The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-20

4 nla vtfs introduced M follows
Nv Nnul0hk Authorizing dlsiflM Judge
10 dS tho time fofl0dlne cuufis In tnOffl
niyed Districts. Referred.
~ Patterson appOfll0n tho ainte lni'
senatorial and representative districts llc
icffod.
fly Stewart N Kinney 20 attach ih'
nn1fganilei county of Ct0ckttt TO klnnoi
county li'iUrcl
| liy DnvidsOn- ~ authorize Tcgns veto
rams aud disabled Confederate soldiers vi
/ their widows, who have received. or may
! hereafter receive land certificates under the
net of 1851, 10 locate the same on land re-
served for the payment OF the public debt
| Referred.
Committee reports were received as fol-
! lows:
SIatlock, from the committee on
public lands and land office. re-
ported an amendment to the bill setting
apart public lands for the location of out.
standing veteran and Confederate land
certificates. The amendment provides that
the law shall only apply to certificates al
ready issued.
Bruce, for the asylum committee, re.
ported bill appropriating sl,iOO
for the erection OF temporary
asylum to supply the place of the building
recently burned.
Mr.. Bruce reported a substitute for house
bill No. SO providing for the establishment
in addition to the one already at Austin, OF
an ne..asylum in some place, in northern
or western Texas, the same
to be regulated and governed
by law in title Sof the Revised Stat utes.
The bill appropriates So, 900 for the pur;;
pose named. The location is to be selected
by the board of managers, to be approved
by the governor. The same committee
recommend All appropriation Of not to ex.
coed 81 900 per annum for the supply of
the state grounds and institutes with water
and fire protection.
Wurzbach from the committee on taxa.
ton, reported favorably Browns bill pro-
viding for the remission of license to liquor
dealers in counties where local option has
been adopted.
Finlay, for judiciary committee No. l, re-
ported in thea ffirmative on the constitu-
tionality of the proposition authorizing
counties to levya tax of % cents on the
hundred dollars. The report is exhaustive,
and quotes largely from authorities: 1t
compares section with section of the ar
ticle on taxation, and shows that the limi-
tation placed on occupation taxes is clear
shall not exceed 'one-half the tax
s sTsa PERIOD While hs the sh mtao Sr on the
levy of ad valorem taxes does not contain
the words for the same period" but
uses the following language: THE state
tax on property shall never exceed fifty
cents on the hundred dollars, and, no
the state tax" The committee con-
tend that the word said referred
to the words fifty cents" and that if it
was intended to limit the levy of county
taxes to one-half of the tax levied by
the state, the words OF Limitation
applied to occupation tax, viz:
for the same period. All the member, of
The substitute for house bill No
/, as published in the HERALD
TO aprortion the state into congressional
districts was taken up and the substitute
was adopted.
Baker amended by transferring Shelby
from the second to the third districts. Lost.
Wurzbach amended by transferring Run
nels, Coleman and San Saba Fl ON the tenth
to the eleventh districts. Lost.
Wurzbach based his amendment on the
fact that the tenth district had 1900
inhabitants above the pro rata
while the eleventh was further still below
t. 1t was certainly enough to saddle
Wash. Jones on the district, without
giving it Sc, large surplus.
question Colonel Wash Jones seemed to be
a terrible infliction, with no visible means
of relief.
Fly amended by transferring Austin from
the eighth to the seventh district. Lost
Matlock offered an amendment transfer
ring the Pan Handle counties from the fifth
to eleventh district. Lost.
Douglass moved TO amend by transferring
Jefferson, Jasper, Orange and Newton
from the first to ihe second~district, Lost
- This amendment gave rise to heated
controversy between the members from the
southeast and Tankersly, of Houston.
Douglas was opposed to having
the same congressman hold the
destinies of Houston and Sabine Pass.
Houston had ruled SABINE Pass long
enough and only held the position of a rail-
road center by being the high ground for
/ Galveston.
Tankersly moved an amendment almost
substantially like Mr., Douglass !:
Houston, he said, had civilized Douglass
county with railroads and school
teachers, but if the denizens of the long
leafed pine district, whose representative. S
ingratitude was only exceeded by his
the backs of their heads she
could get along better without them. The
amendment was lost.
a number of other amendments
were introduced, sharing the
same fate, and the bill passed
to engrossment The bill will pass the
house without change and a majority Of
the members seem disposed not TO accept
any radical changes by the senate.
The bill appointing commissioners to
survey the boundary between Texas and
the Indian Territory, passed.
Adjourned.