Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Conflicting Interests Fatal 10 the Fed.
eral Court Bill--Notcs OF
the Day,

Special 10 the Gazette.
| Washington, ID. c., January 90
On the bill TO locate n branch of the
| United States court at some point In
Northern Texas, the judiciary com.
mittee to-day heard Rogers of Arkan.
sas, Throckmorton, Culberson and
Judge Lindsey of Texas and Stanley
of the Ch0ctaw Nation. The impress.
sion is that the bill will be defeated by
conflicting interests.
TEXAS posToFFICEs.
John HAYNES was commissioned post.
master at Round Rock, and Charles
Schmidt at Bracken, Comal county.
SIMON cAMERoN's SOUTHERN TOUR.
Most Of the Pennsylvania politicians
III the city deny the statement that
Simon Cameron has gone to Texas
and the Southwest for political pur-
poses. They declare that the rumors
to that effect studiously circulated in
Washington are pure and simple
falsehoods. A prominent member Of
the Pennsylvania delegation remarked
to the GAZETTE correspondent to-day
that he could not understand how such
reports could possibly gain Roadway
why" said he, ~ know Cameron
| anu ALL CcTtdlu tIlut nt
gone away purely for his health and
less than most people think for politics
ana politicians. The story that he is
eXerting his influence with Southern
Republicans in the interest of Bob
Lincoln or any other man Is wholly
nonsense. 1t is doubtful in my mind
if he has ever met any noted Southern
| Republican i'm social Wayu
BY Associated Press.
PoSTMASTERS.
Washington, January 3O.-Postmast-
ers-James b. Budd, Houma, LOUISE
ana; Mel Sinclair, Morgan City, Louis
lana; Carrel Ballinger, Luling, Texas;
james III. Ashcroft, Paducah, Ken
lucky, Harry w. Grantley, Appleton
City, Missouri; Lindell G. Cantwell,
Richmond, Missouri; Adrian G. Case,
Albany, Missouri, Mercator Jessep,
Dardanelle, Arkansas; Benjamin
McElroy, Frankfort, Kansas; n. A.,
Yeager, Augusta, Kansas; George
Huyck, Ellsworth, Kansas.
THE MACKAY FUNERAL.
All public busine $ is suspended in
the senate and house, and the funeral
ceremonies of the late Congressman
|
ing in the hall of the house of repre-.
sentatives in the presence of the men,
beers of both branches of the national
legislature.
A CONTEST DISMISSED.
The house committee on elections
dismissed consideration of the con-
tested election eases of Janin vs.. Hunt
from Louisiana on the ground that
| lao. ~ tho IN,
troduced within the time prescribed
by law.
FITz JOHN PORTER.
The Fitz John Porter debate will be
closed Friday, or at latest Saturday
In the course of debate last Saturday,
Gen. Slecum, who has charge of the
bill, interrupted Hoar to say he had in
his possession the original letters of
Gen, Garfield. He was in favor of the
commission. Gen. .SlOcum said fur
ther: "These letters will be produced
before this house by gentleman on
your own side, and in whom you have
Confidence 1t is learned the Re
publican to whom Gen. Slocum
referred is Phelps of New Jersey,
who is to close the debate in defense of
Porter. General Slocum, on moving
the previous question, will yield his
hour to Phelps, who was selected as
an old friend of General Porter and
because the latter has since the war
been u resident Of New Jersey and the
district which Phelps represents in
congress. 1t is understood the friends
of General Porter have placed in the
hands of Phelps private letters and
other new evidence from notable char
acters, which will fatty and authori-
tatively contradict various assertions
made by the opponents of the Porter
bill.
GOVERNOR MURRAY.
Representative White of Kentucky
testified before the house committee
on expenditures of the department of
Justice to-day in reference TO bis asser-
ton i'm the house last week concerning
the present governor of Utah. He re-
ferred to the charge Of Irregularities in
office by Murray while he was United
States marshal of Kentucky, and said
the government had been wrOnged out
of thousands of dollars in consequence
of expenses incurred by fruitless and
unnecessary prosecutions against
citizens of the United States, by. which
they were harassed and imbittered
against the government and its OIL
GERS. False and fictitious charges for
guerds were made, and numerous
prosecutions had been instituted for
| the most trivial violations of law, and
parties were taken from remote parts
| of the state to Louisville, passing EN-
route commissioners who could have
heard their cases on preliminary eX-
animation. This was, he said, not in
| the interest of the government, but
apparently for no other reason than to
make costs.
| SENATE.
Washington ID. c., January 3O.-A
petition was presented signed by 1000
citizens of the District of Columbia and
other petitions signed by large mum.
Der of citizens of the territories OF
Washington, Dakota and Idaho, all
prayinp for the enactment of law
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
Of alcoholic liquors in the district and
territories.
Hall called up the report of the com
mittee of conference of both houses re-
latiup to the Greedy relief expedition.
The report recommends that the senate
recede from its amendment requiring
only persons who volunteer for the
service shall be detailed for the expe-
dition.
Sherman stated that Ifhe had known
that the bill. when 1t was presented,
authorized the secretary OF the navy
To order any man outside the line OF
| - l..... ..stal,a hfa lifa I'm hia hands,