Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-11
CAPITAL CHAT


l tost.
Some arrange and peculiar claims ar,
some tl'nen suOiuitted 10 congress bu
ABOUT the 0Gecreat claim was one Intro
| uuccd BY Senator Plumb OF Kansas lat,
| IN the 'i0s or carly In iss0. II was for 800
damages sustained by a man who had los
nus scalp at Tire hands OF hos lilo Indians
me claim was based on the plea that The
Indians were the wards OF the govern.
ment and the government vas resporsisl,
Tor their acts. The governments wards
had taken his scalp AM he considered 4
warrant for 5000 the only effective poal. lc,
Tor his wounded feelings. or course I'M
hil was never acted on. II was thrown
out because II would have opened an &C.
count with the government for every man
who had ever suffered damages at the
hands OF the redskins.
Congressman Miles Crowley's into opro.
nent Is In the city and Is n frequent Wis.
uor at the capitol. II Ia not generally
known that congress Ia In more or less
danger OF losing Crowley as ncinher
lie Is the contestec In a hotly oontyst.d
election In which Rosen,hal Is the C n.
testant The republican claimant OF tie
seat Is the antlthesis OF Mr.. Crowley The
latter represents the sunny side Of Texar
while Rosenthafs scowl and blicg htir
and swarthy complexion seem bor-o we'd
from the gloomier aspects OF the Lore
star State. He looks like tyne OF tho
committee CT three which visits Congress-.
man Braudcr In "The Texas steer The
Celtic and Germnnie types which are rep
resented by the two parties to the contest
seem 10 have got mixed, and Crowley
seems to have inherited more dirfc ~ rom
the Danish Invaders OF ireland than
Rosenthal did from his German ancestors
In Deutschland.
NO r-e-rs-s Of I'VE house Of re,res,at.
u1ai investigation Of the autob!ograpn MOS
In the congressional directory shows the
average age to be A years and months
There are 100 college men In coneraas.
Pennsylvania ranks first In this rcstcc
us twenty-eight OF her thirty raprcGent-
utlves are graduates OF classical irsiltu-
tons. Yale has the largest number CT
alumni-ten; the University Of Michigan.
nine; Harvard and University OF Virginia
Feven each; Princeton AMI Dartmouth,
1--WE each; Mercer. Center Union. Amherst.
Western Reserve ana Virginia N'ntAry
Institute, three each. University OF Ala
hama, Andrew, Trinity IN. CO, Hamilton.
University OF Georgia. Lombard. MrKcn-
drce. Franklin. Ohio Wesleyan, Gunner
tand University OF Mississippi COLUMBIA,
Williams Georgetown a. O.. Jefferson
PENNSYLVANIA college, Washington ana
ee Randolrh md Macon. two onch.
s xty-nue other COLLEGES, Including OK
ford England. Carlsruhe AMI Heidelberg
Germany, West Point. University Of
Peunsylvania. Naval ucndomy. TUFTS amt
oberiln. arc represented by one graduate.
1.-THE wool growers OF this country are
Tar from satisfied with the tariff bin ihat
has Just passed the house, so FAR as their
Industry IL concerned" said Mr. n. l..
Cruch OF Frio county. Texas, at the Eb-
bit. at only gives US ca per cent ~ the
protection nffor ed by the Mckinley til.
which wns little enough, II the entire Me-
Kinlcy duties were restored II would TO
only nm act OF Justice to the sheep rnisers.
for since the threat OF free wool was In
aug1irated and the fulhlment thereof un-
der the Wilson bill, the sheep Industry
has been n losing one,
Another thing; There ought In Re
discriminating duty against the light or |
sldrted woods brought In from Aist-alla |
and China. The shr!nkngv IN these vnrici
from 10 10 so ner cent only. while tie |
heavy woods Of South america have |
shrinknge Of at least 70 PER cent. The |
and Chinese lmportatlons arc |
about In the same condition as the washed |
woods Of Pennsylvania and VIRGINIA and |
when this is taken In consideration the |
renl protection given American growers
under the Dlnglcy bill is not over cents
R pound. We ought not to do better by |
the wool growers of the Antinodes than
by our neEhbors OF tho Argentine TO-
public, and yet, under the act that >aise
The house. we give the South Americans
bv far the worst OF IT, Their trade and
friendship is worth far more 10 US than
That OF the Others, and | hone that soma
hing viii he done to correct the injustice
lone them"
Colonel Nathaniel o Henderson ons o.
no most prominent republican newspaper
'di'ors In TeSas has been APPOINTED by
VI Ger NrDor.eil clrrt, ~ tho houss. 70 M J.
nrortant ros tion. Coorel Henderson was
'nce principal reading clerk IN the TEXAS
egislnturc. He IL a fne stiimp speHk
md fluent and caustc writer on all
political questions