other speaker. He favored the
repeal of the law.
PROCEEDINGS.
The house today promptly resumed
the debate on the civil service question
and Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio took tbs
floor with an elaborate speech in oppO-
sition to the law. Mr.. Grosvenor dis
claimed any leadership of the anti-ciyi.
service reform forces, and any purpose
to speak for any officers OF the govern
ment, executive, legislative or judicial
"All effort TO entangle me in col
lision with the president, said he, was
as so much waste powder. If l be-
lieved that my relations to the ex-
ecutive would be changed or modified
because 1 differ with him in any repre-
sentative capacity, 1 would despise him
and he would despise me if L faltered in
my convictions
Mr. Grosvenor said he had watched
with admiration the presidents public
career, and one of his most prominent
characteristics has always been that ne
not only did not demand subserviency,
but despised man who sought favors
by sycophancy.
CARL SCHURZ DRESSED DOWN.
Mr.. Grosvenor proceeded to pay his
respects to the National Civil Service
Reform league and to Carl Schurz, its
president His eXcoriation of the lat
ter was the most scathing that has been
heard on the floor of the house in
months. He denounced the men who
sought to read out of the Republican
party those who did not believe in the
civil service law. With caustic Ian
guage he sketched the political career
of Mr.. Schurz, which he characterized
as the "checkered, spotted, leprous ca
reer of one who betrayed every party
and every duty to which he was bound,
and whose betrayals had been his only
stock in trade in the arena of politics.
He traced Mr.. 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
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 beyond de-
scription.
CUCKOO'S HABITS.
Grosvenor denounced George William
Curtis ard the high-priestS of civil
service reform, who, he said, had been
traitors TO the Republican party, and
argued that as Mr.. Cleveland extended
the civil service system enormously
after the st. Louis platform was adopt
ed, Republicans were not bound by the
platform as regarded these extensions.
He warned Republicans that the peo-
pie were Overwhelmingly opposed to
the law.
Mr. Grosvenor's description of the
habits Of the cuckoo" teemed with
wit and kept the house in a roar Mr..
Grosvenor in replying to the charge
made against himself and his col
leagues, 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
William Curtis, who abandoned the Re-
publican party in 1884. He reviewed
the platform declarations of the Re-
publican party to show that the pres
ent position occupied by the majority
of the house was not inconsistent with
these declarations.