The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-27

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Capital Notes and Gossip.
Seventeenth Legislature.
SENATE
Special to the Herald.
AUSTIN, April 26.--Mr. Davenport, from
the committee on internal improvements re-
ported back senate bill No. 35, to regulate the
duties and the rights OF railroad companies
and to prevent unjust Determinations with
the Recommendation that it do not pass.
Mr.. shannon, from the same committee,
presented minority report, which, with
the bill was ordered printed.
Mr.. Gooch introduced a bill to extend
and fix the time to sell property to en-
force the collection of taxes for the year
1881 to October 1st, 1882. Read the first
time and referred.
Bill No. Al, to ascertain the deficiencies
OF the several departments was taken up
and ordered printed and made the special
order for tomorrow.
The president laid before the senate the
congressional apportionment bill.
On its final passage, Mr.. Houston moved
call OF the senate,
The senate was full and the main cues
ton ordered.
Mr.. Houston moved that the bill be re.
committed. Lost--yeas, 13; nays, is.
The bill then passed--yeas, II; nays, II.
The bill granting PENSIONS to Texas vet
erans was called up and recommitted with
the instructions that new bill be framed
and reported back.
House bill providing for the printing Of
the supreme court reports was
taken up. .One or two unimportant
passed.
The bill creating board of railroad com
missioners was taken up and made tho
special order for tomorrow
The bill authorizing the secretary oi
state to purchase for the use of the state
certain volumes of the Texas reports. and
TO secure the copyright of the same from
the publisher, was passed.
The bill to provide suitable buildings fol
the state departments was taken up.
Mr.. Lightfoot offered substitute, author
izing. the capitol board to contract for the
erection of proper building in the city Of
Austin for the use of the state.departments
>, Mr.. Houston offered an amendment tc
the substitute. providing that the board
have the building erected on the uni
constructed that when vacated BY
the state it can be used by
the university Of Texas as 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 fol-
the sale of school lands, the main
features Of which are to make
it the duty of the specia
branch of the land office to take charge OF
the school lands; the classification of these
lands into agricultural, grazing, timber
and mineral; the minimum price
fixed on each, and the quaniitie.
prescribed in which they shall be sold. II
gives actual settlers in good faith a dis
crimination in price over others; provides
for the sale of timber lands at the mini
mum price of So an acre, sales to be con
Quoted through the medium of the sheriiIs
and payments made in cash. The bill wa.
framed as nearly as practicable
in accordance with the RECOMMENDATION
embraced in Commissioner Wash's report
Referred.
Bills were introduced as follows:
By Denman-A bill granting u pension
to Hiram Brown. veteran soldier. Refer
red.
BY Foster-A bill to compel, agents O
railway companies to keep buletin-board
at railway stations giving the arrival anC
departure of passenger trains. Referred.
The railroad commission bill was takei
up, the pending question being McComb'
amendment to strike out the section affect
ing the repairs of the roads.
Finlay offered substitute to McComb'
amendment, changing the remedy from
penal oilense to civil action.
McComb accepted the substitute.
The spirit of the debate may be compre
hended in the following interchange o
views by Labatt and Hutchison:
Labatt said that he was aware that somt
young fathers wanted to see the littl,
boys in pants at an earl,
age, while Others, more wise Were opposed
to trammeling their childrens trembling
limbs with garments calculated to impair
their symmetry. So it is with the rail
roads OF Texas, they are now
trammeled with the regulations that
have been adopted in Massachusetts
Georgia and 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 1t desolatc. In France Robe
spierre, Murat and Danton said the people
were masters, and they struck at France and
left the country in blood. SO It wa,
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 were not.masters, ,but.werec CO. -ordinates
His voice was that the railroads are
rs necessary to the people rs the
people to the railroads. They say railroads
are running US, answer that H
railroads ruin Texas in the next ten years
as they have ruined IL in the last decade,
want to see II ruined. This undue indifYer
ence. with regard to railroads reminded him
Of his boyhood days when he went fshinr
for bull.irogs and cells, suuirming, gyratinr
eels. When We caught the ecls We
skinned. them, and that is what 4
proposed by some members of the
legislature to do with the railroads
Labatt concluded by stating rs his opinion
that there must be discrimination used,
Hutchison tsok issue with IAbatt ON the
question Of who were masters, and re-.
minded him that when Murrat and Robes.
pierre became the opposers of tho
people, tho fruit Of popular govern.
inent rose to the surface and tbe
oppressors went down. The dagger Of Char.
latta Cardav finn nd tho hanrf ~ noo AZ. -. : 4