Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-15
TINE TO VOTE.
The Democrats Considering Pans To-
Choke off the Five Minutes De-
bate on the Tariff Bill,
'he s'nssa Committee on Approprtw
nons Increases tbs ihlount ef tae
Postt flee appropriation.
fHssenase oomuittes on Jnd,e,ary Fur
sHer Consider. the Nomination of
Melville W. Fuller,
TIRED OF TATE~o


NkeINGTSe5, June 1.-The Deno.
cratic caucus announced for midnight was
not called st the iastaace of the Demo
| cfatc members Of the wsys and mekns
&C mml.tee, but at the demand Of a ppm-
! DER OF Democrats WAC are dissatisfied
win tae slow progress made with the
tsrif OIL. The object is to devise mesus
lor restricting the tive minutes debate.
JUST nov thst l. to De done is not clear
10 most Democrats, but various plans
are unCer consideration, ore Of which
conteGp-6tes an agreement among the
democrats 10 remain silent and take no
pArt IN the ceoa'e. letting the RepUb!i-
c:ns do I'll the taking.
PoSTcFYICE APPROPRIATIONS.
WAshIHGFoN, June 1.-THE Senate
committee on appropriations has in
creased she pOstC &ee appropriation by
Sli54S, 0C2: O1e million dollars ia an
propriA:ed to carry on tue eight hour law
WED respec. TO letter carriers, and $780,
VU0 Is appropriated for subsidies. the pre-
VISION being substantially that advocated
OF Senator Frye last year The House
provision appropriating $4,000 to pa7
the posto Hoe clerks for unusual business
Is struck out, sud the pro-
vision 0; S650,Oso for rent,
light and fuel for third. Class offices
IS reduced to $3.50, 900 with q proviso that
there shall not be allowed for rent of sny
third Class Cfice more than $4,000, nor
more that $50 for fuel and hgnt in suy
ore year, and that no contracts shall be
made calling for the payment 81 either
rent, light or fuel beyond the end OF the
ae II fiscal year.
AGAIS POSTPONED.
WASEIN&roN, June 1.-THE Seuste
committee on Judiciary to-day further
considered the nomination Of Melville w.
Fuller. to be Chief Justice, without re-
suit. The meeting continued Eearly half
an hour after the Senate had assembled,
and the case was then postponed for two
weeks.
BEFo2E THE TARIFF COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Senate
suo-comnlttee on t1rif to-day heard the
views OF the cotton bsgging makers on
the tkrlE. The committee Wss luId that
the cotton Begging manufactures had
oeen established with imported machin-
cry upon which duty OF 40 per cent. had
been paid, and that the capscity OF
the establishments was now fully
l0O per eent. in adv nee OF the demands
Tor Begging. A reduction OF the present
$1,000 ~ AA>t w ShOuLG III CASE luto
butts were made free. The comre,iiion
in ludia in baggirg is so fierce, however,
that Il 1t were made free as proposed BY
the bll the factories would suffer speedy
ruin. II was further represented that
there Is no demsad from the planters for
Tree oaGging, in as much as the bagglng
IS ell as the iron hopping on the cotton
bales is all weighed and paid for as cot
ton, and the planter III this way receives
more Ter the osgging than he pays for it.
EXECUTIVE CLgMENCY.
Ghe President mas granted q pardon to
George Smith, Western district of Ar
kansas, convicted Of larceny
and Introducing spIrituous liquors
Ia tie Indian Territory and
sentenced to one years imprIsor meEt on
each charge ard to pay $50 fine; also
Fjonn 5. Sewer, Cherokee Indian, western
| district OF Arkansas, granddaughter,
/ Sentence suspended, Barney C. Smiry,
Arkansas, destroying letters by burning
( postoaice of which he ws= postmaster,
sentenced November 6, 1887, to one year