Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-16
IT Will PASS.
The Democratic Members Of the
House Dare Not Vote Against
the Mills Tariff Bill.
Only . Matter Of Time When Benson,
the Patti Ticket SwIndler, Will
Be- In Mexico.
Cougres.msn seye,s Does Not Think II
Wise 10 Postpone Action on the Tariff
Bill-The Morocco Trouble.

will pass virtually as it now Is, or will
Icemcso near it that 1t will have the effect
OF passage. A morning paper prints
this morning double loaded article,
claiming tins. the majority against
this q. bill will be twenty-five.
a careful CANVASS of the House has been
made, 1t says, with the above result. 1t
may be true, but it Doesn't look that way.
A. least two members of the minority Of
the ways and means committee are
kns W. to be very uneasy and frightened
at the outlook, while majority of thst
committee are juoilant. Colonel Mills
House dare not vote against the bill.
Loak ct the voice OF the people as shown
in ststs and district conventions. Can
they dare go against this expression?
They can't and thev know it, and will
vote as their constituents demand. These
conventions may all have been packed
with eff :eholders and the entire power
Of the administration may have been used
to secure this expression. Nevertheless
1t is being used IS Colonel Mills indicated.
A SURE THlNG'
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May Is Mr.. Mills has
his party whipped into line. He feels SO
sure, that, with broad smile on his face,
he made proposition to the r Republican
leaders to-day that took them all by sur
prise. II vas nothing less than a request
that they permit vote to be taken on the
bill without five minutes debate. This
shows more plainly than words what the
administration means to do. Every
Democrat who was in anyway doubtful
hiss been brought into line. Mr.. Mills
tsfis 50 sure of mis- standing he is willing
TO have q vote taken as
1t now stands. That PROPOSE
ton took the members by surprise
and caucus OF Opinion among the Re-
publican members is now being taken
Some are in favor of the proposition, but
others oppose it. But to accomplish this
the committee on rules must amend the
rules so as to change the method of con-
sidering the bill paragraph by paragraph.
This is doubtful question. II the bill
comes 10 vote as it now stands the
chances are In favor Of it's passage. So
sure is LII. Mills of this that he has
also sgreed to another proposition. He
knows his bill is going to pass, snd is now
willing to let the St. Louis committee
meet and make it the tariff plank of the
platform on which Mr.. Cleveland is to
run. It will be used as q mensce to Mr..
Randall and some other Democrats who
are going to be read out of the party If
they don't come to time. So Mr.. Mills
has consented to let the tariff bill go over
two weeks.
As soon as the general debate ends
Monday the legislative, executive and 1u-
dicial appropriation bill will be taken up.
Two weeks at least will be required for
its passage. This will occupy the House
to convention week.
ONE OF THE FINEST.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON. May 15-Among the
best arguments made to date on the tariff
was the speech of Hon. Joe Abbott in the
House tonight in advocacy OF tariff re.
form. The speaker held the clos. atten-
ton Of his audience and presented his
side Of the question ably, eloquently and
logically. His address was not long but
covered the entire range of the, subject
and showed from the mastery method
of its presentation that the speaker
had caught sill the strong points
bearing on the question, and he put them
SO clearly and forcibly that there was no
chance for reiutaticn on the part Of oppo-
neuts Of the bill. In this, his fist set
speech, Mr.. Abbott hss strengthened the
impression thst he is man of first-class
ability as we'll as profound thinker on
ell matters Of national legislation. He
was warmly congratulated at the close of
his remarks.
The general debate on the tariff will
close Saturday with speeches from the
leaders, Speaker Carlisle and Tom Reed
Of Maine.
DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Supreme
court has denied the petition for q writ
OF hsbeas corpus for Benson, now held in
New York on the charge Of having swim
died the people Of Mexico by selling them
bogus Patti tickets. The action of the
Supreme court will now be certified to
the United States court in New York and
a demand by the Mexican gov
eminent for Benson's extradition
will at once be made to the state
department. These now being in due
form and all ready the return of Benson
to the City Of Mexico will be bus mat
ter Of few days. delay. The chief point
before the court WAS the technical ques-
ton whether stamping name with
rubber stamp constituted forgery under
the extradition treaty, point which the
court decided in the Affirmative.
UNwIsE AND INPoLITIC.
Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 15-"I have not
heard OF the proposition to postpone the
tariff bill till after the convention sad
Mr.. Savers tonight, "snd / don't thiak
it would be wise to do SO. The people of
this country are snxiously waiting to see
what Congress is going to do in the
matter, and l. for one am In
favor OF remaining here till the fate OF
the bill Is decided, II it takes the rest of
this year. l do not think it is good
policy to postpone action on this most
important measure before the country,
aud hope it will not be done. We can
p<ss the appropriation oils in time.