Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Mills bill, it is conceded, will pass the House. President Cleveland has vetoed one hundred and ninety-eight private pension bills. The Postmaster General has written a letter to the President formally protesting against the proposition made by the Civil Service Commission to extend the classified service so as to include the railway postal service. During the last fiscal year the number of post-offices established was 3,364; number discontinued, 1,632; number of fourth-class postmasters resigned and successors appointed, 6,189; number of removed, 1,224; whole number appointed during the year, 11,852; number of presidential postmasters resigned and successors appointed,3B2; number removed,2o; whole number of presidential postmasters during the year, 436. President Cleveland, Friday, vetoed several pension bills on the ground of fraud or imposition. In one of his vetoes -he says: “I have considered the pension list as the Republic’s roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by National gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate alms-giving. It seems-to me it would be well if our general pension laws should be revised with a view of meeting every meritorious case that can arise. Our experience and knowledge of an existing deficiency ought to make the enactment of a complete pension code possible.” One of the leading members of the Senate committee on finance said, Monday evening, on the tariff outlook: “The Mills bill will come to us from the House between the 20th and 25th inst., and will be substituted for the Republican ure we are now at work upon. The Rerepresenting the majority of Senate, will report the substitute bill to the Senate, and the Democrats on the part of the minority, will report the Mills bill. We will discuss them a week or ten days, arid pass the Republican bill, which will go to a conference committee. The Republicans will never agree to a bill with free wool in it, and the Democrats will refuse all propositions not including free wool. The conference will disagree, and the tariff question will die right there, so far as Congress is concerned. Congress will adjourn about the middle of August.” It is announced with positiveness that the Republicans are about to transfer the tariff fight from the House to the Senate. An order from Republican headquarters is said to have been promulgated to theeffieet thet the Republicans nr the House must suspend dilatory tactics and allow a vote-to--bo taken on-the Mills bill that it may be considered in the Senate with as little delay as possible. The Republican members of the

Senate' Committee of finance and Republican Senators generally, it can be stated on good authority, have decided to frame a substitute for the bill, which will simply repeal the entire internal revenue tax on tobacco in all its forms, which will be $12,000,000 more reduction on that head than the Mills bill makes; repeal the internal revenue tax on alcohol used in the arts and. manufactures and reduce the tax on sugar 40 or 50 per cent.