Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
PASSED THE SENATE
Tariff Bill Expected to Reach the
President in Two Weeks.
Speaker Reed the Lion of the Day-A
Petition Asking the Opening OF
the Cherokee Strip.
A Reapportionment Bill introduced in the
House Which Awards Texas an In
crease OF One Representative.
Another Step Taken.

Another Step Taken.
Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I0.-The tariff
bill passed the senate to-day and will
reach the house tomorrow. 1t will be
referred at once to the ways and means
committee, who Will report it back for
Friday and ask for conference. A sin
gle objection to this will take the bill
into committee OF the whole, but it is eX-
pected, in view of the anxiety 10 get
away, that no Democrats will object to a
conference. The opinion prevails that
the bill will reach the president IN about
two weeks and that congress will get
away by October l.
REEDS RETURN.
Mr.. Reed has returned, and his desk
was ornamented by a floral gavel, rest
ing upon bed of roses and rare ex-
otics, in the center of which was the
word Cuisines. The gift was from
the enrolling clerks of the house.
The president and four members of his
cabinet have accepted an invitation from
Senator Stanford to be present at the
dedication of the Leland Stanford, Jr.
university next spring. The trip Will be
extended to the Yosemite valley and will
occupy about seven weeks.
The treasury department has declined
TO grant the request of the prOprietors of
a large soap factory in Mexico for per-
mission to send their Chinese cook from
time TO time to FL Paso, Tex, for the
purpose of purchasing provisions and
supplies for the establishment.
RESOLUTION FROM OKLAHOMA.
A resolution was presented in the sem
ate to-day from the legislative assembly
of Oklahoma, ask ing for the opening to
settlement of the Cherokee Strip. The
petition states that this would compel the
building of other railroads into the Ter
ritory, the construction of which would
give immediate employment to hundreds
of people, aud that the admission of
Oklahoma to statehood would soon fol-
low as a natural consequence. They also
pray for the opening of the Kiowa, Sac,
Fox and Pattawattomie reservations.
TEXAS NOTES.
John NJ. Lerose of Texas has been ad-
mitted as a cadet at the naval academy.
Judge Abbott is not well and has been
confined to his house for several days.
His illness, however, is not alarming.
Mrs. George Flonian of San Antonio
has left the Hygea hotel, Old Point, Com
fort and Is visiting her sister, Mrs.
McDermott, ct her country seat, near
Baltimore.
REINFORCEMENT BILL.
In the bill introduced to-day in the
house by MIR. Dunnell, chairman of the
census commission, to fix the reappor-
tionment under the eleventh census,
Texas is awarded an increase of one rep
resentative.
DRoOKE-KANTZ CONTROVERSY.
Whatever may be the outcome of
the controversy between Gen Brooke
and Col. Kantz, it is now settled that
the former will not be ordered to the de-
partment of Arizona as was at the time
seriously considered by the department.
The newly appointed brigadier- general
McCook will comm and that department
IN accordance with the original pro-
gramme. Orders were issued from the
department directing him to proceed at
once from Fort Leavenworth to Los An
geles and assume command of the de-
partment of Arizona which has been
W ithout commander since the retire.
ment of Brigader- General Grierson. The
Brooke KantZ affair is almost left where
it was before, and until Col. KantZ's
leave expires, thirty days hence, moth
ing will probably be done towards seps-
rating the two officers.