The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-06-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETT
WASHINGTON, Jun

President Mckinley is nat hlly of
an obliging disposition and / Nothing
would please him more than htaccept
all the invitations that have Pen ex-
tended to him by cities an towns
through which he will pas Jon his
way to and from the NashuY;I Expo
sition, but it is impossible J knhim to
do so, as the time set aisle Tor the
trip is necessarily limiteG n ? will
leave Washington next WeH nsday
morning, accompanied by al 9Btin-
guished party made up of M 9bers
of the Cabinet, Senators, Rel .sseta-
tives and other officials, many d Ighom
viii be accompanied by the la o les Of
their families The party wifi be in
Nashville on Ohio day at the a,xposi-
ton.
While the progress on the tariff bill
in the Senate is not altogether as
rapid as Republicans would life it to
be, it is, circumstances considered,
satisfactory More so, in fact, than
many had expected it to be, fust as
the bill is being made bettee than
many Republicans expected %l&&ould
be when the amended bill was re-
ported to the Senate The original
Dingley bill was far more satisfactory
to Republicans of the rank and file
than the bill as amended by the Sen
ate Committee, and they are CORES
pOndingly pleased at the tendency of
the steering committee of the Senate
to restore the House schedule, or at
least to make them nearer them than
| to the schedules of the amended bill.
| While it cannot be officially an
nouncCd that the sugar schedule of
| the original bill will be restored, it
seems to be almost certain that the
Dingley schedule will be made the
basis for the sugar schedule that will
| be inserted in place Of the one pre-
pared by the Senate Finance Com
mittee, which many Republicans con
sidered one of the most Objectionable
in the amended bill. All of this
makes it certain that the prophecy i'll
this correspondence that the bill as
finally passed would be a gooG one
will turn out to be true.
The Postmaster crop will ripen
early this year and a big harvest is
expected. Postmaster General Gary
has announced that the commissions
of all postlnasters that expire between
this date and July 18th, viii be con
sidered as having already expired, and
their successors appointed as early as
possible. This does not indicate any
change in the policy Of allowing post
masters to serve a full term Of four
years, unless there are caucus for re
moval, but it is desired that where
immediate changes are to lee mage, the
new official shall, so far as poystb BE, be
in charge OF their Offices at the be
ginning Of the new fiscal year, July I.
The first result of the investigation
OF the workings of the civil service
rules is the unanimous report of the
Committee on Reform in the civil ser
vice in favor of Senator Gallingers
amendment to the general deficiency
Appropriation Bill, abrogating ali
civil service rules which apply to any
class of iaborers. This amendment
is in line with common sense, and
will be sure to become a law. Talk
with Senator Pritchard and Other
members of the committee makes il
reasonably certain that other and
more important recommendations as
to exceptions from the civil service
rules will be made by the committee a
| little later.
In accordance with a decision ar
rived at soon after his inauguration,
President Mckinley has nominated
Ellis II. Roberts, of New York, to be
Treasurer of the Z. s., and Conrad n.
Jordan to be Assistant Treasurer at
New York. Mr.. Jordan's nomination
is for second term, as he is a GOLD
Democrat and held the position I'M
der the Cleveland administration.
There is another 3 in the field for
the Democratic free silver and free
trade presidential nomination in 1860.
1t is Bailey, of Texas, who has the
support of a majority of the Demo
Gratis in the House in his efforts to be
their leader. Mr.. Bailey figures that
he is quite as much of an orator as
Mr.. Bryan, and quite as much entitled
to the nomination. After the nomi-
nation of Bryan, no sensible man
would doubt the possibility of any ac-
ton by a Democratic convention.
Neither of them are fitted for so a re-
sponsible place as the Presidency,
but Bailey has been regarded as less
OF a demagogue than Bryan, although
getting the Presidential fever NAV
cause him to out-Bryan Bryan in that
direction.
Attorney General McKenna is going
to try his hand at enforcing the Sher-
man antitrust law, which the Cleve-
land administration declared could