Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-01
STATE AID
Advocated to Secure Deep Water.
Jarvis Road Bill.
Austin Full of Lobbyists, Every Nan
Carrying an Ak TO Grind-Kin-
eaid on the Waco Charter.
Report of the House Detective Committee into
the Cause OF Absence OF Officers, Mem
baPs and Employees.
ANOTHER POINT GAINED.


senate committee on roads this morning
with some amendments. This bill pro-
vides for the issuance of bonds by the
comfy and for a lO-cent tax TO pay
the interest and create a sinking fund to
pay the principal.
This has been lobby day. \ large num-
Der of surveyors are here from William
son county supporting and opposing the
proposed new county of Willie. Hous-
tonians are here for and against new
charter for that municipality. Dial
las men are here looking
after the court bill and
the Dallas city charter. Waco
men are fighting over new charter for
their city and GalYestonians are trying to
beat the consolidation of the courts at
Austin. Altogether it has been very
lively day.
NOT on EITHER SIDE.
By the way, speaking of the Waco
charter, Mr.. Kincaid s attention being
called to the statement in the special
from Waco yesterday to the effect that
Mr.. J. Q. Moore was quite severe on
special charter, that gentleman said he
was at loss to know why Mr.. Moore
should make such q statement. 81 told
them - said he, that l expected to refer
to their local representative, Mr.. Mills,
in the matter, and that if the people of
Waco wanted the charter they should
have it, and if not, it should be defeated.
[ neither announced my opposition nor
support Of the measure to any one.
WHO ARE THE RECREANTs?
A little breeze was raised in the house
this morning by the report of the COM
mittee appointed to inquire into the cause
of the absence Of members and employees
of the house. The report was to the eff
feet that in some instances the alb
sence was caused by indiscretion.
As the names of those who had
been indiscreet were not mentioned the
report was construed into a reflection
upon every member who had ever been
absent Kincaid and Stevenson. of
Parker, made short speeches Indignantly
protesting against the adoption of the re-
port. Neither gentleman has ever been
absent from q roll call but both opposed
the report as rejecting on members who
have been called away by sickness or
important business. The report was laid
aside to make way for the special order
and will come up tomorrow. Perhaps
the appointment of this detective COM
mittee has no precedent in the history of
parliamentary bodies.
OLD-TIMERs MEET.
Big-Foot Wallace was the observed of
all observers about the capitol to-day.
He was introduced to many persons, and
enjoyed telling them of early times. lie
met to-day comrade named Arlington,
from Williamson county, whom he had
not seen since they soldiered together in
1912. Wallace isseventy-t three years old
and Arlington sixty-eight.
The internal Improvement committee
of the house win tomorrow report favor
ably Miners bill to prevent the watering
of stocks.
DEEP WATER.
Hon. John Hancock, one of the best
posted men in the country on deep water,
addressed the senate committee on state
affairs on the subject this evening. He
showed the immense advantages Texas
would reap from one or more good har-
bors on her gulf coast, how the people
of Texas were taxed on the trade and
transportation of her products in the last
two or three years to an amount that
would amply suffice to build several first
class barbors. With such ports our COM
merce would reach out its tentacles and
grasp a vast trade from Mexico
and the South American ports and
we would soon have as large a COM
mercial center as New York upon our
coast. Not only Texas, but the great
northwest would be tributary to our COM
merce despite all that the east could do
to divert trade from US to the eastern
railways The Federal government, of
course, should do this work for the
general interests of the country, but
he had no faith in anything but
small temporary appropriations from
that source, and consequently he argued
the state should take the matter in hand,
and, whether with or without private
aid, should issue bonds and build her own
harboTS. This plan of Judge Hancock S
would require constitutional amend
ment providing for a tax as proposed in
the resolution of Representative Gresham
of Galveston Senator Kimbrough IS bill,
which approves the subject, will prob
ably be reported favorably tomorrow.
It provides for a commission of three
competent citizens of Texas, to be assist
ed by the best engineering talent of the
country, TO select suitable location for
a ueep water port lAe OBJECT Is 10 DflHg
the matter in this way to the attention of
the press and the people for discussion of
some such a proposition as Mr.. Gresham IS
by constitutional amendment.
HOUSTON IS CHAPTER
A number of officials and prominent
citizens of Houston arrived this morning
and are stopping at the Driskill Among
them Aldermen Meyer and Brown. City
ASSESSOR Adair CITY & sSessoP and Treas
urer Bringhurst and City Attorney King,
the eminent lawyer Judge Goldthwaite,
Judge Johnson, DR.. Boyles and others.
Tomorrow T. W. House, the wealthy
merchant, Hon. John T Brady, George
L. Porter, Alderman Kennedy and Judge
E. P. Hill will also arrive. The occasion
of the presence of these gentlemen here
is the sharp fight being mare over amend
ments to the city charter of Houston to
enable the people of that city
to secure drainage and better
streets. The amendments proposed by
them authorize the issuance Of fNe nty-