The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-14
Editorial correspondence.
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,.
AusrrN, March I'd.

hOoiiNs AhsiSh iCs /
Since tile settlement OF the vexed
question OF convention, the Legisla>
ture is addressing itself strictly to |
business. There is manlfestly sin
cere wish to legislate for the good Of
the State, and errors, If errors there
be, cannot, am sure, be Justly i'm
puted 10 any betrayal Of trust by
that body. There are, it should be
remembered, not only great number
and variety, but great diversity OF
interests represented here. 1t is not
SO easy as some may suppose to har,
mon,se the whole, and there are
weighty objections to any measure
falling in this. In the discussion OF
the question, "sale OF the university
and school lands" now before the
House, for instance, there Is diver
sity Of opinion fully commensurate,
naturally, with the various values OF
the lands in different sections and
counties of the State. Mr.. Sadler, Of
Coryelle, speaking with especial refer
ence to the Al, 900 acres in McLennan
county, argues well and forcibly that
the time has come when they should
be sold, as proposed by the bill,
while members from new counties,
where lands are not IN demand, think
otherwise, and, with equal proprlety'
consequently oppose the bill. 30 1t
Is with regard to many other subs
jects of Legislation. and, the wonder
is, ia view of the great diversity of
interests, not that the Legislature is,
as some Of the papers allege, very
slow, but that 1t gets along as well
and as satisfactorily as it does. This,
In passing. As regards the unfortus
nate bill just mentioned, there is
scarcely doubt that it will pass the
House, and, having already passed
the Senate, Will become, with the
Governors approval, a law. The
only question now is as to some minor
details in the general provision for
the sale of the lands, end this, upon
terms of equity to settlers and to the
public school fund. Speaker Bryan,
calling another to the chair, takes the
floor just at this moment, and In quite
an able address, advocates this policy,
Gaping his argument with a grand
State University-so that the sons
and daughters of Texas may, with the
least delay possible, have the very
best facilities for education here at
home.
AS regards the Judge Chambers
impeachment case, there is some
doubt as to the result. The evidence,
while it clearly shows tyranical and
otherwise offensive conduct highly
unbecoming Judge, falls short of
general expectation as to corruption
and other points upon which the i'm
peachment would more easily stick.
Conceding all that is claimed by the
defense, however, it is abundantlY
evident that the accused is a judicial
fraud, and on this charge alone, il
nothing else, he deserves to be de-
posed.
The Senate, in such case, acts not
merely with reference to the accused
and what is due him, but with REFER
ence also to the people of the judicial
District and what is due them. In
this view of the case the Judge will
surely Ego up the spout"
The bill for frontier protection,
which passed the House, in the Sen,
ate "hangs fire." An amendment to
Increase the pay was promptly voted
down. Objection is, furthermore,
made that the system proposed is too
liable to perversion and admits of too
much fraud in fat jobs; and that still
worse organizations OF bad men az
fected under it, may not only utterly
defeat its object-adequate protec-
tion, but prove absolutely worse to
good citizens than the Indians them,
all this at an enormous
expense to the State.
Accordingly sui stitute proposed
by Adjutant General Steele is offered,
and there Is reason to believe that it
will soon pass. OF one thing our from
Tier friends may rest assured, there is |
no lack of disposition TO give them |