Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt »ays that Indiana sends a great number of candidates for examination for office. New fork is entitled to three times the number of appointments that Indiana fs assigned, yet Indiana sends for examination just double the number that New York presents. Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware have the greatest number of appointments in the departments—the remote States the least number. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama do not send enough candidates for examination to fill the quota of clerks to whioh these States are entitled, and there is no ordi narily smart young man-who Will present himself from those States for examination but may feel reasonably sure of passing and of getting quickly an appointment. It is understood that the Democratic leaders in the House have held several conferences lately to consider the question of testing the constitutionality of Speaker Reed’s ruling that “members present, but not voting, shall be counted to make a quorum.” Indeed, Mr. Carlisle virtually foreshadowed such action in his remarks in the House,when he said: “This question must go to some other form, when a proper case arises, and I desire to say that, it is the purpose of this side of the House to see that this question shall be made in some form which will enable the proper tribunals of the country to pass upon it finally and decisively.” When asked what he meant by a proper case arising, Mr. Carlisle said: “I mean whenever a bill is passed which affects the rights of an individual or of property. Then the person or the corporation whose rights are abridged, or whose property is affected, may seek redress in the courts by testing the constitutionality of the bill passed under Speaker Reed’s ruling as to what constitutes a quorum. Of course we can not take the matter before the courts. We can only refrain from voting on some measure which will involve the rights of some person or property, and so create the occasion for testing the cohstitutiionaUty of the Speaker’s decision. We are all con vinced that it will not stand.”