The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-13
MANY SUBJECTS UP
HOUSE TALKs MuCR AND DOES
 ; LITTER
Two Bills Passed, One to Clean Washington's Street of Snow
 and Other to Clean the Potomac ok Tee.

| Wasntugtou's Street or 6uoW &
 and Other to Clean the f~T Potomac of Ice.
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 Washington, Jan. 1z.--The House today spent five hours in consideration, of the
 legislative, executive and judicial appro-
 priation bill No decisive action was taken
 on the measure and the day ended with
 the adoption cf two bsi,s. one tosclean the
 streets of washington from snow. and
 the other to Tree the Potomac from ice.
 The topscs covered during the debate on the bin were equally diverse. Mir. Fits gerald tDem.. N. Y.). engaging in Q warm debate with Mir. Adams tRep., Pal. over the recent New York election and Mr. Hepburn lRep-, Ia>), attacking civil eervtce feform which he argued is fafiuss. X At the opening of the session the Speak CT announced Messrs. Hit. Adams and nfnsnors d regents fcF. the Smithsonian l Institution.
 Mir. Bingham, (Pa.). from the Commit tee on Appropriations, called the execu- tive. legislative and judicial approprfa- | ton bill when the House went into conn mittee of the whole with Mir. Tawney {AGinn.A in the chair, for itg considerations By agreement, four hours swerp glvsns to debate on the bin. ec Mir. Underwood (Ala.). spoke for an hour, taking the tAriff as hispsubjects con tending that s.the stand paty policy of the Republican Party does not protect the American laborer, saying that the Amer | ioan manufacturer was 0utseliing the Eu- rupean nanufacturer. He also chzreed I that the Republicans refused to pass im- | migration laws to protect the American | laborer against the tnfiux of immigrants ' rT1f2aI,thArn Ea1f<ffa- k.=Ns4ft l Mir. Little (Ark.), reading from the Presidents message in reference to post | office and alleged land frauds. charged I that this was an indictment against the party in power, which. if proven, was | sufficient to drive it out. He said if the | Republicans wanted an investigation of
 the postoface affairs, they should join the l minority in demand for an independent | Congressional investigation. He further l arraigned the party for not prosecuting | the trusts. s
 ! Afr. Littie said he had the authority of a profninent Repubiican that the Republi. l cans ssare not for Afr. Roosevelt but did 1 sok dare turn him down." 4, AEr. AAa1ma, {Pa-), during the course of a speech rennafked that the Democrats
 had carried New York by catering to the voters who desire free~ ncense TOT rum and immortality. edr. rItzBetdiu fepaJinS tO NAt' AuoHas' said: sa
 saar. Chairman, 1t Is unfortunate that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Adama5 did not conzne his discussion to questions of great national importance
 which he treated with such fiuency and equal inaccuracy. The opening state- ment of his speech that the recent mu- Enicipal campaign in the city of New York was won by the Democratic party
 wppealing to those4 who favored free rum and free immortality was gross and in- l famous islander upon the decent people Of the great metropolis of this country. itAppiatse- on. the Democratic side). Continuing Mir. Fitzgerald said: s'There was another reason for the suc- cess of the Democratic party in New York city. The decent people of the city
 of New York were outraged by. some of | the infamous practices of the Low ad-
 ministration with the public money of the city of New York. They gave il, to their police officers and sent them out
 searching the poor unfortunates of the streets of the city; they used the public money to debauch those and then brought | them into court and prosecuted them for the violation of the statutes." I When the paragraph in the bill appro- prsatFng money for the civil service copl- mission was reached Mir, Hepburn said amid laughter:
 ssfsas the gentleman CAEr. Bingham) any estimate or idea of the pecuniary benef1t l to the United States resulting from the existence of the civil service commits | sinn9'
 I Continuing he said if he had the oppor- tunity he would vote against the civil service as it exists to-day. He then
 added:
 q would like to move, Mr.. Chairman, to strike out this paragraph, though l Iknew that no result will follow even the adontion of this motion. know that the bill will come back to us with 1t rein- serted. i know that we would have to pay these salaries. but I believe that the
 deaIberate judgment of every member of l this house, save perhaps a score, is that we are wasting the public money and that wa are in pursuit of phantom when we attempt to improve the civil service through the instrumentality of that which we call the cfvIl service commission" l (Applause).
 He added that he believed it to be the judgment of every man that has Etven 1 serious attention to it, who Is really far
 nEliar with the legislation and the opin- ion of this scheme for so-caued improve ment that is failure.
 ''The Committee on Civil Service, Re- 1 form never has dared to come to this
 House with any proposition that could give the public an opportunity to express itself on this question so there is no way
 in which we can express our condemna- ton of this farce and this folly other than
 in voting ft out. knowing that 1t will
 come back but hope the public will have the c0urage to do 1t. For, with the- ut-
 most respect to all the gentlemen now before me. have no hesitation in saying that 1t is their 6eference to a supposed existing public opinion that prevents them
 from asserting themselves and wiping out this fraud upon the public"
 1 Mfr Hephurn'g time having expired, Mir Clark of Missouri said:
 TT would like to have the gentleman yielded more time. think that is the best
 speech he has made since he has been here" Gaughter).
 Mr. Heuburn-Then I shall expect my
 honored friend from Missouri to votei eiwith me.
 Mr. Clark-You bet I will.
 The committee rose at 5:1O D. m., with out reaching a conclusion on the bill, and, at 6:20 D. m. adjourned until tomorrow. |