The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-22
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"A, j, bThWARD, WILL MCCLURE
WIN 81 VILLA SIS. Dallas. Texns.
s and divers are the opinions that suddenl
L bubble up, float for while on the suriac
r and then burst. There Is disposition o
g d g part OF some to adopt the sale policy ca
). clusiyely; while others favor lease OF al
pasture lands and sale of timber only iron
1 the pi land. The first contend that tn
4 sale y icy Is the most advantageous, for tn
reason that the interest on purchase none.
1 and T., Ses on lands will be q magnificen
available fund for school purposes. The,
! clam hat il the sale can be made mt no
less than 81 per acre the sum realized viii
: be in the neighborhood of eighty million
: dollars, which will be placed to the credi
Of the permanent school iund
Interest on this at fou
: per cent. per annum will be So, 200 900, sup
, plementet by an ad valorem tax on $50,
= 100000 valuation. will increase the amour
to So, GAG, 600, or a sufiiciency to school lS2,
600 children ten months in the year at 81
per month each. or course, as the land
5 are improved and increase in value thu
taxes will be increased and lhe available
: fund augmented in proportion. All Of thu
: above is very nice on paper.
The advocates OF a lease claim that II the
} lands can be leased at not less than cent
per acre, the amount will be 81, 100000 an
nually, which, added to the present avail
able school fund, will more than suffice FOL
, running the free schools ten months each
year for the next twenty years, at the
end of which time the schools viii
have all the benefit of the increase in val
, ues. 1t may not be amiss to say that more
Of the legislators have risen up to explain
how long it will require to sell the lands, OF
: to whom they are to be sold. The bills
thus far on this sale business limit the
quantity to be sold TO any one purchaser,
and a vast number will have to be gathered
, in to take all these lands. The same can be
said of those who favor lease. They have
neglected to state if all the lands can be
leased, and to whom. The problem is in
: tricate and perpleXing, and whichever way
the legislator turns he sees two huge horns
of dilemma staring him in the face, and
he knows not which one to grappe with.
The final disposition of the question Will
consume much time.
The penitentiary committee were in SEES
sion this evening, considering the recent
lease of the prisons, Treasurer Lubbock
and Superintendent Goree were before the
committee and explained the lease. The
latter, in beginning his remarks, alluded
to paragraph published in the Huntsville
Item, a few. days ago, and said that to
the charge that he had forbidden any
person to enter the same, by whomsoever
made, was an infamous lie. He then
showed the benefit of the lease
by comparing it with former ones.
He showed that under the present lease
that the state, in addition to money re-
ceived, saved $25, 900 per annum in trans
portation prisoners, and several thousands
in other items, all of which will have to be
paid by the lessees. He read from reports
of other states, showing in every instance
that where prisons were run on public
account, the result was great loss to the
al nj uraC on
said he had put in bid of $4,000 for
the penitentiaries, and that he mad in
tended to bid last September, but was
prevented by conditions of the advertise
ment asking for bids. He read a paragraph
from the lease, where it provides that con-
vcts may be worked outside the walls near
the prisons, which Treasurer Lubbock ex-
planned was to permit convicts to procure
iTon ore outside the walls of the Rusk peni-
Tertiary, where iron furnaces are to be
established. A representative of Charles
Heidenheimer, of Galveston, was before the
committee, and stated that Heidenheimer
also intended TO bid for the prisons last
September, but was prevented for reasons
stated by Colonel Patton. When asked by
Colonel Goree if he ever wrote asking for
4 explanation of the advertisement, he said
no. The committee ordered 500 copies OF
Colonel Goree's address printed, for the use
of the legislature, and adjourned till A
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. From ex-
plantations made before the committee, the
present lease is the best possible from re
sponsible parties, and there appears to be
no doubt but that the committee will re-
port iavoring its ratification.
The New Orleans Insurance company was
granted permission to do business in thl'
state.
Receipts at the treasury to-day were;
!, From Leon Blum and Julius Runge, Gal.
weston, $4t $50; for iour:bit land, and S22,'
400 from l.. Q. Nelson, 81. Louis, for four
bit land, and 600 from sale OF interest
on school land.
AUSTIN, Feb. 10 Especial. Petitions
were presented ps follows:
BY Mr.. Dayis-From citizens of Denton
county. asking a prohlbitory amendment
| By Mr.. Shannon-From citizens of Par
. ker county, on the same subject.
Bills referred;
By, Mr.. Jones-To punish persons fol
bribing or attempting to bride aldermsn o
BY Perry-To prohibit election Officers
from becoming sureties on bonds or recgniz
ances.
By Mr.. Traylor-Providing for the trans
, fer Of indictments from the district court.
Also, regulating the fees OF tsx-collectors
On motion of Mr.. Gooch, the senate wen
into committee o'the whole 70 consider th'
onestion heinz ON adoption.
M Johnson. of Collin. opposed IL. as b,
tbou,,ht ire ohisct was ~ destroy n lease.
Mr. Davis bsid that IL would inaugural,
. system of blackmail Its adoption
would give persons the right TO settle upor
: leased lands, TO the great damage Of th'
Mr Matlock commended that II IL was no
,donted IN would preyent the settlement o
! certain counties for twenty years, and turf
,bnn, oveS 10 nersons VIM have moi a per
, rnenen, Interest in The country.
Mr. Chin. Thought its adoption would
tend 10 destrov a Iease
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