Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-14
TARIFF
Is to Be DOCtOred This
Winter.
REPUBLICANS WILL Tny TO RAISE
WOOL DUTY.
REEDS ONLY FIGHT.
If HE DOES NOT WIN THIS TIME
HE WILL NEVER rRY
AGAIN.
Carlisle Fails TO Produce His Report
On Date IL Was niiied
to Appear.
REEDS ONLY FIGHT.

generally understood that the Republl-
can lenders In congress have made up
their minds to do some single-shot ia
rim legislation this winter. The Wool
Growers association that has been In
session here has asked for a duty of
about 20 per cent on that commodity,
The wool growers ask for specific
duty OF II cents per pound on unwash-
cd. SO cents on secured and on woods OF
lhe third class, without regard TO
quality, cents. Save In the case OF
third-class or carpet woods these rates
are equivalent OF the rates OF the
act OF 1883. which were higher than
those of the act OF 1890.
The reimpositlon OF a duty on wool
would necessarily Involve the add
ton of compensatory rates on the man
featured articles. II IL estimated that
the revenue would be Increased about
slb.0O0.o0O by the proposed changes.
A bin to comply with their request
will come from the ways and means
committee early In January and VIII,
OF course. pass tho house. but its vote
In the senate " uncertain. Should II
pass the latter. however, II Will be
promptly vetoed by the president, He
Is now and has always been unaltar-
ably opposed to duties on wool.
VIII Fight Hut Once.
While Speaker ed viii not talk
for publication regarding the next Re-
publican convention he does not hes
itate TO discuss the subject with his
personal friends. One OF hin closest
friends said:
Speaker Reed believes that who-
ever Is nominated on the Republican
ticket will be the next president. lie
also believes his own chances for the
nomination arc very promising. lie Is
convinced moreover, that II he 10 not
nominated this time he never Will be.
He said TO me recently that his great
ambition was to be president OF the
United States. but that he had horror
OF being looked upon by the country
as perpetual candidate for that Of
nee. He does not Intend to be n Blaine
or Sherman. lilo does intend to
strive with all his power from now
until the convention adJourns TO So
euro the nomina ton.
"If no wins, he says, he will have
reached the height OF his earthly de-
sirep, and II he fails he VIII retire alb
aolutely from politics. move to New
York city and take up the practice OF
law He says this without any pcttish-
ness or feeling that he win have a
grievance because he shall have been
denied the nomination.
He says that he has obtained now.
with the exception OF the presidency.
all that 1t would be possible for him
to obtain OF political honor. He has,
he tells me. become convinced that he
has got to the parting of tho ways of
his life, one of which may lead to the
presidency and the other to an hon
or1blo and remuneratlve career MS n
lawyer out OF politics. He has dcliber-
ately started on the former. IL he
hat hA IN has
has determined to renounce all desire
to obtain II In the future. TO get on
the other path at once and to follow It
reaolutely."
A Chinese PnsyIc.
Secretary Carlisle appears to be hnv-
| ing trouble again with his annual re-
/ port. At the beginning of the last
| congress he was several weeks be-
hindhand, and nobody now seems to
know when the report that was due
| last Monday will reach the house OF
/ representatives.. On Saturday II was
| promised for Tuesday. but inquirers at
the treasury department were INFORM
ed that II would probably not be ready
then. As the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
| President Cleveland. OF courfe-is ex-
! pected to return to washington from
the raid on the waterfowl Of North
\ Carolina tomorrow, II was At once In
ferred that the secretary OF the treas
discreet In him 10 forward the report
and make II public In the absence Of
the executive sportsman. a more char
liable and possibly truer suggestion,
however. was that Mr.. Carlisle found
II more difficult and tedious pro cess
than he had expected TO figure out n
suiilciency OF revenue for the support
OF the government by any X W pro-
cess. whose only known quantities
were a constantly growing deficit.
Severely Criticised.
Z There 10 severe criticism upon the
Republicans for allowing Mr.. Bayard
to be attacked Just at this juncture,
when he In the representative OF the
United States at the capital of a ma
tion with which this country has q
serious difficulty. Mr.. Bayard's gan-
eral course as an ambassador 10 Eng
land is not approved by all public In
Washington. nor n his Edinburgh nd
dress thought TO have been In good
taste, but the point IL made that the
Republicans have chosen a most inop-
perfume moment for censuring him. n
II Mr.. Bayard's duty to uphold the
interests OF the United States during
a crisis IN this country's relations
with Great Britain. and instead OF the
support OF the national legislature, he
was given practically vote OF CEN
sure By the house OF representatives.
The resolutions were brought tor
ward in the most extreme and offen-
siye form. too. They offered impeach-
ment. though their author must haye
known, as the speaker and AL tho
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