The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-02

pahy violating this act shall be guilty of n
mlsdemeauOr, Adopted.
Mr.. Pope moved 10 amend by providin,
that companies shall not charge extra fnr
repeating tull rate mesSs ses. Adopted
Mr.. farrar moved 10 amend by strikins
cut tne section that companies shall collect
the cost ot transmitting dispatch in ad.
vance, and making the company COLLECTING
respons be to connecting lines.
Mr. Chesley moved to amend the section
providing that when meSsag, requests a
reply at the cost of the sender, this rule MS
70 collection shall not apply. Lost and
MI, farrar's amendment adopted.
Mr. oloos moved TO amend by providing
,hat operators may send messaSes no any
hour. ON Sundays without Violation ot ths
Sunday law. Adopted.
A message was received from the gov.
ernor appointing notanes in the different
counties, and J. B. Clark, NJ. W. Garrett
ana 4; A. Hadra to be university regents.
MI. Harris moved TO amend by providing
that the liabilities of companies under this
act Shall not be released or affected bv anv
agreement or stipulation made by the
Sc ier before the message is sent. Adopted
nh emergency clause was added and the
bill ensrOssed, ' ''''
Mr.. Cooper introduced a bill to provide
ior locating certain land certificates issued
10 Sohleuerate spiders and Texas veterans
under the act of 1881.
The Joint resolution to amend the oonsti.
tuition regulating taxation for free schools
over which so much debate occurred some
uays ago, was laid before the senate.
MT Mallock moved that the section pro.
viu,ng Tor dividing the state into school dis
trlcts lay on the table, subject TO call. He
favored the district system, but was moi
prepared to vote for the section in its pres.
ent shape.
Mr.. Gibbs moved to postpone until to .
morrow morning.
fending discussion, the senate adjourned
HOUSE.
Hazlewood had a motion to reconsider.
the vote spread on the journals, by which
the bill providing for a submisson tn ths
people of the question of prohibition was re-,
iected. was AZ
the motion to reconsider the vote by
which the pension bill passed the house
called up by Hlll yesterday, was tabled.
Inc pending business at the hour of adj
lournment was the amendment offered by
sf foster, OF Limestone, to the bill punisbing
persons for the adulteration of food md
arugs. rosters amendment included
Wines, whisky and beer, and was adopted
PARSONS moyed to reconsider the vote by
whlch the section appropriating $4,000 to
carry out the provisions of the bill was
stricken out. Carried.
Inc question being upon the re.adoption
Oh the section, it was ~, and the bill
passed to engrossment. ~
Frymier moved to reconsider the vote bv
which all bills reported favorably were
ordered TO De printed, and stated that IL
would be impossible TO have the resolu.
ton carried into effect.
Inc resn alton, after considerable discus.
SION, was reconsidered and rejected.
Brown introduced resolution authoriz.
lzing The speaker to appoint five members
from the house to act with a like number
OF senators, whose duty ii shall be to con.
suit together as to how tie best interests OF
the state can be subserved by CONSIDERING
those bills OF greatest importance to the
state, ana report their conclusions to the
legislature in order to be abe to better de.
IsrTlne now much longer the legislature
shall remain in session.
Brown said; II want some clear.beaded
mep,not given to imbibing too much LIQUOR
appointed to counsel with the members
from the serate.''
ceVera' members contended that the an
| polntment OF conference committe,
would dono good; that they would not rem.
resent the sentiments of the various mem.
bers of the house.
Upton moved that the resolution be re
ierred to the committee on rules.
Brown; II don't want that done. | cant
run the legislature against 105 of the con
tin" ~ A"s
Upton's motion to refer was lost, and
1n browns resolution adoptea-ayes, &C; nays
The speaker introduced Joint resolu ior
providing that no special session the leg
lslature shalt be of longer du on thar
thirty days, nor shall there be ANY leclsla.
tion at any special session or during the firs
thirty days OF any regular session upon
subjects other than those submitted BY the
governor IN his proclamation couvenins
sucn special session, or in his messages tS
the legislature when convened in special OF
regular session. 1t also provides submis
sion 10 the vote of the people on the seconc
Tuesday in August, 1855.
LaDatt, by leave, introduced bill amend
ing the charter of the city of Galveston.
several petitions We're presented for and
against prohibition.
oolimah introduced a bill granting leave
oi acsence TO Judge Mcfarland, Of the 32d
Judicial district. Referred.
The special order being the general an.
preparation bill, the house went into com.
mlttee OF the whole, Wurzbach in the chair.
me pending business being the adoption
Oh the clause making an appropriation for
lhe department OF insurance, Upton offered
an amendment, appropriatipg 5000 for
Tue purchase OF ten volumes of the South.
ern Historical society papers, Adopted.
AS amended, the clause was adopted.
me clause approprating So 200 for the
commissioner OF fish was adopted.
Whlle having under consideration the
appropriation for the adjutant. generals de-
partment, Taylor moved to strike out $75,-
wv lor the protection of the frontier, and
insert $4,000.
Scott opposed the amendment, and con-
tended tEat the appropriation set apart in
the bill was absolutely necessary to keep
no men in the field to protect the interests
Oh me country, and stated that there never
nau Deen any appropriation made for the
west, put that the gentleman from Red
kiyer had opposed it,
Iaylor-"l want the west to prosper, but
nave been lead TO believe that by the
building ofrailroads the west has been de.
Vei0ped up TO such an extent that Indians
ana desperadoes have been driven from rat
country"
Browning contended that as the middle
portion OF the state was protected by quar-
antlne laws, he thought the west should be
projected by ample appropriations.
Latham said that the moment you with.
draw the troops from the frontier you en-.
danger the life and property of every one
living In the west.
Acker said that unless the troops we're
maintained it would be impossible to en-.
iorce the laws on the frontier.
Davis, Of Camp-"I am an advocate OF
economy, and | generally vote against ap.
preparations when consider them unneces-
ssary, but this is on appropriation which /