Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-08
STATE CAPITAL.
No New Developments in the Race
for Speaker of the House.
Makeup of Committees Now the Alb
SOrbing TOpic-Jaryis to Head the
Senate Finance Committee.
A Railway Commission an Assured Faet-Con-
seryatism an Article Greatly in Need.
Abundance OF Mud.
READY FOR BUSINESS.


Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. Jan. s5.-Nothing new
has been developed in the race for
speaker, and Alexander is probably the
only candidate who will be mentioned.
The question of making up the commit
tees is now the absorbing one.
In the house Gresham goes back at
the
HEAD OF THE FINANCE
committee and Seth Mills will be first on
the taxation committee Alex Pope was
second on Judiciary No at the last ses-
sion and the craftsmanship would go TO
him by right of precedence, but strong
pressure has been brought to bear upon
Alexander in the interest of Brown
of Sherman who would make
an ideal judiciary chairman. Pope will
probably get No. l, and Brown No. ?.
This, however, will leave out Frost, an
other member whose ability as a lawyer
has made him conspicuous figure.
WhatleY, who has been AleXander'S
chief hacker in the race for speaker, will
be chairman of the international i'm
provement committee if he wants to be.
In view of the impending railroad legis-
Iation, this viii be one of the most i'm
portant committees in the house.
IN THE SENATE.
acknowledgements Wheeler gives it
out that Jarvis will be chairman of the
finance committee in the senate, with
Mcdonald at the head of judiciary No
and AbercrOmbie first in judiciary No 2.
Further than this he would not go, but 1t
is very likely that Armistead will head
the school committee The others will
not be known until the full list is an
nOunced.
There are not so many candidates as
there were yesterday. Some of them
have become tired and withdrawn. There
are plenty left, however, to select from.
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
The air is full of railroad legislation
Nobody can tell what it will be except
that there will be a commission, that
much has been decided, and unless it can
be headed off in the senate railroad
commission will have charge of the trans
portation of freight in Texas before
twelve more moons have waxed and
waned At present there are only two
classes of citizens TO be met with,
those who would give the rail-
roads the earth with barb
wire girdle and those who would create q
commission with power TO tear up the
tracks. Unless there is an element to
stand between those two and guide the
proposed legislation in proper channels
Texas will not be benefited by any mon
keying this legislature will do with the
iron highways Conservatism is needed
here now and needed badly.
CONSIDERABLE CUSsING.
The grading in the capitol grounds has
not been completed and the rain which
fell to-day has made the ground so mud
dy and slippery that it is hard work get
ting to the state house. The men who
refused to allow the bill appropriating
money for this work to go into effect from
its passage and merely delayed it ninety
days, are coming in just now for large
amount of cussng
HOAX.
A report was circulated to-day to the
effect that Senator Coke was in the city.
1t excited great deal OF comment, but
turned out to be Il hoax. Somebody is
trying to start opposition to Coke, but
the effort seems to be abortive and the
old man will probably 90 in again with
out struggle.
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
a woman named Lille, belonging to
the demi monde, took poison this after
noon, but physician was called in time
! to save her life.
Colonel Chiffon, of the immigration
bureau, has gone to Ell Paso for asfew
days.
The following charters were filed to-
| day: The Reconsideration Electric
Light and Power Company. Ineor-
| poratOrs-J. w. Riddle, r. Mes
| quieZ and A. Washington of
Piedras Negras, Mexico, and L. d Bond,
J c. Baylor, William Houser and others
Of Eagle Pass, Tex.
Bastrop and Lee County Farmers AL
| lance Cooperative Association, for buy
| ing and selling real estate and other prop
! erty. Independently. o. ROdges, Z.
Hoog, H. Il. WIberger, H. NJ. Hines,
| W. A. James and others.
Among the editors who came in to-
night was Grice of the Express.