The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-16
BAILEY OPPOSES
 CIVIL SERVICE Says Victors Should Claim All
 the SpOHs ALLUDES ID II AS A DREAM Avows Himself Spoisman. Saying Party in Power Should confrol
 Patronage and Be Held
 Responsible.

Washington, April 15.-After a day of quiet routine proceedings the senate was treated to spirited speech by MT. Bailey just before adjournment on the question of civil service. The subject came up in connection with a paragraph in the sun dry civil appropriation bill. Mir Bailey announced in plain terms that he had no sympathy with the '1ridescent dream of civil service. He declared that each party should control the patronage while In power, and avowed himself a spoils- | man.
 MT. Hale was in accord with much that MT. Bailey said, but cited that con- gress count not be induced to change the law even though convinced that 1t should be changed.
 The Panama canal bills occupied the major part of the day and was passed without division. Mir Spooner made vigorous speech in support of the bill and was replied to by MT. Morgan.
 The civil service appropriation bill was taken up and when the senate adjourned abount half of it had been read.
 The senate passed a joint resolution ordering the printing of 10000 copies of the report of the anthracite coal strike commission. The joint resolution author izing Major W. T, Simmons of the corps of engineers to act as consulting engineer in connection with the navigable canals of New York, was adopted.
 The postoffce appropriation bill was re- 1 ferred to a conference committee Messrs. Penrose, Deliver and Culberson being named as conferees on the part of the 1 senate.
 A bill extending to the outlying possess sions of the United States the law pro- hibiting the transmission by express of obscene literature from one state to the ] other was passed.
 Canal Bill Taken Up.
 The Panama canal bill was then taken up and it's reading continued When the last section of the blll, providing for a government depository in the canal zone, was reached, MT. Aldrich moved that it be stricken out, saying that the commit tee on finance was of the opinion it should not be retained notwithstanding the re- | commendation of the secretary of the treasury.
 Mir. Morgan congratulated Mir Aldrich upon the motion, at the same time ex- l pressing his surprise. "I am astonished at the senator's boldness in venturing up- on a course not endorsed by an executive department. But I hail it as an ndica- tion of a return to the viriity manifested l by the senate in its earlier days" 1 Uaughter)
 Mir. Hale, upon the suggestion of Messrs. Adrich and Hopkins, withdrew his amendment requiring that men, sJn- plies, etc, be shipped to the isthmus sn American vessels MT. A1drich suggested that as the condition of the Panama ! ports were such that they cannot be con- 1 trolled by the United States 1t would be l difficult to enforce the provision. Mir. Hale gave notice that at the next session of congress he would renew his efforts to secure the enactment of the provision, but l consented not to press 1t at the present time
 It was also suggested that the McComas amendment extending the coastwise laws to do business with Panama be with drawn and MT, Morgan made this sugges- ton the basis of a speech in which he said that unless the United States should take complete possession of the canal zone 1t could not adequately regulate such mat ters as the admission of supplies or men to be used on the canal
 spooner Takes Issue. l MT. Spooner took issue with this view contending the United States could have as much right to regulate these matters as If the canal were entirely within the 1 limits of this country. He argued that un- Ger the Hay -Pauncefote treaty the United states has the right to apply it's coastwise l laws to vessels passing through the canal l although he intlmated that in the debate l on the treaty in executive session some 1 senators had taken contrary view. ala i Morgans contention that unnecessary de- 1 lay was being exercised in the payment 1 of $l0.00OG00 to the government of Pana- ma for the canal concession. saying in effect that 1t was the intention that the concession should be paid for when the canal property was acquired.
 MT. Spooner spoke in favor of an amend ment proposed by Nr. Morgan that the pardoning power rest in the governor ii- stead of the commission. He moved that a new section be added. providing that all salaries or other compensation fixed by the commission shall be subject to the an. !. proval of the President.
 You think if the commission should fix salaries too low the President may raise them?" asked Mr. Hale.
 "I should state 1t just the reverse" said MT. Spooner ''I believe the President should maintain strict review of all nc- counts"
 The amendment was adopted as we'll as | number of others requiring more rigid | accounting to the President by the mem. ] bers of the commission.
 Mir. Bacon offered an amendment at the end of the first section of the bill | providing that 'the payment of $l0000, 900 to Panama provided for in article IA of | the treaty shall be made in lieu of the n- definite appropriation made in the third section of the act of June. 1902, and is hereby appropriated"
 The amendment was adopted after an explation that this would clear away all doubt as to the authority to make the | payment.
 MT. Morgan made final speech against | the bill, and when he ceased speaking at 1925 D. m. and In less than minute af- | forwards the bill was passed. There was no division Immediately after the pas | sage of the canal bill the sundry civil appropriation bill was taken up and the reading of the amendments begun
 Bailey Voices Sentiment. There was no debate when the amend l ment authorizing the secretary of the l interior to appoint a general agent for 1 the protection of the public timber with | out regard to party utilization was reach | ed MT. German made an Inquiry con- | corning the civil service features of the | provision, whereupon Mir. Bailey made an attack on practices under the civil service | law. He spoke of the civil service re- | quirement as dream" and ''an ride | scent dream" and added:
 That the present President has sus-