The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-02
CAPITOL CUiLINGS
THROUGH THE STATE DE-
PARTMENTs YESTERDAY
And Pencil Points OF the Business
Transacted.
A Zig mush Of Routine Business.
[From Sundays Daily.l


The reporters Of the STATESMAN, in
their usual daily pilgrimages through
the various state offices yesterday, in the
search after news, found the different
heads Of departments and clerks deeply
immersed in business of routine nature,
but a paucity Of news items of an inter.
esting nature TO the general
public. Capt. Walsh, general land
commissioner, remarked that he is more
pressed with business Mt present than he
has ever been at any time since his con
nection with the Office. Treasurer Lub
book is also kept unusually busy, while
the other departments of the state gov
eminent are equally as much engaged.
The attorney general looks well since
his protractcd visit TO the west.
The recent improvements in the gen.
eral land office are nearly complete.
Remittances and applications for drum.
mers' licenses are coming in rapidly. 1t
il stated That some eight or ten arrive al.
most every day.
The land office business at Gainesville,
Texas, which was exposed by the com.
missioner of the general land office, has
entirely clio ed up.
AT special meeting of the stockhold.
ers of the Texas and Mexico Central rail.
way. held in ID las on the 23d instant, q
resolution was passed increasing the cap
ital stock of the corporation from seven
million five hundred dollars to ten mil
lion dollars. A certificate of this fact
was filed in the office of secretary Of
state yesterday.
The law requires all payments for uni
versity, school and asylum lands and
purchases made under the act of July Ia,
1870, to he made to the treasurer dire I,
and not through the land office as many
suppose. Commissioner Walsh states
that many remittances are being sent TO
his office, which is not only not in con-
formiiy to law, but causes much delay.
The attorney general has made in
quiry of the comptroller with reference
to some twenty railway companies
within the state, in order TO asc 'rtain If
they have complied with the law in the
matter of making the proper returns.
This means, of course, the institution of
suits, IL the companies alluded TO have
not filed their reports
The governor has called meeting of
the directory of the A 81 NJ. college
on the ninth of February. The
purpose OF the meeting is 10 fiji the
place on the board recently made vacant
by the death of Hon. +. b. Pickett. II
is thought, also, that among other bust
ness to be transacted will be considera-
ton Of the Prairie View normal school
matter.
The Mexican-Texan Hidalgo Society,
of Bracket, Kinney county, filed char,
ter yesterday. II is benevolent, chart
table and educational society, and is ia
exist for fifty years. The directors are
Miguel Patino, Simon Serma and Fran
cisco Halgin Rafael Bernal, president,
Jose SanChes, vice president, Eulogio
Sias, secretary, and Cristobal Complain,
sergeant-at-arms. The capital stock OF
the society is placed at $4,000, divided
into shares of 800 each.
The returns of the Pullman palace car
company have been received at the
comptroller's office. These returns
show that, during the year, 215l miles
have been traversed in the state; that is,
that the company is running cars over
that many miles of road Under the oc
cupation tax law the company is com
PEELED to pay two dol airs per mile, which
would make an aggregate Of 81, 500. L
is sand that the company rather strongly
intimates resistance to this tax by i
law suit, and the opinion is held Ivy Somt
that the law will ultimately drive thcs1
cars out of The state