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Mr. Storer, of Ohio, and many others, while the 

 spoils-mongers were led by Messrs. Stockdale and 

 Williams, of Mississippi, Pendelton, of West 

 Virginia, Fithian, of Illinois, and others less, im- 

 portant. 



When the bill went over to the Senate, however, 

 Mr. Lodge, well supported by Messrs. Allison, Cock- 

 rell, Wolcott, and Teller, had the provision for the 

 increase of appropriation for the Commission re- 

 stored and increased, thereby adding by one-half to 

 the efficiency of the Commission's work. Had it 

 not been for this the Commission would have been 

 quite unable to have undertaken the extensions re- 

 cently ordered by President Cleveland. 



It is noteworthy that the men who have done 

 most effective work for the law in Washington in 

 the departments, and more especially in the House 

 and Senate, are men of spotless character, who show 

 by their whole course in public life that they are not 

 only able and resolute, but also devoted to a high 

 ideal. Much of what they have done has received 

 little comment in public, because much of the work 

 in committee, and some of the work in the House, 

 such as making or combating points of order, and 

 pointing out the danger or merit of certain bills, is 

 not of a kind readily understood or appreciated by 

 an outsider ; yet no men have deserved better of the 

 country, for there is in American public life no one 

 other cause so fruitful of harm to the body politic 

 as the spoils system, and the legislators and admin- 

 istrative officers who have done the best work to- 



