Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-15
WASHINGTON.
The Greer County Question Taking
More Definite shape.
Secretary Teller's Suggestion Tor
Joint Commission.

a and referred to the committee on terri
@ tories, to which, he contended, the.
Z. rightly belong. There was no objec
= ton and the speaker ordered the trans
c fer. In his communication Stcretar,
e Teller says: II am of the opinion tina
!. 1t is necessary that a Joint commits
9 sion on the part of the United State
= and Texas should he formed 10 deter
i mine definitely the boundary line, ant
a recommend that the proper steps b,
: taken for that purpose. / suggest
however, whether sufficient data of al
( authentic character do not already eS
: list to enable commission to deter
mine the question without further sur
{ veys in the field" The communica
ton is dated January sth, and revie vs.
the letter of Gov. Ireland, dated Aus
tin, August "a.
THE POST ROUTE LAW.
The bill making all public high ways
post routes passed the senate this after
noon. 1t has also passed the house.
This will enable the po~tOfiice depart
ment TO establish Il mail in any public
road without awaiting congressional
action, and will be of much Advantage
to new states. Congressional action
usually consumed year in disposing
of such questions singly.
TEXAS PosTMAsTERs.
VIM. Proctor was ,mmissiOned
postmaster at Prismoid, J. Ella Laugs-
ton at Linn Flat, Nathan Mackie at
Chandler, Tom Scott at Merle, WIN.
White at Monkston and Porter Parks
at oOkhaven. Bell county.
| By Associated Press.
MERITED PROMOTION.
Washington. February II The
president has directed the promotion
Of Lieut.. Rhodes of the revenue cutter
Dexter for gallant conduct on the oc-
casion of the wreck of tho City Of
Columbus.
ATARtFF DELEGATION.
An influential delegation of carpet
manufacturers was before the com
mittee on ways and means today. OPP
posing any change in the tariff on
wooden goods.
SENATE.
Washington. February 14.-The
chair laid before the senate the testi.
mony taken by the committee to in
vestigate the official conduct of ex.
upervising- Hill Referred.
Voorhees, resolution requesting the
secretary of the treasury to suspend
the approved indemnity land selec-
tons made by the Northern Pacific
railroad company was referred to the
committee on public lands.
The senate took up the bill making
all public roads and highways post
roads. 1t was debated by Plumb, |
Hale, MaXey and Sawyer, and after
amendment passed.
The senate took up the bill for the |
relief of the Louisiana State bank, |
permitting that bank, notwithstand- |
ing the statute of limitations, to pre-
sent 10 the court of claims its claim |
for cotton taken by the United States
in 1868.
Jackson, who reported the bill, said |
the claim was for 3GI bales of cotton, |
worth 800 100. Alter debate, the bill |
passed by 81 10 10.
Beck called up the Mcpherson bill
relative to national bank circulation,
and spoke at some length in its
favor. The banks were out
of politics now, he said, and nobody
opposed them. This was a measure
necessary for the country. AS the
United states government expected Ia
pay par for bank bonds, there was no
hardships in the provision Of the bill
limiting the issue To par values. We
were prosperous now, Beck said, but
may not always be SO, and it would
not do to base circulation, rs had been
| proposed 10y some of the amendments
to the penuing bill, on the market
! value OF bonds. We might have wars
or panics, which might deprrss the
bonds ten per cent, in Il week, and cur
rency would be contracted Just To the
extent that bonds would fall, so that
the United States, when called upon
most loudly 10 sustain Its credit, would
be compelled TO contract its currency
at u time when we ought to be MAN
tanning our credit higher than ever,
Morrill, offered tue following bill as
substitute: hat upon deposition United
States bonds us required by law, any
! national bank or national banking
ASSOCIATION making the same shall be
entitled 20 receive from the secretary
of the treasury circulating notes OF
different denominations in blank, reg.
lstered and countersigned us provided
by law, as follows. On Uni ed States
iour-per cent. bonds deposited prior TO
January LIST, 1870, an amount equal to
llo per cent. OF the par value OF such
bonds, provided the ISSUE of circul ting
notes upon four-per-eent. bonds deDOs-
! ed or held In The first year succeeding
January ], 1880, shall not exceed 100
per cent. of he par value OF such
bonds, and that the issue on lsuch lour
per cent. bonds deposited or held IN each
succeeding year shall be one per cent
less than the year preceding, until the
limit of the issue of such circulating
notes Is reduced TO par, and provided
further that OH deposit of any bonds
OF the United States now authorized
by law, except as herein otherwise
provided, circulating notes may be is-
sued 10 an amount not exceeding the
par value of such bonds, and at no
time shall the total amount of such
notes issued To any association exceed
the amount at such time actually paid
in of its capital stock.
The substitute further provides that
associations and Organizations for the
purpose of Issuing notes payable in
gold under the provisions OF section
5lS5 of the revised statutes OF tho
United States, upon deposit of any
Quilted States bonds bearing interest
payable In gold with the treasurer of
the United States, shall be entitled To
receive circulating notes in amount |
ana IN the manner prescribed in this |
act for the other national banking |
associations.
Vest offered an amendment which |
he asked and obtained leave to have |
prioied, providing that the secretary |
OF the treasury shall have treasurynotes
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