Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
STILL AT WORK,
What the Ways and Means Committee
is Doing About Tariff Meas
ure-What Mills Says.
4 Department Km2ioys DHmissed ard
hoiDststsd an Hour Later on The
Strength OF His War Record
MILE AND THE TARIFF.

| sPeClui 10 tne ShZette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. % The ways snd
means committee held no session yester-
day or to-day. The majority are stil
working on tarf bill, mt are not YET
'ady to submit it 10 the whole com,
mittee.
Mr.. Mills, VINO has returned from
Providence, is delighted with what ap
pears to him TO be the spirit Of the NaH
EuelAnd people with relation to the reve.
nue. question. They ara q foe
lot Of people up that wsy, he
| sSys, and they take the right
view of the tariff question. Throughout
the manufacturing distric,s, ne says the
arif for revenue theory is popular and
hey are pleased with the Presidents LAST
message. Al Providence, he says, Re-
publican Of influence IN the state told him
though he had never voted any but Re-
publican ticket in bis life, he w.g for
Ctevelsnd, and believed they would carry
Rhode Island for him.
DISMISSED AND REINsTATKD.
washington, Feb % Yesterday after-
noon at O'Clock John B Lynch, watch
man in the money order. building OF the
Post flee Department, received notiics-
tiOn OF mis- dismissal. He went home, got
ais records and discharge pspers a. q pri-
vste soldier ard carried them to Mr.. Eu.
right, superintendent of the building.
Fhe records showed that he had served
throughout tie civil war with
distinction, had been wounded
at Auietam and berg disabled
for field DUTY had been sppointe d orderly
to Secretary Stanton. After the Bst,Ie OF
the Wilderness, when Grant had not been
heard from for seven days, Lynch was
jntIusted by President Linccla with the
DANE erous ts'k Of conveying dispatches
TO Grant. Lynch succeed. d in The mis-
sion End brought back Grants answer,
Whica contained the famous sentence:
81 will fight Il cut on this line ii it TAX, 8
all summer" Ga lesrniHg these facts
Mr. Enri2hs promptly reiDststel Lunch
within su hour If his receipt OF the mott
6cation of dismissal.
ADVERSE REPORTS ORDERED.
WASHINGTON, Feb 22-The Senate
committee on interstate comm cree to-day
directed adverse reports to be made on
the bill to license railroad conductors
AMI the bill introduced by Senator Butler
TO fix maximum passenger rate ard 70
fix the hours Of labor for employees on
passenger traine.
POsTAL CHANGES.
saec.al to the Gazette,
WASHINGTON, Feb. % The following
PexGs postal cnsnges were msd9 to-dsy:
Star service, between Paris and Monks
toWn-From February 81 curtail seryice
to end at GATHERINGS store end emit
Monkstown, decree ing the distance
tweIve miles.
Bouham to MonkstowE-From Febru-
ary 27 increase service to three times
week.
The following railway postoftice service
changes are announced:
Q1Snsh knd Fort Worth RailWay-Pos-
tai clerks extend rua to begin at Clsrsn-
don; Increase 10 distance, eighly.fys
miles, making the whole distance 2T8
miles. The liue is to be known ss the
Clarendon and Fort Worth, Texss, rail-
way posioflce.
Fort Worth to Purcell-GuN, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railway, ITO m lee, to EN-
brace Saginaw, TsrrSut county, on this
route. between The offices Ct Fort Worth
and H45let.
OFF FOR WICHITA, KAN.
WASHINGTON, Feb 90 Speaker Car
Isle lett Washington Tonight with Mrs
Carlisle for Wicaits, Kan, where their
son Is i'll.