Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-19

common school education, the eNlen ~.
itures of each state to be on tho o"s''
of illiteracy. ,o n, The
bill. ,,t.,s sneech
the senate went into executive sess'o''
and soon adjourned.
! HOUSE.
| yos,,i,,,on March lS.-Reports
submitted: Elliott, from .hs . an,,.
mittee on elections. hesVIu.los" ,san.
arming the right of H. refers y, m nyar
Cnlberson of Texas, from the coili-
,,it,na on indiclsry-To change Tue
EASTERN and Northern judicial district
ot Texns and attach TO 1t part OF .ne
Indian Territory. Placed ON mouse
calendar. 49, 90, oou,-
Reagan. from the committee on con-
uerce~A Authorizing the construction
Of briires across the Rio Granue al
Laredo and Eagle Pass. Placed on
house calendar. A.
p.ters from SAME committee-ap-e
pr1pria,ing 1000 for construction OF
n vessel for The revenue marine anu
steam launch for use IN Alaskan
,vafars Referred to committee ON APP
t
Also by Peters = Authorizing me
construction of bridges across the
Missouri river Mt Sibley and Leaven-
worth placed on house calendar.
Rogers. from the committee on post
offices and post roads-To prohibit the
muilinp of lottery circulars or news
name rs containing lottery advertise
mpnts Iaid on the table.
Money. from the same committee
70 regulate the compensation OIL fail-
roads for transportation of mails. Re-
ferred TO committee Of the whole
Perkins from the committee on
Indian affairs For the sale of the
Iowa Indian reservation in Kansas
and Nebraska. Placed on house
calendar.
Nelson. from same committee
Granting right OF way through the
Sioux Indian reservation in Dakota
to the Chicago, Milwaukee IL st. Paul
and Dakota Central railroad compan-
les Placed on house calendar.
At the expiration of the morning
hour. Townshend moved that the
house 20 into committee of the whole
on the postoilice appropriation bill,
and declined to yield TO Curtin, who
wished an opportunity to submit the
. report of the foreign affairs committee
upon the Issker resolutions. There
mon the members of that committee
mustered their forces, aud attempted
to vote down the motion, but though
they made u good fight, the appropri
utions committee came out successful
and the house went into committee O
the whole, with Blount in the chair
or the bill IA stated.
Cannon raised point of ordel
against the second section, whicl
amends the revised statutes so as Il
prohibit weighing mails more than
once in four years. Cannon and Neile
: argued in support OF the point, ant
Holman, Randall and Townshend il
, opposition thereto, but the chair, in ;
,, clear, logical decision, ruled agains
, his party friends, and sustained The
point of order.
In speaking to formal event, Aiker
= reviewed and characterized various
features of the bill, declaring that II
made the most niggardly appropria
ton of any appropriation bill he
had ever considered, He was OPP
posed to the proviso limitins
compensation for mail service to th'
+ land grant roads. and said in spite o
, himself he Il on q it would appea
that there was vicious legislation be
hind the clause.
After the committee had DISGUISE,
: the mntg'r Tor some time, the grea
obiector from Indiana rose and pre-
!. sented an amendment to his owl
! bill. He took in the very roads IL
e had Included IN framing his bill
y Though he Aiken did not charg
il anybndy with having a 10
q in the bill, that action had excited sus
. pciou in his mind. The next thin
a in the bill which attracted his atteu
70 ton was the appropriation of 81 500, GO
y for star route service, and additional
a imaginary appropriations 81 100000
If Where WAS that million the pOstmas
rs ter general had said something about
"A that uneXpended balance OF 81 100 O0C
,r Why had not the com nittee re-apprt
" priated the whole of that sum? wins
i. was to become Of the Sl,0O0, 0lO? ]
!, his mind, there WAS cover
4, legislation right there. Ii
,e criticised the committee for maxim
le no provision for special mail facilitie!
ne ana ridiculCd the excuse presente
NJ that IL had not been estimated, for th
nd committee refused to give because tn
ce postmaster general did not ask. VIII
m in the name of common sense did
n object to giving what he did ask fol
H. This species OF niggardly Legislation
m which WIS manifested on every pag
or of the bill, showed conclusivelv to an
adj right minded, thinking man that ia
purpose of the bill was to get up
cheap notoriety for grand econom,
Applause ON the Republican side,
Holman denied indignantly tina
se there was anything covert in the bill
ia ana hoped the gentleman would SD
er- officially point out wherein the con
es mittee ON appropriations or any men
IL Der sought to deceive the house or II
es country.
ee Reagan offered an amendment @,
ID, tending to members of congress n
as right To use penalty envelopes in IL
on transaction OF official business. Tow,
he send While of Kentucky and Rapda
opposed the amendment, and Belfo,
advocated IT., and inquired of Randa
why congressman had not the right
send free IA letter on public buslnes
MS y man who would object to that W,
~, SO narrow between his eyes that !
raj could look through key-hole vii
both eyes. Randall declined 10 co,
with the gentleman from Colorad
either in wit or yulgarity, and mai
tanned that the people had condemne
te, the ranking privilege.
of Belford thought the interest of men
on beers in the transactions of ,uIbI
81 business required that they shonl
At send their letters through the mail