Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-03
International American Confer
ence Ready to Adjourn.
Congress to Run an Inebriate Asylum
in Washington at the National
Expense for Tony Sots.
The Pains Taken by the Average Iawmaker
in Preparing O Bill for introduce
tion-Week's Programme.
AFRAID TO REFUSE.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March blow much
pains Is taken by the average law maker
in preparing a bill for Introduction i'll
either house, aud hence what measure OF
Importance he attaches to the first stages
of legislation, may be judged from the
form, photography and otherwise OF the
following bill, introduced in the senate
by MIR. Ingalls,. doubtless emating from
some prohibition society in his own state:
BE it enacted in the senate and house OF
Representatives of the unit ed states of America
in Congress Assembled:
That from and after the Passage Of this act
the Inter Commerce Laws shall be amended by
aiding thereto the Following section
THAT any Person or Persons shipping into
ano her state Territory any Intoxicating
Liquors that the laws of the state or Territory
Forbids the sale Of the same shall be gllty OF
Misdemeanor and upon Conviction thereon shall
be filmed not less than FIVE hundred dollars nor
more than five thousan Dollars and one year
"Be it further enacted That any Person or
Persons smuggling any Intoxicating Liquors
into any state or TIE, ritory for the purpos OF
Violating or AvadinE the Laws OF said state or
Territory sha j upon Conviction thereof be Con-
fined in the state Prison thereof for Aturm OF
five years at Hard Labor
''Be it further enacted That any Person or
Transportation Company that Carries any IntoG-
icating Liquors into any state or Territory that
tt G Laws OF said state or Territory FCrbids the
sail of the same Except for Medical Purposes
shall be deamed glty of Misdemeanor and upon
Conviction thereof be fined not less than one
hundred dollars for each and every Adence thus
! Committed. -
II would probably be argued that this
was predtstined never to go a step be-
yCud introduction and reference, and
would be promptly pigeonholed in the
committee-room anyway, SO that no
greater care was necessary IN revising
the manuscript. But where that is
bound 10 be the case, why does not the
congressman involved say so plainly to
his constituents, sparing the latter q
serious disappointment and the govern
ment the needless expense Of printing,
and the time occupied on the floor or in
committee with empty formalities?
NATIONAL INEBRIATE ASYLUM.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-In recogni-
ton of the cosmopolitan character of the
"drunks'' at the capital, congress pro-
noses to build and run an inebriate
asylum IN Washington at national ex-
pense. The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds has such propo-
sition, which it contemplates reporting
favorably TO the senate. The original
proposition. which is not a new one, was
to construct such an institution for the
District of Columbia, as all municipal
institutions here are provided for, the
govern nent to pay half the expense; but
it is held by senators that this would not
lie fair to the community, as the District
is not responsible for the distinguished
visiting iuebriates. u