Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-06
HOUSE OF LORDS.
United States Senator's are Max
ing Apes Of Themselves.
Trying to Learn How Secret Session Do
ingS Get Out, when their Own
Members Divulge Them.
Pan American Congress Divided on the QuPs-
tiOn of Aust ms Union-Quaudary on
the sugar Question.
AMERICAS FIGUREHEADs.

Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The senate
committee investigating the question in
volViug proposition to abolish the press
| gallery is making itself ridiculous. What
the senate should do is to abolish secret
sessions. The newspaper men ascertain
the proceedings of these secret sessions
from senators themselves and if the SEN
ate desires to stop the publication of their
| star chamber proceedings they had better
put the inoulsition upon their own MEM
bers and not upon the correspondents. The
smelling committee propose to imprisOn
several newspaper men who will not di-
vulge the sources of their information.
Some senators are of the opinion that all
| correspondents should be chained until
they give up their secret information.
Senator Teller's remedy, which is the
only sensible suggestion yet made, is to
abolish secret sessions. The whole coun-
try Is now laughing at the ludicrouS con-
duct of the senate in trying to ascertain
where the correspondents get their in
formation, when the blame rested en-
tirely with themselves. Blackburn
wants to abolish the press gallery. This
does not alarm the correspondents. They
would simply
IGNORE THE SENATE
and the senators altogether in their dis
patches. A general boycott would en-
sue. Senator Hawley, who is himself an
editor, stated that the correspondents
were blameless. Their papers demanded
the information, and they got it. The
whole thing is a perfect farce, and the
senators engaged in it should be totally
ignored hereafter by the correspondents.
Concerning this subject leading Repub-
lican senator states that the real object
of the Investigating committee is TO pave
the way for open doors. He added that
the present agitation of the subject was
a yeritable tempest in a teapot.
He called attention also to fact not
generally known, that there are very
lew matters which tranSpire in executive
session that it would be violation of
the rules for a senator to talk about.
Ii is the general opinion that the sem
atOrs take an oath not to reveal exec
utive session secrets. The fact Is, how
ever, that they are bound TO no secrecy
whatever and the only crime which they
commit when they give verbatim ac-
counts of executive session proceedings
is that they violate one of the
standing rules OF the senate.
THE PAN-AMERIcAN CONGRESS
is divided on the question of customs
union. The majority say that the estab-
lishment of customs union as is gener-
ally understood, would require not only
q partial sacrifice of the national SOW
erignty of the American nations, but
constitutions than they are willing to ac-
cept. The majority believe that the
principle of unrestricted RECIPROCITY is
acceptable, and that its adoption would,
in all proba blility, bring about as favor
able q result as those obtained by free
trade among the different states of this
Uuion. A customs union on that basis,
however, the majority deem as imprac-
tIcable as q continental system.
SUGAR.
At present the ways and means COM
mittee are in a quandary on the sugar
question, and it is probable no tariff bill
will be reported before April Is.
The Comanche National bank of
Comanche, Tex. was authorized 10 be-
gin business to-day with a capital OF
$50 900.
PROTESTING AGAINST RELIGIOUS BILLS.
WAsHINGsoN, March 5.-Senator
StockbrIdge presented to-day two i'm
mense packages, remonstrances against
the passages of any bill in regard to the
Observance of Sabbath, or Lord IS day or
any other religious or ecclesiastical in
stitution, or rite, against the adoption of
any resolution for the amendment of the !
national constitution that in any way
gives preference to the principles of any
religion above another, or that will in |
any way sanction legislation upon the |
subject OF religion. The remonstrances |
contain the individual signatures of 308,- |
377 citizens from different states and ter |
ritories.
TAULBEE BETTER.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The attend
ants at the Providence hospital report |
Mr.. Taulbee a little better this morn
ing.
APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT,
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The president |
the act providing for an assist
ant secretary of war.
REPUBLICANS AT NASHVILLE.