Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15
Arizona Wants a Deep Water
Port on the Gulf of California.
Secretary Blaine and the Senate Refuse
to Negotiate With Mexico for the
Desired Territory.
How Sugar IS Playing Havoc With the Pro-
posed Tariff Measure-Special Work
Under the Census Bureau
Mexico Not for Sale.

Speclal 10 the GaZetts.
WASHINGTON, March "A. - Senator
Sherman of Ohio has asked the senate to
discharge the committee on foreign re-
lations from further consideration Of q
memorial Of the Fifth legislative assem-
bly, of the territory Of Arizona, praying
the president and congress to en-
ter into negotiation with the re-
public of Mexico for the cessIou Of
sufficient of the territory joining Arizona
on the southern boundary 10 secure a
deep water port on the gulf of California,
which would afford an outlet for the
products of the territory. Mr.. Sherman,
as chairman of the committee, referred
the memorial to Secretary Blaine with
request for his opinion i'll regard to it.
AS g result he laid before the senate
some diplomatic correspondence showing
that Mexico is emphatically opposed to
the cession of any of her territory.
Concerning the above the Washington
Star says to-nig hit: 1.-The Mexican con-
stitution forbids the alienation OF the re-
public's territory, and the national pub
lie sentiment would consume the reputa-
ton of any statesman who would advo-
cate the sale OF the smallest fraction OF
Mexican soil The effort of the Arizona
legislature to secure a port on the Cali
fornis gulf is foredoomed. 1t is an ex-
ceedipgly silly thing to irritate sister
republic by pressing the proposition. OF
course MIR. Blaine and the senate decline
to be party to such folly.
SPLIT ON SUGAR AND TOBACCO.
The ways and means committee are
having hard shedding. The Republican
leaders are at lOgger-heads on sugar and
tobacco and the prospect of the passage
of the Mckinley bill is regarded as
gloomy The committee will doubtless
report the bill to the house, but there Is
q growing impression that it will be
simply a bluff. Four OF the Re-
publican members of the COM
mittee favor free sugar aud bounty,
one is opposed to any cut on sugar,
Que wants a small cut and no bounty,
and with these conflicting opinions
any settlement will be distasteful, and If
the bill Is reported there is danger that
the Democrats will vote for free sugar in
the committee of the whole to get the
clause in the bill and then vote against
the bill in the house. With the assist
ance OF enthusiastic Republican sugar
men, they might defeat the whole
measure.
WILL PUT OUT THE LOBBY.
1t is understood that Speaker Reed is
going to make an effort to strictly enforce
the rule prohibiting ex-members from
taking advantage of the privilege of the
floor to interest themselves in legislation.
The superintendent of the census has IS
Nk,,N SoI "a
will be appointed to gather statistics
relating to fhe irou and steel, coke, glass
and the electrical industries, and Of il
Illuminating gas, taking this work out of
the hands of the enumeratOrs. The fol-
lowing Texas cities are given where the
special agents will collect these statistics;
Second district - Galveston, Houston,
Marshall, Texarkana. Third district
Fort Worth and Dallas. Fifth district
Austin and San Antonio.
THE LARD SUBSTITUTE QUESTION.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The sub
committee of the house committee on
agriculture to which was referred the
Conger and Butterworth bills for the
regulation of the manufacture of sub
stitutes for lard, imposing a tax and
license to be collected by the internal
revenue bureau, favoraDly reported the
Conger bill to the full committee to-
day, with few amendments of the lam
guage of the bill.
LEASE FOR TAKING SEALS.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Secretary
Window to-day executed a lease with
the North American commercial COM
pany of New York and San Francisco for
the taking of fur seals on the islands OF
St. Paul and st. George, Alaska, for a
period of twenty years from the first OF
next May.