Evening star., 1902-03-08
Serious Charge Of Representa-
tive Sims.
OF DECEPTION
SAYS THAT THE HOUSE HAS BEEN
MISLED,
Statements Regarding the Final Form
of the Permanent Census
Bureau Bill.

sThe House has been misled and deceived
census and by the report Of the conference
committee on that bill
This was the charge OF Representative
Sims of Tennessee on the floor Of the House
today. and although Mr.. Sims was the
only member OF the House, who made an
effort to express his warmth Of feeling on
the outcome OF the census legislation as
developed yesterday by the executive order
from the White House. other members, both
republicans and democrats. are discuss
ing the subject today with no lack of
warmth.
Charge Of Mr.. SIMS
Mr. Sims announced when he got the floor
that he to a question Of privilege. In
stating his question of privilege, as he was
Immediately ask to do by the Speaker, Mr..
Sims said that it referred to the conference
report on the census bill.
He then read from the Record the instruc-
tions from the House to the census COM
mittee at the time of the defeat OF the first
census bill, in which it ordered that a
bill should be reported which would include
the present census employees In the classi-
fled service. These Instructions he said,
had been complied with, and both the
House and Senate had passed the bill.
The Senate, he continued, had amended
this civil service section Of the bill only
slightly. and had in no way detracted from
Its meaning. Mr. Hopkins, chairman Of the
conference committee. had stated to the
House that this section was practically the
same passed by the House, when, as a
matter of fact. the whole section had been
stricken out by the conference committee
and an entirely new one substituted.
Mr.. Sims was not allowed to proceed fur
ther because of a point of order raised by
Mr.. Loud, who declared that the whole
matter was one which had been acted on.
Speaker Henderson sustained this point,
saying that the question should have been
raised when the conference report was un-
der consideration.
When the conference report on this bill
was agreed to by the House it was on
pension day. and but few members were
present. There are many regrets expressed
today that this was SO.
Reputed View Of Mr.. Hopkins.
member to whom Mr. Hopkins, who IS
now in Illinois. made a personal explana
tion of the civil service section of the bill.
said to a Star reporter today as he under
stood it would be construed, which was
that soon the bill was signed. the
Secretary Of the Interior would Immediate
ly reappoint the whole of the present CEN
sus force to that service, extending the
provisions of the civil service law over
them, and that the services of the clerks
were not needed in the census Office they
would be transferred to other departments.
Mr.. Hughes Resolution.
Late this afternoon a resolution was in
t-oduced in the House by Representative
Hughes of West Virginia. stating that it
was the intention of Congress in passing
an act creating a permanent census bu-
.reau to place In the classified service CT
the government all the employees of the
census office above the grade Of unskiled
lahorer whose names were the rolls
OF the census at the date of the approval
OF the act. The resolution further pIo-
yides that this intention shall be carried
out by the passage of the resolution.
Bills were passed to authorize the South
Omaha Bridge Company to construct a
bridge across the Missouri river to add
Baxter. Marion and Searcy counties to the
western judicial districts of Arkansas.
The conference report on the bill to give
the Spanish treaty claims commission power
to compel the attendance Of witnesses and
the production Of papers was adopted.
The debate upon the rural free delivery
bin was then resumed, and Mr. Griggs tGa)
made an hours speech in favor Of the bill.