The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-07
EVENING SESSION.

pending on adjournment was lost by vote
of 80 TO 80.
Section five provides a salary of $4,000 fol
the Governor.
Mr.. Johns IN of Collin moved to strike
out ''five" and insert "four"
| Mr.. Wade moved to amend by inserting
fs$3e00 gold.n Lost.
| Mr.. German moved to insert $4,000 y
Lost.
| Mr.. Kilgore moved to amend by inserting
| f'$4500 gold" Lost by a vote of IL to so,
! The motion then required on the adop-
! ton of the amendment offered by Mr.. John
son of Collin. Lost by vote of 35 to 81.
| Mr.. Nugent offered to amend by inserting
''$35OO.
| Mr.. Mccormick moved to lay the amend
ment on the table. Carried by vote OF
/ 43 to 26. o-fa
Mr.. German moved to reconsider the vote
rejecting the amendment offered by Mr..
johnson of Franklin.
! MIR. johnson of Collin thought $4,000
was amply sufficient; that hundreds of men
were working for far less sums. The best
talent could be had for the sum named with.
out any sacrifice; and if there was any sac
rIfice, to show the honesty of his intention,
| he would himself make the sacrifice and be
Governor.
MIR. Mccormick hoped that if there was
/ any chance to get the distinguished gentle
man to serve that it be given him at $1,000
| per year. .'t.-+
Mr.. German said he promised his people
1 that he would vote to reduce all alaries,
4 and tried to get the salary of Governor fixed
at $4,000, but as he could not get it down
| to those figures he would vote for the next
/ lowest sum it seemed possible to get, $4,000.
1 Mr.. Mccormick said he hoped the Cover
nor would be given q salary commensurate
| with his labors and the dign t. of his posi-
| ton. If we expected to get first class tai
ent we must pay for it. He said the gentle
man from Tarrant (Mr. Germany bleated
| very loud about .'retrenchmeIt and re:
| form" but he had drawn eight dollars per
cay and cow-skin tail mileage thrown in.
Mr.. German replied, that the gentleman
| from Colorado, (Mr. McCurmick) was not
conversant with his acts IN the Fourteenth
Legislature, when he made the assertion.
The journals of that body would show that
he had contended for three dollars for every
twenty-five miles; failing in that, he had
| tried to reduce 1t To five dollars, but still
failed. He had introduced resolution
cutting down mileage and per diem one
fourth; and for the course he then pursued,
he received the same censure that the gen.
tleman from Colorado was now giving him.
| Mr.. Weaver said he did not desire to see
such penuriousness exhibited as cutting
down the salary of the chief Executive OF
the State. He had promised his constltu-
ents no such thing, neither did they desire
| it. The history of all officers, as class,
was that they went out of office poorer than
when they came in.
Mr. Fleming thought $4,000 amply suf1i-
cient for Governor to put on all the style
necessary. That was as much as our gov
errors had prior to the war, and they had
ample.
Mr.. West said he was as deeply sworn
for s'retrenchment and REFORM" and would
go as far in this direction as reason and
common sense would dictate; but he thought
that justice and reason would show that
$4,000 was not too much. Governors Hous-
| ton and Lubbock could scarcely support
their families ON the amounts that were al
lowed them; and he knew that Governor
| Coke had made nothing. None of these
men were at all extravagant, but lived fru-
gaily.
The Convention recorsidered the vote re-
| jecting the amendment of Mr. johnson, Of
| Collin.
Mr.. Ballinger said the Office of Governor
was not one out of which mono ought to be
made, but that he thought he ought to bs
paid a sufficient amount to support him and
his family in the style in which they were
expected to live. He said Governor Pinck
ney Henderson did not make enough Out
of his salary to support his family, and
rather than 60 in debt, he practiced law.
Governor Davis, whom he believed to be
an honest man, had been compelled to dc
the same thing. ia
MIR. King also spoke in favor of giving 8
good salary.
Mr.. Russell of Wood was in favor of cut
ting down salaries. He said we once had
the brightest intellects of our country on
the bench, Wheeler and Lipscomb, who
had lived on the salaries of those days
and the hero Houston, who might be called
g the father of his country" lived on q
small salary. Nearly every man that had
filled public positions had went out of office
poor; and no matter what they were paid,
| they would spend it all. Give Governor
Coke SIC, 900 year, and he would have
no more left than now - that he would
spend it all, anyhow. A good deal had
been said about the difference in the price
of living now and in olden days. He had
come here tweAty-four years ago, and had
paid thirty-five dollars in gold for board,
and he now boarded at twenty and a
half dollars currency.
| Mr.. Crawford made an able speech in be-
half of paving a good salary. He said it
had been stated that the Governors or other
days had lived on less. Yes, that was so
and these patriots had never been paid for
the dangers, bardships and labor they had
undergone for their beloved Texas. It
would have been better for the bright-eyed
offspring of these men if their fathers had
never held these positions He was in fa-
i vOr of observation-disclosures and raforrr,O that
would remove corruption and wrong in
Office, but not Of that kind that would
starve our public officers or leave them in
debt His speech was really eloquent, and
we only wish we could give it entire.
The amendment of Mr.. johnson of Col
lin was adopted by vote of 40 to SO.
Section four provides that the Governor
ssshall not be eligible to election more than
four out of six successive years"
Mr.. Martin Of Navarro moved 10 strike
out said provision. Carried by vote of
| Section I've, as amended, provides that
" the Governor shall have $4,000 and no
Mr.. Henry of Smith offered an amend
ment, until otherwise provided by law
Lost -
| Section seven provides that ssthe Cover
nor shall call forth the militia to execute
the laws Of the State, to suppress insurree-
tions and repei 1nvasions.p
Mr.. Murphy proposed to amend by add
ing s,and raids from the Mexican Republic. =
Lost.
Mr. Station offered to amend, By adding
e'by troops under the direction or control
Of other States orgoveEuments, or BY preda-
tory bands therefrom.S
/ Mr. Ford aade an earnest and eloquent
appeal IN behalf Of his section, and said
such STATE Of war existed, that they would