The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-07
ATTACKS CARL SCHURZ
Cros,enor's Scathing Excoriation
in the House.
OPPOSES CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The Ohio Man Pays His Respects To the
League and to Its President-senate
Passes a Bill to Protect the Name and
Insignia of the Red Cross society-Cur-
rency Reform Bill Introduced In the
House Capital Mites.


Insignia of the Red Cross society-Cur-
rency Reform Bill Introduced In the
House Capital Mites.
Washington, Jan. 1.-The house
promptly resumed the debate on the
civil service question and Grosvenor of
Ohio took the floor with an elaborate
speech in opposition to the law. In
opening Grosvenor disclaimed any lead
ership Of the anti-civil service reform
forces and any purpose to speak for
any officer of the government, execu-
tive, legislative or judicial.
"All efforts to entangle me in col
lision with the president" said he,
wastes so much power. If l believed
that my relations to the executive
would lie changed or modified because
i differ with him in any representative
Capacity j would despise him as he
would despise me if ! faltered in my
convictions"
Grosvenor said he had watched Win
admiration the presidents public ca
reer and one OF his most prominent
characteristics had always been that
he not only did not demand subservi-
ency but despised man who sought
favors by sycophancy
Scathing Excoriation.
Grosvenor proceeded to pay his re-
spects to the National Civil Service
Reform league and to Carl Schurz, its
I 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
Republican party those who believed fl
the repeal of the civil service law. With
vitriolic language he sketehed the po-
| litical career of Mr.. Schurz, which he
| characterized as the "checkered
| spotted, leprous career of one who be-
| trayed every party and every duty tc
which he was bound and whose betray-
ais had been his only stock in trade in
| the arena OF politics" He traced Mr.
| Schurz's political history 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 foul politica
| demagogues" at Cincinnati, under the
! name OF the National Civil Service
league, had denounced him and those
I who thought with him on this ques
! ton" He read the resolutions adopted
! at the Cincinnati meeting, brandins
| them as infamous beyond description.
Doings in the senate.
In the senate Allen Of Nebraska callec
UP and the senate passed the bill pro
viding for the holding of a congress o.
| the representatives of different Indiar
| tribes of the United States at Omahs
| in 1885, and appropriating 100000 there
[ for. Some minor amendments TO the
bill were made. a bill appropriatinl
} $4,000 for public building at Fergus
Falls, Mimi, was passed. The bill Il
! protect the name and insignia of th'
! Red Cross was passed. Gray OF Della
| ware explained that Miss Clara Bar
ton several years ago asked that the
! insignia of the Red Cross society b'
| protected from those who would use
IL for commercial or perhaps fraudu
lent purposes. Under treaty entered
into by majority of the civilized ma
tions of the world the sign of the Rec
Cross is known as an insignia OF hos
| pital corps or charitable organizations
Other nations had protected the In
sigma Of the society and the United
States ought also to protect it. Aftel
some routine business the senate on mo
tion of Quay went into executive ses
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