Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-23
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Railway Poteuta.es Snubbsd-An Extra
ordinary Incident The Tariff in the
Senate and in the House.
How the Two Bodies Deal With VsIed
Questions The Necessary Result.
What Texans are Doing in Warrington
Reagan, Coke snd Wellborn.
How the Republic Almost Became the
Empire AititudiniEing Priests.
.c,s, cor,.,pond.nce ~ ne c;.r.,,,


railway lobby. appeared before the
house Monday, asking that special
day be fixed for the enactment of the
charter authorizing the consolidation
of their trans-con;inentsl lines. To
the astonishment of everybody, the
house absolutely declined 10 assent to
the wishes of these two potentates.
The incident is much talked about ~
significant of the degree of aug
mented strength Of the congressional
spinal column. inspired by the late
popular revolt against the domination
OF the eountry's masters. The con-
solidation of railway power Is involved
in this proposed unity of highways
connecting the two oceans. In fact,
Democratic philosophers boast that
no Democratic congress ever ere
ated n corporation. No Democratic
congress ever voted imperial domains
TO railway spectators, and, il Demo
cracy were supreme in congress, for
feitcd railway grants, especially those
made when Schurz was secretary of
the interior, would be revoked. The
story goes that a potent railway ring,
for valuable official services rendered,
gave another Republican orator and
/ high plnce-holder an interest
in great newspaper, and a
guaranteed editorial salary OF $4,000
/ per snnum for ten years In fact
! there is much anxiety abroad lest the
! inside history of railway legislation
and of its cost he divulged. | think
Z the revelations are coming. Two lead
! ing members of the railway lobby
| have resigned seats in that illustrious
| body aud threaten to disclose all they
! know.
THE TARIFF.
1 The senate is Jogging along in the
usual tedious way, endeavoring to conf
prehend first, and then to reform, the
tariff code. Few men have mastered
! the intricacics of it's involved PROPOSE
tions. Beck and Coke, OF Democrats.
seem to have studied these perplexing
questions most thoroughly, and, while
Morrill, and Sherman represent the
protected class and would augment
sums paid to corporations and capital
lists, Beck and Coke resist and perpleX
the tarifi.modgers' attorneys with i'm
finite patience and ingenuity. Morrill,
grows angry and declares that these
Democrats intend TO retard legislation
on the subject until n Democratic con-
gress is convened, that il may have
!
the enactment of proper reforms.
Meanwhile, every subject of tariff
legislation has here its representa-
| tives. Each great manufacturing
corporation appears by its attorneys
and agents, and each has access to
committees and to members of the
houses and each tells the pitiful story
TINT II duties on his products be les
1 10 81 81
protected manufacturers are declared
to bc "mewlipg and Iuking in their
; nurses arms and IL i. tcarfully as.
serted that if stripped of any share o.
the covering furnished by their ricl
, Uncle Sam, they will surely die. But
Coke and Beck arc hard-hearted rs
' Herod, and do slaughter the innocent:
mescilessly. The home tariff reform
: bill Is still IN the womb of the commit
tee. When born il will bc fonde;
tenderly 10y Robson, Kelly and tht
rest, and cuifed rs heartlessly an,
: spanked as rudely by Sunset Cox ant
| gibhited by Carlisle and Tucker, an,
stripped To nakedness by Mills ant
{ Wellborn. Then this bantling of Re
: publican bogus reform will be tosset
f over to The senate aud the senate
ugly brat thrust into the house, and
when Siamese twins cannot be mad
OF them, they will he chuckcd int,
l. the swelling bosom OF conference
% committee, and long before the periot
: of renewed CESSATION is complete
q congress must adjourn by operation
A. of law on the fourth of March, and tn,
wretehed foetuses of the two house
will rest forever in the mighty charno
house of dead bills beneath the stone
Of the capitol. Ii sou have fears I,
shed, prepare to shed them now.
~ TEXAs IN CONGRESS.
No measure specially affecting tn
fortunes Of Texas Is now considered h,
either house. Culberson's bill attin
- ing the mode OF transferring eases iron
9 state To Federal courts will he cnactc,
Z nj an early day. pcagun's inter stat
z commerce bills GENES from the cnm
4 mittee, | think, to-day. twill lead L
Il, much debate, and Reagan, yeritabl
vulcan among the gods of this olym
c pus, Nulgarly dcnOminated Captu
10 tiiN, viii strike rtsistlCsS blows Ru
y the railway lobby is potent, and t.
a some shrewd device, this rud-ho
: plowSharc OF reform will hc with
drawn from the stithy and suffered {
he grow cold or plunged Kissing hot int
" n bath of cold corruption. This con
u grcSs, however strong the pressure &
late elections, will effect no benitiCcn
" reform, The majority are men VIII
< have fixed Republican habits of dove
!, ton to the plutocacy They ar
Is of those who had conspired II 'rildel
Ind asserted his righteous claim to IN
= presidency when Hayes bought IL. u
!, Didius purchased the imperial purpl,
To enClrcle Grants brow with tho diH
r dem OF the Caesars. Al the head of ia
Y standing army proclaiming, "let L
have peace he was TO enter the cap
II tol rs dictator Senators and plac,
y holders who were privy 20 this wors
Than Cataline's conspiracy. can i
" named. such plen are incapable {
- popular or rctoi1natory legisla,ieA.
:" lsiI REFoRMs
!, The pulpit OF New York, like IN
!, Federal Congress. il full of bogus +,
:, formers. The authenticity OF man
books OF the Bible Is rudely questioned
,rs It's plain teachings are rs rudely set
y naught. Passages, rcYcred throug
- centuries, are declaied to be base int,
+ polations Of prieStcmiG and dreams ar
theories oflpodern scientists are mad
60 suppiant It's historical and proph
Tie declarations. Each sunday som
ar new sensatiomlist figures before cage
y. ~ eNpceMnt mobs and the sinlp
~ religious faith of our father is rGdel
NJ assalled by those wearing the livery
- Heaven, Even Talmage il disguise
n ana ~ his latest and most hrlilial
r. sermon, iNli at aniltlicsis and brinf,
a. Oh ine IRE 81 suddenly awakene
~. Z.