Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Smaller by Degrees Grow the Chances
for Morrisou's Tariff BIZ,
The Two.ThirGs Rule rs Seen from a
National Standpoint.
A Preachers Occult Theory OF the
TRANSMISSION of Crime.

A Preachers Occult Theory OF the
TRANSMISSION of Crime.
The Wool Tariff-Morc Light on the
Axtelle Case.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Washington, April 9.-It Is need
less to believe that the house will vote,
if at all. on the Morrison horizontal
tariff bill until we see the end of the
session. Randall is not idle. de Is
profound master of those queer
absurdities and distractions known rs
RULES of the House, in all their |
complex convolutions. How they |
happened to be denominated
rules" when they are crookedest
of all involved mechanism ever con-
structed, l am puzzled TO find out,
But Randall, of all living men, Knows
best how to employ rules, devised orig
inally TO facilitate the enactment oil
laws, in preventing legislation. The
house, in view of Randall's action to-
day, in having certain days fixed FOR
the consideration of certain measures,
will never reach Morrison's tariff bill.
Moreover, it is barely possible If it were
reached, that the house, Mt II late day
in the session, would vote 10
take it up. Each member know
ing that the discussion OF
the Morrison bill would consume
the most of the session, and each MEM
Der having some local measure of inf
nitely more importance TO him and his
a tlt ,..t m a
which practical and effective legisla
ton is wholly impossible, will vote Tor
| its postponement. Its consideration is
| the end of practical action, and this
end is not desirable. There are those
who will vote for Morrison's scheme
who will vote for its subordination To
other measures in which they are prac-
| tically and directly interested. There
| fore, Randall will be suffered TO have
his way, and will so organize the
order of events that the
Morrison bill will be acted on. | have
said this before and repeat it, that the
fact may have prominence when you
would anticipate the course, character
and results of the coming political con-
llict.
THE Two'TrIIRDs RULE.
it has been operative through n long
series of years. 1t is defensible be-
cause it secures to the minority perfect
protection againsta despotic and often
unwise majority. 1t made Polk and
Pierce ana Others presidents when
candidates preferred by simple major.
tiles would have been defeated
II makes those who are
f the second choice Of the majority
5 winners when the first choice would
have been defeated. But then the
two-thirds rule is the South's sole
security. The South cannot nominate
+ but eau prevent the nomination o
+ any candidate. Rescnd the rule and
, the South is practically voiceless in
Democratic national conventions
Retain IL and the South will have t
$ representative Democrat on the presi
r dental ticket in 1881, and this caudi
date for the presidency Will be {
= Texan. / am not sure, therefore, tina
a that the two-thirds rule should
i be abrogated. In any event
}. let US wait and see. Perhaps W,
- might do well TO repeal it after til,
" next ticket has been constructed. Just
y now ! would prefer that it may re
lie main operative.
u HON. u. Il. CULBERSOS.
Or When the tariff question comes he
~ fore the house in any shape, Mr.. Cul
:. bersOn will speak. His constituents
~ therefore, will hardly take issue will
IL him until he has been heard. II
AS would vote for Morrison's bill il II
rt must vote for or against it, and vii
-, vote for the Democratic candidate 70
the presidency on taritl-for-revenu(
ce only platform; but he does not concur
IS. ! imagine. with those who, like HuT
NJ Of Ohio, think this is the only gres
II question before the country an
d" that the success or defeat of the part
ce depends upon the approval by tn
,ea tariff reform bill. / have heard NJ
~ Culberson casually and carelessly az
v" vert to this subject, and do not thin
les that have misinterpreted his view
&C. but 1t is well enough to wait and Sc
NV He will speak for himself at the fir
-; opportunity. When he speaks he HI
~" something to say, and says 1t well NJ
IN most effectively. He does not ofts
DIS, address the house; but this is not Il
hat reason for the interest he always @
49,, cites. He thinks logically, reasons a
'hu curately, is an admirable declaimer
well, and is listened to the mo
intently because he has new
OF taxed the patience of
wo- body which will only hear those WI
"a are able to instruct 1t and have new
~, mistaken volubility for eloquence
"i', ponderous words for ponderOus log
THE BUSINESS SETTLED.
Tue A preacher rarely strides out Of [
ing pulpit Into politics that he doesn't y
the his foot in 1t. Last Sunday a Bapt
ugh divine of this city stepped down a
-, out into the political arena and {
vi counted for the murderousness of /
res hog, hominy and whisky city of q
puts cinnati by tracing its crimlnality
that of Danvile and of Copiah conn
,o,,v The godly III n traced cril
~ ., rs an electrical sympathetic fo
4, ,s's down the Ohio and into the Mississ
n,,,S pi and then diverging at right anc
,r,,,, fifty miles inland to Coplah, VIII
~ Matthew gave calls 10 heaven for v,
o,,er geance, and then the pulpit poun,
our struck out for Danville, and dem,
70 NO na strated the proposition that bio
Won. thiIstiness sprang up from Danvi
49, ami was transported by magnetic
,msn raqueous currents down the tributar
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