Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-14
STILL MORE TROUBLE.
CIVIL SERVICE FUlES STILL A
THORN IN THE FLESH.
Silver Men Are Becoming Aggres.
sive Teller Revives the Mat.
thews ResOlutiOn-SOme PERTH.
nent Questions Relating to the
Work of the Monetary COnven.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1897.
Mr.. McKinley's attempt to bluff the
anti-civil service Republicans in the
House into keeping quiet, by promising
that he would modify the civil service
rules as soon as the agitation ceased,
was fiat failure. The fight on civil
service began as soon as Congress re-
assembled. Gen. Grosvenor even left
his friend, Boss Hanna, who is fight.
ing for his life at Columbus, in order
to be in Washington to lead the as
sault on the civil service fort. And
the ants are not combining themselves
to talk. They have introduced bill
in the House providing that only
those government employees with
salaries from 5000 to 81 800. inclusive,
and in places where there are twenty
five or more Federal employees shall be
under the civil service law. The
answers of three members of the
Cabinet-Sherman, Gage and Wilson
to a Senate resolution are in the
nature OF q fulisade into Mr.. McKin-
ley's rear, IS they each cay that the
rules ought to be 80 modified as to
exclude number of places in each of
their departments.
The silver men in the Senate are
showing signs OF an intention to take
the aggressive. In line with that in
tention was resolution offered by
Senator Teller, declaring that all U.
8. bonds are payable in silver dollars,
at the option OF the government. This
is not q new idea. The resolution
offered by Mr.. Teller is identically the
same that was offered in the Senate
nearly twenty years ago by the late
Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, aud at
that time adopted. The Finance Com.
mittee, to which this resolution was
referred, will be sure to report it back,
as a majority of the Committee are
silver men.
The administration having sue.
ceeded in whipping all the Republi-
can Senators into the support OF an
nexation, Senator Davis has given
notice that the Hawaiian treaty would
be taken up next week.
Representative Benton, Of Missouri,
thus gives his opinion of that alleged
Monetary Commission and its report !:
Speaking after the fashion of our
plain western people. l think the COM
mission and its report combine q
stupendous exhibition of gall. Who
made the commission? The In
dianapolis monetary convention. And
by what authority What act passed
by any lsw-making body gave life to
this convention or its progeny, the
Commission? For whom do they
speakf OF whom is this Commission
composed? Is there a practical cotton
planter on it? No; yet we raised in
81 $275. O00, 900 worth of cotton at the
lowest prices for many years. What
representative wheat-raiser is on the
Commission to represent the makers
of 530,OO0,OO0 bushels of wheat? Is
there to be found representative
cattle and hog raiser on this Commits
sion? Is there practical miner OF
coal, iron, lead or zinc ON it? No.
Who on this Commission represents
the carpenter, mason and other
mechanics2 Nobody; we'll if this vast
army OF people representing more than
thousand million dollars of produc-
ton annually and sixty millions OF
people have no member to speak for
them by authority, who do these
eminently able and respectable gentle
med represent? Simply money, stocks
and bonds, owned and controlled by a
few thousand persons, who have by
aid of legislation cornered four-fifths
OF our national wealth, and insist on
future legislation being enacted to
suit their condition" Mr.. Benton
says further that the legislation recon-
mended by the Commission is for the