The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10
sixteenth Legislature ,....a Sea-
House.
AuSTJN LILY

ton To the memhers uf the House to
aItend the State H"rIii nlIuTAI and Pu-
m'logical meeting at Houston GU July
23.
The school appropriation was re-
sum-d.
Mr.. Henderson Of Smith had pre-
seuted Il substitute Saturday, TO make
the appropriation oHt fourth of
rhe revenue, for which Mr.. McComb
moved To substitute one-fourth of the
revenues from sd vslorem and occupa-
ton taxes, after deductng the cost of
assessing and collecting the same be-
sides the poll tax and the interest on
bonds.
Mr.. Smith Obi-cting to the substitu-
on of substitute Lot adopted, the
Speaker pro [ II sustained has point
of order, that such substitution
could not be made because = similar
one had been voted down.
The free conference committee on
House Dill No. 8. providing for con-
tract for the conveyance of convicts.
repprted. ....
Mr.. Mills moved substitute. for Mr..
Henderson's substitut. by 't~iking ont
S275, SS3 33 and inserting 1904 879 90.
Mr. McComb offered rs a substitute
one-titth of the revenues arising from
ad valorem and occupation tsxes, to be
applied for one year only.
The Speaker signed the bin reor-
ganiz ng the tenth judicial district;
alsO the bill prescribing the times Of
holding courts in the second Judicial
district. .... ....
A message from the Senate an
nounced the passage of Senate su5sti-
tute for House bill No. 90; Senate bill
No. 80. Senate bill No. SO. Senate bill
No. 80, Senate bill No. 80, substitute
for House bills IS and 10, and House
bill No. 73. % 81
The time OF the morning session was
consumed mainly by the speeches of
Mr.. Coleman and Mr.. McComb. Mr..
Coleman directed himself mainly to
showing that statements received from
tae Comptroller's Office cannot be relied
OF. He spoke of the disparity between
statements given differeI members of
the Legislature differing hundreds of
OF thousands of dollars in instances
and argued against anybody making
estimates upon such documents. These
reports, he declared, were utterly ab-
surd, and all that was left to base
direct proposition upon is the annual
report of the ComLt -oller, with such
other matter as Cannot be controverted.
He advocated the appropriation of the
specific amount, 1915, 1873 33, for free
schools, reported by the Finance G I'M
mittee, declaring 1t as his purpose to
give no more than this, which is all
the Sat, can afford to appropriate for
the purpose. a-, .l.eso,
Mr.. -McComb championed the one
fourth appropriation, and was opposed
to specific appropriation.
EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. Frost made strong argument n
favor of giving one-fourth of the reve-
nue. t. the free schools.
A resolution was adopted employing
a clerk to assist Col. Lambert, the
chief clerk, in his work, owing to the
fact that he has been so much occu-
pied in preparing and indexing the
journals of the regular session of the
The amendment to tue bill proYld-
ing how lands sold for taxes and
bought by private individuals may be
redeemed were taken up and concurred
in. .. r.4J SIG uf
Bill for the sale of alternste sections
of lands in organized couI es for the
benefit of school fund YVES tlksn up
with Senate amendments and concur
red in. at '..'. .-. .5g-.
Mr.. Coleman called up Senate bill.
No. 3, which was amended by motion
of Mr.. Douglass and passed under sus-
pension of the rules. ,.., .-.--r
The school appropriation was re-
samed, the question being upon Mr..
McComb's substitute. are 5-iLU
Business was suspended for the
Speaker to sign the bill providing for
contract t. transport convicts; also
to abolish common law Jurisdiction of
Upshur, Erath, Comanche;I Eastfand,
Palo Pinto, Stephens. Shackelford,
Throckmorton, Taylor, Callahan and
Pamela counties, and to conform jdris-
dIction of the district courts of said
counties to such change .'9Zn r'edr
90 Mr.. Jones of Hunt made nearly a
two hours speech in favor, of the, one.
| fourth proposition, and he said that
instead of the Democratic whip being
used by the gentleman from Hsrris,
that the mino y cCuta use the whip
as prepared in the tesconvention on
this very measure. supp aqemaD 9F-
Mr.. Bryan said the prlncipler pro-
posed to be carried out by the faction
of which he was q member was to
place the expenses of the government
within the revenues of the State. He
moved the previous question upon the
item.
Mr.. Taylor of Fannin denied
that he held in his breeches pocket
the votes of twenty members; that
he had net said he was willing tC
defeat free schools to defeat the Dem
ocratic party.
Mr.. Finlsy said he did not wish the
previous question enforced, and pro-
posed that if it were not enforced his
side, he was satisfied, would place nc
obstacles in the way of coming to
vote, provided different propositions
of one-6fth and one sixth, and then
the specific amount would be voted
upon. atrnF
The vote was ordered on the prope-
sition to give one-ftth of the revenues
to schools, which was voted down by
As to "a. a
The one-six.h proposition was theI
submitted and adopted by A to SO.
The item giving $1,000 as expenses
to the board on veterans claims wa
reduced to $1,000 Mr.. Daniels OPP
posed it and Mr.. Bryan made a strong
defense in honor of the veterans. ~
The vote on the-item Of $4,000 to the
Medical College at Galveston was re
considered and the item stricken out
With very few other changes in the
appropriation bill, it was adopted By
"a to 10 votes. oo.
A recess was taken until 9 p. N ,wheI
the House took up the Senate bills OF
the Speakers table and disposed Of
them. iais h --sfft
al s.k5 attllr AUSTIN, July g..
The proposition as coming from the
| committee to reduce the tar on drum.
mers from 5000 to $50 elected discus.
sion. On eDgrossment it was defeatec
by a vote of SO to 80. s+i a
Dir. Taylor of Fannin moved to take
up his bill reducing taxes to forty cent
on the 800 The free school extremist
jumped at the proposition to consideI
the bill, but being only 'tfiat" prop
osltion of the buncombe member from
Fannin it did not pass.
The bill to repeal the law taxing
sleeping and palace cars two dollar
per mile on the roads used in Texas
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