Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07
WHITNEY IN '92.
Out of Office. Not Cat of Politics. Why
Kilgore Supported Oklahoma Bill.
The Resolution Looking to Survey of the
Texas Coast-standlng of the Inter
State Commerce Commission.

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signalized in the house of representatives
by the passage of the Oklahoma bill by
the comfortable majority of forty-five
votes. The reasons actuating the great
majority of the Texas delegation in OPP
posing the measure have already been
outlined in GAZETTE specials. The prin-
cipal objection was the fear that the bill,
| in the shape il went through the house,
would endanger the rights of Texas to
Greer county, and give political jurisdic-
ton over il to the territorial govern
lnent of Oklahoma. In this view Col.
Kilgore did not concur. He considers
that the status quo as to the county in
dispute was amply maintained and that
the bill By no means comprehended the
absorption of Greer county by the new
territory. He argued this not only from
the terms of the bill which declared that
/ the north line of Texas should be the
boundary of Oklahoma on the south, but
also from a clause that specially excepted
Greer county lands from settlement, as
| in the proposed territory until the title
to Greer county might be decided in
| favor of the United States. Believing
this and moreover that the opening up of
| the country would certainly inure TO the
| good Of the Texas people Col. Kilgore
cast his vote in favor of the Springer bill,
and, though it was simply an honest diff
ference of opinion among gentlemen
equally interested in the public welfare,
| it is not difficult to see that the position
! taken by Col. Kilgore is in line with the
! progressive spirit of the times, which
would not longer retard the development
| of magnificent though desert tract into
a prosperous and thickly settled region.
The resolution looking to survey of
the Texas coast for determining where
| deep water can be had the quickest and
cheapest Will likely be put on the sundrY
civil appropriation bill in the
senate and will no doubt on its
return to the house pass that body. 1t
was ruled out on a point of order when
the same appropriation bill WAS before
! the house, but there ism It much doubt of
! its ultimate success. The Texas delega-
| ton will support it to man, and it is
! still believed that the proposition if i'm
| partially carried out will go far toward
! solving the momentOus question that af-
! fects, not Texas alone, but the entire
| Southwest.
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| Are any of THE GAZETTE IS readers
thinking of coming to Washington to at
they had better set about securing quar-
tiers at once. The indications are that
the most enormous crowds that were
ever seen here will come pouring INTO the
! capital on that occasion, and IL rooms
are not engaged ahead it will scarcely be
possible TO get them at any price. The
| mutterings of disapprobation raised in
some quarters about the ball on the night
of the Inauguration have about died out,
and the great court of the pension office,
the finest in America, is being put in
superb order tor the terpsichorean fes-
| tivities.
To give Satan his dues, it was rather
nice of the Republican senators TO allow
the confirmation of Capt. Bragg as inter
state commerce commissioner the
other day. He is an Ala
bama Democrat, and according
to the law creating the commission, by
his re-appointment, will hold the place
for six years. The salary being a very
comfortable one, $500 per annum, it
was thought the Republicans would sim
ply by holding up'' Bragg's nomina-
ton wait until the Harrison regime got
in, and thus give the place to a Republic
can. The commission therefore still
stands three Democrats to ( 20 Republi-
cans. The latter are Judge Thomas NJ
Cooley, the great writer of legal books,
chairman of the commission, and Col.
A. F. Walker of Vermont, Col.
Walker, though Republican is
one of the purest and best men in the
country. He had the grit to vote against
Blaine in 1884 ana is far too upright in
principle to obey the behests
of any party machine, when
leagued with corruption. To show in
what esteem his abilities are heed, he
was recently offered the craftsmanship of
the recently formed railroad association
at a salary of S25, 900 year. He has
not definitely decided yet whether to ac-
cept the tempting position.
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Amid the general gloom consequent on
Democratic surrender of power, some
bright spots serve to show that the situa
tons is not nearly so bad as it might be.
The administration about to go out de-
serves the good regard of the country,
but in one feature it has been glorious;
for next to the central figure himself |!
there looms up the splendid
personality of that peerless sec
rotary, William c. Whitney. Repub- |
licans as well as Democrats combine in
singing his praises. Not since the late war
has there been such head of the navy |
to compare with this man. With mas
terful genius he set to work to build up
out of nothing navy of which the coun- |
try should be proud. His efforts have |
been one uninterrupted line of |
triumphs 1t is a national calamity that |
he could not be allowed to |
complete the work so magnifcently be- |
gun. Does anybody dream that the |
country has seen and heard the last of |
him because he steps out of Mr.. Cleve- |
land IS cabinet? If the opinion of the ablest |
and most far-seeing men is worth any /
thug the name that shall head the ticket /
when the Democratic cohorts sweep on to |
victory in 1892 will be W. C. Whitney of |
New York.
Low prices on furniture at Maddox s.