The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-03-18

far as appointments are concerned,
President Mckinley has let it be
known that they will have more than
an equal share. While it has been
virtually decided that only those ap-
pointments will be made at once
which are considered absolutely nee
cessary, the information has. been
given to senators and representatives
that the state delegations must get
together and agree upon the appli-
cants for the prominent appointments
before they will be made, and it has
been strongly intimated that the d.
vision of state delegation will be
fatal to an applicants chances. Be-
You'd appointing the assistants to the
members of the cabinet, the ambas-
sailors and more prominent ministers,
and filing vacancies, there will be
very few appointments made for sew
eral months to come, as President
| Mckinley is more intent upon giving
the country prosperity than upon fill
ing a few Offices, and until the work
of the extra session is completed he
will devote his best energies to the
entire country rather than to the
comparative few who want Office.
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There is almost or quite quorum
of the next house already in Wash
ington. The republican caucus for
the nomination of officers will be
merely ratification meeting, as it is
an absolute certainty that Speaker
Reed and all the other officers will be
re-nominated.
Chairman Dingley says there will
be no delay in reporting the new tar
if bill to the house at the extra ses-
sion. Speaking of the reported in
tention of the committee to provide
in the new bill that the duties there
in should go into effect upon the day
the bill is introduced, Mr.. Dingley
called attention to a constitutional
barrier to making law retroactive,
and said that the most the bill could
do was to provide that the higher du-
ties should be paid upon all impor-
tations which might be in bonded
warehouses at the time it becomes
law.
Senator Hanna gives his private
secretary, Mr.. S. A. Perkins, who en-
tered politics as president of the re-
publican college league few years
ago, and who was on duty at the
New York headquarters Of the repub-
lican national committee during the
late campaign, 5000 year, probab-
ly the largest salary drawn by any
private secretary in the country.
Secretary Long this week issued
advertisements for proposals for fur
nishing $500 tons Of armor plate for
the Illinois, the Alabama and the
Wisconsin, the price for the same not
to exceed $500 ton, as provided by
act of the last congress. The bids
will be opened in April and they will
> be looked forward to with much i'll
terest, because of existing doubt as
: to whether there is solid foundation
for the talk about new bidders enter
ing this field, and whether the Carne
gle and Bethlehem companies vii
Z bid.
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r It seems that most people failed tt
! realize the enormous extentions O.
= = the civil service rules made under thu
I last administration. Every day in
t telligent men can be heard exercising
e their SURPRISE on this subject afte
o they have called at one of the big de
partments to make enquiries abou
: places. Stated in brief, excepting
Q the assistants to members of the cab
e met, their private secretaries, ambas
i sailors and ministers, laborers ane
scrubbing women and postmasters
the heads of half a dozen bureaus
- such as pension, education and labor
tho entire line of government employ
es are embraced in the classified ser
vice which is controlled by the civi
service rules. Along about mex
summer, after the tariff bill has be
come law and more pressing mat
ters have been looked after, it will
not be surprising if President Nc
l. Kinley overhauls some of those civi
service extensions made by M,
Cleveland and considerably modities
if he does not rescind some of then
outright There is hardly a doub
that some of the extensions hav
proved more beneficial for individual
than to the government service.
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= The following senators have bee
: appointed steering committee witt
Authority to decide what shall b
r done concerning the committee vac
: ancies and other questions: Allison
y. Hale, Aldrich, Cul lom, Davis, Sewe
and Carter. The silver republican
and populists wanted the democrat
: to join with them in recognizing tn
. senate committees, but the demo
y cratic caucus did not accept the pro
fered alliance. The senate sent th
.. credentials Of Hon. A. =, Wood, al
pointed by the governor Of Kentuck.
to the committee on election 9 for il
vestigation and report.