Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
The Chances of the Galveston
Deep Water Bill in the
House.
1t is Depending on So Many Considera-
tiOns That Its Passage This Session
is Doubtful.
Look ing for Location for SHELTERS in Mexico
That But for the Mckinley Bill Would be
Located In Texas.
DEEP WATER.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-There is con-
siderable unwritten history on the GAL
weston deep water bill, and your corre-
spondent recently learned it is not By
any means a certainty that the senate
bill appropriating Sc, 200, 900 will pass the
house. The me mbers of the Texas dele
CATION have been nothing 10th in their
frequent calls upon the speaker to have
day assigned by the committee on rules
for the consideration OF the measure,
but thus far entirely without success.
The fact of the matter is that the pas
sage of the Galveston bill is dependent
upon so many considerations IL is a seri-
GUS question now if the present. session OF
congress will finally dispose OF it.
There was, and, so far as L
know, still is, an understanding
between the advocates of deep water for
Galveston and the projectors of the i'm
provement of Hay Lake channel aud tine
Sault Ste. Marie canal, so that the two
interests must work together TO accom-
plish anything. To bring the Galveston
bill before the house TO the exclusion of
the Michigan marine interests would an
tagonize the very following upon which
the success of the Galveston bill depends.
Thus the matter stands at present. Mr..
Reed is inclined 10 think that with the
large outlay of money already made at
this session it would be better to let Gal
weston and Michigan go over until De-
cember. He has expressed himself so TO
several congressman. One contin-
gency may save the Galveston
and Hay Lake channel bills.
If 50 900, ZOO can be knocked
off of the river and hsrbor bill, then
there will be good fighting chance for
both of these great improvements. This
is the status of the question at present as
CLEANED from inside sources.
DRIVEN FROM TEXAS.
Representatives of the Philadelphia
smelling and refining company have been
Investigating the advantages offered at
Piedras Negras for the establishment of
smelters which the company have con-
Guided to build in Mexico. The choice
of locality lies between Piedras Negras
and Sabinas. 1t Is asserted that this
com pany, IN combination with another
syndicate, having a total capital of
Sc 900 900, would locate their proposed
smelters in Eagle Pass, but for the Nc
Kinley bill taxing the ores when they
cross the border.
USING AMERICAN GOODS.
According to a recent consular report,
two thirds of the cotton goods consumed
in the consular district of Guaymas,
Mex, are of American manufacture,
and they now occupy the place formerly
held by European goods, English and
German. Up to 1874 the great bulk of
cotton textiles consumed on the west
coast OF Mexico was of Europeon manu-
facture. The northern states OF Mexico
now consume but few European goods in
comparison with former years, as the
facilities of importing American goods by
rail has made the change, and as rule
the quality of goods is superior.
WHAT MEXICAN CONsULsHIPS PAY.
J. F. McCaskey of Ohio has recently
been appointed consul at Acapulco,
Mexico. This is a pretty good berth,
as consulates in Mexico go. The salary
is $1,000 per annum, to which Is added in
fees about 5000. 1t is not as profitable
as the similar position at Paso del Norte,
which is the most desirable place of the
kind in our sister republic, the salary
and fees combined footing up $500. |
Piedras Negras is almost as good; No.
gales pays over $4,000 to its consul, but 1t
is quite as desirable pecuniarily as the |
consulate-generalship in Mexico City, |
where the income is about the same and |
living expenses are much higher.