Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-04
Still 4 SICK MAN.
Mills Goes to Fortress Monroe TO Re-
cuperate-.Hs Hopes to be Abs
to Lead the Tariff Dsbate.
The International Cornell OF Wsnen
Issues q Sis emeat Of tho Re.
EHiis Of LIS Labors.
Game From the DC IA mit,e~, with
CUT Any Amendments
MILLS A SICK MAN.

Special TO the Gazette
WAsHIN GToN, April 8-Mr. Mills is
far from well and Is still under medical
treatment. He took q short walk with
Mrs. Mile, out returned to the house
greatly fatigued. He left for Fortress
Monroe last night with his wife, where
he will stay for . week or ten days. His
physicians think he will be able 10 re-
sumo his duties on the floor in time to
lead the .sritf debate, hhich ia expected
to begin about Apr 6
THE BOND BILL.
WARRINGTON, April S.-Fhe meeting of
the Senate Committee on finance to-day
gradually changed itself into conference
4 caucus Commit ee OF the two parties
Il was NOT an entire success as a caucus,
owing 10 the difficulty Of finding and get
ting together without previous notice
members Of the caucus conmittees who
are not members Of the fnAuce commit
tee. A proposition was N lde to strip the
bond bill of all amendments and pass 1t IS
it came from the finance committee. /.
is understood Mr.. Stewart as ents Cd
condition that the foance committee
agree to report the bill providing that for
every dollar OF circulation retired under
operation of the bill silver dollar shall
Dc coined.
A STATEMENT FROM TEE WOMEN.
WARRINGTON, April 3.-rhe folio wing
official statement has been issued by the
International Council of Women:
The International Council Of Women,
in session IN the city OF Washington from
March rs to April l, inclusive, makes
punlic the announcement thst AtLy-three
different organizations Of women have
been represented on its platform by
eighty-seven speakers; and delegates
from England, France, Norway, Den
marx, Finland, India. Canada and the
United States. All Of these organizations
bus four are OF national scope, and three
are of national value. The sub
FjScts of education, philsnthropics,
temperance, industries, professions, Or
ganizstion, legal conditions, social
purity, political conditions ana religion
nave been discussed. While restrictions
have been paced upon the fullest ex-
preston OF the most widely divergent
views upon these vital questions Of the
age, it Is cause for rejoicing that the SEES
siUns in private and public nave been sb
solutely without fric ion 1t is the
unanimous voice of the council that all
institutions of learning and of profess
sionsl instruction, including schools
of theology, law and medicine,
should in the interests Of hu-
mainly be as freely opened to
women as to men; that opportunities for
industrial training should be as generally
and as literally provided for one sex as
10 nd no Saf' ~
organized womsnhood in this council will
which both men and women are engaged
equal wages shall be paid for equal work.
BY order OF the delegates.
THE COLLECTION CT CUSTOMS.
WARRINGTON, April s Secretary Fair
child, to-day sent communication to the
Speaker Of the House OF Representatives
calling particular attention to the cendi-
tion of the appropriation for the collection
of revenue Of customs for the f cal year
which will END June 80 next 1t appears
from the letter that at the close
of the year there will be
necessary further appropriation
of $3.50, 600 for the conduct of the service
The Secretary says 1t will be nee ssary to
cut down the pay OF the employees reck-
oned about 40 per cent, unless an sddi-
tionsl appropriation is made, and in view
of this fact he recommends that Con-
gress supplement the appropriation
for collt ctiCn of revenue
from customs for the present
year by further arp 'opriatlon of $780,
900 and encloses graft Of provision to
be incorporated for that purpose. II, he
says, Congress concludes that any relief
should be nlrded in the premises, the
necessity for prompt action Is apparent.