The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-31

calculated to influence him 10 change his
mind. His unalterable determination is
to retire TO private life and so remain dur
ing the remainder OF his days Denton
Monitor.
FARCE THE BEST.
lit Is imperative upon the legislators
that they shall DO some railroad legislating,
then II is Just as We'll, We suppose, that the
Gibson bill should pass. That the state
| should employ man at 5000 a year, with
a secretary AT 81 $40 a year, 90 ride once or
twice year over the railroads and decide
whether the bridges, track and cars are IN
& cd repair, looks rather tafccal. But the
legislators probably think that perform
ahce, entitled Railroad Legislation is
demanded Of them; and farce is the best
form in which to put the play on the board.
= Houston Age.
WHO GOT THE PIE?
The mail route from San Antonio TO Cor
pus Christi figures conspCuoGsly in the
star-route trial at Washington. While the
contractor, Price, received large pay for this
route, he never carried the mails trip, but
authenticated; and " Is well-known here
| that the sub-contractors were changed three
or four times, each one being nearly bank
rupted by his contract. While Price was
| receiving the ample pay allowed by the
| government, the men who did the work
were SO poorly rewarded that they could
| not maintain the same at the standard re-
quired. Upson's bill to prevent sub-con-
tracting would have put an end to all such
swindllng practices San Antonio Ex-
press.
SIT DOWN ON IT,
We haven't the slightest objection, and,
II ne had, 1t is not our business, to our cx-
changes using patent outsides,n but there
| ia thtue. NJ l., ALI a., nd
| spectacle journal In the south ought to do
the same, and that isthe style OF Southern
News" or Southern Gleanings," which is
Il persistent and outrageous msrepresenta.
| tion OF the south IL must be gotten solely
from the pages OF the Police Gazette or that
sort OF trash, Instead OF containing items
| OF southern progress, southern growth or
business, it Is collection of crimes, acct
dents and "outragca" Thus, instead of
being Il benefit, It is Il nuisance and every
southern paper ought TO refuse to receive
such trash ami idlsiiyinF.-l Ennis Com
mercial Recorder.
THAT VETO.
The governor was not very Ceremonious
with Senator Gibbs bill concerning the
Federal building in Dallas; and at the same
| time ho showed ignorance as to what he
was writing about IN his veto message.
| one OF the main objections To the bill, as he
puts II, is that 1t is not competent Tor the
Federal government the ought 70 have said
Federal agency TO so far acquire exclu-
slVe jurisdiction over any territory in this
state rs TO exclude the state herelrom in
order to execute the laws" The bill passed
by congress authorizing the erection OF the
public building at Dallas, and providing
for acquisition Of site for ii, says that no
money shall be spent on the building "un-
a.. & ~. i. 4 \
United States exclusive jurisdiction over
the same during the time the United States
shall be or remain the owners thereof, for
all purposes except the administration of
the criminal laws of said state ana the ser
wee of civil processes therein Certainly
the veto message is thus made to appear
very absurd; but to the benighted the GOV
.rnor may be able to explain how the ex-
ceptlons do not cover all law. Maybe civil
and criminal statates do not take in the
scope OF our state laws. Astin Statesman.