Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-13
RANDALL UNEASY.
The Pennsylvania Not as Certain Of
His Following as He was in the
FOrty-Ninth Congress.
The General SEppositsen that He will
oppose the Tariff Bill and Brig In
Measure OF His Own.
How q Central American Union Is BEING
Rapidly Achieved Through an
Interstate Railway SyH,eru
WHAT WILL RANDALL DO?

st. LOUIS MO- req Ia EpeClAi
TELEGRAPH from Washington, says: l. is
not yet known just what course Mr..
Randall will pursue when the tariff bill is
brought before the House. It 10 doubt
tul if any excepta very select few on the
Democratic side OF the House have been
sdvised by Mr.. Randall SIS to his policy
Tie Speaker and the Democratic mem
bers Of tse Ways and mesns committee
do not know what to expect OF Mr..
Randall. He hiss studiously avoided
giving any sign as to his probable action.
Quite 8 number of Republicans seem to
think that Mr.. Randall will assist them in
opposing the Democratic bill. Rsndsll's
alliance with the Republicans cannot be
as close as It WAS during the last session
of Congress for the reason thst Randall
is uncompromisingIy opposed to interfer-
| ing with the sugar duty, and most OF the
R epublicsns want that duty cut down
about half and qpite 6 number think
that
THE ENTIRE DUTY
on this product should be abolished, spd
also bounty voted to the planter in
stead. Mr.. Randall has Tot intimsted that
be will bring In q oil Of his own as he did
IN the last Congress. The general sup
position is that he will oppose the bill
reported from the committee, and il he
can get the R3publicans to act with him
and succeeds in defeating that measure
later on In the session, he will try tC
bring 10 the front measure similar tC
| the one he introduced in the last Con-
| gress.
Mr.. Randall is very uneasy snd hardly
knows what course to pursue. He is not
IS tain Of his following ssIha was in the
last Congress-, and added to this trouble
the Republicans are not inclined 10 fol
low hin, but are insisting that Randall
shall follow them.
A COMMERCIAL UNION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-The United
.Ssstes consul at San Salvador has made
regard to the railway system Of Centre
| MeneEdez of Salvador is an earnest
late President BaTrlos of Gustemsls
taVors the assimilation of the institutions
and business methods of This country
Bsrrlos projected the construction
# railway from tke bay o
1
sea to Guatemala City, distance OF 15t
miles where it wSs 10 connect with tnt
existing nsrrOw-gSuge on the Guatems!.
Central, seveuty-lve miles in length, ter
minatipg on the Pacific st Topenro in
I stead of San Jose. Forty miles OF thi
trsnscontinental road from Puerto Bar
rios to Guatemala City were half finished
at the time of Barrios' death. His sue
cessor, President BsrrilIos, pursues III,
same policy, .f2voring the construction G
the Transisthman and other railways pro
jacted In Guatemala, particularly the one
designed to connect the capitals of Guate
mails and Mexico.
"Iu truth" the consul says "Seno
Barrillos aud other Central American
statesmen have not failed to discover
that no Central American Union Is desir,
ABLE which may be pinned together viii
bsyonets, and none desirable and endur-
lug can be achieved save through an In
terstate railway system"
After referring 10 the unhealthful Gil
mate of Central America at sea level tn
consul says: "The Nicaragua canal and
the ship railway and DeLesseps canal
each and all are sea level. No soft, coolin:
wind from the Pacific mxy fad it
way into either csuSl or follow
the gigantic locomotives, Juggling =
the ships crossing the Tehsuntepec, an
the acclimAted alone may cross the con
tinent Ia safety st the sea level; but theI,
is perfect
IMMUNITY FROM CLIMATIC DISEASES
the instant the traveller reaches an eleva
ton of 1000 feet above the sea
Commerce therefore, will traverse thu
ship railway and sansI. Men ard WON,
| will prefer this llrsnsisthmien railway
having perfectly land l0cEed hsrbor a
each terminus and an elevation at n,
point after leaving the coast OF less thai
1000 feet above the level of the two
qcesns.
After describing the wonders Of tn,
interior country, such SIS fathomlesi
lakes, extinct and active volcanoes, anC
relics OF antiquity, the consul continues
"Tbe railWSy crosses the state Of S
Ana in Salvador, fifty miles square, pro-
duCiIg 1t Is stated more coffee In D auy
equal area Of laud in the world. In tru't
every sore in San Salvador is cultivated
each producing from two to four crop.
annually. The railway penetrstes fcou
La Union to Puerto Bafrios or to Pcr
Isabel, whichever harbor may be it:
northern terminus, very paradise. The
average density of populsuon along tn,
whole route exceeds 100 for each sQusr,
mile Here villages and towns az
almost CONTIGUOUS. aud the population
Azecs 92 per cent. and Spanish s pc
cent, toll most industriously. Labor
costs 20 % % cents and food 10 cents pc
diem. There is not q stove or fire place
IN ANY house.
in the republic None are needed where thi
thermometer never falls below 7Os o.
rises above 800. So great is tae annual
production Of fruit, IS well SIS of indigo
sugar and coffee, and SO short the dis
tsuee from BaTrios to Mobils, that Il fl
brlieved the most delicate and deliciou,
tropicsl fruits, never seen In the Unitec
StStes, will be distributed eyerywher,
frem MOBILE, and SO redundant are tn,
crops Of Salvador and OF the district O
0uatemals, penetrated by this rail way
that it must have two trseks-one 70
immense local. the other for for inter
oceanic freights and travel. But tn
egreat good TO be achieved by thi