Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-04-05
Texas ON Collection Of Del,es.

Our Southern friends seem quite aware Of
the fact that an end car sometimes be sccorn. !,
pfished in more ways than the direct one, ss
is illustrated by the instance we now publish.
In the Legislature of Texas, the proposition to
which the following report refers vas efFectu.
ally put at rest by the au III created by this
Gu dfsyrit, and lest any Of our readers should
from IT'S extravaganza, be led 10 doubt its au.
thenticiiy. we state 10 them that Il IL extracted
from the 9Th page Of the Laws and JournaIs
the Legislature Of Texas Of the last se,-
sion.
>, Mr.. Merriman made the following report
TO the President Of the Senate:
The Judiciary Committee, to whom wss RI.
fefred the resolution requiring said committee
to investigate the expedenty Of repealing Ill
laws for the collection Of debts hereafter con.
racted IN this State, aud to report the result Of
their investigation 10 the Senate, have had
the ssme under consideration, and find the
subject matter thereof very subtle, exceeding.
" metaphysical aud troublesome II solution,
Ihe oriei time given your committee, It this
late period Of the session, to investigate Tire
question, amounts to prohibition OF demon.
sirative conclusions, unless, rs out ctiaifiuau
beautifully expressed himself each member Of
the committee could save all his thoughts st
dinner, and dreams at night. upon the subject.
! aud string them upon stick az a boy strings
cat fish,aud presents them in pile to the Sen.
ate.
Difficult as the task has been, your commit.
tee have endeayored to dive beneath the sob.
marine depths, and soar above the heaven.
kissing heights Of the vast problem contained
in the out:oh. They have endeavored to
extract the iniumescent eff1ore scence OF the re.
| solution, and by Artesian thought, to strike
the fountain OF rejuvcnesceiIee enIG0weied in
the primary strata on which the dubious syl.
| logism is based. II the language OF the reso.
luton had been encountered by the amend.
| ments, the good that would have resulted 10
| the State from law comprehend ding its provis.
ions. would have been apparent to al. A heavy
and oDcrous debt which has tached itself to
individuals by divers ways ard means connec.
ted with the fall Of Cotton and the rise of nut.
ty, would have been wiped out by an artistic
act OF single section, aud the elevated heads
OF depressed and down trodden debtors would
have turned 10 the capitol, and blessed the irs.
mer OF the resolution that called forth Law 70,
burst their shackles. Alas for human rood.
the amendment cuts of lthis fruitful sourca "a
enquiry, and sends your Committed anoat 81 y
sea OF incertitude, with untried perils boom,u1,
up in ths distance, without chart TO. a;e,ir.
! guish the channel from the rocks and ouick.
sands. The earlier, and perh ana thv onlv lav.
analogous to the one asked .or by the rssolu
ton. was enacted by Car cain Moses, a sort Of
military justice Of the I,eace and law maker for
people call Israeliyes. who had borrowed.
lotherwise ootained IRON people called Egyp.
tians, large amount Of jewelry on q credit :
and by virtue If this law they never did nav
for 1t. as will be seen BY several cases tried
where f,his law was given in evidence under the
general issue, and sust aimed BY the court
Y our committee found this law and The decis-
ions under it, in the first volume Of Noses Re.
ports. printed in few years prior to The revO-
luton of Texas, and to which they refer the.
Senate for further particulars.
In pressing the inquiry TO ascertain The ~.
suits OF such a law on the future destiniss Of
Texas, your committee have gone chronologi.
cally back to the time when Adam and Eve
formed CO artnership in the fruit trAds, and
Cain and Abel were only shirt tail boys run
ming at large 10 the garden Of Eden. The few
remaining records Of the time slew ,eonslusi~e.
ly, that no law then existed to enforce The col.
lection Of debts. and the people were hugely
happy. Before the battle OF San Jaeinto, there
existed Republic called Sparta. where IT,
collections Of dett, could not Be enforced By
the courts, although money was plenty but dill.
fcult to make small change, except at the
blacksm:th's. II, in the opinion Of the Senate.
an evil exists 10 the frequent enforcement Of
laws for the collection Of debts, then, BY adop.
ting the Spartan coin and standard Of vslus
for the pigeon roost currency now shoat, aud
making il legal tender, the same result will
be obtaired that would follow the repeal OF the
laws named in the resolution. Such are the
Investigations Of your COMMITTEES, which they
have instructed me TO report back to the Senate
for their consideration. "a
! F:H. M1.a,xAs, oas Of the coR.