Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-29
MANY CHANGES.
Unprecedented Percentum OF Con-
gressmen to be Retired.
Fifty Second Congress Not Likely to Go
Down to Fame as a Body Great
in intellectually.
Many Of the Brightest Lights in the Present
House, Democrats as Well as Repub-
licans, VIII Go Out.
Congregational Cyclone.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-The per-
sonnet of the present house is knocked to
smithereens for the next congress. The
Farmers Alliance has started the mis-
chief and the November election returns
will finish the job. TIE per centum or
members who will fail of return is said
to be unprecedented. Many OF the
brightest lights in the present house will
be seen no more after next March.
In Ohio the Republicans lose their Ma
poleonic Mckinley, their popular and
ever brilliant Ben Butterworth; also
Boothman, Morey, Pugsley, Smyser of
refrigerator fame, Thompson, Grosvenor
and Kennedy, who recently attacked
Quay.
On the Pacific slope, Morrow, Wand
ever and Biggs are shelved. Morrow
says he cannot afford to come back.
The ILLINOIS delegation will come back
solidly, except Frank Lawler, who wants
to be sheriff. Kerr and Struble of Iowa
were also struck by political lightning.
Kansas loses Morrill,, the great pension
advocate, Peters, Anderson and Turner.
New York will have few changes, except
that Baker is defeated and Stahlnecker
will be. Lehlback of New Jersey, who
made himself conspicuous by voting
against the Federal election bill, will
stay at home.
The Democrats will lose some of their
strongest men. Among them is Rogers
of Arkansas, who has badgered and be-
Titled the speaker on more than one &C.
casion. 1t Is said he is to become chief
Justice of his state.
Georgia suffers more than ali the other
Southern states, the Farmers Alliance
having knocked out Grimes, Stewart,
Clements, Chandler and Barnes. Nc
Clammy of North Carolina and Yoder of
Ohio will not return. Martin and Hare
OF Texas are also retired.
From the presnt outlook il is feared
that the new men who will take the
places of those above enumerated will
not loom up strongly, and hence, the
Flftv-second congress is not likely 10
go down in fame as body great in
Its intellectually.
HORSE STORY.
1t is not very short walk from the
treasury building to the capitol. l take
it very often, however, but it does not
seem long, especially when one can have
as entertaining a companion as the Hon.
Billy Mason, the fat and witty congress
man from Illinois. One of the stories
that he told me while l was walking with
him the other day was as follows:
every body out West knows Judge
Rowland of Davenport, Iowa, from
which town 1 originally came. He is
well known as one OF the most kind
hearted men who ever lived, and many
good stories are told by and about him.
In his early life, when he was judge of
one of the Iowa district courts, re-
plevin suit for a horse was on trial be-
fore him. In horse cases the evidence is
generally very conflicting, and this case
was no exception, as each man swore
stoutly that the horse belonged to him.
Judge Rowland is very fond of horses
and prides himself upon his knowledge of
horsefiesh. Much to the astonish-
ment of everybody, the judge adjourned
the court for a couple of hours. During
the recess he had the horse brought
around to the courthouse, and there had
him taotted up and down while he ex-
umiped him. When the court reassem-
bled he charged the jury as follows:
.''You will gentlemen of the jury, find
a verdict for the defendant. 1t is true
that the plaintiff and all the witnesses on
his side have sworn that the horse is the
property of the plaintiff and has be-
longed to him for the last five years. But
don t believe them. l think l know
something about a horse. and 1 have
examined this one. 1 have found that
he has points which the plaintiff and his
witnesses must have known If it ever be-
longed to the plaintiff. But neither he
nor they said d word about them. There
fore the horse never belonged to the
plaintiff, and you will render verdict
for the defendant. -