Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-10
REEDS MAJORITY
Regarded Rather as a Blaine De-
feat Than Reed Victory.
This Endorsement of the Speaker by His
Party Puts Him in Direct Line
for the Presidency.
The Republicans Take Up the Virginia Flee.
tiOn Case and Find No Quorum-Time Re-
quired for the Tariff Bill.
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STOPPED BY FILIBUSTERING.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Only once to-
day could quorum be mustered in the
house and it van ished so quickly that the
Republicans could not carry out their in
tention to consider the Virginia cleo
ton case of Langston VS.. Yenable.
1t is freely remarked here
that some of the contested
Republicans aided the tilloustering
movement in order to emphasize right on
the heels of the Maine election, the
charge that has been repeatedly made in
regard to Democratic obstruction in the
house. They were glad that the minority
resisted and it is believed that they will
now send for their absent men aud force
the case and thus'show toIthe country that
Speaker Reed had TO return and take
hold of the minority with an iron hand.
The Democrats are divided as to
THE POLICY TO BE PURSUED
IN this case. Col. O'Ferrall of Vir-
clustering to the bitter end
and has been advising his friends of the
minority TO leave the hall in order to
VI Shh Il uIll anu IhuS pIONShb az
ton on the case until the Republicans
cause enough of their absentees to re-
turn to unseat Venable, but many of the
Democrats do not see that there is
anything to be gained by this policy and
they are unwilling to leave the hall.
Then again Gen. Malone is very anxious
to have Langston beaten, and if he still
has influence with the Repu blicans, some
Of ha p ba tn art
it. Eventually the Republicans will I'M
seat Mr.. Veuable.
TARIFF BILL.
Some of the prominent members of the
house were making estimates to-day as
to when the tariff bill would be disposed
of by that body. Mr.. Mckinley said
that he thought the ways and means
committee would not be able to
get through with the revision of
the measure inside of a week. Then he
thought that it would require several
days for the house to consider the senate
changes. The general opinion is that
it will be toward the last day
of September before the conference re-
port is agreed to, and it may sven take a
few days longer, since some of the
changes made by the senate are highly
Objectionable to the members of the
ways and means committee.
THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS
are sorely disappointed because the sem
ate refused to make any reduction in
the tax on tobacco and fruit brandies
and they are demanding loudly
that those clauses in the Mckinley bill
shall be restored, but there is every indi-
cation that the leaders will leave the
Southern brethren out in the cold. There
are too many millions of pensions to pay
to think of taking off any of the tax on
tobacco or fruit brandies.
SAVED THEIR MONEY.
The talk among the Democrats is THAI
tn cir committee extended no help to the
party workers in Speaker Reed district
in Maine, but left the whole thing to Mr..
Frank, the Democratic candidate. 1t
is said that few thousand
speeches were distributed and
that Chairman Flower declined TO put
any money in the district on the ground
that Mr.. Reed could not be beaten and
that it would have been a waste of time
and money. He says that he knows
where efforts for Democratic gains can
be made with greater success than trying
to beat the speaker of the house.