The Arizona sentinel., 1897-06-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAHsINGT0N, June 7th, 189
(From Our EcguIar Correspondent.

President Mckinley is natural. of an obliging disposition and 10. thing would please him more thal to accept all the invitations tha have been extended 10 him by citie and towns through which he wi! pass on his way to and from tn, \ Nashville Exposition, but it is ab- solutely impossible for him to dt so, as the time set aside for thc trip is necessarily limited. He vii leave Washington next Wed dnesday morning, accompanied by a dis tinguished party made up of mem bers of the Cabinet, Senators, Re- presentatives and other officials many of which will be accompanied by the ladies of their families. The party will be in Nashville on Ohio day at the Exposition.
 While the progress on the tariff bill in the Senate is not altogether as rapid as Republicans would like it to be, it is, circumstances con- sidered, satisfactory. More so, in fact, than many had expected it to be, just as the bill is being made better than many Republicans ex- pected it would be when the amend ed bill was reported 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 Senate Commit tee, and they are correspondingly 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 amend ed bill While it cannot be of fcially announced 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 prepared by the Senate Finance Committee. which many Republicans considered one of the most objectionable in the amended bill. All of this makes it certain that the prophecy in this correspondence that the bill as finally passed would be good one will turn out to be true.
 The Postmaster crop will rlpen early this year and a big harvest is expected. Postmaster General Gary has announced that the con- missions of all postmasters that expire between this date and July 18th, will be considered as having already expired, and their success sors appointed as early as possible This does not indicate any change in the policy of allowing postmas- ters to serve a full term of four years, unless there are causes for removal, but it is desired that where immediate changes are to be made, the new official shall, so far as possible, be in charge of their offices at the beginning of the new fiscal year, July 1.
 The first result of the investiga- ton of the workings of the civil service rules Is the unanimous report of the Committee on reform in the civil service in favor of Senator 5allingers amendment to the general defciancy Appropria- ton bill, abrogating all civil service rules which apply to any class of Iaborers. This amendment is in line with common sense, and will be sure to become 6 law. Talk with Senator Pritchard and other members of the committee makes it reasonably certain that other and more important recommendations as to exceptions from the civil service rules will be made by the committee little later.
 In accordance with a decision arrived at soon after his inaugura- ton, President Mckinley has no- minated Ellis H. Roberts. of New