Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-04
Capital Notes.

The following are the dates of state Dem
ocratic conventions so far as fixed: Iowa,
Council Bluffs, May Il; Missouri, jefferson
City, May II; Pennsylvania, Harrisburg,
April -; South Carolina, May Is; Ala
hama, Montgomery, June s; West Virginia
lin districts), June l; Oklahoma, King
fsher, May7; Florida, Tampa June |;
Minnesota, st. Paul, March 81; North Da-
kota, Grand Forks, March "a; Illinois.
Springfield, April %; Wyoming, Cheyenne,
April 10; South Dakota, Yankton, May %
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May 4; Indiana,
Indianapolis, April 2l; New York, anti
Hill, Syracuse, May 81; Rhode Island,
Providence, March 2
The Southern war claims under the
Bowman act for which an appropriation
was made March 8, 1891, are gradually be-
ing paid.
Senator Carlisle has declined to permit
the use of his name for delegate-at-large
from Kentucky to the Chicago convention.
Delegate Smith Of Arizona feels confident
that the territories will be admitted to
statehood this congress.
Jerry Simpson thinks the third party
ticket will be Weaver and Polk.
Senator Hill will address the Mississippi
legislature March 10, instead of March s.
1t is rumored that Governor GRAY will be
a candidate for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton in Indiana; it IS supposed he wants it
to assist his candidacy before the Chicago
convention.
A large number of petitions and
memorials have recently been file1 in con-
gress for a constitutional amendment,
worded as follows:
mo state shall pass any law respecting
an establishment of religion or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof, or use its prop
erty or credit, or any money raised by tax
alton, or authorize either to be used for the
purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding
by appropriation, payment for services, ex-
peuses or otherwise, any church, religious
denomination or religious society or any
institution, society or undertaking which
is wholly or in part under sectarian or
ecclesiastical CONTROL
Mr.. Mills friends claim tLat the com.
mittee on rules fixed the date for the con-
sideration of the silver bill with reference
to the Texas senatorial election. They
think it a downright injustice, that he
should ''either take sides or DODGE
There are four vacancies in the naval
academy to be filed from Texas.
The nomination of candidate to fiji each
vacancy IS made upon the recommendation
of the member or delegate, if such recon-
mendation is made by the 1st of July of that
year, but if it Is not made by that time the
secretary of the navy is to ill the vacancy.
Candidates must be actual residents of the
district from which they are appointed
They must be not less than fifteen nor more
than twenty years of age and physically
sound, well formed and of robust constitu-
ton.
The 18th of May is the day set for the
first examination. There is another ex-
on the 1st of September. BY the
latter date the list of vacancies is swelled
by those found deficient in the annual ex-
animation in June. Also vacancies untitled
by the May examinations are open to APP
pointees.
1t is stated that Mr.. Cleveland has written
a letter to William A. Beach of Syracuse
discouraging the attempt to work up a
boiling delegation to Chicago.