Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-15
TIME TO INVESTIGATE.
The Old Story OF Rottenness in the Pen
sion OifiCe-The Anti Lottery Bill
The Farmers Alliance to Cut Large Figure
In the Next House-A Good Story on
Barnes of Georgia.
GREATEST FRAUD ON EARTH.


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Not content with
practiclng slippery methods himself in the ad-
ministration of the pension Office, Commissioner
Raum allows his son to occupy position in hl'
office, while the latter lends his name to q hrm
which has business before the pension bureau.
Mr. Enloe of Tennessee has introduced resoiu-
ton asking that the Cooper investigating COM
mittee extend the scope of its inquiry SO as 10
include the Younger Raum. He is q member OF
the firm of wilkinson & Raum, pension and
claim agents of this city and Mount Carmel, H.
The firm advertises that the junior member Is q
son Of the pension commissioner, and possesses
peculiar advantages for practlclng oetore tne
pension Office. Is it not about time TINS sort OF
thing squelched? In the language OF nursery
rhymes "Out upon them; bold faced thingsI'
THE ANTI LOTTERY BILL
will probably be considered by the house at an
early day. The bill makes it continuous Of
fence to mail lottery letter or letter contain
ing money for lottery tickets. The oHense IS
triable BY any court IN any jurisdiction through
which the letter may pass or into which it may
go. Newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments are also prohibited from the mails heK-
istered letters to lottery or to any nrm, oank
or corporation of any kind acting as agents Tor
Postal money orders cannot be paid, under the
provisions of this bill to lottery its agent.
The bill further states: The fact that the pub
lie advertisements of lottery states that re-
mittances for the lottery may be made by means
of postal money orders to any other person.
bank, corporation or association named therein
shall be held to be acknowledged of said agency
by all the parties named therein.
These two latter clauses are the ones which
will it is thought, cause contest IN the senate
and also in the house If debate is allowed It's
regarded by many a dangerous power to be
allowed to anybody, and as dangerous legIslat
ton in every sense. Mr.. Goluthwaite of New
Orleans, state senator and pro- lottery man,
is here. He is an attorney OF the Louisiana
state lottery and is supposed to be here in CON
nection with the lottery bill.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
will prrta
resentatives and they have succeeded in defearS
ing some of the Oldest and most exper1enced
members of congress. This is notably the casef
in Georgia, where Clements, Barnes and Grimes,
three of the abiest members from that state are
shelved. The biggest man IN the mouse =
Barnes, who has 215 pounds to his credit. lie IS
as large around the waist as his height de Is
not especially large intellectually, although he
is much Is -ter than the average congressman
one of the congressional story tellers gives the
following anecdote of Barnes. He said: we
were sitting in the cloak room yesterday when
our attention was arrested by the loud breathing
of Barnes. We thought he was going to have
fit of appoplexy. His blood seemed to nave
flowed to his head. He was almost purple IN
the face Will! e the perspiratIon poured down tne
poor man s face. The cause of his trouble was
that he was trying to find cut what time it was
The chain, however, was too short and his
stomach too large. He screwed his eye until it
was feared he would have permanent dehec,
ton. 1t of no use, however, and
page told him his watch had stopped and asked
him to ascertain the time OF day. Barnes had
lost his old watch chain and had bought anotner
which was too short. The next time saw him
he had longer one and when 1 asked him the
hour of day he told me without difficulty.
STATE DEBTS.
The census ofic has issued prelim mary
bulletin giving summary OF the debts OF the
several states for 1887 and 1890. The figures for
iss6 bonded Sc, $50, 928
1870 bonded debt. 4, 2S7, $50
1850 floating debt Observation-Disclosures.
$50 cash and funds on hand..... 5,15s, SO
1S93 cash and funds on hand ...... g. Al, 81
ISS0 net dent - ............., 4l3, 3J5
1880 excess Of assets over debt ...... 4.l9O, 5sl
HUNTING PRECIOUS STONES.
C3eorge L. kim of Tiffanny & Co., the well
known New York jewellers, is now at San Juan
Teotihuacan. Mexico, and several other interior
Mexican cities, in search of precious stones.
He is the expert OF the firm and does nothing
else but hunt up diamonds, pearls and valuable
stones, whether in farthest Africa or nearer at
home