The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
,m Our Regular Correspondent ]

From Our Regular Correspondentl
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.
 MT. Mckinley has fully made up his mind to curtail some of the extensions of the civil service rules made by Mir. Cleveland, but lie lacks the nerve to do
 so until public opinion has been worked
 up little on the subject. That is why
 members of his cabinet and other prom
 lnent officials are making public their
 opinions against those rules. Of course
 every body understands that the rules do
 not keep the present democratic occu-
 pants of the positions in office, but so
 long as they are in force they do operate
 to keep these republicans who are not
 already in the government service out
 of office. And that is the milk in the cocoanut. Promises have been made
 that have got to be kept, and the only
 way to keep them is to withdraw the
 civil service rules from some of these places. Had Mr. Mckinley been man
 of back bone he would simply have re-
 scinded Mr. CleveIand's orders extend
 ing the rules and said no more about it,
 and that would have been d much more
 manly way than this beating the devil
 around the bush in order to make it ap-
 pear that the public demands their abro-
 gatiOn, when everybody knows hat the public doesn't care continental who G,l5 tisu .....u. -fs-..as .,,,dor the ooverr- ment
 The Diug5ev tariff hi]l shorH nov 5e KnOW II as tiIe AIIIsUn- AIurIcn-i Isstt DhI, since those three senators have added more t. an thousand amendments to the bill, which was to-day laid before the full Finance committee of the sen ate. The amendments have not made the blll any less objectionable as a whole to democrats, but some of them have started many republicans to kicking at a lively rate, but there is no Likelihood that any of them will kick out of the party traces.
 There hasn't been determined fight | made in the senate against any appoint ment yet made by Mir Mckinley, but if he persists in trying to make J. w Lyons, the negro member of the repub- lican national committee from Georgia. postmaster at Augusta, Ga, there will be a fight, and bitter one, too. The entire Georgia congressional delegation made respectful protest against ap- pointing this negro postmaster at Au- gusta, taking the ground that there were plenty of places paying just as well that could be given him, where the per formance of his official duties would no constant irritation of the en- tire business interests of city and the greater part of it's population-probably nine-tenths of it's maIl-receiving popula- ton. Postmaster General Gary had given the Georgia delegation o under stand that he was opposed to making this negro postmaster at Augusta, built seems the negro was Mckinley whoop- er-up previous to the St. Louis conven- ton, had Boss Hanna's positive prom ise of the post-offce if Mckinley was and elected, and that he has refused all offers of oth-- places, al though some of them carry more salary and insisted upon beJng nominated post mae'e- ac Augusta The Georgia seua- tors believe they can defeat his nomina- ton in the senate, and it is certain that they will fight it to the last ditch, and hang it up if they can't defeat 1t. ,
 ooh, its just the regular pendulum swing." is the substance of what mem- hers of the administration say when z tbelr attention is called to the large f amount of gold-more than $7, ,000, ,000- C engaged last week in New York for ship r ment to Europe, "and it will all come s back again in the fall to pay for our C crops." They may be right, but those C with good memories have not forgotten C that Secretary Carlisle and his assist T ants talked the same way in 1894, when g nearly $1O2, ,O0O, 900 in gold went to Flu C -ope, and in 1895, when the value ex ported almost rea"hed $105, ,00O, ,000, and again in 1896, when it went close to S57, ,O00, ,OOO, and they know that this gold was only brought back by issuing E261 ,OO0 ,O0O in United States bonds. MT. Mckinley has said that he would not ssue bonds, but he has also said that Mr. Cleveland did right in issuing them when the continued demand for god caused the gold reserve in the United States treasury to fall below the arbi- , trary limit set without any legal author ity by John Sherman when he was Sec.