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 or 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
permanent census bureau The friends
OF the civil service law, who were OPP
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 temporary
organization July l, 1902, and all employees
on the rolls upon the date of the passag
OF the. act will become eligible for trans
fer to other departments or retention in
the permanent organization The bill all
so provides for manufacturing census
IN 1905, and for the collection Of certain
statistics annually.
Mr.. Hopkins, chairman of census com
mittee, which reported the bill. took the
moor and explained it's provisions. He
SAID that the committee i'll the prepara-
ton Of the bill had endeayored 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 bill should
commend itself to members from cotton
growing states
Under the latitude allowed for debate,
Mr. Thayer,l Massachusetts,, presented a
petition signed by 1900 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.
Il am sorry to hear gentleman from
the South express such an opinion OBJ
served Mr.. Hopkins. "The collection of
these statistics will be for the benefit
or the planter, manufactures and labor
err
In reference to the civil service uro-
vision of the bill Mr.. Ball asked if Mr..
Hopkins would accept an amendment to
provide that clerks eligible to transfer
or retention under the bill should be ap-
portiored among the states according TO
population.
Mr.. Hopkins replied that such an
amendment was unnecessary and alluded
to the well known civil service record Of
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, ne 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 billy was passed
without division.
Several hundred employees of the census
bureau, who were in the gallery, APP
plauded the announcement that the bill
had passed.
At 500 p. m. the house adjourned.