The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-17
Strikes out Appropriation For
Civil Service Commission.
WILLIE PUT BACKAGAIN
DARE NOT GO ON RECORD IN THE
MATTER.
Subject Of Pension Brings Out Heated
Speeches by Representatives From
the North and South-Defends
Valor Of Soldiers in the Late War
-Incompetsnts in Office.

washington Feb. 1.-the house today
INDUCED iu IT'S annual joke by striking
from the legislative appropriation bill all
provision for the civil service commission.
This action is taken each year in commit
Tee Of the whole. where the members do
Tot go on record and the provision is then
invariably restored when the bin gets
back to- the house, where members have
10 respond Cd their names upon roll
call The vote t0u6y 90 strike out was
O. 10 g. Tomorrow the house VIII re-
verse this action as usual on an eye ana
lU vote
Most of the time Of the house today.
beyond mat occupied in the discussion
Of the civil service law, was devoted 10
attacks uu0u the speech made uy Nh
Sims Dem. Ieuu-l, uu NJ eunesGdl, I'm
which Ea furnished some figures OF Jle
pension office showing the number Of dp-
picdt.OuS fer pensions u.eA n} SullieIs
oil tho volunteer regiments engaged IN
tho Spanish war to show that the north-
eru soldiers were much more ciamolous
81 that regard than The southern ones.
and aJtTDuUuE this TO the debaucnin6 OF
public sentiment ln the norlh on the poH-
aIr. Pearre rep Md raised a storm
by 70 reference to these figures anu me
statement that hundreds OF Massachusetts
soldiers who never smellgd powder ndd
applied for pensions This brought oQI
an Indignant reply from llT. Fitzgerald
0Dem AIassl who detailed the record Of
the Massachusetts volunteers IN the ldte
war lie was followed 10y others VINO &c
Tended the records Of me sol9lefs from
their several states. Mr.. Hepburn la
ViEarously asSailed Mr. Sims Consider
Eble temper was shown
Conferees Are Appointed.
When the session opened announcement
q inc receipt of the currency bill from
tha senate was made, and on motion OF
Nlr. OVcTstreet lnd.) by unanimous CON
sent. the senate amendments were dis
agreed TO. The speaker appointed MeSsrs.
Overstraet tRep. Ind. BrOsius REP. Pap
and Cox Dem TENN cOnferees-
The house then went into COMMITTEES OF
the whole on the legislative appropriation
bill. Mr.. PearTe lkep. Md vigorously
attacked the appropriation Tor the clNh
service commission and charged that the
departments were fuli or lncompetenls.
When the provision relating to the civil
service commission was reached Ar.
PeaTre stated that If he thought the
striking out or ah 4pbIopIldiLloH MOulu
put aL end To the civil service law, ne
would make the notion lie announced
his unequivocal opposition TO the law. lie
reiterated the charge made several DAYS
ago that the departments were IuA OF IN
" mere are thoy?" asked Mr. Fitz-
geTa Id tDCm- MasS-l.
''Vhere were they under the old sys-
tenn asked Mr.. Pearre, replying with
@Everywhere. There were thousands Of
them" replied Mr.. Fitzgerald II the
bars were down now you would nave the
departments crowded with Marylanders-
Massachusetts need not Sneer at Mary
land" retOrted Mr.. Pearre- a few DAYS
aEO gentleman read a list OF hundreds
OF Massachusetts soldiers who never
smeIled powder during the Spanish War,
but who are already CnamOrlng Tor pen
siOGs-'
Massachusetts, Deeds.
7T- T7i+goara1H INDIGNANTLY denied that
the Massachusetts regiments nad never
smeIltd powder iu the Spanish war me
Second Massachusetts, hc SAID. hdu Ihreo
mon killed three officers ana forty one
men wounded Il the Santiago campaign
IN all the Second Massachusetts lost
ulUuIV-uiuc men. the Fifth Massachusetts
nfty-hne, the Sixth. los. the Eighth, 9,
What was the cause of their death?'
asked Air. Wachter Dlep. Md
Disease contracted on account If in
efficiency of the government. replied MI
TiJZ-trald hoty, amid applause
M,. Fitzgerald continuing, told har-
rowing story of tne return home OF the
Massachusetts volunteers. broken and
w ecked hy disease. J. they had been
rendered incapable of earning a living by
the failure of the government to provide
them with proper care and Sustendnce,
then, said he- they We're entitled 10 pen
sluus.
AIr. Hepburn Rep. IaD called attention
10 thu statement made by Mr.. Sims on
Wednesday contrasting the records OF
eight volunteer regiments I'm the north
and south, showing that from the former
came S.5SS pension claims and from the
latter GOT. MT. sims had attributed the
disparity so the universal pension senti-
men. H the north
MT Hepburn pointed out that for the
purpose OF comparison the tables ad-
duCed by AR. Sims were not alike He
was very sau~tic I'm his criticism of Air
Sims action Tie latter said ne had
received the tables from the pension Of
flee. He had uo pE -s0uJl knowledge Of
The facts. He admitted come of the t8-
b.ys could not be prepared but conteuded
Jhd- the main point he had made Ohe
urtpOnderauCe of northern over southern
pension claimsl was correct
Government to Blame.
Mr. Green Dem PaD. who was a cap
tain in volunteer regiment during the
Spanish war and who served at Chicka-
manga said Jhat i'm the years t1 come
lU considering pensions FOR the soldiers of
The Spanish war. the sickness due 90 mall
administration OF army affairs would have
20 he recognized
Mr. Nudd lBep. Md then moved to
strike 0u- the civil service provision and
81 prevailed, % t0 81. No record is made
ln committee and as soon as the an
u1UrcemeuJ of the vote was made Mr.
Cannon gave notice that he would de-
maul Yea and nay vote in the house
AZ oCluck the house adjourned