The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-20

them in their ddtles. Passed.
; The senate entered the hall of the
house to elect directors to the mcchan.
icPi and agricultural college. The elec.
ton hy Joint ballot resulted in the Sc.
lection of T.. B. Pickett, Colonel
Charles ID. Morse, b. II. Davis, G.. $.
West, +. II. Stockdale and Isaac +.
Graves.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. Snyers from the committee of
free conference, on the disagreement
between the two houses, on the con-
stitutiOnal convention bill, submitted
report recommending that the SEN
ate concur in the house amendment re-
port. Adopted.
The following bills were called up
and passed:
Empowering administrators of es-
tates of deceased persons to compro-
mise suits Of doubtful character.
/ Comforting additional jurisdiction on
/ Justices of the peace.
Providing for the election at the next
| general election of tax assessors and
| collectors.
Reorganizing the seventeenth judi
| cial district.
heSulaliIlS pUDIic rOu'iS.
Regulating proceedings in district
courts.
Securing pre-emptions to frontier
settlers driven off hy Indians.
The following were referred:
| Granting 800 acres of land to original
owners of each one thousand dollars
worth of machinery.
For the retirement of warrants and
to provide for the funding of the same.
Providing for the preservation of the
records relating to tn" history of Texas
during the late civil way.
NIGHT SESSION.
Mr.. Storey called up the senate bill
providing that Junty officers removed
from Office for good cause, shall be
Ineligible for any Oflic lc~ :Te -
After strenuous opposition by the radi-
cal members and few democrats, the
bill passed, under suspension of the
rules.
Adjourned.
AUSTIN, March l2.-Senate-The fol-
lowing bills passed
Creating the office of assistant attOr-
ney-general; amending charter of the
Sherman and Wichita railroad c0mpa-
ny amending the school law, all pass
ed finally.
The following bills passed the SEN
ate only:
Authorizing the governor to burn re-
deemed state bonds, under the funding
bill introduced yesterday.
Regulating fees in comptroller's of
flee. Fees from insurance companies,
under the new insurance law, to go
in the treasury.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following bills passed Amend
ing the law providing for the sale OF
school lands, extending time to par
chasers of additional six months.
Senate bill back from the house with
engrossed order repeating the pension
law of 1874. The senator from BeXar
was the only dissenting vote heard.
Bill requiring county Off GERS having
extra copies of the S.preme court re-
ports to send the same to the secretary
OF state to be distributed among new
counties and where court houses have
been burned.
House.-On motion of Nj. Delamy,
the deficiency bill for the present fiscal
year was made the special order for to-
morrow aL lU.oU "A. NJ, anu one nulltTeu
copies ordered printed.
Mr. Cards called up bill relative to
vagrant or mendicant children, pro-
hibiting Juveniles under sixteen years
of age to be employed as musicians,
rope darcers, etc, for the purpose Of
deriving profit thereof. Passed.
The general appropriation bill for
the next fiscal year was then taken up,
the house going into committee of the
whole. The sections relating to the
deaf and dumb and lunatic nsylums,
bureau of immigration, the peniten-
tiary, interest on the public debt, old
pensions, and miscellaneous, were
adopted, and few changes made. From
tier defense was raised To 500, 900. The
geological department received but
-, 600 for salary of state geologist. The
BILL after much discussion, was passed
to its second reading.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
On motion of Mr.. Delany, The gener-
al appropriation hill was carried to its
third reading and passed under II sus-
pension OF the rules.
Mr.. Hart called up the bill creating
the county of Somnerriile from slices
of Hood and Bosque counties. Passed.
The following bills also passed
Amending the act changing the mode
Of criminal procedure.
Amending the act prescribing modes
of proceedings in district courts.
Validating official acts of J. j, Met
colpe, county surveyor OF Palo Pinto
county.
Amending charter of the Pacific and
Great Eastern railway company to run
from Sherman, instead o! Denison, TO
Weatherford.
Amending the pension law.
Amending estray law.
Appropriating uueXpended school
moneys for educational purposes III
the school districts To which they be-
long.
JOINT resolution amending sections
one, two, six and seven of article five;
sections fOrty-iour, forty-fve anu forty
six of article twelve; sections one, Two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight and
nine of article nine and section forty
one, general provisions of the consii-
tuition. After much filiuusteriHg the
resolution was adopted Ivy II vote of 81
ayes to % nays. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, March I3.-Senate-The
senate refused to appropriate -, 900 to
represent Texas in the centennial eX-
! hinitiOn.
Senate went into executive session
on the message from the governor ap-
/ printing Hon. j. l.. Camp judge of the
| new criminal court of Jeilersun, Mar
shall and Palestine, and the nomina-
! ton was confirmed.
! The weighers' till was recnnsidered,
amendments lost aud Till passed.
The senate refused 10 concur in the
house amend;..eist> To the general ap
preparation hill, ai.d Gsked u commit
l tee of free conference.
At the afternoon session, The COM
n,ittee of conference agreed tn Tie
house amendments to tie general ap-
preparation hill, except hst increasing
frontier defense appropriation To 'Siuu,
OOn, and their repur was ad"lHri.
The till empowering the governor 10
commute the sentence of cOHvicts in
consideration of good behavior, pass
ed: also house bill authorizing cOnvicts
for petty ofienses to be hired out, with
a.