The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-21

national debt as fast as possible, and the
abolition of the national bank notes.
The Texas Greenback convention,
which was so extensively advertised
few weeks ago, to take place at Waco on
the 18th instant, proved to be a perfect
tiasco. DR.. j, d. Rankin and two others
comprised the entire convention. No
quorum being present the meeting was
adjourned indefinitely. DR.. Rankin still
has faith in the cause. The idea seems to
be that the rights of labor cannot hope
for relief from either of the great political
parties, as both are favorable to capital
and monopoly
Fort Worth Gazette,
Gen. Beauregard is member of the
New Orleans Cremation society. If he
could induce the society to try its retort
on the Louisiana lottery it would be the
greatest explicit of his life.
Drummers are making an effort to have
congress prohibit the state tax upon
them. If the drummers' license tax is
unconstitutional, no act of congress is
needed to invalidate it, but the supreme
court is the resort for relief. If it is not
unconstitutional, then congress has no
right to prohibit it. Congress has enough
to do with state affairs without extending
its influence further in that direction.
Mr.. Reagen believes in free and unlim
tied coinage of an 80 cent dollar. He
would be better appreciated in Nevada or
Colorado than i'm Texas The people of
this state can't see the necessity of pro-
viding a legal method by which the bull
ionaires of these states can take $4,000
600 worth of silver coin to the mint and
have it coined into $4S,000000. What
have Messrs. Mackay, Fair, Sharon, Tabor
and their crowd done for the people of
the United States that we should give
them $8,000000 every year?
Laredo Times.
Prof. Smith Ragsdale informs the Green
vile Herald that he has decided positively
to make the race for superintendent of
public instruction. Does Prof. Smith ig-
more the formality of a nomination?
The Victoria Advocate answers one of
the STATEsMAN's questions as to what Sen
| ator Maxey has done for Texas; and 1t is
| perhaps as good showing as any other
paper can make. 1t amounts to the neg
alive summary that while he has done
nothing for Texas, he has done nothing
against her. Now as to the other ques-
tion. What has Mr.. Maxey left undone?
1t may be said that, as member of the
postoffices and post roads committee, he
should, together with his colleagues on
the committee, have been sufficiently
vigilant as to preclude the possibility of
the star route depletion of the national
treasury. This is an error of omission
only; Mr.. Maxey was no more to blame
than any of the rest. He is a negetive
quality and commission" cannot be al
legged against him, nor advanced in his
behalf. Personally Gen. Maxey is a dig
niied gentleman and a Baptist deacon in
good standing. There are worse mer
than Gen. Maxey, as there are ADLER The
Times once for all will say that it has nj
damaging charges to bring against thu
senator, and opposes his return to tn,
senate simply because it believes Their
are available ADLER material, and it find
no fault whatever with those of its excel
lent compeers who think differently
among which the Advocate is one of tn
most excellent.
, San Antonio Express
} The speaker of the house appoints for
|
} tees, and the official report in the Con
, gressional Record places the Texas dele
7 gates in these committees as follows:
Stewart-Rivers and harbors, and selec
committee on ventilation and acoustics.
, Reagan Commerce (chairman).
Jones-Posoffices and post roads.
| Culberson- and expenditure
in interior department
Throckmorton- Pacific railroad (chair
NAM.
Wellborn-In affairs (chairman).
Cain-Foreign affairs and labor.
Miller-B Banking and currency, (secon,
place., and education.
Mills-Ways and means, Second place,
and select committee on American shi
building and ship owning interests.
Sayers-Naval affairs and select CON
mitteee on alcoholic liquor. traffic.
Lanham-Coinage, weights and meas
ures, Second place. and claims.
As shown by the above, Texas ha
places on eighteen of the fortyseven CON
mittees, including three Craftsmanship
and three second places. Our membe
8 (Sayers) seems to have been placed wher
he would be least likely to have previou
L KuOWl6uRo VI buDJOObo hiOoO lihOAJ w ~
7 submitted to his committee, naval affair
5 and alcoholic liquor traffic.
, Fort Worth Gazette.
The merchants of Ell Paso are indiq
nant against the free zone on the othe
side of the river. The free zone, or zon
libre, is strip of territory extending froI
! the gulf at the mouth of the Rio Grand
: along that stream and the Mexican from
t tier to lower California. 1t reache
S twenty kilometers (about twelve mile
and half into the interior from tn
n border, and its peculiar and exclusiy
/, privilege is the reception of foreign mad
r goods at mere nominal duty that make
/. them practically free. This is what tn
Ell Paso merchants complain of, and tn
4 complaint is echoed at every Texas tow
Il on the Rio Grande. They seem to have
q good cause to grumble. Foreign good
II are entered at Matamoras and taken int
4 the interior upon which no tariff tax
/ levied, and these goods are easily smut
gled across the river into Texas. Me
q chants on the American side of the rive
: who pay tariff duty of 80 or 100 Pr
Q cent. of the value of their imports, are {
9 course unable to compete with smugglC
+ goods, upon which these duties have nj
i been paid, and their business suffers.
f they cry out against the free zone an
g want it abolished.