The record-union., 1899-02-01

thirty-five The age limit for appoint
ments in this department was reduced
from 80 to 40 8
In the corps of engineers the number
of Colonies was reduced from ten to
eight; Lieutenant -Colonels twenty to
sixteen; Majors thirty-six to thirty;
Captains forty-one to thirty-five; First
Lieutenants fifty to forty, and Secono
Lieutenants fifty to forty.
Bromwell (R.) of New York, moved
to strike out the provision authorizing
the appointment of engineers from civil
life.
The amendment was supported by
Walker (R.) of Massachusetts,, but OPP
posed by Marsh (R) of Illinois, VINO
favored the appointment of officers
from civil life, and said the great en-
gineer scheme of Eads was secuted by
the regular army officers.
Dockery CD of Missouri, said the
best results in government work had al
ways been obtained from army engin-
GERS.
Cannon (R.) of Illinois, directed at
tention to the amendment of Cummings
of New York yesterday giving notice ne
would offer to prevent the use OF United
States troops as posse comltatus or III
putting down strikes or riots, except
upon the written application of the Gov
ernor of the State. That amendment,
said Cannon, proposed to put it out OF
the power of the President, the Constl-
tuition Notwithstanding to enforce the
law within the territory of any State,
unless the Governor appealed for help
-, 1,1fu of President
enforce the law, said Cannon, who then
recalled the Chicago riots during the
last Administration and the dispatch
into Illinois without the assent OF the
Governor and against his protest OF
United States troops to suppress the
riots That action of President Cleve-
land had been Endorsed by the Senate OF
the United States and the people every
where. Had the proposed amendment
been law, the Presid mt would have be IN
prevented from enforcing the law. me
Federal authority was and should be
supreme.
Cummings replied to Cannon. There
was no question, he said, but that or
ganized labor through the American
Federation of Labor and the Knights
of Labor had condemned the effort to
increase the standing army to lUO,uUu
There was no question that the reason
for their action was the fact that the
standing army might be used uncon-
stitutonally to suppress them. Now
he continued, ''if you do mean to do it,
say so; if you do not, adopt this pro-
viso''
The gentleman from Illinois, he said,
had referred to the action of Governor
Altgeld. but he had failed to refer to
John M. Palmer, who had denounced
the action of the President for sending
troops into the State under protest of
the Governor, and numbering her citi-
zens. The gentleman says President
Cleveland's action was sanctioned by
the Senate and people. Why had the
people, if that was the case, got rid
of him as soon as they were able? The
President was compelled to enforce the
laws Congress enacted. Congress had
the power to enact this provision. The
United States Judge who had sent
Debs to prison for contempt had been
promoted within a few months. Every
thing indicated that the army was to
be used to Cypress labor, if an oppor-
tun.y offered, or if corporate wealth
demanded it. He was no lawyer or
a banker He was a trades union
man, member of Typographical Union,
No. g. What he desired was that the
members of the House should go on
record upon his amendment.
Cannon, replying, said that before
men were lawyers or bankers or print
ers they were American citizens, and
the law of the land, like the grace of
God. covered all. 1Applause) The one
green spot in the record or President
Cleveland had been that when he saw.
the law defied, not by labor but by law
breakers, he had kept with his oath
and had seen that it was enforced.
Cannon aroused tumuItous applause
when he declared that Cummings, in
seeking to make labor the abettor of
law breaking, slandered labor. He o.
nounced it as cheap demagogy.
Cummings said he honored President
Mckinley because he was unlike Mr.
Cleveland. When recently during
riots Governor Tanner declined to order
out the militia, said he, according to
the argument of the gentleman from
Mckinley to order out the army. But
ne lett tillS case III the lidHuS VI OOV"
ernor Tanner, and the people honored
him for it.
Bromwens amendment was adopted
80 to 20
On a vote the House finally rejected
Cummings amendment to prevent the
army being used to suppress riots in
States except upon application of the
Governors thereof.
An amendment by Johnson of North
Dakota, to prevent all sales of intox
icants in. army canteens, was adopted
At 3 o'clock the Committee of the
Whole, under the order, rose and re-
ported the army bill to the House.