Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-12
"A DIRTY DOG. :"
The Raum Investigation Grows
Decidedly Personal
House Without Quorum-HOw Speaker
Reed Celebrates His Election.
Bacchanalian Feast.
Republican Scandal-EffOrt to be Made to I'm
seat a Few More Democrats-Tarih
Conferees Caucus Held.
Hands Tied.

HANDS lieu.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE house
was unable to meet to-day owing to lack
of q quorum. The purpose of the Re-
publicans in absenting themselves is to
compel the attendance of the absentees
The speaker sees the necessity of having
a quorum to act on the tariff bill. 1t is
expected that u quorum will be present
by Monday and that nothing will be done
till then. The Democrats of the ways
and means committee will insist on con-
sldering the tariff bill for two or three
days before reporting it tothe house
When the bill gets into conference there
will be little delay. Represen-
tatives of importers are coming
here in large numbers with protests
against the bill gong INTO effect on Octo-
Der /. and many protests by telegraph
have also been received.
Mr.. Drummer has introduced a bill
making an apportionment of representa-
tives under the eleventh census. Under
this bill Texas will have twelve congress-
men. The bill will not be pressed ct
this session.
REED s INCONSISTENCY.
Tom Reed is great hypocrite. He
stopped the sale of liquor in the Capitol
restaurant. Tonight his room is filled
with champagne boxes filed with the
sparkling wine The hall leading to his
room is lined with whisky boxes.
He is celebrating his election in merry
fashion and his friends are welcomed to
the bacchanalian feast. Altogether
Tommy is dandy and is more at home
with private bottle in his room than in
the speakers chair illegally counting q
quorum.
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN SCANDAL
is on the tapis, involving the postmaster
of the house, who has prostituted his
Office to his own personal ends. Two of
his employees assert that he took money
from them to insure their positions. A
fight took place in his Office several
months ago and two of his
clerks quarelled yesterday. 4
congressional investigation will
be ordered. Altogether the e. o. p. is
in the soup badly and will remain there
for many moons.
Since Governor Kellogg has been in
Europe, Vice President Morton's fiat is
no longer the scene of nightly seAnces
around the card table. Many a night
the rattle of the chips is heard from a
little game in which such good Republic
cans as Governor Kellogg, Can
non and Stewart have been play
ing in the governor 3 room. Good money
is often lost in these friendly sittings
and the bitterness which must of neces-
sity arise has to be often allayed by
visit to Tom Reeds sideboard, which al
ways bears the seductive decanters of
sherry, whisky or liquors.
CONGRESSMAN HARE
has appointed Charles S. Wallace of
Sherman as a cadet to take the examina-
ton at West Point military academy
with William Merritt of Melissa as al
ternate.
J. V. Childers of Dallas is at willard s
MOTEL.
OPPOSED TO REED $ POLICY.
Speaker Reed was highly disguised this
morning when he found that the Repub-
licans were again without a quorum and
that no progress could be made
with the Virginia contested election
case of Langston vs. Venable
unless the Democrats would permit.
Some of the Republicans who think their
party has gone far enough with these
election cases for one session proposed
that the Langstou matter should be laid
aside in order that some of the important
business bills could be passed, but
Speaker Reed would not listen to any
such suggestion. He said that it would
look too much like
SURRENDER TO THE DEMOCRATS,
and he thought that the Republicans
should compel their own men to return
at once to Washington and attend to
business. 1t is claimed by the Republic
cans that they will have a quorum here
by Monday morning, and then they
threaten TO take snap judgment. 1t
is being urged by quite number that
Venable be pitched out without cere-
mony. If they can muster enough votes
the chances are that they will not wait
long, but will limit the debate to a very
few hours and then give him his walking
papers.
As an inducement to the absentees to
return, the statement has been given out
that if the Republicans can get quorum
in the house next week both branches Of
congress will be able to adjourn by the
oath or 25th of September.
TARIFF BILL CONFEREEs.
From all accounts the Republicans are
not going TO have as plain sailing with
the tariff bill in the house as they have
been counting upon. Governor Gear of
Iowa has been confident of being one of
the members of the house conference
but it is now discovered
that the speaker has left his name
off and it is because Governor Gear does
not indorse the sugar schedule in the bill
as arranged by the senate. He has been
finding fault with the whole business and
says that 1t will not be satisfactory to his
people in the Northwest. 1t is
that the following will
be appointed conferees on the part of the
house: Messrs. Mckinley, Burrows,
McKenna, Mills, Mcmillan and
Flower. Mr.. Bayne could have gone on
the conference committee, but it is said
that he asked not to be appointed.
UNDECIDED
The Republican leaders of the house
have not yet fully decided just
how they will handle the tariff bill, but
the probabilities are that it will be sent
first to the ways and means committee.
1t is their intention to dispose of two or
three more of the contested election cases
before they take up the tariff, but it is
barely possible, however, they may have
to agree 10 q compromise unless they