Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10
1t viii be Established in the Ter
ritory or in North Texas.
Entire Reorganization of Civil Service
Commission Expected No
Tariff Legislation.
Senate substitute to be Rejected by the House.
New Mexico TO be Admitted With
the Other Territories.
Texas Ought to Have 1t.

Special to the Gazette.
WAsnISGroN, Feb. There was con-
siderable talk in the senate to-day over
the senate bin to establish court in the
Indian Territory at Muskogee in order to
relieve the pressure on the court at Fort
Smith, Ark. The bill was championed
by Senator Vest, who advocated it as
substitute for the Culber-
son bill which passed the house
last session. The latter. bill creates two
Federal courts in the Northern and East
ern Texas districts at Denison and Paris
respectively, each with jurisdiction over
portions of the Indian Territory Senator
Coke set forth the advantages of he
house bill over the Vest measure,
giving good reasons therefor. The
trouble is that there is so much
rivalry among certain towns in North
Texas over the question of location of the
proposed court that 1t may end in a
failure ON the part Of any. Texas city to
be selected In the meantime the miser
able state of affairs at Fort Smith con-
tinues until it is almost a national dis
grace.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The talk in political circles to-day is
over the very abrupt manner in which
the president bounced Civil Service Com
missioner Edgerton. The letter was
only two lines long and informed
Mr. EdgertOn that he was removed
from office. Nobody blames Mr.. Cleve-
land for the dismissal for the removed
official has often of late publicly de-
nounced the civil service system as
fraud and failure, and though he thus
spoke of the law which he had sworn to
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cency to resign in favor of some one
else who would carry out its provisions
instead of obstructing. There is great
complaint over the way the civil service
has been administered and an entire
reorganization of the commission
is expected Until Elk Governor Thomp-
son of South Carolina. Mr.. Edgerton IS
successor, is confirmed by the senate
there is left only one commissioner, Mr..
Ligman, and he declares that he Will
not, in the absence of the two other
members that compose the commission,
be able to carry On any business.
->FTFE--rzsSEFF
On Tuesday the ways and means COM
mittee will report their new tariff bill TO
the house. 1t has been ascertalned that
the senate tariff bill would only make a
total reduction of $l3 900 900 in the an
nual revenue Some figure it as
low as So COO 900 and the
ways and means committee will,
as a matter of course, move to re-
iect the amendment from the other
chamber. Nobody looks for any ta4iff
legislation by this congress. The
differences between the two houses
are irreconcilable, and though
at one time it looked as if the ways and
means committee had lost its old control
of the house, when the test came its
power was still dominant That it
should have lost some prestige is but
natural.
THE OMNIBUS BILL,
Mr.. Springer said to a GAZETTE man
to-day that he had no doubt of a speedy
agreement on his BILL including New
Mexico and enough Republican senators
had agreed to let in New Mexico to in
sure its statehood along with the rest. .