The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-11


| Finley gave nOtlcs That lo w0uld cml u
| the veto message tomorrow.
ON motion VI Merritt who impldred w
mefpbors not tO fJrsako hin, the Dlll ~
lio,ing tho bumod.Out citizens OF flaho
was paased.
Adjourned.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Senator HOman Is m receipt OF numeiou
letters Neutrality-suspicious. aud greenbAcker
in northern Texas asking him to run 10
lieute nt-gOvernOT. lie says the fepOr
that Hon. Wash Jones had written hiu
that he would not run for gOvorno
is incorrect. Wash Jones, the senator says
il Enthusiastically candidate Tor that Oh
flee.
Runners that the governor will vet'
the congressional apportionment Olll, arr
sull alOat, while 1t is also said that he WI
allow the bill TO become law without M
approval. Probabilities are in favol
OF the latter event. although
nobody need feel surprised if the bill wal
vetoed Friday morning. 1t may he sci
down as un established fact that the gov
ernor looks upon the total disregard
Tor the constitutional requirements o
contigulty in the new, apportion
ment as outrageous, and with ms
known disgust at the action of the
legislature respecting his principal meas
ure, including the university, stranger
things have happened han that he should
extend the extra session. IL Is not ut all
improbable that the canvass set on foot
upon the report that he would not be q
candidate for third term, was mistof'
tune to. some aspirants. The Old Alcalde
is human, and cannot without some degree
of irritation, observe the siren
uous efforts of his opponents
to resurrect their corpses over his, demise,
while his supporters are In sack'cloth ana
ashes, and it may prove that the canVassers
ii they have not anticipated the events 70
suit their inclinations, have a. least devel-
oped the nomination of the governor sue
ce.~or by himself.
A JsTIN, May 4.-The senate convened
pursuant to adjournment. The speaker
was in the chair; prayer was held by the
chaplain the ioli IS called, and the MIN
uies of the previous meeting were read.
The president said the report OF the exec
utive session which appeared in the Jour
nal was an oversight of the assistant sec
rotary.
The house bill providing for the pIublica'
ton of 1000 volumes of the Revised stat
utes passed.
The bill setting aside the public lands in
Green county for veterans and school pur'
poses went to the table on its flnal passage,
through failure to suspend the rules
Mr.. Shannon, from the committee on
internal Improvements, reported unanl-
nously the house bill for the appointment
of q railroad commission.
The bill providing water and fire extin'
guishers for public buildings and GROUNDS
was passed.
The bill providing for the leasing of schoo
land at not less than SZo sectloh Oh of'
acres, was passed
A substitute preventing the sale of tim
Der land at not Tess than So was passed.
The house bill Withdrawing public lands
from sale was substituted for senate Dll
and passed.
A joint resolution to proceed to al
election to select place Tor branci
of the university for colored youths wa
passed, which provides that she election
shall be- held the same as state elections
are.
The senate insisted on its amendment
increasing the salary of the superintendint
architect of the new capital to $500.
The senate passed the bill compelling
railroad companies to deliver freight OF
charges in bill of iading.
1t also passed the bill RENTING license tc
liquor dealers closed up by law.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Joint resolution, providing for c
Drancn OF ne university iOF ColOIcd youUh9
was taken up and passed.
The bill providing for remission of the
license to liquor dealers, who have beer
drir', y ~ '" o,cupatiqn by local OPP
ton, was also passed.
rs, made strong but
fruitess effort TO Lave the senate railroad
commission bill taken up. lie said nc
wanted TO place the members on the re
cord.
BY vote on the suspension of the rules Q
vote was taken and the motion to suspend
the rules was lost-ayes Al; nays ~.
Daily called up the county tax bill an lG
governors veto, and moved that the bill
be passed, not outstanding the obstruc
ton of the governor.
Fmlay contended that the governors OBJ
iections were misleading.
Caldwell, Grayson, and several othe'
counties levied % cents, anc
the legislature of 1879 actually put
construction upon this clause OF the consti
tuition, and the governor signed the law
Why, then, does the governor hold that Il
has not the right to put construction or
the constitution The commissioner
courls have not undertaken TO con
strue the constitution; but they have
abided by the law thus placed OF
the statute books by the seventeenth leGis
lgture. If the commissioners court have
placed the same construction on the sc
that the governor has, they have not don,
il but once, agreeable TO any public senti
ment, or by their own construction OF th'
constitution, but the law which is upon tho
statute books of the country.
Finlay took the position of the trainers
of the constitution, that tn.
amount of county taxes be
cents on the 800 and rOt on sliding
scale. In proof of which he called
in evidence the opinions Of Gainther
DahOney and Dallings, members or th'
convention, A vote was taken on Fillay',
motion and it was lost. The following i
the vote: Yeas-Anderson, Arnold
Barry Gennock, Blocker, Beck, Brown
Bruce, Co ZEN, Davidson, Douglass
Evans, Faulk, Finlay, Frymaer
Gather, Gibson, Grant, Fry, Haidusick
HAYNES, Hall, Hutchinson, johnson, Ken
dali, Keene, Kindred, Labatt, Lewis,
Lynn, Matlock, Matthews, hcComo, NC
Cord. Paddock, Parker, Peacock, Perrenot
Policy, Richards, Riggs, Roach, Rod
rigues, Scott. Stewart of Hopkins, strib
ling, Stringfellow, Thompson, Tomkins
Union. Woods, Wooldridge-total, 81.
Nays-Ayers, Bike, Broker, Benevides
Burke, Carlton, Cauthron, Chenault, Cheno
with, Donnell, Denman, Fly, Foster
Geiger, Cranberry, Linton, Mack. Merrit t.
Monrsund Nash, Oliver, Oxsheer, Patter
son. Plumley, Ragsdale, Smith OF HUNT
Stewart of Kinney. Storey, rarleton, TEN
pletoD, Todd, Traylor, Truit, and Wurz
bach.
The senate university bill was taken uI
and indefinitely postponed. Pending th'
Consideration, Mr. Gather, referring 70 th'
university and school bonds Of doubtful
validity, said: J. for one, am willing for I'M
debt 70 remain where Governor Davil
n aoed II, as a debt Of doubtful validity, anc
that should the same misfortune A. war, etc
A letter was read from COMMISSIONS
Walsh inviting attention for immedisie &C
tion to prdfecf public mineral lands against
ABSORPTION by Spectators at present value
Maddox made several fruitless efforts Y
get the bill before the house meeting, th'
requirement I'm this line as also OF timOel
land.
The pension bill was taken up and killed
AZ engroasruent, ater much fillibuster1ng