Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18
Trying to Agree.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE con-
ferees on the tariff are doing their utmost
to reach an agreement by the end of the
week, but in order to accomplish it
both the senate and house ill have to
make liberal concessions. 1t is under
stood that the senate, however, will
firmly insist upon its amendment to the
sugar schedule. The house conferees
will yield reluctantly to that demand
provided the senate will recede
from its amendment striking out
the revenue reduction features.
The Southern Republicans in the
house are protesting loudly that unless
portion of the tobacco tax is taken off
they cannot consistently support the
conference report. Several of the Vir-
GINA, Maryland and North Carolina
Republicans asserted to-day that MIR.
Mckinley had assured them that the
clause i'll regard to tobacco would be re-
stored If he could influence the matter.
That clause reduced the tax one-half on
smoking and chewing tobacco and abol-
lsked licences for dealers peddlers, etc.,
and was stricken out by the senate,
THE TALK OF A RECESS
of congress is confined to the leaders of
the party who but reflect the sentiment
of the presidents on the question. The
rank and file have not been consulted.
No power on earth can keep congress
here after the tariff bill is disposed of.
All are eager to get away and they will
go at once when the tariff bill is agreed
to. The Republicans alone are to blame
for the length of the session. They have
been without quorum for many weeks.
They did not have quorum when
they voted to send the tariff bill to con-
ference. They then exhausted every
effort. They cannot pass any resolution
objected to by the Democrats with less
than l66 members. There is no prospect
of the passing of any bills except the
tariff bill at this session. 1t is now said
the tariff bill will be back in the house
on Monday and that final adjournment
will ensue on the Saturday following.
MIR. JOHN F. swAYNE,
one of Fort Worth s leading real estate
men is at the Ebbltt, and
speaks as follows of the growing
Texas metropolis: Fort Worth
is the chief railroad center of the state
and is therefore the natural rsdiating
point of the great Panhandle, West
Texas, the Colorado and Concho country
OF the southwest: Is u6sLlu6u TO DS-
come great commercial and mining
center. We have seven, national banks
with a combined capital and surplus of
SO, $50 900. We have eleven railroads
and the twelfth is being constructed.
Fort Worth has twenty-seven miles of
electric street railway, sixty-four miles
of macadamIzed streets, Union stock
yards with pork packing
and beef refrigerating plant, sixty
nine distinct manufacturing plants
with an annual output Of So, 900 900, q
board of trade building that cost S1l0, 900
and other advantages and resources that
would be
TIREsoME TO MENTION.
We are proud of our growth, which is
none the less substantial because of its
rapidity, aud in 1900 we expect to have
100 200 people.
Mr.. Grain succeeded in passing to-day
the bill which has already passed the
senate granting to the Texas-Mexican
electric light and power company the
right to erect wires across the Rio Grandes
river at Eagle Pass.
Speaker Reed has signed the river and
harbor bill. The next signature will be
that of the vice. president. The bill Will
then have to run the gauntlet of presi-
dental scrutiny and approval.