Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-14
SURE TO PASS.
The Blair Educational BIZ, 1t is Said,
NYili Pass the Senate by q Small
Minority Oh Tuesday Next.
The Senate Committee On Agriculture
Continues the Hearing of Senator Pal
mei's Pleuro Pneumonia Bin.
BLAIR EDUCATIONAL BILL.
Special to the Gazette.

StSOicl W OSHStlts
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is 1t can be ssfeI,
said that the Blair educational bill vii
SIS the Senate next week by small
majority. a fnsl vote will be taken OIL
Tuesday. A prominent Senator, who ha
ms de CANVASS CT the Senate, told your
CORES pondent to-day that the measur'
would undoubtedly 60 through. He say
larger number of Republican Senator!
will vote for the bill than formerly, arr
r. passage bY narrow majority is as
sured.
PLEURo PNEUMONIA BILL.
81 ecial to the Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The Senate
committee On agriculture to-day con
tinued the hearing on Senator Palmer
pl ,uro-pneumonia til. DR.. DesalmoI
IF the bureau Of animal industry of IN.
Agricultural Department, said that the
forts OF his bureau TO eXtripete the dis
ease had been mainly in CO operation
with state governments. Illinois, Penn
sylvania and Ohio had at times refused
cooperation, and had thereby embar-
ressed the work Of the bureau. Ten o,
eleven centers of disease, he said, still
existed east of the Alleghenies, ard he
had recent y discovered new cases in Hi
nois.
TO BUY BULLION
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is -Senstor Stew
srt offered an amendment to-day to tins
bill providing for the inves tment Of GER
tain funds in the treasury. 1t provides
that any person may deposit at any min
or SISSY Office gold or silver bullion and
receive certificates therefor. The price
to be paid for gold bullion is to be
fixed at ST. for twenty-five ard
eighteenth grains, while the price fo>
silver is to be fixed by the Secretary OF
the Treasury on the ls. and 18th OF esch
month at the average price OF silver in the
New York market during the preceding
fifteen days, provided the price shall no
exceed an ounce OF gold for sixteen
ounces OF the same fneness. The certif-
Gates are to be in denominations of not
less than 81 nor more than $1,000, and eIe
to be legal tenders redes mable at shy
treasury or sub-tressGry. The bullion re-
Ceiyed is to be milled bars. No more
gold or silver certificates sre to be Issued,
and those coming into the Treasury sre to
oe cancelled. No gold or silver is TO be
coined except to meet Of ligastons ex press
lY made payable ia coin, aud TO meet ac-
tual wants for silver currency smopg the
people. The silver coinage act is re-
pesled.
Senator Sherman offered an amend
ment to the deficiency appropriation bill,
that all claimants entitled TO
monf Y under the provision of the bill she'll
be allowed 6 per cent. interest from the
time when the dei;ieucy bill Of last Con-
gress failed Of passage.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Il Tie following
Texas pensions were issued to day:
Mexican wsr-Mordecai P. Punicutt,
Waco; William r. HOBBS, Elgin; Louis
G rsH, Hondo City; Chester C. Kennedy,
Tom A Garrison, Bolivar.
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL The annual
meeting OF the Board Of Indian Commits
sioners Was held in the Riggs House
to-day. Reports from various religious
engaged in mission apd school
work among the Indians were made. In
the sf:ernoon a number OF bills pending
before Congress were discussed, and to-
night public meeting presided over by
Peel Of Arkansas, chair-
man Of the House committee on Indian
fairs, was held at All Souls church.