Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-07
Burleigh and johnson to
Hitch Lightship to
Sundry Civil
Bill
Burleigh Receiving and Present.
ing Many Petitions for Ma
ti0nal Prohibition-Churches
Active-HOuse Leaders Give
Up Vote at This Session

Washington, D. c., July 6.-(SpeciaD.
The matter of an appropriation for
'lightship at or near Monhegan Island
Me, will not be permitted to rest with
the defeat by the House recently. Sem
ators Johnson and Burleigh have had
a talk over it and decided that when
the sundry civil appropriation bill
comes I'D in the Senate they will try
to have the amendment put on there.
They have some chance of succeed
ing in the Senate. But If that should
happen there would remain the diff
Guilty of holding the item in the bill
during conference between the two
houses. Representatives of the House
appropriations committee are very
much opposed to the appropriation on
the ground that lightships are very
expensive and that it may not be long
before new inventions will make such
expensive accessories of navigation
unnecessary.
Senator Burleigh has presented a
petition of the H. W. Longfellow
Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, in favor of the retention of the
literacy test in the immigration bill.
The organized railroad men of Maine
active interest in this matter. Sena-
tor Burleigh has presented petitions
in the Senate from the several allied
organizations of railroad men from
Calais, Bangor, Waterville, Greenville
Junction. and Portland, some of them
Geographic.
Senator Burleigh has recently intro
duced petitions in behalf of national
prohibition from citizens of Readfield,
Eliot; from members of the Dering
Memorial church. South Paris; Meth
odist Episcopal churches at Wilton.
Eddington. East Holden. Rumford
Center and Berwick; and also from cit
liens of Rumford Center and Mon
mouth.
The Portland Board of Trades pro-
test against the clause in the Clay
ton antitrust bill. exempting labor
unions and agricultural organizations
has been presented to the Maine dele
cation. The Senate judiciary commit
tee seems disposed to modify those
provisions of the Clayton bill.
This is the season when the Maine
Democrats are trying to get control
of fourth class postoffices in the State.
through the fundamentally of civil
service examinations. The various APP
plicants have been making ready for
the tests, scheduled to be held in DIFF
ferent parts OF the State. and within
few days the papers will have been
made up and forwarded to Washing
ton. 1t will require little time for the
Civil Service Commission to go over
the papers and mark ratings of the
candidates for over 800 fourth class
offices. Indeed 1t will probably be well
toward August before Senator John
son and Representative McGillicuddy
will be informed who were the high
est candidates for these places and 1t
may be well toward September before
the postoffice department makes the
appointments.
President Wilson does not nominate
these fourth class postmasters. The
postmaster general signs the commits
sions. 1t goes without saying that as
far as can be done within the civil
service regulations, the appointees will
be Democrats. But there will be many
offices where Democrats will not head
the eligible list and Republicans will
get the appointments.
Now and then a pathetic instance of
these political activities in fourth
class postmasterships comes to notice
here. Senator Burleigh, for instance,
has just been advised of the case Of
an old soldier, who was a commits
stoned officer in the Civil War and
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