The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
MERRIAM
A FIXTURE
IF SENATE PASSES PERMANENT
CENSUS BUREAU BILL PASSED
BY HOUSE
PRESENT employees FAVORED
VIII Be Retained IN Permanent Or
ganization OF Become Eligible
for Transfer to Other
Departments.
PRESENT EMPLOYEES FAVORED
CIVIL SERVICE MEN BEATEN


WASHINGTON, Jan 3O.-The house to-
day passed the bill for the creation of a.
permanent census bureau The friends
OF the civil service law who were on
posed TO making the employees of the
bureau eligible for transfer or retention
were overwhelmingly defeated Bv the
terms of the bill the permanent organiza-
ton will succeed the present temporarv
organization July /, 1902, and all EMPLOYEES
on the rolls upon the date of the passage
OF the act will become eligible for trans
fer to other departments or retention in
the permanent organization. The bill al
SO provides for manufacturing census
IN l9c5, and for the collection of certain
statistics annually
Mr. Hopkins, chairman of census com
mlttee, which reported the bill. took the
tioor and explained its provisions. He
said that the committee i'll the prepara-
ton of the bill had endeavored to meet
the demands of the house as evidenced
when the bill was before the house ten
days ago.
Cotton States Want 1T.
Mr.. Klutz, N. c., advocated the pas
sage of the bill, urging the provision for
the annual collection of cotton statistics
as an especial reason why the bin should
commend itself to members from cotton
growing states.
Under the latitude allowed for debate.
Mr.. Thayer, Massachusetts. presented A
petition signed by 1,200 business men of
Worcester, Mass, in favor of reciprocity
with Canada
Mr.. Maddox, Georgia, interrupted Mr..
Hopkins to express the opinion that the
proposed collection of annual statistics
upon cotton, under the bill, was in the
interest of the spectators.
m fo
the South express such an opinion OBJ
served Mr.. Hopkins. THE collection of
these statistics will be for the benefit
of the planter manufacturer and labor
err
In reference to the civil service pro-
vision of the bill, Mr. Ball asked if MIR.
Hopkins would accept an amendment to
provide that clerks eligible to transfer
or retention under the bill should be ap-
portioned among the states aeec+f.i,sg II
, l5opul4lie
MIR. Hopkins replied that such an
amendment was unnecessary and alluded
70 he well known civil service record ot
! the president as a guarantee that justice
and fair dealing would prevail.
Civil Service Move Defeated.
Mr.. ~Gillet, Mass, chairman OF the civil
service committee, opposed the bill
which, he argued, would keep the friends
of members of congress in Office and
| initiate against those who in good faith
had passed the civil service examination
Mr.. Gillet offered but the house rejected
an amendment to provide that all new
/ appointments in the census Office shall
/ be made in accordance with the require
ments of the civil service act and au-
thorizing the president in his discretion
to classify the employees in the census
office.
An amendment was adopted providing
| that all employees of the census bureau
| should be citizens of the United States.
] Mr.. Maddox, Georgia, demanded the
! ayes and noes upon the passage of the
| bill, but only eleven members seconded
the demand and the bill was passed
| without division.
| Several hundred employees of the census
| bureau, who were in the gallery, ap-
plauded the announcement that the bin
had passed.
At sos p m. the house adjourned.