The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-13

o! debating the purchase of her bonds
by the company to n large amount In
the other, the state gives the company
an immense domain of land, and the
taxes due for twenty-five years. 1t
does not require much calculation to
prove that seven million six hundred
and eighty thousand acres OF land,
and twenty-five years taxation, Is II
more liberal settlement than the com
promise bill offers, provided lands were
Immediately saleable or could be
promptly hypothecated. The necessi-
ties of the international, however, are
such that the company cannot wait,
and to give IL land and exempt II from
taxation, in place of the mere use of
the states credit, Is mocking ut its en-
lamity and.giving it II stone instead Of
bread. The governor has failed TO
make out a case, then, so far as the
constitutionality of the matter goes.
The people understand fully the means
bywhich the charter was obtained. They
propose simply to wash this piece OF
dirty linen at home and to secure rail-
way facilities and quiet all claims
against the state, preposterous as they
may be, to protect the good name and
credit of the state, whose word was
pledged by an unworthy Legislature.
The refusal of the state to pay or SETTLE
with this clamorous company has mill
tated against the credit of Texas, and
will continue to do so until it is ar
ranged. Their little bill may be u
fraud or not, but the spectacle Of II
company setting OIL Texas doorsteps
every morning, asking, imploring and
threatening about "that little bilP' is
scandalous, and Texas will do well to
fix up the matter ms soon rs possible
and let the importuning company go
about It's business. They have wearied
the patience of the inmates of the
house, and the whole neighhOphood is
tired of the din and recrimination
which have made the very air hideous.
The compromise bill is effective and
practical; the governors proposition
impracticable and futile. helegislature
and the governor seem to have fully
realized that they had the company in
a tight place, quite at their mercy.
The legislature drove hard bargain,
bat the governor drives harder one,
from the fact that there is no imme-
diate succor in il ttothe company-wiJh-
out which it goes to the wall. 1t is
neither in keeping with the honor or
dignity of II great and powerful state,
simply because it has the power to use
it by wriDging hard terms from any
individual or company whom it may
happen to have at II disadvantage. 1t
is not consistent with Texan ideas OF
fair play.
The most pcstiferous and uniortu-
nate feature about this veto is its po-
litical effect. 1t will be used as n cam
paign document to bring about divis-
ion of the state. The people of west
Texas have common interest," III the
public domain which mas been 'reeiy
parcelei out to bnlid railways III other
parts of the state. Ihey nave stooo ny
and seen other sections settihS rall-
ways built in this way ana are SeC
without railroad connection' 1heS
have lost the Immigration OF years
Property has deprecated ana they
have not, eeeii "''e '" NNeP w 49,
the rest of the state III progress. ! heS
have not been trelSe" J'i71iy' "'iu '''i'
veto is now theif espec''i Sr'eNa,'.e'
1t has 10 place, howeNc', IN ''e fliii'ii'S
of the state, and should not hc ''ses, as
handle TO any party whip. IL Is SIM
ply u question of public iaith ana sIa'e
credit, and really should nave no more
hearing upon the question of division
.,, ,,,o date,t of any other bill. Ii
'"''" .''o ,,1 o.n,i ,,or s;n,.
must ee trea'eo "'i" se'.''' "ion
ply the basis OF IFS merits. III Is ho'
a sufficient cause for even suggts sting a
division of the state, which would not
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