The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondence

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WASHINGTON. ID. c., June 81, 1886.
The summary disposal of The tariff
bill during the past week is taken by
many to indicate that the Congression-
al session will be of shorter duration
than was supposed week ago. But
it is not impossible that the tariff bill
may come up again. 1t would be
strange indeed if the forty or fifty
Congressional Boanerges who have
spent both time and money in the CON-
position and purchase of speeches will
be content to carry this pent up un-
delivered eloquence F.; but, unless the
pent up flood of tariff talk shall be let
loose in the halls of Congress, the ses-
sion will probably be shortened by
from two to three weeks. The wealth
er 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 send
ing up to him bulls, by the basketful,
for his examination and approval
Saturday when he went to bed he lad
on his table "a bills, the constitutional
time for his examination of which ex-
pires on Monday, and he has not look
ed at one of them. There is another
lot embracing as many more that will
become laws on Tuesday unless he We
toes them, and still more on Wednes-
day, and it is scarcely possible for hi m
to read their text Thursday and Fri
day the Senate passed PIP bills, about
half OF which have gone through the
House, and they will be dumped Oh his
table tomorrow. Some of these bills
are saved by their numbers. They
would certainly be vetoed if the Presi-
dent had time to examine them.
There is still considerable talk in
political circles about changes in the
Cabinet. There is a rumor, | give it
for what it is worth, that Don M. Dick
inson 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 Fair.
child who is carrying out many reforms
that were commenced by Secretary
Manning. The clerical force in the
Sixth Auditors Division of this depart
ment 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 ullimo,
but then it was thought that this time
would be occupied in efforts for re-
instatement, 30, in order TO prevent
all annoyance and bother, the dismiss
ais and appointments of Successors will
be made ON the same date. The Civil
Service Commission has furnished a
list OF names with which to fill the va.
cancies that will exist in the office on
the first of July, SO that the Auditor
will be able to say to all those seeking
reinstatement, that the vacancies have
already been filed. The number TO be
dismissed is thought to be twenty. six
at present to which pumber more or
less will probably be added by the ex-
piration 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 to lie made