Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Sonntc.s EleIsd at ;ths Passage of the
 Silver Bill.
Congress will probably net Adjourn
 Before September.
Fron 0ar RoSnlar Correspondent.

Fron Oar RoGuIGr Correspondent.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June %, 1890.
 Senator Plumb and all the rest Of ths silver senators aIe very much elated over the.r success IF amending snd pass ing the house silver bill in d manner winch makes IL provide for the ires and unlimited coinage of silver by the sub stantial yots of 42 to 9. Senator Vol cot. oi Colorado. mad. ths last speech in favor of Tree coinage, which, by the wav. was nls maiden effort In the senate, and thereby placed himself at once in the front rank Of senatorial orators. This acton by ne sena.e surprised many people, bat ;lOs yoCr correspondent, Sho predicted it in ycur columns many moaths aco, The bill Es amended snd passed by ths ssnate is now upon Speak sc Reeds table and Its disposal Of by the house Is going to be mighty interest ing" to lots of folks, and some fine par 3..mentary Work IS likely to be exhi bltsd fer he ifica.ion or those sufficiently .,na eG to enjoy ir. r the house ccncurs a. 5ns s-aa.s amendmsEts, there ls no ,z-...ts that tIs President wil gign IL, uH tas contrary E is vsrv rCoDable that i-,- .,u-l33 r-tc .-. There Is 6 cCUs5rvs tie .ien. =Et in lae house which w'll a5- ,ssu.t tu have B CoHie7Juce ordered OF the an sLireEts T that Is successful scsno so-t of a compromise faycrable to slltc1. bat L0t cutie tC the extent of auta 01iz.ug free coinage, aiil probably be fife result. Ii 2 vote on the amend mants is forced in the house they will be concurred in.
 The Mckinley tariff bill has been re- 3olted to the senate, but it will net be called up.until Monday the Both inst The radical changes which our democratic friends have been predicting have not been made. There are changes, of course, quite s number of them, but they are unimportant, and do not in the slightest degree affect the character of ths bill, which will become a law sub stantially as it passed the house. This has been said before in these columns, bat it is important enough to repeat. Both house and senate have with drawn amendments to the antitrust bill, which has now gone to the Presi don't in exactly the shape in which it first passed the senate. It's q harmless docu- meRt.
 Commissionsr of Pensions Raum has no idea of resigning, although his posi- tion is one of ths hardest and most un- satisfactory under the Government.
 The river and harbor bill has been re- ported to the senate With the amend ments added by the senate committee tine oil carries an appropriation of near Y go, ,000,000. and there ;s much talk among the leaders Of the party against the ajvisa bility of passing it at the pre- sent session. Such talk, however, will not defeat the measure, which is special ly dear to the average legislators heart, out should 1t pass there will bs great pressure brought to bear on the Presi- dent to veto t.
 Speaker Reed, when asked when con gress would adjourn replied: 'The house can adjourn by the first Of July, and not leave anything Of pressing importance undoBe." It would require some very lively hustlIng on the part Of the house to adjourn at that date, but Of course 1t could Do done if the senate were ready t3 adjourn, and the speaker So willed it. out the senate will !uso De beginning its consideration Cf the tariff bill on that date. Adjournment Hill be nearer to September than July.
 Tie senate rejected two presidential n0laiG ations this wesk-goLn 5. E2ves 10 le collector of Internal revenue for the fifth district of North Carolina. and II. Ii. Schoch, to Da postmaster at Seijn's Grove, Pa. Both of these appoin tmeAts wers made more than year ago. Mrs Harrison and her family have lsft Washington for the summsr: they have gone to their new cottage at Cape May Point Whs president will pay them visit tomorrow, returning Monday or {. Tuesday.
 The house republican caucus have finally dscideG that a federal selection bill shall bs passed by the house at this session. The bill has been reported to the house and t will be pushed through at once. ltis not believed that the senats il pass the Uil!. certainly not at this session. and in the ECDsS tn0se who are most deeply in tars ted, tho Southern ra- pu5llcohst are almost to a man opposed 5r tac D.il. though of course tbey will vote fUI t because the caucus hEs made !t q party nsasuTe.
 Secretary Noble has transmitted from the secretary Of the treasury, to Con gress a. letter from Commissioner of Pen sions Raum, asking for an appropriation for 443 new employees iE his office. He estimates that the services Of that many will be made necessary by the new dis ability pension bill.
 lVice-Prssident Morton hssrsturned to his duties, and Is again gracefully wield- ing the gavsl over dignified but per spring senate.
 Senator Edmunds says that instead of the senate being friendly to corporations, as has often been alleged, it has originst- ed all of the anti-corporation legislation | for years past.