Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-11
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
The President at Work on His Annual
Message The SpeakerBhip OF
the Flftlelh Congress.
Preparations FOR the convsninE OF Con
grsss-The REV Process Of Making
Sugar Successful.
pnEpARINa ms MKssAoE.

dents rule not TO receive visitors except
upon purely official business and at the
tri-weekly afternoon receptions goes into
effect tomorrow. lie proposes TO devote
his principal attention from now until
congress meets to the preparation Of bis
annual message, and VIII not be bothered
about appointments.
PREPARING FOR TnE CONVENTION OF
coNGREss,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 Mr.. Randall,
chairman Of the house committee on APP
propriatlons,is expected 70 arrive here on
the 18th inst. TO get things In
readiness for the meeting Of his commit
tee which takes place II a quorum can be
brought together on the 800. Among the
members Nho are confidently expected are
those composing the sub committees on
the sundry civil appropriation bill, which
measure II is said 10 be Randalpa pur-
pose TO have In readiness 10
be reported TO the house at the
opening OF the session. The estimates are
now In the hands Of the printer. 1t Is
said, though not ty official authorities,
that their aggregate IL slightly below the
total Of last years appropriations.
NEW SUGAR PROCESS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 The following
telegram has been received at the de-
partment Of agriculturei
FoRr SCOTT, KAN. Nov. 8.
Commissioner OF Ayr culture;
We finished boiling eighty-three tons OF
Louisiana cane tonight aud made
nearly $4,000 pounds OF strike. A
weighed portion run into centrifugal
gave o. per cent. OF arled sugar. This
will be more than 100 pounds OF FIRST
sugar per ton. The cane Juice had
eaf ~ nd alf f,u
per cent. OF GLUCOSE aud l4d per cent. Of
total solids II would have made only
eighty pounds by the old process and we
have increased the yield fully forty
pounds per ton OF sugar OF fine quality.
Signed WILEY, Chemist,
This dispatch Is regarded by the au-
thorities at the agricultural department
as fulhllment OF the promises
OF Important results given by
the first incomplete experiment
In the diffusion process as applied to
sugar cane, The process was developed
In Europe for application in the manufac.
ture OF beet sugar, and has been
several times tried In this country
upon sugar cane, but without decided
success, owing TO the imperfect machin-
cry and the necessity of considerable
notifications TO meet the difference In the
material to be worked. In 1888 experiments
In tho new process were begun on small
scale In Washington on sorghum, and az
Ter time such measure OF sue
cess was attained that the commits
sioner determined 10 put the process into |
operation upoh,h large scale To this end
a plant was established in connection |
With a sorghum-sugar-m establish
ment at Ottawa, Kas., and the new process
haathrpn rarrlad nm Iindpr tho aunarvIainu |
OF Prof. Wiley with marked success. |
Meanwhile the sugar-cane growerg OF |
Louisiana have become deeply interested |
In the process, aud have anxiousiy desired
TO learn whether II could be
made applicable To their products. To
test the matter the commissioner has de-
cided 20 undertake the experiment in
Louisiana on scale OF sufficient
magnitude TO determine its praGtlcability. |
but as preliminary test he caused |
train load Of sugar cane to he shipped |
from Louisiana TO be worked up in the |
Kansas sorghum mills and 1t |
Is the result OF this experiment which |
Prof. Wiley announced In his telegram |
Prof. Richardson, the assistant chemist OF |
the department. says the analysis OF |
the cane juice given by Prof |
Wiley shows that the cane, which had |
been some time on Its way from Louisl- |
ana, was Of rather inferior quality or
In bad condition He believes the |
new process within few wears I
lllpush itself into universal use, siace
an increase Of 80 per cent. In the Yield of |
the cane sugar crop by means which are |
but trie more expensive than
those in present use will be motive |
which the most conservative planters
Will be unable 10 resist
CONGRESSMAN wELLBoRN INTERVIEWED
WASHINGTON, Nov, 0,--Representatlve
Welborn of Texas, who Is one OF the
ahlest and most experienced parllamenta-
rlans In the house, was asked by an AS
ISOLATED Press reporter to-day what O fleet |
the contest over MIR. Gnrllsle's seat, |
should there DO contest, would have |
upon his candidacy for speakership Of the |
house. Mr.. Wellburu replied; "Such |
contest would furnish no reason what. |
ever why Mr.. Carlisle should not be |
speaker OF the house In the Flitleth con-
grees. Rule ten OF the house OF repre-. |
sentatiyes isi Unless otherwise espe-
olally order dlby-the house, the speaker
shalt appoint ~ the commencement OF
each congress the following standing
committeos' The list includes the com.
mlttee on elections and all standing com
mittees. The rules OF tho present can
not by their own force ilx the methods Of
procedure in the subsequent con.
gross, Nevertheless by unbroken
usage now house as preliminary 20 its
permanent organization adopts the rules
OF the prior house. Such, take It, will
be the course In the next house aud rule
ten Will thns control tho constitution Of
the committees In the tfltieth congress
should there be & contest over Mr.. Car.
isles seat the house itself will In some
suitable way select the committee on
elections aud, thus Mr.. Carlisle will be
relieved OF any possibility Of embarrass-
ment ON that score. To hold that Mr..
Thoebe's contest with Mr.. Carlisle
disquallles the latter for speaker, con.
ducts 10 result Illogical aud absurd. II
such holding were followed, the influence
and power OF chosen leader Of the
dominant party In the house would be
etfectually crushed at any time by spring
ing contested election case, no matter
how absolutely void II may be OF merit,n
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l0,--The total coll
lections OF internal revenue, from the time
the present system WAS organized, July