Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-12
From Washington.

President McKinIey's Policy with Of
fice-Seekers and with Regard to Ap-
poIntments---the New Tariff Bill VIII
be Pushed as Soon as Congress Meets.
All the accounts from Washington agree
that President Mckinley is giving small
attention OF encouragement TO oflice-seek-
ers, and that he is concerning himself in
stead with the larger affairs of the coun-
try. The few people who have been al
lowed to see him about appointments say
that there will be no haste about making
changes. The assistant secretaries in the
different departments will be changed as
soon as practicable, but in all other cases
the President will act with deliberation
and vii 'allow a conservative policy. As
a rule officers who have fixed tenure will
be permitted to serve out their terms. This
rule has been observed during the last
eight years and will not be departed from
by President Mckinley. For the present
appointments will be made in the postal,
revenue and other branches of the service
only where the tenure of the incumbents
has expired, and to fill vacancies caused by
death and resignation, and for good cause.
No recognition will be given factions, and
it is the desire of the President that the
various Republican delegations shall con-
sult and agree upon the men to be recon-
mended. The indications are that com
paratiyey few appointments will be made
until some time after the assembling of the
Fifty-hfth Congress.
The President evidently feels much
greater interest in the passage of legsla-
90 lao roll Of of ln ttaV IN,
selecting men for appointment to office,
and the belief prevails in Washington that
very little attention will be given to this
matter until a new revenue law has been
enacted.
Work upon the new tariff is being
pushed day and night by the Republican
members Of the ways and means commit
tee. Gov. Dngley hopes to introduce the
bill in the house on the first or second day
Of the session, which will begin Monday,
and to report it back from the ways and
means committee before the week has
closed. Work upon the bill has now been
nearly completed except in regard to the
sugar and wooden schedules
The sugar schedule has been left open
until the last moment in order to avoid
speculative movements in the stock mar
kct. The representatives of the Ameri-
can sugar refining company have been
making a stiff fight for the retention of the
al yalorem system of duties, but it is APP
parent that they will have to trust to the
Senate, as was the case when the present
Wilson-Gorman law was framed.
As soon as it has been placed before
Congress the new tariff bill will be pushed
with the utmost yigor, in the hope that it
may be completed in time to be made op-
erative at the beginning of the fiscal year
which opens July l, next.
Fair and full opportunity will be given
the minority to discuss and amend the bill,
but factious opposition will not be toler-
ated II presented to the House in good
season the bill should be passed by that
body and sent to the Senate before the end
of April. So far as the Democrats and
other opposition Senators have expressed
themselves, there is no disposition to re-
sort to dilatory methods, and this encour-
ages the hope that the tariff bill may be
considered in the Senate with reasonable
expedition and receive the Presidents ap-
proval in time to become operative July l.