Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Mckinley at Nashville,
Tenn This Week,

He Left on "wednesday Morning to Attend
the Exposition There-More About the
TariT Bill - Post ONCE Department
Matter-CiviI Service Rule - Nomina.
tlons-Bailey for Democratic President
In ioOO-sherman Antitrust Law.
President Mckinley is naturally
of an obliging disposition and
nothing would please him more than
to accept 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 Exposition, but it is alb
solutely impossible for him to do so,
as the time set aside for the trip is
necessarily limited He will leave
Washington next Wednesday NOM
ing, accompanied by distinguished
party made up of members of the
Cabinet, Senators, Representatives
and other officials, many of whom
will be accompanied by the ladies of
their families. The party will be in
Nashville on Ohio day at the Exposi-
tion.
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 consi-
dered, 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 Committee,
and they are CORRESPONDENCE
pleased at the tendency of the steer
ing committee of the Senate to re-
store the House schedule, or at least
to make them nearer them than to
the schedules of the amended bill
While it cannot be officially announ-
ced that the Iugar schedule of the
original bilf will be restored. it
seems so 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 pre-
pared by the Senate Finance com
mittee, which many Republicans
considered one of the most objec-
tionable 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 ripen
early this year and Il big harvest is
expected Postmaster General Gary
has announced that the commissions
of all postmasters that expire be-
tween this date and July 18th, will
be considered as having already ex-
pired, ana their successors appointed
as early as possible. This does not
indicate any change in the policy of
allowing postmasters to serve full
term of four years, unless there are
causes for removal, but 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 l.
The first result of the investiga
ton of the workings of the civil ser
vice rules is the unanimous report
of the committee on Reform in the
civil service in favor of Senator Gal
fingers amendment to the general
deficiency Appropriation Bill, abro.
eating all civil service rules which
apply to any class of laborers. This
amendent is in line with common
sense, and will be sure to become a
law Talk with Senator Pritchard
and other members of the commit
tee makes it reasonably certain that
other and more important recon-
mendations as to exceptions 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 H. Roberts, of New York, to
be Treasurer of the United States,
and Conrad n Jordan to be Assis-
tant Treasurer at New York. Mr..
Jordan's nomination is for a second
term, as he is gold Democrat and
held the position under the Cleve.
land administration.
There is another B in the field for
the Democrotic free silverand free
trade presidential nomination in
1900. 1t is Bailey, of Texas, who
has the support of a majority of the
Democrats in the House in his ef-
forts to be their leader Mr. Bailey
figures that he is quite as much of