Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-07
THE TARIFF BILL.
A Report to be Made This Week.
Minority Report InadViSable.
The Refusal to Admit Arizona and New
Mexico This Session DisclOSes a
TWOfOld Purpose.
Book on the Solid South, Reconstruction
and Its Results-PensiOn AHairs-Sayers
Stands Pat on the Salary Question.
AS the Democrats View 1t.

| Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The tariff bill
will be reported this week. Mr.. Carlisle
is now engaged upon the minority re-
port. No minority bill will be presented,
and the Democrats will fight the Repub-
lican bill in the house. The majority of
the Democrats in the house think
it bad politics and entirely in
advisable to present min
GRITTY bill. They are entirely satisfied
that the Mckinley bill is wholly indie
fensible, and they can afford to go the
country on the stand they take against
this measure. To present minority bill
now would create unnecessary embar-
easements. This is the view taken by
majority of the Democrats. Some of the
Democrats regard the Mckinley bill as so
bad they cannot believe it is intended TO
stand alone. They believe that
Secretary Blaine has had q hand
in preparing it, and that high duties
have been put upon raw hides and other
things in order to facilitate dicker look
ing to free trade with South and Central
America.
Senator Frye of Maine, who is the
chairman of the commerce COM
mite, thus speaks on the sub
ject: "I should think that we
could well establish reciprocal relations
with any of the countries of the Western
hemisphere which would adopt our tariff
system and schedules. 1 adopt our tariff
system and schedules. 1 am quite in
clined to believe that it would be wise to
establish these relations with all the
countries between the borders of Canada
and the isthmus of Panama. It
would not be in any sense an
abandonment of any part of our
system of protection, and it would
guarantee to us the almost exclusive
trade of these countries. In extending
the boundaries of our tariff system along
so much more of the coast line we would
of course have to undertake the added
responsibility of protecting ourselves
from smuggling, but l am inclined to
think that we would reap great ad-
vantage from the relation
rwo-FOLD PURPOSE.
The cowardly action of the house COM
mittee on territories in refusing to adj
nit Arizona and New Mexico this session
discloses a two-fold purpose. The SEN
ate majority is to be strengthened by
four votes and six votes will be gained in
the electoral college. The Democrats
will expose this nefarious business and
take an appeal to the country.
AN EMINENT ARTIST.
Last fall MIR. Gnillaume of Washing
ton visited Dallas, by invitation Of the
Texas state fair association, to exhibit
his paintings. The committee awarded
him the highest premium, also a special
gold medal of very artistic design and
of great intrinsic value. Mr.. Guillaume
was the guest of the assocIa-
ton while in Dallas, and was de-
tanned there during the winter filling
orders for portraits. Recently he has
been called to Atlanta, Ga, to fill a
commission for portrait of the gifted
journalist and orator, the late lamented
Henry w. Grady, for the chamber of
commerce, and so satisfactory was it
that an ardent friend of Mr.. G .adv or
dered copy made for himself, and now
another copy has been ordered for the
widow of Mr.. Grady.
Congressman Sayers says the decision
of the court of claims in the Grain case
does not alter his first determination not
to take his November salary, nor does it
affect the proprieties of the question
which he has from the first upheld. He
will not take his salary, which will be
covered into the treasury.