Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-15

Washington, Dec. 10.-The commit,
tee. by a vote of II to IS, reduced
the pay of committee stenographers
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The paragraph relating to the civil
service commission ELECTED from Mr..
Maddox, of Georgia, severe criticism,
because Of proposed increase of %
employees to constitute the rural car
rier examining board. He declared
there was no necessity for them, and
that it was the duty of this congress
to retrench, if the statement Of the
secretary of the treasury be true.
Mr.. Hepburn, of Iowa, moved to
strike out the appropriation for the
commission, and bitterly denounced it.
He was not, he said, opposed to a
proper civil service, but the present
merit system did not improve on the
old spoils system. The present civil
service was not as good as it was
twenty years ago, and was constantly
becoming less and less efficient.
The senate held only short session
today and adjourned until Monday.
An attempt to secure consideration
of the pure food bill was defeated by
demand of Mr. Aldrich that the bill
be read at length, which brought an
objection from Mr. Tillman, who did
not want the time consumed.
Mr.. Tillman brought the case of
William D. Crum, the colored man
nominated for collector at Charleston,
S. c., into prominence by asking for
report from the committee on jul
dietary as to the status of recess ap-
pointments.
The session had not progressed far
when Mr.. Hepburn Qdaho) called up
the pure food bill, but Mr.. Aldrich
suggested that the bill should be read
in full for information, and it went
over under an objection by Mr.. Till
man, who said that he considered any
effort to get the bill up today waste
of time. He said that his object was
to get the matter out of the way.
Washington, Dec 1O.-The house
today passed the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill
almost as it came from the commit
tee and adjourned until Monday. The
civil. service commission provisions
disposed of, there was no long debate
on any item today. Throughout the
session the policy of retrenchment
held full sway, and all attempts to
increase salaries failed.
The house passed a resolution to
adjourn on December 81 until Janu-
airy 4, 1905, for the usual Christmas
holiday.
On point of order by Mr.. Perkins
of New York, the provision in the
Legislative bill appropriating $4,000
for compensation and expenses of
specialists to make investigation into
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor with an object of securing uni
form, economical and business-like
methods, was stricken out
Ex-Delegate Dennis Flynn left for
home this morning after a confer
ence with Senator Beveridge, chair
man of the state committee on terri
tories, with the Information that the
territorial committee will give no
hearings on the statehood bill
This indicates that the senate will
act on the bill some time in January,
and that it will be approved by the
president before the adjournment of
the present session.
Representative Stevens, of Texas,
today introduced bill providing for
an appeal of one test case in voting
the right of citizenship in the Choc-
taw or Chickasaw nations from the
decision of the Choctaw or Chick
asaw citizenship court to the SUI
preme court of the United States.
The bill provides that if the supreme
court reverses the decision of the
ChoctawChickasaw citizenship court
at all, applicants who have been de-
MED enrollments by degrees of that
court shall be enrolled by the Dawes
commission the same as other mem
bers of the two nations.