Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-26

In,ion called IN the attorney-genera
to furnish similar information.
Ransom offered Joint resolution I,
4 annropriate Sl00,00O for the relief o
sniifrrers by the recent great wind II
Ina Southern states. He said ever 90
neople were killed and many thous
7 ands wounded, and the suffering re
suliinr from the storms was awful
Brown and Pugh supported the reso
luton.
Harris and Morgan opposed the res
CLINTON on constitutional grounds
Neither had received request from
his state for government aid.
Garland thought the measure con-
Voorhees, thought these sufferers
SHOULD not be left entirely TO private
charity.
THE resolution was referred, and the
senate resumed consideration of the
currency bill.
At the conclusion of Georges speech,
n vote being taking On Vests amend.
ment, il was rejected by ayes IL, nays
&c.,
The question recurring upon the bill
~ modified by the amendment OF
Morrill,, it was passed 10y i3 yeas to II
nays.
The presiding officer then laid before
the senate the bill to authorize the
construction of additional steel vessels
for the navy.
Voorhees, offered preamble and
resol ution, which was referred to the
committee on judiciary, iustructing
the committee 10 inquire concerning
leases of lands in tn Indian Territory
for cattle grazing; how much money
mad peen paid into the treasury for
such leases, whether the lessees had
surveyed the lands, etc.
After executive session, the senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, February % ELLIS,
rising 10 II question IF privilege, sent
To the clerks desk and had read from
the New York Sun of Saturday eX
tracts from document said to be in
possession of the postoiiice department,
stating that Geo. +. Brott gave fee of
several hundred dollars 10 Il. John
Ellis for his services in securing a star
route contract On the Donaldson route.
Ellis entered a solemn and unequvo-
cal denial of the whole story, and said |
that Brott's denial of it was on file in |
the postotlice department, but be |
could not rest content without Brot''s |
denial and his own asseveratiOn, and |
asked the house to make investiga ion. |
n motion OF Hiscock, n resolution |
was adopted calling on the Sc, etary
of the treasury for information ~ 10
what time the rebate on the tohaccO
tax will be paid to claimants, and il
there is TO be any delay, the causes
thereof, and what can be done to effect
more speedy payments
On mot on of Poland. q resolution
was adopted directing the judiciary
committee to quire whether the act
of the legislature of Dakota TO provide
for the levy of a tax on the property of
railroad companies, does not conflict
with the organic act establishing that
territory.
Gibson introduced joint resolution
$50 600 for distribution
of seed among the sufferers from the
Ohio floods. Referred.
Clements, from committee on foreign
affairs, reported the resolution request
ing the president u transmit To the
house communications between the
United States aud Russia in regard I,
The conf Iion and treatment of He
brews in Russia, especially in relation
TO Hebrew citizens in the United
States. Adopted
Under cal of the states, the follow
ng were introduced and ref rred:
Oates-To prohibit aliens and for
.igners from acquiring or owning land
within the United States.
Rosecrans-ro authorize the coin
age of silver dollars and fractions
hereof under the metric system; also
or the coinage of gold metric dollars
md fractions of dollars, and double
Eagles and half eagles, also to establish
, system of coinage of gold and silver,
md to obtain the proXimate status be-
ween them.
Bedford Resolution calling on the
secretary of state for information
ouch ing the alleged subsection of
German-American citi-
ems To military duty while Temporal
lily residing in G. rman.
Finerty-Joint resolution declaring
hat congress laments the death of
Wendell Phillips as a national bereave-
nent, which at once deprives the
American rustrum of q superb intel
ect and human freedom of devoted
riend
McComas-Proposing consti-
utioual amendment providing
10 state shall be precludeu
" the grant and charter of incorpora-
ion from taxing the capital stock OF ,
uch corporation.
Stevens-To establish an Interstate
ailway transportation bureau for the
equation of commerce with foreign
lations and among states and with
he Indian tribes.
G. ID. Wise-For the completion of
he monument to the mother OF wash
ngton at Fredericksburg.
Dunn-Appropriatipg $7OOo0O Tor
he relief of persons rendered destitute
~ the overflow of the Mississippi
liver and tributaries.
Evans, from the committee on terri
Dries, reported Il bill providing for Il
,ivll government for Alaska.
The committee on the whole also re-
ported bill requiring the governors
II territories to Ue residents of such
territories two years before the date OF
heir appointment.
House calendar - Willis, from the
Oh education, reported II
'ill to aid temporarily and support
common schools.
The house went into committee OF
he whole, with Blackburn In the
chair, on the pleur0-pneunionia bill.
Hatch of Missouri supported the
bill. He ridiculed The fear expressed
by some opponents of the bill tpat II