The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-04-22
The Fourteenth Legislature.



What II Is the fourteenth Legislature
has done to commend IL to favor II yet
to be learned, II IL Is ever known, most
certainly. The expense of long SEES.
sion was entailed upon the taxpayers,
when all had agreed previous 10 the
meeting of that body that the session
should be n short one, a copy of tho
laws Matched by this body, during its
recent setting, Is before us. IL Is quite
volumlnous, indeed, and Is principally
amendments TO old ones, which amend
ments, In most cases, no doubt,
only tend Is compllcate them the more,
and rarely suchamendments will prove
iJr the better. When the consttu-
tionnl convention shall have met and
concluded its labors, no doubt Two
thirds of this legislation, that has cost
the state thousands, will be rendered
obsolete, and then another long session
will be IN order unless the convention
is sufficiently wise and patriotic to
place Il limit on its time, and 80 Tx II
that they can not meet every change
of the moon and stay in session us long
as hey please.
One law they have amended, that
perhaps had better been abolished
Certain II is, that it is rendered nuga-
tory 10y the amendment. This amend
ment cost the state, no doubt, u thous-
and, and may be more, and it can have
no further effect than to cost the coun-
ty courts great deal of labor, encum-
Der the statutes, and nobody be bene-
fitted. This amendment is TO the law
requiring the publication, in the coun-
ty paper having the largest circulation,
of the annual financial condition of
each county. ltrequires that the coun-
ty courts shall make regularly quar-
terly tabular statements of the assets,
expenditures and Indebtedness of the
counties, specifying names of creditors
and items of Indebtedness, with their
respective dates of audit, and also the
names of persons to whom moneys
have been paid. This is required to be
made out by the county court, posted
up in four public places in the county
provided there is no paper published
in the county, and in case there is,such
paper shall be allowed fifty dollars for
said publication, and ii shall also be
posted up at the court house.
This work, in this county, would fill
three papers the size of the Courier to
the exclusion of everything else, and if
posted up at the court house, in manu-
script, would fill one side of our large
brick court house, from cellar to gar
ret. Yet, for all this labor that would
cost the publisher alone for compost
ton, fully five hundred dollars, this
charitable l?) retrenchment-griping
Legislature, the members that compos.
ed it, owed their election to the press,
were so grateful to it for their position |
and eight dollars per day and mileage,
that they would have it perform as a |
reward for its invaluable services, |
two thousand dollars worth of labor
for the county-give this amount of its |
capital to the county, for the pltiful |
sum of fifty dollars, in deprecated |
county scrip.
No wonder they stayed in Austin
until they were ashamed to come |
home. If they never had returned, |
The majority of them, their constitu-
ents would not have been the least |
osers in the way of brain or disinter-
,sted patriotism.