Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-11

drink, Mr.. Harrison would so modify the
law in a bill which he has recently framed
for submission to the legislature, as 70 en-
able the retail dealer to sell as much as five
gallons and do away with the quart dealer
altogether. There would then be only the
liquor saloonist. the wholesale liquor dealer
and the beer seller, from whom the bill ex-
acts tax of $2O0 instead of $50. This in
crease of the. beer tax is proposed in order
to remove the, temptation to violations OF
the law now resulting from the wide diff
ference between the retail liquor and beer
tax.
The bill provides also for amode of .secur-
ing licenses and paying the tax something
similar to that employed in the internal
revenue department, so that full and COM
plete record may be kept at the capital.
perhaps in the comptrollers' office where
full accountability may be had, and the
government may have something more reli-
able to go by than the reports of collectors.
The main purpose is to introduce system
and order into this branch of the public
service.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Mr. HarrisoO talked also about the inc
quality in the tax paid by state insurance
companies and those beyond the state.
Eastern and Northern companies, both life
and fire, pay the same occupation tax, $500
and 500 respectively, that the small com
panies in the state, having only fraction
of their capital, pay. He believes that the
big foreign corporations should be made to
pay according to their capital and the
amount OF business done.
ONE OF EXPECTANCY.
Just now the political situation here IS
entirely one of expectancy. Everybody is
waiting for the Dallas mountain to bring
forth-to know exactly who was chosen at
! the late pow-wow there to sacrifice him
self on the altar of opposition to Hogg an6
the commission. Every one is now fully
sensible that the commission fight, which
we all thought was ended by the election of
! Hogg, governor, is still on, or is to be re-
newed once more with that kind of zeal and
vigor born of disappointment and revenge.
The anti-commission crowd refuses to stay
whipped. 1t does not know --hen 1t has
got enough.
The truth of the matter is, the ants be-
lieve that they can sOmeho.y by inuendo,
iusinuation, if not by the more direct means
of misrepresentation, saddle the blame for
tight money and low prices Of cotton on the
state administration and the commission,
and so bamboozle the farming element, all
the while soldering over the farmer and
prating in smoky, haZy fashion about the
need for cheap money and how to get 1t,
thing which if 1t were possible, is as far from
their hearts as transubstantiation from the
heart of Chinaman. 1t is hard for most
of those with whom one meets and talks to
believe that Warwick has grown so deS-
perate as to take the risk involved, and that
he will think about it a long time before he
decides to take leap in the dark. The
general opinion is decidedly that ifzhe does
finally resolve to run he will dosso Because
no one else could be foundSto take the
chances; ]. F. O.
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