The Arizona champion., 1890-04-19

and their friends say that they are only exercising due care in requir- ing the Chicago people to conform to the provisions of the bill, and that the delay IS the fault of the Chicago folks themselves. In the meantime valuable time is being lost
 Mir. Harrison and Secretary
 Blaine are very much in earnest ir their efforts to bring about free trade
 between the countries of South ano
 Central America and it looks very
 much as if they would succeed, al
 though MT. Blaine's proposition tc
 hasten 1t by tackiRg an amendment
 on to the new House tariff bill i; not received with favor. But there
 is reason for believing that Mr
 Blaine did not make this proposi tion with any serious idea of its being accepted. but only as a feeler to work up Congressional sentiment in favor of the reciprocity treaties with those countries which he is believed to be negotiating, or to have already negotiated. The idea of free trade with those countries is very popular just now but wheth- CT 1t will stand the test of thorough discussicn n remains to be seen.
 Ex-speaker Randall who has been sick for long time is much worse, ! and his death is expected. His ad- vice will be sadly missed by the democrats in Congress who have had the benefit of it during this session although MT. Randall has been un- able to occupy his seat in the House.
 The pension question is ever with us. This week the republi- cans of the House tried to suspend the rules and pass modified service pension biall as a substitute for the dependent pension bill which re- gently passed the Senate. It failed for lack of the requisite two-thirds vote. In the meantime an Ohio member has introduced 6 service pension bill which includes every body who was in the Union army for ninety days
 Ex-Speaker Carlisle has prepared the minority report of the Ways and Means committee of ths House on the Mckinley tariff bill, and up on this report the democrats will make their fight, having decided not to prepare bill of their own. The Mckinley bill will probably be reported next week, then the inter- minable tariff speeches will begin. Democrats assert that the republi- cans will not seriously try to pass their bill at this session while re- publicans are equally as positive in saying that they will.
 The delegates to the Pan Ameri- can Congress were given ap oppor- tunity today to see what our sol diers, regular and volunteers, look like. A review was held here in their honor, which embraced every branch of the irregular army and the militia. The latter particularly ex- cited the admiration of tue foreign CTS, perhaps because they have nothing like it in their own coun- tries. The members of the Con- gress go south ol4 tour of inspection next Friday.
 Secretary Noble found it necessa- ry this week to publicly censure three CT four of the clerks in the General Land office for having iile- gally issued patent for a valuable tract of mineral land in Minnesota. One of the clerks was dismissed, and now the public is wondering why they were not all dismissed. If their direlection of duty was sui ticiently grave to call for public censure they should have been dis charged.
 The latest fsnk attack on the civil service commission is the de- termination of quite number of members of the House, some dem ocrats and some republicans, to at tempt to kill the appropriation for the support of the Commission. It will hardly succeed.
 The Montana contested election case promises to remain unfinished