Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-19
Buds OPENED.
Bids for a Site for the Fort Worth
Public Building Opened
The Change of Senate Rules Will Be
of No Effect in the Passage OF
the Election Bill.
Senator Coke Arralgns the Force Rill-Bill to
Incorporate the PAN American Trans
portation Company.
Buds OPENED.
Only a Temporary Advantage.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-The decision
of the Republicans to change the rules in
the senste will give them only tenn
porary advantage. The Democrats will
fight the change to the bitter end. The
sehange, If effected, will be of no use in
the passage of the election bill. That i:
doc med.
THE SILVER MEN
who are willing TO accept the cOmpro-
mise will be greatly embarrassed when
the Democrats propose to amend the bill
by provision for free coinage. Prob
ably few of them will see their way
clear 10 vote against such an amendment
and there is the possibility at any time of
the whole plan going to pieces. 1t is not
at all impossible that free coinage bill
will pass the senate, but its passage in
the house is extremely predetermined.
SENATOR COKE
delivered q mastery arraignment of the
force bill to-day in a speech OF more
than an hour. II was one OF the best
arguments against this iuiqui tous meas
ure yet made in the senate and bristled
with legal points to sustain his position.
force and feeling, his address being at
tentivelv listened to by the Democrats
and large gallery audience.
FORT wORTH'S PUBLIC BUILDING.
An inspector will be sent to Fort Worth
ear " in January to look into the ques-
ton of site for new public building.
The bids were opened to-day, but will
not be made public until after the in
r.,ft I'm a nd II
GAZETTE correspondent tried to ascertain
" no were the bidders and the amounts
bid, but the supervising architect re-
fused to make them public at present.
MR.. MAsoN's BILL
to incorporate the Pam American trans
portation company, which will probably
be reported favorabiy from the COM
merce committee, gives the company
the authority to buy, construct, lease
and operate all kinds of steamships and
other water craft and navigate them be-
tween all ports of the globe and TO own
and operate warehouses, docks and
wharves and buy and sell and exchange.
The capital stock is fixed at SO 900, 900.
The principal office and port of the COM
pany is to be at Galveston, and vessels
from Galveston are to stop at Mobile,
Ala. Mr.. Gresham is here in the interest
of this measure, and made a strong ar
sument Yesterday in favor of lite passage
before the commerce co 9tmittee.
Republican Caucu. Financial Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Sher-
man reported to the senate from the
finance committee this morning the
financial bill agreed upon by the Repub-
iican caucus last night, and it was re-
committed to the finance committee.
The only change of consequence made In
the measure last night WAS to limit the
banks having the capital of $50 900 each
to operation of the provision reducing TO
$1,000 compulsory requirement of deposits
OF bonds with the TREASURY. The finance
will meet Tomorrow TO con-
slider the bill and go through the formal
tiles necessary to secure consideration
for II by the senate.
In addition to the features of the bill
heretofore described, the measure con-
tains q recurrence 4 upon the secretary
of the treasury to issue treasury notes to
the amount of 81 900 900, based upon
abraided and otherwise uncurrent sub
sidlary silver coin now in the treasury,
also Senator Allison 3 proposition for
international arrangement to secure uni
formity in ratio in silver coinage, with a
provision for the appointment of three
commissioners TO represent the United
States, and an appropriation for their
salaries and expenses.
1t is generally understood that the
purpose of Senator Sherman in having
the till recommitted to the finance COM
nittee was TO retain control of the meas
ure In that committee and prevent the
OF motion being made pre-
in senate to consider and
amend the bill.