Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-12-31
I" MODELLING WILLIE"
THE EUPHONlOUS NAME SOME
REPUBS. APPLY TOTHE CHIEF.
lie Must be a Man or a Mouse"
OH Finance as well as the Civil
Service Rules - Senators want
Better Men Nominated for Office
"A Rally Ordered for Hanna,

"A Rally Ordered for Hanna,
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a, 1897.
Wobbling Willie" is again being
applied to Mr.. Mckinley as a nick
name by members of his own party.
The Republicans who still call them.
selves bimetallists have about decided
that Mr.. Mckinley must either de-
clare himself to be a gold mono
metallist or a bimetallist; they are
tired OF having him coddle them by
taking bimetallism and then allowing
Secretary Gage to publicly announce,
without remonstrance, that the ad.
ministration was for any and every
thing that was regarded likely to help
perpetuate the single gold standard.
These men have quoted their con-
stituents by assuring them of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's sincere friendship for BIZ
metallism, and his desire to aid in its
restoration when the opportunity
offered, and it was from Mr.. Mckinley
himself that they got the impressions
upon which those assurances we're
founded. Now they have doubts, and
will demand that Mr.. Mckinley settle
them once for all.
Mr.. Mckinley has been webbing on
the civil service rules quite as badly as
upon finance, and he is likely to find
himself brought to book on this SUBJ
ject soon after Congress resumes bust
ness. Just before Congress adjourned
for the holidays. Mr.. Mckinley in.
Dictated, if he did not actually make
the promise, to some OF the Republi-
cans who had been taking an active
part in the movement to secure anti
civil service legislation, that he in
tended to issue an executive order
that would remove from the protection
Of the civil service rules many of the
offices that were included in Mr.. Cleve-
lands extensions OF the rules. This
week, with Congress away, Mr.. Nc
kinley told his Cabinet that he was
inclined to stand pat on civil service
aud that while he might make some
changes he did not expect to make
any extensive modification of existing
rules.
The joint sessions of the House and
Capofo Indian Nn,, ,L~
of which is to agree upon q single bill
covering all the legislation for the
Indian Territory and the five tribes of
civilized Indians that this Congress will
be asked to pass, have so far merely
served to show how many divergent
interests there are in this matter and
how difficult it will be to draw bill
that will not be unjust to some OF
these interests.
The nomination OF Mr.. Charles Page
Bryan to be minister to China, il
persisted in by Mr.. Mckinley, may be
the cause Of big fuss in the Senate.
1t has been represented TO Mr.. Nc
Kinley that the European grab game
which is now being played in China
makes it imperative that the U. S.
minister to that country should be a
man of wide diplomatic experience,
and that Mr.. Bryan lacks that quail
fication. Such Senators as Teller,
Wolcott and Frye have announced
their intention to fight the confirma-
ton OF Bryan, if Mr.. Mckinley sends
it to the Senate in spite of the pro-
tests which have been made to him.
The Republican policy OF cutting
the appropriations regardless of what is
needed, in order to try to help the
Dingley tariff lessen that deficit night
mare, has been shown in a striking
manner by the way in which the
House committee on Appropriations
treated the recommendations of the
Secretary of the Interior, who had
himself, under orders from the White
House, cut the estimates of all his
bureau chiefs. Everybody knows that
the work of the Patent Office has
steadily increased with the growth of
the country, and perhaps everybody
doesn't know. but it is true all the
same, that the U. S. Government
makes a profit out OF the Patent Office,
the amount to its credit at this time
in the U. S. Treasury being in excess
of $5,0O0,000. The Secretary OF the
Interior asked Congress to provide for
just one-half of the additional help
that the Commissioner of Patents says
is needed 10 get the business of the
office up to date, and the House APP
preparations Committee declined TO
provide any additional help at all,
although the business OF the office Is
now from two to six months behind.
If q private business establishment