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

-lUNbINulN, ul ulll W HJll lUSlltt'
court in Terrell on bill creating Ollie
Of public weigher; also sundry oihe
: bills Of minor Importance.
Bills passed.-Senate deficiency bill
house amendments TO bills to better de
fine the powers and duties of sheriff
aud cOnslabIcs, concurred in; joint res
olution proposing amendments TO tn
constitution.
Senate adjourned to 3 T.. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Under the rules the following bill
passed:
TO exempt the Alamo church from
taxation; to create II lien in favor o
hotels, boarding house Keepers, ant
proprietors of livery or public stables
To pay Captain l.. ii. McNelly's com
pany for seven months service, unt
also the Galveston companies, and eX'
pendtures attending the same. re
amend section ten of the general laws
of the state.
Making it Il penal offense for any
one to pursue any calling, profession
or occupation, upon which tax is pay
aGle, without obtaining Il license
! therefor.
The bill to create the county of Cor
don was lost.
The senate adjourned.
House The constitutional conven-
ton bill, rs returned from the senate
with the house amendments not con
cured in, was taken lp, and after
some changes the bill was referred to
free conference committee, consisting
of Messrs. Munson, DeNurse, Cochran,
ISayers, Smith, Triplett, Johnson, Scott,
Henderson, of Smith, and Henderson,
of Kendall.
A resolution to extend the session to
the 22d inst, was rejected by "a yeas
to "a nays.
The special order, being the public
free school bill, was taken up-and
house went into committee of the
whole, and the bill discuss Il and sun
dry amendments offered.
The special order for l. NJ, being the
general appropriation bill for the next
fiscal year, as passed in the senate,
was taken up and some amendments
made to it, after which the committee
rose, reported progress and asked leave
to sit again.
The committee reports on bill char
tering the Texas Medical association,
and state board of health, and the bill
prescribing mode of proceedings in
district courts in matters of probate,
were adopted.
Adjourned to 3 =. NJ,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. Johnson introduced Il bill apprC-
priating $1,000 for the translation and
printing of the constitution and penal
code of the state; 800 each in Ger
man, and 900 each inSpanish. Passed.
Mr.. Stuart, Of Falls, called up the
bill regulating proceedings in the dis
trict courts. Ordered cngrossed and
made special order for TO morrow at
$3.50 A. ".
Mr.. Triplett called up the senate
Joint resolution amending the state
constitution. After much hllibuster-
Ing, its further consideration was post
poned until l1:3O a. NJ. tomorrow.
NIGHT SESSION.
Mr.. Chambliss called up the bill au-
thnrizing Navarro and -NhdefsoI cOuu-
tps and the towns of Corsicana and
Palestine to aid in the construction of
the Corsicana and Palestine railroad.
Passed.
Mr.. Watts introduced bill charter
ing the Sabine Pass and Marshall Air
Line railway. Passed.
House adjourned until $3.50 A. NJ. to-
morrow.
AUSTIN, March ll.-Senate.-The
educational committee reported against
the bill to endow the Texas Female
institute.
MIR. Wood introduced bill author
Iizing district judges to recall by sum-
mons grand jurors, after having been
discharged, in cases Of emergency.
Passed.
Joint resolution memorializing con-
gress in favor of the claim of the Nash
willie Methodist publishing house for
1.-THE use of their property by the gov
Iernment in 1862. Passed.
The senate took up the funding bill.
Bonds of the denominations of one
hundred dollars and five hundred dol
lars, payable in twenty-five years, at
eight per cent interest, payable semi-an-
ually,to issue to holders of all warrants
,issued prior to January, 1879, and all
warrants to be issued Jo pay school
teachers for services prior to July,
IlSR, and certificates of the auditorial
houtl of claims, except such rs were
required to be presented to the audito-
ria board 10y the laws existing be-
tween 1856 and 1873. Ordered en-
grt1sed.
Iill allowing cities aud towns to in
cor)orate, passed. Also, bill providing
foIrepair and proper keeping Of public
bindings and grounds. Also, bill pro-
vitfng that the legislature shall meet
nntbe first Monday in April, 1876, and
annually OH the same date hereafter
Randing reconsideration of the vote
defeating the Longview and TeXar-
kama railroad charter, the senate pro-
ceeded to the hall of the house of rep
resentatives to hold Il joint session.
e AFTERNOON SESSION.
The committee of conference on the
bill calling a constitutional convention
reported, recommending acceptance OF
houe amendment. Report adopted,
and The bill goes to the governor. Con
ventiOi or no convention Is now WIN
the people to decide.
Mr., Joseph presented a letter of
thanks from General G. w. G. Lee, for
courtesies extended him by the senate.
MI. mOIIlS Cillcu UP puoiN 'NiShN' a
bill, amended 10y the senate, giving
weighers only five cents per bale for
weighing; also amended by striking
out the clauses which prohibits Others
than public weighers appointed 10y the
governor from weighing cotton, aud the
hill as amended was ordered engrossed.
After some further discussion of the
bill, or its final passage, it was killed
by friends of the original bill voting
nav.
The bill making 1t a penal offense
for officers whose terms have expired
to continue in possession OF The office
and performance Of olficial acts was
passed.
Bill providing for collecting tack
taxes from railroad companies. De
linuuent companies to be assessed ana
taxes levied 10y the county assessors
instructed Icy the comptroller, on The
basis of the valuation of 1874 Any
company failing TO pay ~ forty days
will be subjected to penalty OF tel
per cent, and empowering the collector
of taxes to bring suit to recover the tax
/ Passed.
Adjourned.
House.-The house went into com