Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-23
WASHINGTON.
An Important Commercial Measure
Urged by CuIberson.
Fixing Salaries of Federal Judges ana
Other officials.
Special to the gazette.


Special TO the Gazette.
Washington, ID. c., February T.
The house Judiciary com niltee To-Day
unanimously recommended lne OIL
which in Effect gives bill of ladint
for goods or other property all the ele
meuts of negotiability which attaches
to nor-du,. promissOry note. The bii
was warmly advocated by Culberson,
who spoke of the advantage IL would
he in Texas and other parts OF the
country He cited the case at Sher'
man in his argument. ,,u
The committee also agreed To q OH
reforming the salaries OF circuit and
district judges. IL provides mat CIR
cult judges shall receive S6,oOo annu,
ally. The district judges are divided
| Into three Glasses. The first class are
to he paid IS 900 annually second. $l,,
500; third $4,000 Culberson insisted
that the district judges OF Texas
be taken from the third
and transferred to the second
class. The bill TO give district attor,
| neys and mar shals salaries instead OF
fees, and turn the fees into the treasu-
| ury, is before the subcommittee, OF
| which Culberson is chairman, and
WIN De consiutreu NhoHuHy' a., 10
thought IL VIII oe recoiiitnenueu' me
absence "f law siiiiiiaI \, ,he natter
mas pren long needed IN leAss anu
oner southern states, where ieueIa'
oinclais nave long oteii knowh 7" Pios-
titute tneir position 70 op'alh ,l,oheS'
innocent persons orlhS itequenty ~
ieSteu anu ptosecui III 10 eii""'c .ne
coile'tloh Oh ices inesc iavts III Uo,i,
hecIion win lrAts VIII ne pi"Ih'y
SHOWN TO the committee.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The selection of hicago Ms the place
of holding The national Democratic
convention IL displeasipp to Southern
members of congress The T., x,s del
egat,s and those from nearly all the
Southern states voted for ST. Louis.
ros,,,, ,,,rrrps
roI - -
camp woods postoilce IN EDWARDS
county Is discohtihuea' lts mali VIII
DC sent 10 Barksuaie.
BY Associated Press
THE WHISKY EXTENSION.
NVasbinotnn E,.hruorv 81 --NIor,ison
hus rtf;.r,d in tho ways and ne.ns
n suhstitute for the hill
under disc.,ssion i'm Tho conm;t,aa ON
,.vtnn. i,,, ~ ,ha lnn,,ad me-, ,ta,.;ad
Tha .nh- tint. ,,r.,,.id.s ,ha, t. I'D
al ,,.,r;,,5 ~, 49,, 49, ~.
IN, too - So IL ar ' ~ ~,
- 49, 'i"i' tc I"'e INC 'aA
Ii further urovid.s that surb extpn-
sion shall not he made in any case un-
less new warehousing bond, in
penal sum not less than the amount of
lax and with sureties satisfactory to
the collector of the district i'm which
the warehouse is located, shall be
given, conditional that the PRINCIPAL
named in the bond shall pay
tax on the spirits sp- cited
therein, and also interest on snch tax
At ] per cent. per annum for the time |
II extension, and within five years |
from the date Of original entry OF such
spirits for deposit in the warehouse.
w men any distilled spirits, upon
when tinle Tor the pay ment of tax
snail become extended under the pro-
VISION OF inns act, are regulated for
withdrawal from the warehouse, the
allowance Tor less shall he
nv more than Is now authorized
iui 'he "aIehousibS period OF three
years, anu lhe TAX ana interest on the
,a 'S u. .he la'e above named snail he
r,,,,,J -, - 10y ASS7S va ioaS
io III uPoii sucli sn"se AZ me Tune OF
'.i,,' AMI avn VI sucii slirlls' me com
,ni.U van WIG VII 4hoi ison piil to-
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THE HEWITT RESOLUTION.
i preventative Rrumm's resolution
which provides that The house shall
instruct the foreign flee committee 10
make inqui AZ 10 whether nnv for
eign mii lister accredited to lie i;uit.d
Stats Las underworld TO u,lify the
fleets of Unanimous resolution of
IN 5 house hy any reurt septation atIect.
ing the honor aud integrity of it, mem.
brrs, was adversely acted upon by the
committee to-day, on the gfound that
no Information Tearing upon the sllh-
ject could he obtsined.
THE ,tonr,ur.r ,ssoc,,
Tine animal n' ,a..t $50 ~. A u
ton m"n,m'an, sua;s, " 'me " as,ine-
Inv vt The r.sids,c. ~ 3.on "% W. n n, To-
Din in ,his nItu .m w p, ,h, w, MGhee
officer. for the ~, " an .ie uoulu OF
st"ne waa ,n'.., ra ."i ie eirc'eu. a
monument ~ renr.s,,,,t 'X WW,a III 'It
wss diran,s ~ ' ,Pa, ~ WyohllhE: IL