Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-21
THE PEEsfpENT
Much Pleased with the Psnsion niI1. Republican Congregational Cam paign Committee Open Hs.dquar- ters in Warrington.
From Oar Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June l3, 1890.
 The president is much pleased that the conference committes has agreed
 and the house and senate passed 8 pen
 sion bill. The new bill is the result of
 a compromise, the senate conference
 withdrawing the dependent feature, and
 the house conferess withdrawing the
 service feature of the bill which had
 previously passed the house. This
 makes disability measure of the new bill, which will become law in few days. Representative Merrill estimates
 that the new law will add about S36,- 100000 per year to the pension eIpend-
 iturss of the government. The new bill
 limits the charges of pension agents to
 ten dollars for each claim prepared un-
 der it.
 The silver question is becoming quite
 interesting in the senate, the finance
 committee having, after adding several
 amendments to the caucus bill which
 passed the house last week, reported that measure fsvorably, and Senator Merrill has given notice that he will, at the proper time, offer the house bill as substitute for the Jones bill which the senate has been discussing for several weeks After to-day the speeches on the subject, in the senate, will be limited to five minutes.
 It is stated to-day that tho senate finance committee has practically com pleted its consideration of the Mckinley sariff bill, and that the bill will be re- ported to the senate next week. Per haps it will be, but it is doubtful.
 The house republican caucus has agreed to consolidate the Rewell and the Lodge Federal election bills. Alter that is done another caucus will be held to determine whether the bill shall be pushed through at this session or left over until next winter. If the house should pass it, it is extremely doubtful whether it could be gotten through the senate.
 The republican congressional cam paign committee has opened heaCquar ters here, and the work will be rushed just as soon as a secretary shall be se- lected to take the place of Mir. Schuyler | S. Oids, of Michigan, who has unexpect- | edly resigned the secretaryshlp to which | he was elected last week.
 The repu blican senatorial caucus nom | mated eY-repressntative Valentine, of | Nebraska, as sergeant at-arms to suc- coed Mir. Canaday, whose resignation IS | to ta ke effect July 1. There were num- | Der of other candidates, but they were | all out of the race after the first ballot. | Air. Valentine is we'll known here, and | he is certain to make an efficient and pO- | pular official.
 An excursion party of Minnesota | men and their families have been enjoying the hospitality of Wash ington thls week, and if they have car ried away as good ar impression as they | have left here, Washington has a right | to feel very proud. It was ss fine look ing and brainy a crowd as ever visited the National Capital, and they will be welcome whenever they may chose to re- peat the visit.
 Secretary Tracy this week opened bids for more than five million dollars worth of new vessels for the navy, the of which is to be the largest vessel ever built for the United States navy. MT. Tracy thinks the bids were higher than they should have been, and he is now carefully going over them in detail to decide whether to throw them put on that account.
 4 private telephone wire has been strung between the Presidents private office and the residence of Secretary Blaine. That looks like strained rela- tions between these two gentlemen, doesn't it?
 Senator Quay had candidate for Ser of the senate, and he worked hard to have him nominated, put failed. Mir. Quay does not grieve over his defeat as far as could be seen, IS he stepped iauntily up the steps of the White House on the way to pay the President his usual tIi-weekly visit.
 Commissioner of Pensions Raum in lignantly denies the allegations in the resolution offered by Representative Cooper providing for an investigation of he Pension office, and says that he is 'eady at any time to have every act he las performed since taking charge of he office thoroughly investigated, and le hopes the house will adopt Mir. Coop ,r's resolution.
 Representative Springer was charged n the lobby of the House, Tuesday, with opposing the passage of private bill by he house through improper motions. Mir. Springer threatened to have the nan who publicly accused him brought before the bar of the house, but he didn't To it. Was he afraid that the man ,ould prove the charge!
 MT. Blaine is not worrying himself ,ver the attacks made upon him by the English newspapers because of the tand taken by this country in relation O the Behring Sea fisheries, and there S no probability of any change in our policy.