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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-03

ate bill No. BOB was read third time, was
put to vote and received only the vote
of the Senator making the motion.
Senator Piner then moved to reconsider the
vote passing Senate bill No. BOB, and also
moved the previous question on the
motion to reconsider. The point of
order was distinctly made by Senator Storey
that the Senate had under consideration
House bill No. 377, relating TO the Uni
versity lands, and that there had been no
motion or vote to postpone that bill, but
that the Senator from Denton (PineT) had
been permitted to interrupt the business
under consideration for the purpose of pre-
senting a privileged question, viz, the cor
rection of the journals; that the Senate
had refused to order any correction Of the
journals, and that it was out of order to-
take up other business without making
some disposition, by postponement o.
otherwise, of the business in hand.
The point of order was overruled by the
President, and the upshot of the matter
was the reconsideration of the vote passing
the railroad bill, the reading of the bill a
third time. and its passage by majority
vote. This being done, the Senate ad-
journed without returning to the House
bill relating to the University lands.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-03
THE TOM SCOTT SENATE.

Under this caption the Giddings Tribune
says:
Looking at the proceedings in the
Southern Pacific Railroad matter, it seems
evident that Tom Scott has become the
owner of another State Senate, and that
his Senate stands just as ready to sacrifice
their State and constituents to Tom Scott
as ever did the Legislature of PennsYlva-
MIA. We have not space to devote to a de-
tailed explanation of this business, but the
facts are about these:
1.-THE State of Texas, twenty or twenty
five years ago, granted to the corporation
which Tom Scott now represents some 3d.
900, 900 acres of land, conditioned upon
their completing so many miles of road IN
u given time. Several times since then the
time has been increased in which they
were to build the road, and still it is un-
built; and by failing to build, the road has
forfeited its lands, which are among the
richest and best in the State. And now
Tom Scott asks that more time be gwen
and the forfeiture annulled by legislative
action! The demand is absurd, unjust to
the State, and most audacious attempt to
steal the common property of the people.
But when did ever Tom Scott knock in
vain at legislative halls A majority of
the Senate of the State of Texas not only
favor giving Tom Scott this vast amount of
land, but they also are willing to thrust
aside, defeat and delay necessary leg
isl4tion in order to do it. The Legisla-
ture is about to adjourn, and if Scott's bill
is not passed through at once, it must fail.
But there was difficulty in the way. Some
one hundred and fifty bills, many of them
of vital Importance, such as the school bill,
| commissioners bill, etc. stood before Scott's
bill on the calendar, and had precedence of
il. What was to be dones With a cour-
age-not commendable only because it was
wicked-Tom Scott's men boldly stood up
to the trough and postponed and laid aside
| the bills necessary to the completion of our
State and county governments, and finally
got their masters bill in sight, and, per-
haps ere this is printed, they will have
passed 1t. If so, We can only hope that the
members of the House, who are more true
to the Interests of their constituents than
the members of the Senate, will not allow
this matter of Tom ScOtt's private interest
70 outweigh the interest of the whole
State; that they will attend to the neces-
sary legislation now before them and allow
this vast body of land to go to educating
the children of the people of Texas, and
not into the private pocket of Tom Scott. I"
Remembering that the Texas and Pacific
is no longer Texas or Southern, but st.
Louis and Philadelphia corporation, its
road leaving Texas at the one hundred and
fourth parallel of longitude, and only draw
ing from and returning no wealth to the
South, the reason for the non-renewal of
Tom Scott's grant becomes imperative.
But Tom goes for the Federal government,
and with equal feTccitv for that of Texas,
and he was only bluffed at Washing sDl- b.
cause the presidential election was pending.
1t costs too much this year to buy votes in
Washington.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-03

Maryland. Ia 1910, Capt. II ,nry S. Brown,
in his seventeenth year, went to Missouri,
and was a gallant, though youthful soldier
IN the war of 1S12-15. In 1924 he came to
Texas, and embarked in the Indian and
Mexican trade. He soon became prom;-
nent as q chief on the frontier, and during
the succeeding ten years often commanded
parties of the cOlonIsts in com6sts with the
Indians. He fought and defeated the Wacos,
on the present site of Waco, in 1925. In
1929, at the mouth of Pecan bayou, he had
severe fight with wild Indians, and de-
feated them, from which circumstance
that particular territory was named Brown
county" From 1880 to 1882 he had re-
peated contests with the, Indians on the
western border. On the twenty-sixth of
June, 1882, he commanded the principal
company in the bloody but victorious battle
of Velasco. at the mouth of the BrazUs,
and in the succeeding year had severe
rencounter with Mexican banditti west of
San Antonio. In his forty-second year he
died in Columbia, Brazoria county, on the
twenty sixth of July, 1884. His only living
descendants are his sons, Rufus E. and John
Henry Brown, and their children and the
daughters of his only daughter, who de-
ceased, loOO.
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Texas Politics.

One Collins, of Indiana, is starting wind
mill in Waco To break down the Examiner
withal.
The Express says Gustsve Scheicher will
have no opposition if he asks reelection to
Congress.
The Morihg Bal says that Seth Shepard
and Finley and Giddings will make it hot
in this district for John Hancock.
The San Antonio Express says that the
House OF Representatives now has an op-
portunity 10 Immortalize itself by rejecting
the bill passed by the Senate robbing the
ople of the Stare OF their public lands for
'he benefit OF Tom Scott's huge railroad
swim lle
Tax collectors and assessors will please
take notice OF the price demanded when
the International axis for the right Of
wsy. We hear Of gentleman who thinks
the cash value Of his land. when the rail.
road wants il, TO be one hundred dollars
per acre. When the tax collector comes
alOng the same land is only worth ten dol
lars, which is queer.
A Western exchange says that the .1dis-
graceful conduct Of the msiority in the
State nate has at last opened the eyes
and qnickeued the comprehension Of the
most slothful citizen. TAe shameless ma
neuvering by which one hundred and fifty
important bills were contemptuously cast
aside, for the purpose Of legislating for the
exclusive benefit of an individual and
against the vital interests Of the State, has
placed the Fifteenth Legislature on the
scroll Of infamy; and the record viii be IL
Illuminated only by reflections from the fires
OF the Pit Of Darkness."
The San Antonio Herald chooses to say
that ''an apology has hitherto been offered
10 extenuation of the remarkable and nn-
merous shortcomings OF the Fifteenth Leg
isiature, that, though exceedingly ignoF-
ant, il wAs honest. But the Legislature
itself has notably Eefuted that idea, and
proves incOntestably by its action, 30 that
he who runs can read. that Tom Scott carries
the working majority in his breeches peck
ct. The Twelfth Legislature may have
been as corrupt, but il vas not a. shame
less Is the majofity in the Fifteenth Legis.
lature- We jadge It By its deeds.p
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The Presidential mird.

During the protracted heated term there
has been good cause for extreme solicitude
az to how the President would stand the
effects of the weather. The public, already
familiar with his rash acts, will learn with
sorrow that an impression, shared by all
without regard to party affiliations, prevails
that Grants mind has become unsettled, aud
that uuless great care is exercise !, he will
have to be relegated IN retirement for re-
cuperation. He has never remained in this
city but once so late as he has this season,
and then the weather was tolerable. But
for the past four weeks the climate has been
almost fatal to men who are not Of the most
temperate and simple habits. When pros
trated by excessive heat, a system already
relaxed by use of s,imulants becomes prey
TO all sorts of horrible arrangements. or
the many sudden deaths that have occurred
here during the last three weeks of protract-
ed furnace heat there has not been single
case where person so dropping out Of lite
was not of full habit and sddicted to che
use OF strong stimulants. Grant is at present
very stout, of a type inclined to apopiexy.
For years he has never been subjected TO
the debihtating effects of the terrible heat
here. It has been his custom TO leave
Washington upon the first day of June, and
not return until the first of the following
October. He has spent most of his time in
the bracing atmosphere of the seashore, and
this compensated him for many drafts that
he has made upon his physical health by
constant use of stimulants. This summer
he has had no relief. Before him has
stretched vista Of dismal and contempti-
BILE obscurity, dating from the fourth of next
March, while round about him was an at
mosphere of fierce, torrid d. preston that
required the purest of habits aud highest of
health to sustain. All of these circumstaa-
ces explain how he has taken the oIt in his
teeth, aud thrown ferociously aside all adj
vice of his most trusty counsellors. There
has been developed of late the undercrust
of Grants stolidity, a substratum of des-
perate savagery. This is only explained by
his most intimate friends upon tue ounds
that his mind is fast becoming il not
already thoroughly impaired. Yesterday he
was visited by Que of his Oldest and most
tried friends Grant treated him so savage
ly and morosely that the friend was only
too glad to escape from his presence as from
the cage of a wild beast. The matter has
been brought to the attention of Grants
family physician, and he has peremptorly
ordered change of air. The President,
therefore, left this afternoon to see il
mountain air cannot restore him. Bdltimord
Gdzette.
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Gov. Hepdr.ek-'. FlunneIaI views.

An attempt is being made by the Radical
newspapers To attribute TO Gov. Hendricks
initiation views They will fail in this effort
Gentlemen who heard Mr.. Hendricks in
Ohio last year are pretty certain that he did
not advance any such views in his addresses
before the people His position was sub
stantially that which be has always held,
that there should be steady approach TO
specie payments, but not by policy that
would completely paralyzs every industry.
of the couBtrx, such rs he Radical resump-
ton act will prodcce. He believes that law
is fraud; that il is profession Of specie
payment without the means of Accomplish
ment; that it will produce wide spread ruin
without any equivalent, and that therefor
the section which provides for specie re-
sumption in 1879 sb1sld be repealed. But
neither Gov. Hendricks nor the Democracy
OF Indiana abandon the sound Democratic
doctrines of specie resumption. The future
welfare OF the country demands that this
should be accomplished, but not upon the
ruins OF the industrial and commercial in
terests OF the country. which will be the
effect if the present law is suffered 70 re-
main in force. But Republican papers that
attribute TO Gov. Hendricks Initiation views
simoly utter falsehood.
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TEXAS AND PACIFIC, OR WHAT

The proposition to rescind the resolution
the Senate by a v~te strictly for and against
the Texas and Pacific bill, and during the
discussion in that body it was openly
avowed that the object in resembling wss
to cure any lapse OF the Texas and Pacific
charter. On Friday the same resolution
was brought before the House, and the ad-
vocates of the measure tried to disclaim
that the object of resembling was in favor
of the railroad measure. Thereupon Mr..
Coleman made an attempt to test the force
of these disclaimers with the following bill:
An act fixing the per diem pay of the men-
bers of the Legislature of the State of
Texas. at all called or special sessions.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted by the Legislature
Of the State Of Ier0s, That the members of
the Legislature of the State of Texas shall
receive from the treasury of the State, for
their services, the sum of two dollars and
no more, for every day they may be IN at
tendance upon all called or special sessions
of the Legislature.
Sec. ,. Whereas, by virtue of a concur
rent resolution of the Legislature, passed at
the present session, said Legislature will
adjourn on the thirty-first day of July,
1876; and whereas, it is true that the pub
lie interests will in all probability require
an immediate called session of the LegIsla-
ture, thus creating an emergency; and
whereas, it is an imperative public necessi-
ty to reduce the Expenditures of the State
government, therefore, that this act take
effect and be in force from and after its pas
sage.
Sec. 8 That all laws and parts of laws
In conflict with the provisions of this act
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
In short speech he explained its fea-
lures and made an Effort to get it before the
House, but the advocates of the railroad
could no; he induced to listen TO his prnpo-
sitinn, and it was IT jected. II the L-s Is
latufe adj lurn Monday, Tom Ssott's grip
on Texas will be lost; but if it do not ad
jnurn, he will hope to lord it over 80, 00O,
600 acres of our public domain for all time
to come. The character of Mr.. Coleman's
bill shows that the opponents of the Texas
and Pacific are willing tn finish the neces-
sary legislation OF the State at no greater
cost than if the regular session be contin
ued, instead of the work being finished
through q called one
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Political.

There seems to be well-founded opinion
that Taft will go next.
The situation is thus contrasted by tho
Cincinnati Gazette: 177G, John Bull; 1876,
Sitting Bull.
Gen Schenck is brought forward for the
Republican nomination for Congress in
Ohio.
The signs of the times indicate that Dris-
tow and Jewell would have made n most
formidable ticke'. But then they were not
nominated.
''Governor Tlden is unquestionably hon
est and sincere in his expressed desire for
administrative reform and his advocacy of
resumption and honest currency" says the
New York Tribune. The admission is worth
recording.
The Hartford Post says OF Governor jew.
ell: IF it shall appear that this retirement
was necessitated by his disapproval of the
seeming disposition of the Administration
to abandon the course which made the
names of Brstow aud Jewell to be known
and honored throughout the land, neither
he nor his friends will have cause to regret
the severance of his relations with the Cabi-
net of President Grant"
The Boston Globe believes that Grants
purpose is to end his Administration by ut.
tempting to overthrow the Republican
party. 1t says: ''Whatever his intention
may be, there can be no doubt of the effect
of his action. IL will iniure the R.p Ibli-
can party and help the Democrats during
the campaign very decidedly, unless the
party shall do what i. ought To have done
in its convention, repudiate him and his
Administration altogether, and replace it's
eulogies and apologies with a stern con-
demnation."
The only portion Of the letter of Cover
nor Hayes which seems tn us unsatisfactory
is his treatment of the Southern question.
HIS language here is too vague to be reas-
suriug. The SJuthern people have right
tn know, either expressly or impliedly,
what he thinks of the policy pursued by the
Federal government in South Carolina,
Mississippi aud Louisiana, because this
policy was pursued ostensibiy for the pro-
motIon Of that hearty recognition of the
rights Of all" to which Mr.. Hayes Justly at
taches so much importance. This indeed,
is what Scott, and Parker, and Moses, and
Kellogg, and Casey, and Packard, and
Ddrell have always said they were after.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-03
THE RAILROAD BILL IV THE
SRSATE.

1t was intended in our article Wednesday
morning in relation to the proceedings in
the Senate for the relief of the Texas and
Pacific Railway Company to state that the
vote by which the President of the Senate
declared that the bill had passed was taken
without the bill having been read even by
caption. Such was the fact; and when the
President announced that the bill had
passed, Senator S:orey very distinctly made
the point of order that the bill had not
been read third time, aud that the constr
tutional rule requiring balls TO be read on
three several days in each house had not
been suspended. The President took
no further notice of the point of
order than to say that 1t was too late to go
behind the vote. This readiness of the
presiding officer of the Senate to sustain a
proceeding in violation OF plain require
ment of the Constitution was a little too
much, even for the tiery zeal of the Senators
who had pushed matters to such an extrem-
ity. 1t was felt to be absolutely necessary
to have the journal show that the bill had
been read third time. The attempt to
do this gave nse TO proceedings as ex
traordinaTy as any that preceded them.
The Senate had proceeded to the
consideration of House bill No. 317, re-
lAting TO the sale of University lands.
An amendment TO this bill, offered by SEN
ator McLeary, had been adopted, and an
other amendment offered by senator Ter
rell, was pending when Senator Piner arose
TO what he called question of privilege,
and moved 70 amend the j,urnal so rs to
make il show that Senate bin No. sos (the
railroad bilD was read After objection,
which was 1verruled by the Presideat, the
motion Of Senator Piner 20 correct the
journal OF Tuesday so as to show that SEN
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To RESENT difference of opinion, where
honesty is equally conceded in both direc-
tions, by attempting to injure ones bust
ness, is hardly proper and hardly becoming
cultured taste or Intelligence. Ignorant or
grossly prejudiced people sometimes stop a
newspaper to resent an offcnse given their
convictions of right, but since no newspa
per can run 'concurrently with the opinions
or purposes OF any single reader, such con.
duct on the part of one must be deemed
amazingly absurd by calm, dispassiOnate
observers of the course of public events.
But, then, he who would lessen q newspa-
per's income, because it differs from him
some ephemeral question, attempts, it
seems To US to bribe such newspaper and
becomes criminal in order to make the press
bend tn his wishes. We are not, therefore,
grievously at fault in declaring that cor
respondent who threatens to stop the
STATESMAN because it is hostile to Scott's
demands, seeks to bribe the STATEsNAS.
Thus far there is only one criminaIly gsilty
party to this correspondence, and we make
no other reply than this to the letter of :.
T NJ
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-03
FORT CONCHO EXCITE0 AND THE
LEGIsL ATURE STARTLED.

Even while Tom SCOTS agents are assert
ing the impotence of Huntington and bis
utter untrustworthiness and inability to
construct a Southern Pacific road, he has at
this hour nearly or quite 20,00 men em-
ployed on the road from San Francisco on
an air liue to Galveston and, only yesterday,
telegraphic dispatches from Fort Concho
announced the arrival there of many new
stage coaches to accommodate the growing
Southern travel from the Southern termi-
nus of Huntington's road on the confines of
Arizona. Somebody should set up a
map of California in the Capitol show
ing each railroad west of the Rocky
Mountains and when marginal
note explains that every one of these roads,
save a little line running south from Ore
gOn some sixty miles, is controlled or owned
by Huntington, and that he would empty
the wealth and traffic and travel of all these
into Texas with tine teas and silks of the
ORIENT, and that his purpose is to secure the
shortest line across the continent, which,
beginning at San Francisco, must end, if
in the United States, at Galveston - when
we remember that there are upquestioned
facts, and that Huntington proposes to give
bond and security satisfactory to the Treas
urer of the United States that he will COM
plete this whole road in five years - when
all these patent facts are before ua, and we
see that Tom ScOtt's Texas and Pacific is
to be used simply to compete with the
Union Pacific road for the benefit of st.
Louis and Philadelphia and not for the
benefit of Texas-when we see and confess
all this, and that the Texas and Pacific is
no longer Texas road, we can only express
unutterable amazement that sane and hon.
est men are faithless to Texas in order to
serve and enrich the monstrous juggler and
Jeremy Diddler, Tom Scott.
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THE Headlight says that, "when Hon.
John Hancock and Lemuel D. Evans were
electors at large on the Knownothing ticke ct,
Hancock was just as consistent native
American, and took just as great satisfac-
tion in the death, by mobs, of the Irish,
Dutch and Scotch, as he now takes in the
success of Democratic principles. While
we don'G especially admire John Hancock,
still, if he is the choice of the district, we
shall support him. We think, however,
there are better men in the district-men
whose records, from Adam down, are equal
ly clear and commendable
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The Governor. Veto OF 5. q. No. IOs
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
STATE OF TEXAS.
AUSTIN, July %,

AUSTIN, July 2S, 1875.
Hon r. B. Hubbard. President Of the Senate
SIR-I have the honor to return here
with, without my approval. Senate bill No.
103, being "An act TO better define the
powers and duties of sheriff. and other Off
GERS" aud respectfully ask its reconsidera-
ton.
This bill coufers upon sheriffs, powers
more extraordinary than are believed ever
to have been coufded 10 anV one officer in
the history of any constitutional govern
ment ctious l and 4, which authorize
the sheriff, or any one of his lawful depu-
ties, to take the life of an accused person
who fails 20 halt in his flight, when COM
manded 10 do so in an audible voice, is uD-
precedented in the anoals of legislation in
this country or Engl md. These sections
are grossly and paIpably subversive of sec
tions 10 and 90 Of the bill OF rights, which
guarantee that no person shall be outlawed,
and that 10 citizen shall be deprived of
life, liberty or property, privileges or i'm
munities, except by due course OF the law
of the land. The principles involved in
these two sections are, aud have ever been
regarded ss the most iDestimabie OF the
great leading aud fundamental rights es-
Iablished in Magma eAarta, the grand foun-
dation Of English and American liberty.
Treasure and blood, whenever necessary 10
maintain them. have never been estimated or
measured among English speaking people.
Article 90 of that great charter u IN these
words: No free man shall be taken or
imprisoned, or be disseised Of his freehold
or liberties or free customs. or be outlawed
or exile5, or any otherwise destroyed, nor