Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Conclavo Of Texans-How the Island
Lobbyists Bunk in and What
They Pirate About.
The Wharf Company Must Step Down
aud Out Before the Bads Bill 0an
Pass-W What John Bull Says
specIal Correspondents Of The Gazette.

! special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Texas
congressional delegation all seemed
moody this morning. / iscovered,
after much research, what was the
matter. Mr. Moody. an excellent cit
lien and merchant of Galveston, is
here. He is an unconmonly
silent and solemn gentleman
and little versed in the winning ways
/ Of lobbyists In fact he ie entirely too
| serious for tasks imposed upon MEM
| bers OF this third house He was anX-
iDus TO have concurrence Of purpose
and action among the citizens Of
rexa. in the capital, In behalf Of
Eads' Galveston harbor and deep
water bill, and most Texans IN the
CAPITAL were invited 10 the apartment
Of the Galveston lobby. IL seems that
this body Is constituted of four
4 eminent citizens of the Island city. OF
these Mr. Moody is PTncel 8. MaXimus.
The whole number, that their con-
ferenees may be frequent and that they
may lose no valuable thought, even at
ter they 20 to bed, all occupy the game
apartment Two roost in each bed.
The hotel is an ancient structure mod
eled after Iuni temple. The
ceilings are very low, aud
When the twelve congressman
aud four deep-water Galvestonlan
dreamers, and nalf "A dozen drowsy but
curious newspaper fellows and Hon.
Tom Ochiltree were damned into he
apartment. tue solemn pOw-wDw began.
There WAS lack Of breath, and at inter
walls and by turns the good fellows
"A 90.
the door TO get fresh air Tom Ochil-
tree Is "A member OF the special COM
miLtee ON house ventilation, and hav-
ing given much attention to the sub
ject and having discussed IL aud
been down to the signal bureau
to get mt the bottom facts about It, has
/, become "a sort OF mOnomaniac on he
subject Of fresh air. He was perch d
ON corner bed post and at the end OF
each briet speech would hop down
from his post and chuck his locomotive
headlight through the door aud out
into the hallway, that his capacious
lungs might be properly inflated
IAN air siphpn ventilatOT king
dom for an air siphon ventilatorln pX-
claimed the redoubtable Texan,
holding up pamphlet sup
posed 10 have emanated
from THE GAZETTE Office and shaking
IL in the face Of your correspondent
Let us have fresh air" exclaimed
/. Ochiltree, land then deep water. Let
, us b esthe deeply before we drink
deeply"
GREA'p APPLAUsE
\ But was only gong To say that the
corporation which seeks thus actively
and earnestly To perfect the haTbOr q
Il IA f.tft - ut
o in Washington to the adroit and fellc
e itous talker aud diuer-out who repre-
, sents the zona libre in the house. Thu
protuse ME-. Blum, who opened BIZ
: plethoric purse and emptied / as Mr.
7. Ochiltree directed, even AZ Welcker's
# accomplished infinitely more for Gal
!. weston aud the wharf company in {
!. sirglc night than will be achieved In
thousand years by the methods OF Tia
Il four good men cUhabiting in The attl
Z. OF the dreary, unveutilsted tavern
- whose very breath WAS sirOccO bias
when it Eept through the cAvernou
: lungs Of the wholesome representative
D. OF Southwestern deserts
e THE ONLY DIFFICULTY.
Not long agoa member of the Bridsl
;, parliament lnveighed in that body
with the utmost bitterness, Rgains
A. the viciousness OF port charge
8, at New Orleans He raj
AZ that British commercial agents Shout,
inquire whether there were no remedy
ana II there could be one that BriIis
e. vessels should he interested by the &C
~ mirnlty Cfiise 10 avoid that city
80 distinguished gentleman Of Washing
ton, who has Teen collating CONNER
If cial statistics, says that the Nhai
% charges at Galveston are higher tba
Y. those OF New Orlesus, and these Cd
nj weston rates may become enormous
Eads creates u harbor.
" Therefore does Western con
x gresham, whose people ma
q trade through Galveston, stat
that while he will supper
the Ead's s,h me ardently there mu
-or he condition precedent that after IA
laboris completed at the cost OF IA
people, the people shall not he pluI
of dered 10 poverty by the very deyic
~ which nov must cost them from seve
20 ten million dollars. In other WORD
We would not escape the railways' 81
rn torlion TO endure that OF the WIN
ms company, aud Galveston must be |
la frc', ais IN name, free port Tn
al people and NOT the corporation ar
proposed 20 be enriched al the cost ,
the people. But Ia the conelave of In
night not one word was said of III
fT wharf company
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