People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — WANT IT ABOLISHED. [ARTICLE]

WANT IT ABOLISHED.

The House Takes Steps to Do Away with the CivirService Commission. Washington, May 23.—The question of civil service reform was given full sway in the house Tuesday, the occasion being the amendment to strike out the paragraph in the legislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission. It gave opportunity for some stirring and not a few amusing speeches. Mr. Pendleton (dem., W. Va.) claimed that the civil service commission was established for the purpose of keeping republicans in office, while the republicans defended the present administration of the civil service laws. Several democrats opposed the amendment virtually abolishing the commission, but it was adopted by nearly a strict party vote. Among the democrats who voted with the republicans in favor of the civil service commission were Wilson, Tracey, Hendrix, Dockery, Warner, Springer, Sayers, Crain, Martin, Kilgore, Livingston, DeForest, Everett. The vote on division was 96 to 61. There were cries of no quorum and demands for tellers were made, the vote by tellers being 109 to 71.