The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-09
He Seeks to Veil His Stab
at Dixie.
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Livingston (Ga)- defended the Appro-
prlations Committee in the preparati IN
of the bill. He replied to a criticism
| by Mr.. Maddox that the members had
not had sufficient time to examine The
! printed bill, by saving that even if the
members were given a week to exam
inc it they would come in here as ig-
norant as a man from Porto Rico.
| He lamented the fact, however, the :
! bills appropriating millions of dollars
should be hurried through in fifty two
days. This hurried legislation ought
| to stop" ne declared. Congress, lie
suggested ought to meet i Ma "nd
thus give a decent time 10 the legis-
lation of the country. When the first
| of December was fixed, he said there
were not 20,000,000 people to legislate
! for, but now there were S0,000,000.
| The paragraph relating to the Civil
Service Commission elected from Mr..
Maddox (Ga.) severe criticism because
| of q proposed increase of % employees
/ to constitute the rural carrier exam
| inine board. He declared there was
! no necessity for them and that it was
the duty of this Congress to retrenca
| if the statement of the Secretary of the
! Treasury be true. God knows" he
! said, Il want this government to stand
and this able to pay its debts with
! issuing bonds or raising additional
! taxes 4"
This utterance brought from Mr..
Littauer On. Y) an endorsement on
| Mr.. MaddoXs retrenchment ideas, but
he said the case in point happened ~
! be one of the few items of the bill
where retrenchment was brought
about by the action of the committee
because the % clerks referred to al
ready were at work by detail from
other Offices.
The Discussion Shifts.
The discussion shifted to the ques-
ton of the salary of the Secretary of
the Commission. The committee had
increased it from S2,250 to $4,000 but
an amendment bv Mr.. Bartlett (Ga.)
putting it back to the former amount
was adopted.
Mr.. Hepburn Ga.) offered an
an amendment to strike out the ap
preparation for the commission ana IN
bitter terms denounced the Civil Ser
vice Commission. He was not. he
said. opposed to a proper civil service
but he declared in comparing the old
snoils system with the present merit
system the Civil Service was not being
improved 1t was not he said, as good
as it wa twenty years ago. 1t was
constantly edetriorating, becoming
every year more and more of an eX-
pense and less and less efficient.
Mr.. Gillett (Mass.), defended the
commission.
Williams and GrOsyenOr.
After Mr.. Williams (Miss.), the mi
nority leader. had offered suggestion
that it would be an improvement over
the present system to fix a certain
period for which an employe should
carxrp no government Mr.
(Oiio3, referred to II package of pa
pers which had come to MN TO-DAY
from a rural carrier who had been
propounded certain questions by the
com mission as to whether or not he
had used his influence in behalf of
the election of President Roosevelt in
the Ohio campaign and whether or
not on a certain day he had turned
over his route to his substitute and
went to the polls and worked for the
Republican ticket. Now think of
holding up a poor devil of rural
carrier like that" The man had SIM
ply gone to the polls and voted.
In jocular vein Mr.. Williams direct
ing his remarks to Mr.. Grosvenor, said
he had been wondering if Mr.. Gros-
Venor could punish the House with
such q hard luck story out in Ohio,
because if fellow had shown politi
cal activity in the case of President
6OOSeNetl what might possibly nave
been the fate of q IeloW who would
have dared to have shown political
activity in behalf of Mr.. Parker. This
reference to Judge Parker produced
C"''~ 7er' '" lighter on both sides
of the chamber.
MS are replied Mr..
Grosvenor, which caused a renewal of
i.,ue, noeI, there were a great many
of them terrified
From the numerousneSS of their
scarcity at the polls responded Mr..
Williams, amid more laughter, Il
imagine a great many of them must
have been terrified. Whether through
the rural free delivery service or in
some other way | shall not undertake
to say"
He was inclined he said, to agree
with Mr.n Hepburn and said that the
old Spolis system was as good as the
Chinese system" now in vogue. He
favored the appointment of men to
office who were insympathy with the
party in power. The bill was laid
aside and the House adjourned until
tomorrow.