Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-06-26
WASHINGTON.
THE TARIFF 8ILL-RUMoRED CABINET
cHANcEs-A MULTIPLICITY OF
WORK FOR THE PRESIDENT.

The summary disposal OF the
tariff bill during the past week
is taken by many to indicate
that the congressional session will
be OF shorter duration than was SUP
posed week ago. But it is not impos-
sibis that the tariff bill may come up
again. 1t would be strange indeed If
the forty or fifty congressional Boaner-
ges who have spent both time and
money in the composition and purchase
OF speeches will be content to carry this
pentup undelivered eloquence, but UNI
less the pent up flood OF tariff talk shall
be let loose in the halls of congress, the
session will probably be shortened from
two to three weeks. The weather has
been exceedingly warm and the mem
bers 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 examination and approval. Saturday
when he went to bed he had on his
table 81 bills, the constitutional time for
his examination of which expires on
Monday, and he has not looked at a one
of them. There is another lot embrac-
ing as many more that will become
laws on Tuesday unless he vetoes them,
land still more on Wednesday, and it is
scarcely possible for him to read their
text. Thursday and Friday the senate
passed 212 bills, about half of which
have gone through the House, and they
will be dumped en- his table tomorrow,
Some Of these bills are saved by their
numbers. They would certainly be
vetoed il the President had time to ex-
anime them.
There is still considerable talk in po-
litical circles about changes in the Cab
met. There is rumor, | give it for
what it is worth, that Don NJ. Dickinson
of Michigan, is to succeed to the place
OF Attorney General Garland. 1t is
thought that the recent visit to the
country OF Hon. Robt M. McLane, our
minister to France, is connected with
the Secretaryship of the Treasury De-
partment, and that if, when Secretary
Manning returns, he is compelled to
tender his final resignation, Mr.. Nc
Lane may be his successor. The treas
ury department. is very ably managed at
present by Assistant Secretary Fairchild
who is carrying out many reforms that
were commenced by Secretary Man
ming. The clerical force in the Sixth
Auditors Division OF this department
has been much reduced and there viii
be still larger reduction on the first o
July. 1t was at first intended to allow
7 the dismissed clerks the fifteen day
i due them up to the first ultimo, but
then it was thought that this tins
t would be occupied in efforts for rein
statement, so, in order to prevent al
4 annoyance and bother, the dismissal'
2 and appointments of successors will bt
: made on the same date. The Civl
Service Commission has furnished
: list OF names with which to fill vacancie
that will exist in the Office on the frs
OF July. so that the Auditor will b
t able to say to all those seeking rein
: statement, that the vacancies hav
g already been filled. The number to b
| dismissed is thought to be twenty-si,
| at present to which number more OF
less will probably be added by the expi
: ration of the month.
2 Since Mr.. McConville has been tn
5 Sixth Auditor, there have been upward
. Of eighty discharges in his Office, anl
, the twenty-six more yet to be made
will bring the total up to over one
, hundred and Ska third OF the entirl
. force. This is by far the best RECORD
] Of dismissals yet made in the depart
, ment.
Last week Mr.. Hear, Of Massacheu
: sets, submitted resolution prop osins
: a constitutional amendment TO provide
that the term OF the Presidents oiaci
and Of the next Congress shall be pro-