The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-04
TOPICS OF THE RI ME.
Seventeenth Legislature.
SENATE.

Z ported back senate bill No 81, to regulate III
duties aud the rights Of railrond tOmpani,
ana to prevent unjust determinations, wit
accommodation that IL do not pass,
Mr.. Shannon, from the same committee
presented minority report, which, wit
the bill, was ordered printed.
Mr.. GoOCh introduced u bill to exten
and fix the time TO sell property TO Ell
force the collection of taxes Tor the yea
1881 to October LIST, 1882. Read the iirs
time and referred.
Bill No. IL, to ascertain the deficiencie
of the several departments, was taken NJ
and ordered printed aud made the specla
order Tor Tomorrow.
The president laid before the senate thu
congressional apportionment bill.
On its linIl passage, Mr.. Houston movet
q call OF the senate.
The senate was full and the main ques
ton ordered.
Mr.. Houston moved that the bill be re
committed. Lost-yeas, 10; nays, TO-
The bill then passed. yeas, II; nays, H.
The bill granting pensions to Texas vet.
Grams was called up and recommitted with
the instructions that Il new bill be framed
and repore back.
House bill providing for the printing OF
the supreme court reports was
taken up. One or two unimportant
amendments were adopted and the bill
passed
The bill creating board Of railroad COM
missioners was taken up and made the
spo cial order Tor tomorrow.
The bill authorizing the secretary OF
state to purchase tor the use of the state
certain volumes of the Texas reports, and
TO secure the copyright OF the same IRON
tie publisher, was passed.
The bill to provide suitable buildings for
the state departments was taken up.
Mr.. Lightloot offered substitute, author
izing the capitol board to contract for the
erection of proper building in the city o!
Austin for the use of the ate.departmentS.
Mr. Houston offered an amendment TO
the substitute providing that the board
have the building erected on the uni
versity grounds, and that it be SO
constructed that when vacated by
the state it can be used by
the university of Texas az part thereof.
The bill and substitute were ordered print
ed and made the special order for Friday.
The bill attaching the unorganized coun-
ty Of Crockett TO Kinney county for judic-
ial purposes was passed.
Adjourned until $3.50 tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Tarleton introduced bill providing for
the sale OF school lands, the main
features of which are to MAKE
hr.rct the o bs du ay Office to tne cba spse OF
the school lands; the classification of these
lands into agricultural, grazing, timber
and mineral the minimum price
fixed on each, and the quantities
prescribed in which they shall be sold. 1t
gives actual settlers in good faith dis
elimination in price over others; provides
for the sale of timber lands at the mini
mum price of 50 an acre, sales to be con-
Quoted through the medium of the sheritfs,
and payments made in cash. The bill was
framed as nearly as practicable
in accordanc, with the recommendations
embraced III Commissioner Walsh's report.
Referred.
Bills were introduced as follows:
BY Denmah-A bill granting pension
to Hiram Brown. veteran soldier. Refer
lei.
BY Fustcr--A bill to compel agents of
alSuy COMPANIES to keep bulletin boards
at railway stations giving the arrival and
departure of passenger trains. Referred.
The railroad commission bill was taken
u }. the pending question being McComb's
q nendment TO strike out the section affect
~ the repairs of the roads.
rinlay offered substitute to McComb'S
amendment, changing the remedy from
penal oilense to civil action.
McComb accented the substitute.
The spirit ut the debate may be compre-
hend4d in sthe fol owing interchange of
viz 5 by Lat att ana Hutchison:
Labait said that lie was aware that some
young fathers wanted TO see the little
boys in pants at at an an earl, early
to trammeling their chidren's trembling
limbs with garments calculated to impair
their symmetry. So it is with the rail-
roads OF Texas, they. are now
irammeled with the regulations that
have been adopted in Massachusetts,
Georgia aud other older states. But people
say, the people are the masters and they
must regulate the RAILROADS.. Nero said the
people were masters when he :, fired Rome
and made it desolate. In France Robe
sphere. Murat and Danton said the people
were masters, and they struck al France aud
left the country in blood. So it was
down to our day, when the commune SAID
they were masters. When the cry comes
forth that the people are masters and must
regulate the railroads, he would say that
they w ere not..masters but were co-ordinates
His voice was that the railroads are
as necessary to the people rs the
people to the railroads. They say railroads
are running us, | answer that II
railroads ruin Texas in the next ten years
as they have ruined it in the last decade.
want to see it ruined. This undue lndiiier-
ence with regard to railroads reminded him
of his boyhood days when he went fishing
=
cells. When we caught the eels We
skinned theM, and that is what Is
proposed by soma members OF the
legislature 10 do with the railroads
Labatt concluded by stating as his opinion
that there must be discrimination used.
Hutchinson took issue with Labatt on the
question of who were masters, and re-
minded him that when Murrat and Robes
pierre became the opposers OF the
people, the fruit of popular govern
ment rose TO the surface ana the
oppressors went down. The dagger OF Char
lotte Corday found the heart OF one turned
traitor, and the neck of the other found the
guillotine. and mark you, Cunning To
Labatt) that you are not too yirtuous TO
betray your people; when your people ask
YOU for Tread sire, you say''no bread you
give them a stone.
Daniels offered O substitute for Mr..
Gartner's resolution heretofore reported.
which he presents in the form OF a bill. IL
limits the extent OF the commission Ia
the meeting of the eighteenth Legislature
and allows total salary OF 5000. Lost;
FinlAy's substitute was adopted nd he
then offered another substitute limiting
The commissioners Office to the expiration
of the regular session Of the eighteenth leg
islature. This was also adopted and the
bill ordered engrossed. Adjourned.
CAPITAL NOTES.
The charter Of the Luling manufacturing
comuany. capital stock $4,000, was filed
to-day. The object Is the manufacture oil
COTTON and wooden goods and thread.
The Mutual and Benevolent association
of Houston, TO promote morality and tenn
neral ce. also fled a charter.
The commissioner OF the general land
office has not issued any land certificates
20 railways sine the I'D, and no more VIII
be issued. - r.,
A delegation Ct Pueblo Indians from ~
Paao called on the governor to-day and
made complaint that q grant 81 land
near Ysleta, made TO their tnDe
bv the Spanish government, i
being flied upon by holders Of certificates,
that settlers are locating near the source
- -. s,-se,ns running through their ter