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WAsHISGroS, June g, 1886.
The summary disposal Of the tariff bll
daring the past week is taken by many tc
indicate that the Congressional session vii
| be of shorter duration than was supposed q
week ago Blu, it is not impossible that The
tariff bill may come up again. 1t would bt
strange indeed if the forty or fifty Congress
sional Boanerges who have spent both time
and money in the composition and purchase
of speeches will be content to carry this pent
up undelivered eloqueLce; but, unless the
pent up food Of tariff talk shall be let loose
in the hall. of Congress, the session will
probably be shortened by from two to three
weeks The weather has been exceedingly
warm, and members and senators are very
anxious to get away from the city.
The Senate is not disposed to give the
President any rest but keeps sending up to
him bills by the basketful, for his examina-
ton and approval. Saturday when he went
to bed he had on his table 81 bills, the con-
.Itutional time for his examination of which
expires on Monday, and he has not looked
at one of them. There is another lot en-
brac.ng as many more that will become laws
on Tuesday unless he vetoes them, and still
more on Wednesday, and it is scarcely pos.
| sible for him to read their text. Thursday
and Friday the Senate passed 2l2 bills, about
half Of which have gone through the House,
and they will be dumped on his table to-
| morrow Some Of these bills are saved by
their numbers. They would certainly be We
toed if the President had time to examine
them.
There is still considerable talk in political
circles about changes in the Cabinet There
is rumor, give it for what is worth, that
Don. NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan, is to sue.
coed to the place of Attorney General Gar
land. II is thought that the recent visit to
the country OF Hen. Robert NJ. McLane, our
minister to France, is connected with the
Secretaryship of the Treasury Department,
and that if, when Secretary Manning returns,
he 10 compelled to tender his final resigna-
ton, MIR. McLane may be his successor. The
Treasury Department is very ably managed
at present by Assistant Secretary Fairchild,
who is carrying out many reforms that were
commenced by Secretary Manning. The
clerical force in the Sixth Auditors Division
of this department has been much reduced
and there will be still larger reduction on
the first Of July. 1t was at first intended to
allow the dismissed clerks the fifteen days
due them up to the first ultlmo, but then it
was thought that this time would be occupied
in efforts for reinstatement, so, in order to
prevent all annoyance and bother, the dis
mssals and appointments Of successors will
he made on the same date. The Civil Ser.
vice Commission has furnished q list of
names with which TO fill the vacancies that
will exist in the Office on the first of July, so
that the Auditor win be able to say to all
those seeking reinstatement that the yacan-
cics have already been SLED The number
to be dismissed is thought to be twenty six
at present to which number more or less will
probably be added Icy the expiration of the
month
Since Mr.. McCOnville has been the Sixth
Auditor, there have been upward of eighty
discharges in his Office and the twenty six
or more yet 10 be made will bring the fetal
the entire force This is by far the best rec.
ord Of dismissals yet made in the depart
ment.
Last week Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts,.
submitted a resolution proposing constitu-
tional amendment to provide that the term
Of the Presidents Office and of the next
Congress shall be prolonged until the last
Tuesday Of April 1889, at midday; the SEN
ators whose present terms would otherwise
expire on March 4th, 1889, shall continue
in office until noon Of the hast Tuesday in
April succeeding such expiration. The last
Tuesday Of April shall therefore be substi
tu,ed for the Ith of March as the beginning
aud ending OF the official term Of the Presi-
dent, Vice President, Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress.
The most noteworthy social events during
the past week were the two receptions given
by the President and his wife, the first being