The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-28

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last six ses'i0ns of The Legislature fol
mileage, per diem AMI contingent OK
penses has been as follows;
sessions ofmrl 3tl Lesislature.rS0ll l9ae
llll .ro i2N,iil -
Total for six years., b. ,....,s ,gdl,gN W
Showing an annual expense OF saiSi m 10
now ~ WIN BEHEREAtTM.
Gldaysscsson bl.ennlally perdlem $4,000 on
MllnhNruru',t luiuuu VI
I IohligenleNpe nsos ,o,",oy,,.ea.uy lslOOOU
lplhl sttst MltUO w
BcinRRnnuhlly nlyu"op,",,r,",,,sli 2,aOO NJ
Which being deduted from S9OS,
| n 90 shows an annual saving Of SlI6,
III Gh, Then IL Is moderate estimate
to say thas IN saving 200, 900 votes of bi'
ennial registration, IN equal In time
aud money TO Que dollar TO each voter,
or $500, OO0, equal TO an annual saving
to the industries Of the State OF 81 n, 600.
The new Constitution restores our
former wise and just system Of local
representation in the Legislature,
Whereby the representative Is taken
directly from his own locality, aud
thereby held more Immediately respon-
slble to those he represents.
SUFFRAGE.
After years OF sore irritation to every
spirit of manhood In the enjoyment of
our Inherited rights rs treemen, the
new Constitution breaks down every
barrier to an honest exercise of the
right Of voting, No more registration
Is required, ana no more espionage by
partisan officials il tolerated AS a
| guaranty Of fair and honest elections,
1t is only required that every man shall
vote in his own precinct, among his
neighbors, where he Is known. The
honest citizen will submit to this rather
than have the door open for repeating
and frauds.
COUNTY SCHOOL LANDS.
The four leagues, or l7,7l2 acres, do
mattel by the fathers of Texas TO each
county for educational purposes, and
wrested from them by the Constltu-
| ton of 1868, are restored TO the right
the respective County Courts for school
purposes. This is II righteous act of
justice,
PUBLIC ROADS.
The unjust and odious road tax,
placed in the Constitution of 1869 for
partisan purposes and at variance
with III our past history, by It's bur
then upon the aged, the widow aud
and the orphan, and its exemption of
two-thirds of all the able-bodied men
then In the State, is abrogated In toto.
| The new Constitution restores the old
system, hallowed by time and de-
manded by the people of the State.
The road lax as heretofore fastened up
on us amounts In round numbers to
Sl37 500. This sum Is saved to'the peo-
pie annually as money contribution,
| hy return to our old system of per-
sonal service on the roads, which add
ed to tLe annual saving in money to
the people in the Legislative Depart
ment, amounts to an annual reduction
of S290,90S 10, which added to the re-
duction in the Executive Department,
shows a grand total under these heads,
annually saved to the people of $780,
795 Is. Add to this the annual saving
of n biennial as compared with annual
elections Sl50,000, ana the total saw
ings are sI56, IQ5 II,
r EDUCATION. %
On this subject great diversity of
opinion prevailed III the Convention
among the purest and most patriotic
members Of the body. All were anx-
ious to place within the reach of every
child in the State sound, practical ed
ucatlon FOR the duties of life; but as to
the details, in view Of our condition
as u new and sparsely settled commons
wealth Of immense territory an area
larger than France, and more than five
times AS large as the great state of New
York-the wisest and purest men of
the Coaveutipn-men whose devotion
TO Texas cannot be questioned round
themselves confronted With grave DIFF !
ficulties, aud naturally held variant
views AS to the means in which to ac-
compllsh u common object--the great
est good to those who are to succeed |
us, generation by generation, as the
sovereign people of Texas.
Some were Opposed, in their intense
desire for early universal education, to
lay heavy tag on the people at once
to maintain IA general system OF free
schools for all. Others, no less ardent
in favor of the common object, realized
that the parents and Taxpayers of to-
day had Just emerged from n four years
bloody and devastating war, followed
by ten years of first military and then
an anomalous system of government,
distasteful to the intelligent multitude,
repugnant to their traditional ideas of
liberty, and engendering distrust be-
tween the common Ditigensnip of the
State, distrust IN the breasts of all tow
ards those in authority, and altogether
hegetting in the minds of the most in
telligent men, a feeling of doubt and
the very opposite of that
which should exist in the heart of every
citizen in q free State. Such being the
case, the Convention, realizing that
the State has on hand an interest-bear-
ing fund of about three million dollars
"a patented land fund in the organized
counties Of about twenty million acres
of land, now placed on the market and
being taken up by actual settlers, an
additional land fund of many million
acres In the unorganiged counties and
the unorganlzed territory, and beyond
this munificent grant, one-half of all
the unappropriated domain of the
State, the whole amounting In round
to over sixty millions OF acres,
decided that it would be unwise and
unjust to impose on the parents and
of to-day an enormous mon
ey to maintain at once gigantic sys-
tenn of free schools. After the most ex-
haustive discussion Of the subjlct, and
in view fthis splendid future, a mai
GRITTY of the Convention determined to
limit the present taxation on the peo-
pie in support of free schools, to one