The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1890 Page: 1 of 8
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ABJLENE TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING J ANtTARY 34 1890
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' Washington Tan. 20. One of the
Tffost important measures in' Indian
legislation evefbrouh$ before con-
Igress was introduced in the house to-
i day. The bill provides for a 'com
plete territorial government for -the.
iiiuinn- territory ana us ultimate ao
miSsion to all the rights and priyileges
of statehodd. The Indians of the five
civilized tribes" are ready to .give" up
their independence ' and confide 'tlieif
interests to governors appointed by thdf
and othferwjsJj-i$ie may select. TKey
dojiqJferigani to be subject to
;tll'!djigiwpcheming politicians
T'ttey TiaVe fiyery'qualifictjpri 'neces-
sary to'becorne"citizens' pfiainer state.
TheyJiavo colleges at Tahljquali and
is ecjajffb tlie average through-
oiirJhe United States lieine a ureat
f jjeaTJJilgher riian' m i.ome sectionsJhatH
v irtki 4-..n.-. ri'L.. ..-. i . .-.1 iiii-Ti
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ot. tile terntOCTTW.IPPPrt'Weven tnese.
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n uuiljt 13 a nui uuu w(uuiiiuiv"i wm
.great agricultural inu mineral re-
sources. It seems.strange tot think of
a state where the. citizens. are. .'.almost
lcnltrely Indians'bjifSip dqflbtthe gift
sSfiese neonle with Deflect nrdnrietv and
suiksuucuuuu.. csui.ucijuujiicrrcu upuu
. thousands
have to be naturalized but this step
lia;ppy .results 'it wasJjr4t thouglir Imn?s
1'ijs.wm- os unnecessary except possiuiy
I'jKior tnose wnp own no property vs
toon as the federal torm ot.Royern-
linVdnt. is .extended to the' territory all
tax-paying Indians by an amendment
to the constitution become citizens of
the"Uhited States in every sense of the
word. A proposition to divide the
territory in half by a north and south
line has been slightly discussed but it
is said not to meet with favpr
Among the bills of interest to Ar-
kansas and Texas introduced in the
house to-day were the following: By
Mr Rogers authorizing the Arkansas
Valley railroad to construct a -railway
from a point near Fort Smith through
said terntory'in a northwesterly direc-
tion to a point on the northern boun-
dary line of said territory with the
power to build a branch and construct
a bridge across the Arkansas river in
die Indian territory froni a point at or
near Fort Smith The bridge toll
rlinrees are to be the same as are pro-
r vided for similar highways in Arkansas.
' Vl. Af CfAtunr Prnirirlirtrr fr nn
additidn to (he public building at Hous-
ton raising the same pne story and
appropriating! 5000 therefor to be-
come immedite!y available. A new
heating arjpa$atus and a-cistern are
contemplated or this building.
Also a billjta promote greater reci-
prpcityin cnwy f clal. relations between
the United '&$& arid Mexico. Three
commissioners mx to be appqinted on
the part of McrV.country to consider
the question "qf;AoiuWcial rec'Procity.
Mr. ToWpJi.'.bfNew Mexjqp pre
sented a bllUoiaW the Hudson'Springs I
Irrigation coropaw in the tenttory of
New Mexico IrA jiuthpnzmg them tp
enter upon'MdAconstruqt necessary
pipes canaisjAfwihes fbrth.e imgn-
Hon of not imr.i
pp'iiucc uur mure
yiblic and Jands
than six sectiww;
Ladjacent to tM
ny ut saiu com-
j pany m cran -
The followinf 1
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iters have been
.afmointed in
Jonathan h I.
Bland Alliance :
ikvr. J. Ballard
Bluflton; Tames L
ler i-amp oan
Saba : Eli BtbU'
- Tames :
Ahtilton. Loreriai Fi
nk Ellis New
Newtpn ; Gran-
Hone: Wm. M dpfaVk
villeW. Doyd.JRoyse'
City; Joba r.
Clark San Jttowio
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Blaine Falls cotintyALewiij W. Max
well ; Muoriatcr Cffokc guilty Au-
gust Flucschc." :
When the special house committer
investigating the- ballot bo M
met this morning MayorArosuJiTSi"S
Cincinnati was placed upon the stand.
He testified ris follows: He knew
Wood; he'first met him &bout August
6 lastt when Wood came with a letter
of introduction from E. CHall mana-
ger of the Hall Safe avMkk com-
pany commending him Blractical
mechanic. Wood alsP iflPanPther
letter; saying he would make a good
smoke inspector ; that he was an hon-
est citizen and a staunch republican.
This letter was from John C. Otis. Still
anPthcr letter of .commendation to
the same effect" was. from Geo. Weber
an iron merchant of high character
"anoiormerly sheriff Congressman
)ohn Gj CaldweK tif Ohio also en-
dorsed Wood as' a soldier and good
.republican ' So 'did V. H. jfones of
Joiies' electntal company Wood filed
papers and asked if witness had re-
ceived a letter from Governor Forakef
and being answered in the negative
said the letter would be forthcoming.
August 6 witness got d letter' from C.
L.; Kurtz the governor's secretary
asking him to. have the place of smoke
inspector held open. Witness.had told
Wood he would consider his applica-;
tipfrwith others; and wanted to hear
from the "governor. " Alig'ust 13 he got
a letter frdm the governor asking him
not to make the appointment of smoke
inspector for a few days. Witness
wrote the goveinorin reply telling ln'm
what kind of a man he wanted for in-
spector and August 1 16 the governor
replied that he had promised to en
dorse Wood's apphcatidn in a certain
jdPritingericy ; that he had promised
him. (the governor) certain political in-
formation about prpminent men. Wit-
ness said that during this time he had
received letters from J. H. Leiden
'Henry ''Watson and .others'of tlie Grand
'AVmy post and Charles B. Russell re
commending Wood for the appoint-
ment as a worthy man' good business
manandhard working man. Witness
said he had first seen the forged paper
September 14 when he met Governor
iForaker in the Gibson house and the
latter showed it:to him. Gov. Foraker
had told the witness not. to appoint
Wood ufiless he.was found to be of
good character and suitable attain-
ments. NOMINATIONS.
The . president to-day sent to the
senate the following nominations : To
be collectors of internal revenue;
Ferdinand Edinman third district of
New .York; Marcus Johnson district
sota.
United States attorneys:.
'Lewi; G. ;Falmer Western district of
Michigan ; Patrick H. Winston district
of Washington.
United. States marshals: John P.
Tracey Western district of Missouri ;
Thomas R.Brown district of Wash-
ington .
Manning M. Rose of Ohio princi-
pal clerk'of the surveys in the general
land office.
Postmasters iTames Abbott. Snrine-
field Mo; William Kerr Galbrath
Connnqsburg Pa
Withdrawn William P. Roller post-
master Bristdlj:Te'nn'; alsothe follow-
ing' recess appointments ; John are
Vigneaux United States marshal for
the western district of Louisiana:
James" R Clark United.States marshal
for the western district of Michigan.
The Pan-American congress at Us
last meeting adopted resolutions on trie
death of Walker Blaine.
Representative Robertson of Louisi-
ana introduced in the house a. bill ap-
propriating $300000 to reimburse the
state of Louisiana for the destruction
of the state" capital at Baton Rogue!
La. by fire' while in possession of the
United States military authorities in
1883. "
Justice Bradley in the United States
supreme court today rendered an opin-
ion reversing the defcssion of. the cir-
cuit court fPr the western districts of
Louisiana in' the -case of (he Illinois
Central railroad company plaintiffs in
errpr vs. Milar43osworth and.Charles
H. Bosworth. The court holdes that
the amusety act pardoning the father
of the Bosworths ;fpr taking part in
Jhe rebejlipn restored to him all rights
in his confiscated property not already
conveyed away aiid that as the for
feiture Was only To life ne had an in-
terest In that property arid could under
'the law dispose pf the title to it.
CONFJRMATiqNS
Collector pf'Woms: Robert
Smalls Beaufort S. C. . .
Surveyor of customs r John W.
Cf)bWP4ducaVi)Ky.t ;
United States district attorney :
Henry C. N''esi northern district of
Mississippi : Benjamin S. Baker dis-
trict pf Nebraska. .
United States marshals Carter Har
rison middle district of TeBnesae:
iL'PWHuyj.eHWHm fptwrweof i-owana j
X. L. Walker dirtnet of Kansas.
Bow-
cri Vattcouvcr Wash.
Receiver Of public nioneysi-Lcharles
U. Snyder Lakc.view Ore
.Postniasters Texas Mrs. Lottie M.
Campbell Weathcrford ; P. A. Hazard
Colorodo.
Wasiunoton Jan. at. The sec
ond rountl between the republicans
and democrats was fought on the .floor
to-day. It came up on a motion made
by Mr. Blarid of Missouri to correct
the record so as to show that Mr. Reed
had refused to order it division on a
motion to adjourn on tho evening be-
fore. There are ninny technical points
about the debate but the fight was
made to ascertain whether or not Mr.
Reed and his patty intended to leave
it to him when a division should be or-
dered and tellers appointed.
The "scrap" was furious and enter-
taining while itJasted and the republi-
cans won by a vote of 145 to 136. All
the Texans were present. The entire
strength of the democratic party is X62
votes Every man of them. came here
to stay in their scats and see Uiat what
the republicans got they should get by
the. skin 01. their teeth lorday a de-
liberate effort was made to force the
republicans to bring in rules. There
were some few sick democrats and the
others had perhaps forgotten their
boast.
Mr. Mills opened the fight for the
democrats and Messrs. Carlisle Crisp
and others followed. When Mr. Crisp
was talking there were a dozen repub-
licans shouting at him at once and Mr.
Reed fairly railed for order.. Just be-
fore a count on a vote calling yeas and
nays Mr. Mills made a motion and
Mr. Reed paid no attention to him.
Mr. Mills insisted and did it emphat-
ically but Mr.. Reed as oblivious of
that gentleman's presence merely
counted the vote. The whole fight
and deportment of the republicans
showed that Mr. Reed is the barrel of
parliamentary law and he will put him
self on top as suits his pleasure. If
the democrats had abstained from Vo-
ting they would thereby have given
notice "to the republicans that they
could not legislate till they had all
their men present but they went in and
made a counting contest with about
twenty-five of their men absent. In
fact congresjs going along legislating
without any rules except such as the
republicans see fit to make forthe par-
ticular case under advisement and
it may be that the qountry will con-
clude that tljjais good enoughi The
fact is apparent that the democrats are
not doing much good for themselves in
not' making the republicans show their
hands and their rules. After a while
when the contested election cases come
up and the republicans commence to
throw them out of the windows they
will realize that they ought to have
made the fight sooner.
The Gainesville Ardmore and Pur-
cell federal court matter is about as it
was yesterday. The committee meets
to-morrow when the matter wilt be
taken up. Judge Hare says : '
"Judge Stewart's statement in the
News does not fully cover his position
on the federal court question; I of-
fered to introduce a bill establishing a
federal court at Gainesville but re-
fused to put'anypther counties in! the
bill except Cc-qke unless such coun-
ties being fully informed; authorized
me to do so. I offered! to .introduce '
a bill leaving the place of "the court
blank and put in all " counties that
autfiarized'me to do so Withoutsuclj
authority I refused to take affirmative
action.
Judge Hare lias introduced bills for
the erection of federal buildings at
Gamesville JDenisonand Sherman. Af-
ter considering the matter he conclu-
ded to ask for$soopo for each place
and has written to the mayors of these
towns asking thetp to forward to him
statistics of business and population to
aid him in securing the appropriations.
Mr. Culberson' put in petitions from
Cass county signed by aoo citizens
asking for an appropriation for a lock
and dam at the Albany flats toiimprove
the navigation between 'Shreveport and
Jefferson There are petitions of this
kind coming in everv day from north
and east Texas the petitioners believ-
ing that the improvement of these
navigable jVatcrs will relieve them from
their pfesqnt railroad rates.
. Mr Stewart introduced petitions
from the people of Jasper Tyler Har-
din and. Jefferson counties asking for
the improvement of the Neches river.
He also introduced a. bill for the re-
lief of Lemuel Grissum and Sarah H.
Wood.
Mr Grain introduced a petition
frorn citizens asking for the retirement
of Judge Sabin and a bill for the re-
lief of Laura Maddox.
'Mr. Abbott has statistics from FOrt
yprtlt and Dallas in regard to tfie
aecesity for a government building at
Fort Worth and the nlargemeat 6(
tlve govr)wmt building at Dallas
!aad will make hit argument for appro?
poatibwf fbf both places bfore tlve
Rcnister ofldnd ofiice 0. A.
sub-committcc of the committee on
public buildings this week. ( He is a
member of the sub -committee and
thinks the statistics he has will secure
the appropriation."
The assistant Secretary Pf state has
informed Mr. Crain that it cannot issue
a passport for Julias Joseph Adams of
Wharton because lie has only declared
his intentions of becoming an Ameri-
can citizen and is not one in fact.
After the house got through its fight
on the ruling of the speakef it went
into the Oklahoma town site matter.
The f'crkins substitute for the Culber-
srth amendment as amended came up
and it was ascertained there was no
quorum and (lie matter Went oyer till
to-morrow.
Snow and Wind in tho Northwest.
The west and northwest has just ex?
perienced a. severe blizzard and snow
storm. A Chicago special dated
Jan. 20th says ;
lhe snow blockade in the west and
northwest . is one of the "most complete
on record. Not only has travel be-
come an impossibility on the western'
.divisions of the Central arid Northern
Pacific but telegraph 'companies are
equal sufferers arid every through wire
is down. 'on both these routes. The
Only means of telegraph communication
with the Pacific coast now is by the.in-
direct route df the Southern Pacific
and the vojuhie of 'business transacted
is necessarily limited. Washington and
OregOn are shut off from communica-
tion with the entire world'witli the ex-
ception of one little zigzag wire that
still works feebly between San Francis-
co and Portland. The Western Uiiion
repairers are snowed up at half a dozen
points in the west and there is little
prospect of renewed' communication
until the railroads have mastered the.
elements.
The snow blockade on the Central
Pacific road is at Emigrant gap near
the summit of the Sierras. Last- night
I eight west-bound trains were snowed
in ana tne prospects oi.tne roaa ueing
opened in the next fiartyeight hours
are poor as snow plows cannot work
through the ice and. the force of shove-
lcrs is' limited. There aVe icoo men
at' Work but as the snow is seven feet
deep on a level .and fathomless in the
cuts the work of clearing'tiie;track while
snow falls is tremepdpiis labor.
On tlie Nprthern Pacific there js a
complete snow blockade' at Sissons
near Mount Chasta.-. Colored Crock-
er of the Southern Pacific Who was go
ing north has been snowed in'thefe for
three days in a special train a'ndhope's
to get out to-mPrrow
The Southern Pacific road' has been
tains by washouts; and beyond '''Log
Angeles floods havedone much dam-
age. The only'unobstructed rbacl now
is tlie Atlantic and Pacific bulas'fhjs
depends on SouthernPacific cPnriection
I between Mojave' desert and SanFran
Cisco travel may be delayed at' any-
moment as it lias" been raining heavily
in1 Southern California for j days vpas't
while it is sfiowing in the jiprth. ;
Western Union advices this morning
are tHatfsnow" is still falling througli-
butthe west so that. the prospects are
by no means encouraging; '
St. Paul MiNN.Jah. 20 A heavy
.snow storm accompanied by a gale
set in about to o'clock last night and
a regular blizzard is now raging through-
out the northwest. As ydt there has
been no interruption Of railroad traffic
Or telegraph communication but the
storm is very severe. Bet ween fi ve and
Six inches' pf snow has fallen on. a level
and the prevailing high Ayind has
drifted it badly especially in the south"
western portion of Uib'State
Items From ifferkol.
Meukel January 19 Epitor Re-
porter: After so long a time I will
give you the promised dots.
Our town is on a bigboom
We must have 500 population now;
Wheat is looking fine but we need
rain.
Mr.. Simpson is building a new resi-
dence in south. Merkel.
Dr. Richardson is having a nice resi-
dence built..
Our enterprising merchant Mr. J.
H. Thorton is having a liyery stable
built.
The Methodists are soon to erect a
commodious church building.
The school at the college underPjqftJ
NorVell is jn a flourishing condition.
There are two schools in Merkel.
We are to have a pew grocery store
furniture store1 and a large dry good?
store.
YpU see Mr. Editor we are soon to
become a little pity. All you we need'
fa a. newspaper but the Reporter will
serve us well for a while yet. I
Tommy Hawk.
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