The southern press., 1850-09-02
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Third Legislature Extra Session.
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR BELL.
PROCEEDINGS.

! We condense the proceedings Of the Iegisla-
ture, convened pursuant to the proclamation Of
the Governor, ut Austin
The Senate met on the 10Th inst Present
Matthias Ward, Albert H. Latmcr Hardin Hart,
David Gage, James F. Taylor, Alfred Mr. Trnit,
John II. Moffett, Isaac Parker, Isaac W. Bra
shear, Jesse Crimes Jerome b. Robertson.
Wilds K. Cooke, Alexander H. Philips, b.
Kush Wallace Samuel r. Campbell. presented
| his credentials and took the oath of Office and
his seat. a 1.,
Mr. Bird Holland was elected Secretary, and
Messrs. Cooke, Parker and Gage appointed d
committee to inform the House that the Senate
was organized
The House was called to order by Speaker
Keenan,, and the following members answered
| to their names: F&a sE
Messrs. Speaker Bogart. Bryan, Burney,
Charlton, Clemens, Clough Cochran, Crump, Of
| Bexar, Dickson, Gillet, Hardeman, Of Nacogdo-
ches, Hardeman, Of Travis, Holland Llloyd, Lott,
Mckinney, Polk, Reynolds Runnels; Russell,
Scott, Selman, Shaw, Shea, Smith, of Red River,
Stapp, Sterne, Stewart Tarrant, Taylor VIII
son, and Winfield.
Also, Mr. Shepherd, Of Washington county,
elected to fill the place Of B. f. Taryer, re-
| sgned) took his seat. iiy
Mr.. Hampton was elected Chief Clerk; Mr..
| J. w. Long, Assistant Clerk; Mr.. W. Tucker,
a.
geant mt Arms
OnTuesday the 18th inst, the Committees of
| both branches having waited on the Governor,
| the Senate appeared in the House chamber and
took the seats assigned to them.
The message Of the Governor was then read
as follows:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT., }
AUSTIN, Aug. l3,l85O.
| To The Honorable Ssnate,
and House Of Representatives.
GENTLEMEN: The season Of the year is unfa-
vorable for assembling the Representatives of
| the people, and its great heat unpropitious for
mature and satisfactory deliberations The draft
which have felt myself compelled to make
upon your time and personal convenience, and
| the increased expenditures to the State necessa-
| rily involved by the extraordinary session now
convened, were subjects matnreIy considered,
and gave me for time painful solicitude
But as the intrinsic weight of the great ques-
| ton which shall have the honor to present for
your consideration, continued from time TO time
to augment and to present itself in bolder re-
| lief according as / bestowed reflection upon it,
the objections to the call which al first seemed
| to possess validity and force, were soon lost in
| the superior consideration, that serious wound
was about to be inflicted upon the honor of our
State, and great detriment about to accrue to
her most important interests.
As the head of the Executive Department Of
the State Governments possessing most clearly
no remedial agency strong and eficacious
enough for the emergency, could only acQu-
esce in the necessity which obliged me to play
the subordinate, but interesting part Of a sent-
mel, charged with the duty Of guarding with
sleepless vigilance against all unfriendy ap-
proacles and to sound the alarm whenever the
sanetity Of our rights should be assailed, no
matter from what quarter and inwhat form.
Upon receiving the report of the Commits
sioner appointed under the authority of the act
OF the last Legislature, to provide for the civil
organization of the counties of Preside, Ell Pa
so, Worth, and Santa Fe, and other information
which subsequently came to my knowledge
connected with the subject of that report, it oc-
cured to me that if the occasion contemplated
by the consultation for the exercise Of the power
by the Executive Of convening the Legislature
in extraordinary session could ever exist it was
presented by the various facts and circum-
stances, in reference to portion Of the territory
of our State, requiring in myjudgment the most
prompt and decisive action on the part of this
Government; and though fully sensible of the
Inconvenience and probable hardships to which
must expose you, in asking your presence at
the Seat Of Government at season 80 unfa-
vorsbe, still the oath | had taken, faithfully to
administer the duties of the station which | oc-
cupy, did not permit me to disregard the neees-
sty of invoking the aid and assistance of the
Legislative wisdom of the country at crisis in
which the nteresi, honor, and cliaractar of the
State We're so deeply involved. 1
! In accordance with the provision and require
| ment of the act of January 4tt, 1850, Robert
D. Neighbors, esq, was with the advice and
consent OF the Senate, appointed the Commits
sioner of the State, to carry into operation the
objects contemplated BY it, and after receiving
en- strrc nd ;,fl
| Of the Executive to afford, he left the city of
| Austin on the Sth day Of January for the region
of country in which the duties of his mission re-
quired his presence ard action.
| Upon his arrival in the county of Ell Paso he
| took the necessary measures for its immediate
organizations and by his prudence, zeal, and ac-
tivty, he succeeded to the fullest extent of our
expectations Within the space of a few weeks,
he effected with a people heretofore unaccus-
| toned TO our Government and laws and strongly
imbued with prejpdices against us as raee, 4,
full recognition of the rights and of their rela-
tions to it, and inspired in them d,sire to cuI-
tivate those relations in the performance oe all
the obligations of good citizens. The complete
| and perfect returns of the organization of that
county made by him to the State Department,
afford the best evidence of the ability with which
| the organization was conducted, and it il adj
verted to now for the purpose Of showing the
capacity of the Commissioner for the performance
, , - ~" d"t'.s assioned him. and that the want OF
entire success in executing the act referred to
above, is in no wise to be ascribed to any def
cheney on his part.
| The success of Maj. Neghbors in the county
Of FL Paso, gave rise to strong hopes of accom-
plishng the purposes of his mission in the county
of Santa Fe, and these hopes were strengthened
by assurances that he would meet with no OPP
position or obstacles the part of the officers
| commanding the United States forces at that
place. Previous to his departure from Ell Paso
he was furnished with acopy of an official Order
issued at Santa Fe on the 18th day of M arch |
4 1850, by Col. John Munroe, commanding the
! 9th Military Department, recognizing him as "a