The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-13
The same was taken up. the rules sus
pended and passed:
ON motion OF Mr.. Davenport the senate nd
journed until 0:30 tomorrow morning.

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; ON motion OF Mr.. Davenport the senate at
ourned until 030 tomorrow morning.
HOUSE.
McComb offered resolution that com
mittee of thirty-One, to consist OF one iron
each senatorial district, be appointed ol
senatorial and representative apportion
ment, TO include the committed. appointed
at the regular session of this legislature OF
senatorial and representative apportion
ment
The chairman to same, Todd, moved III
postponement till Monday. Lost.
A vote was then taken on the resolution
and it was adopted.
Faux moved to reconsider the vote tnker
on Saturday. on house bill No. ., hxine
! the value OF unsold public domain and
school lands. He thought there were am.
biguous terms about the bill that needed
amendment. The bill embraced two sub
ects. 1t proposed to mix up school lands
with the anticipated public domain when
in truth and fact there is no public do
main subject to location. He
undertook to say the bill was deficient in
constitutional particulars.
The law itself, under the constitution,
will not be sufficient, and neither caption
nor enactlng clause of the bill was sufii-
cient.
A vote was taken and the motion adopted.
Faulk moved to recommit the bill Lost.
McCord offered resolution recinding
under which the joint committee on sena-
torial and representative app0rtionment
was appointed Adopted.
Burke offered a resolution that the COM
mittee on revenue ana taxation are re-
spectfully requested to consider in what
amount taxation can be reduced, and to re-
port bill making the reduction entirely
nnlI RafnlraH
Matlocll, from the committee on public
lands and land office, reported as sub
stitute for house bill No., lS,
under consideration on Saturday, house
bill No. AZ, which provides that the COM
missioner of the land office is prohibited
other land certificates, except tor
internal improvements already con,
cluded. The third section provides that
the commissioner shall receipt on
the face of the certificates, provided there
is vacant land to be found" but shall not
be otherwise claim against the state,
Mack offered an amendment by striking
out except for internal Improvements al
ready completed"
Mack said: Wehave had before informa-
ton from the land office to the effect that
land certificates have been issued largely
in excess of the land subject
He did not believe the state could be held
responsible for the surplusage, but that is
not question for the house to determine.
They could, however, stop any further is
suance of certificates and curtail any fur
ther responsibility, if responsibility there
be.
Traylor hoped the amendment would not
carry. 1t involves rights already acquired,
and so would be unconstitutional
Gibson asked the friends OF the bill II Its
passage would not authorize the issuance
~ narti fiootas upop miles of railroad uI-
completed, and in cases, of forfeiture OF
charter, certificates have been refused. If
the amendment does not prevail, it
was a question in his mind whether
the term completed" as embraced
in the bill referred to. this
tor the certificates. The meaning of the
bill, he held, in this regard, was susceptible
of twofold Interpretation.
Gather said there was good deal OF dan
ger in the bill. Not twenty minutes ago
the governor had told him that he had de-
MED lands for 800 miles OF completed
railroad in consequence OF the
(Gaither) that this bill would give railroad
companies land certificates denied them by
the legal authorities of Texas.
Baker offered q substitute that the COM
missioner OF the general land office shall in
corporate in the body Of all land certificates
in no case, be responsible in any way for
this certificate in case the public domain
is established before its location; and fur
ther enacting that the state shall in no case
be liable in any form for the value OF Land
certificates when the public domain.is ex-
haustcd," in case it should at any time be-
come SO.
Baker contended for his substitute that
certificates would not pass into the hands
of innocent purchasers and the state would
not be responsible if there is domain to To-
cate them upon.
Barry opposed the substitute because it
attempted to do something in a round
about way which might be done in q
straightforward manner. The amend
ment OF the gentlemen from Collin
denying certificates to those who have
already complied with the law, he would
call reputation. The difficulty encoun-
tered by the member from Ellis Gibson,
as to the time referred to in the bill could
be very easily remedied by amendment,
and he would support an amendment Of
that kind.
The substitute was Objectionable to him
because it lacked Nplainness of intention.
IL said that we can refer this question TO
the proper tribunal hereafter-we want no
more laws
The house ought not to leave unsettled
any question that can be settled here.
to whether or not the state was response
Bic sUVcrilgous certificates already Is
sued but IL the substitute was adopted IL
struck him that the responsibility would .
be assumed. Discussions this morning had
satisfied him more than ever that the
house was not prepaiTed TO act, and he
moved that the bill, vita all Its
substitutes and amendments, be made the
oader OF the day for 10 o'clock Thursday
next that the bill be printed.
Foster hoped the motion would not pre-
vail. He didn't believe that the house
would be any more enlightened on Thurs
day, or more competent TO take action,
than this morning. II must be evident
that af We repeDi sSi @ll Of Il the fryST Ts%
against the grant Of further land oertifi-
Gates. We know there Is no land in Texas
for the location Of further certificates, and
why. then, attempt to explain that fact?
We should simply repeal the law, and then
let anybody who claims rights under the
law, as ID now eSsts, redress themselves in
No proviso made here can ALLEVIATE any
interests that have accrued before the pas
sage Of the law.
Paddock favored the motion b. postpone.
Chcnoyeth opposed the motion % post
p1ne. Too much time already bad been
consumed upon the subject. and % would
ieldlature and Of The state if the
bif presented by his friend from
Navarro Barry a. the last session
bad becJ1ne a Law Cf tLc state. III t had,
there would have not been chance for a
-taiu nron tile escutlhe1n 1I Teas.
he flherrwciil hai been IN favor oi the
state iliuv uht. Ela caull with hfr
iHmlia il .le Interest ul internal in-
rrIramflr. tut when " sas pltin 10
rl1.e -l1 Led egfs tI Zee inst there urs
NJ lu.I further uuol uuica these c.Itll-
I've al tfe demuerLfic PARTY and Of tha
honor rf rie state 10 Texas. le WAS in iaVur
1f uir.n-cuf these statutes from The statute
books.
Bot ID was not done. and ID