Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL coRREsroSDENoE OF THE MONITOR
Wnshinntnn lime 7th 1897.

would please him more than TO ac-
cept all the invitations that have been
extended to him by cities and towns
through which he will pass on his
way to and from the Nashville Expo
sition, but it is absolutely impossible
for him to do so, as the time set aside
for the trip is necessarily limited. He
will leave Washington next Wednes-
day morning, accompanied by dis
tinguished party made up of members
of the Cabinet, Senators, Representa-
tives and other officials, many of
whom will be accompanied by the Ia
dies 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 ra-
pid as republicans would like it to be.
it is, circumstances considered, salts
factory. More so, in fact, than many
had expected it to be, just as the bill
is being made better than many re-
publicans expected it would be when
the amended 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 Committee,
and they are correspondence pleased
at the tendency of the steering COM
mittee of the Senate to restore the
House schedule, or at least to make
them nearer them than to the SEIZED
ules of the amended bill. While it
cannot be officially 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 sched-
ule that will be inserted in place of
the one prepared by the Senate Fin
ance Committee, which many repub-
licans considered one of the most OBJ
jectionable in the amended bill. All
of this makes it certain that the pro-
phecy in this correspondence that the
bill as finally passed would be good
one will turn out to be true.
The Postmaster crop will ripen ear
ly this year and a big harvest is ex-
pected. Postmaster General Gary
has announced that the commissions
of all postmasters that expire between
this date and July 18th, will be con-
sidered as having already expired and
their successors appointed as soon as
possible This does not indicate any
change in the policy of allowing post
masters to serve a full term of four
years, unless there are causes for re-
moval, but it is desired that where
Immediate changes are to be made,
the new official shall, so far as pos
sible, be in charge of their offices at
July 1.
The first result of thes.investigation
of the workings of the civil service
in favor of Senator Gallinger's amend
ment to the general deficiency APP
preparation Bill, abrogating all civil
service rules which apply to any class
of laborers. This amendment is in
line with common sense, and will be
ator Pritchard and other members of
the committee makes it reasonably
certain that other and more impor-
tant recommendations as to excep-
tions from the civil service rules will
be made by the committee a little
later.
In accordance with a decision ar
rived at soon after his Inauguration,
President Mckinley has nominated
Ellis II. Roberts of New York, to be
Treasurer of the U. S., and Conrad N.
Jordan to be Assistant Treasurer at
New York. Mr.. Jordan's nomination
is for a second term, as he is a gold
democrat and held the position under
the Cleveland administration.
There is another B in the field for
the democratic free silver and free
trade presidential nomination in 1900.
1t is Bailey of Texas, who has the
support of a majority of the demo-
Gratis in the House in his efforts to be
their leader. Mr.. Bailey figures that
he is quite as much of an orator as
MIR. Bryan, and quite as much entitled
to the nomination. After the nomi-
nation of Bryan, no sensible man
would doubt the possibility of any ac-
ton by a democratic convention. |
Neither of them are fitted for so res
ponsible place as the Presidency,
but Bailey has been regarded as less
of demagogue than Bryan, although
getting the Presidential fever may
cause him to out Bryan Bryan in that