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Stockdale, of Mississippi, Grosvenor, of Ohio, and 

 Bowers, of California. The task of the defenders 

 of the law was, in one way easy, for they had no 

 arguments to meet, the speeches of their adversaries 

 being invariably divisible into mere declamation and 

 direct misstatement of facts. In the Senate, Sena- 

 tors Hoar, of Massachusetts, Allison, of Iowa, Haw- 

 ley, of Connecticut, Wolcott, of Colorado, Perkins, 

 of California, Cockrell, of Missouri, and Butler, of 

 South Carolina, always supported the Commission 

 against unjust attack. Senator Gorman was natu- 

 rally the chief leader of the assaults upon the Com- 

 mission. Senators Harris, Plumb, Stewart, and 

 Ingalls were among his allies. 



In each session the net result of the fight was an 

 increase in the appropriation for the Commission. 

 The most important increase was that obtained in 

 the first session of the 53d Congress. On this occa- 

 sion Mr. Lodge was no longer in the House, having 

 been elected to the Senate. The work of the Com- 

 mission had grown so that it was impossible to per- 

 form it without a great increase of force; and it 

 would have been impossible to have put into effect 

 the extensions of the classified service had this in- 

 crease not been allowed. In the House the Com- 

 mittee on Appropriations, of which Mr. Sayers was 

 chairman, allowed the increase, but it was stricken 

 out in the House itself after an acrimonious debate, 

 in which the cause of the law was sustained by 

 Messrs. Henderson and Hopkins, Mr. McCall, of . 

 Massachusetts, Mr. Coombs, Mr. Crain, of Texas, 



