The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19

House met at the appointed hour,
Speaker Gibson and quorum present.
En- PEASANT, the speaker has not been
absent single day during the session.
BILLS PASSED.
Mr.. Armistead called up house bill
226, allowing counter 2hidav1ts to be
made to claims made by affidavit at any
time before announcement for trial.
Senate amendments were concurred in.
Mr.. Acker called up house bill 30, pun
ishIng parties for neglgently or wllfully
burning prairies or wood lands. Senate
amendments concurred in.
VETERAN CERTIFICATES
Senate bill ia, providing for the loca-
ton of veteran certificates in Greer coun-
ty. being the pending business, under a
motion the day previous, made by NJ
Douglas, to postpone the immediate or
der Tor its consideration. the motion was
Brown.
House refused to suspend the rules.
CLERKS PAY.
By Mr.. Mckinney: Resolution for the
issuance OF certificates to clerks for ser
vices where they have been continuous,
allowing them 81 per day. Adopted.
ENROLLED.
Mr.. Fisher reported numerous bills
duly enrolled, closing the laborious duties
of the committee of which he has made a
most efficient chairman.
NOTIFYING THE GOVERNOR.
By Mr.. Cayen: Joint resolution inform
ing the governor that the leg islature i,
ready to adjourn, and asking If his eX-
ceIlency has any further communication
to >ubmit.
Adopted, and Messrs. CAven, Upton and
Armistead appointed committee ON pari
of the house.
The committee reported q communities
| ton from the governor, which will be
found in our report of the senate pro.
ceedings.
COMPLIMENTARY REVOLUTIONS, ETC.
Resolutions were adopted expressly
of appreciation of the services of the
speaker, the clerks and various officers OF
the house, in the most complimentary
terms.
Mr.. Cochran in the chair.
Another resolution, especially compli-
mentary of the speaker, was read and
adopted with applause.
Hon. Santos Benavides made an address
which he said he wished 10 read himself
1t was received with marked apprecia-
ton.
MATERIAL TESTIMONIAL
Something more substantial than reso.
buttons followed:
The worthy chaplain of the house, Rev.
j. W. Poindexter, was presented with a
valuable silver pitcher serViie. The pre-
sentation was made through Hon. H j..
Labatt, who alluded ia eloquent and
classical terms to his school associations
with the recipient al Yale.
DR.. PoindeXter responded at some
length in eloquent and appreciative
terms.
Capt. j. w. Booth, chief clerk, was
presented with a handsome gold cane,
through Hon. G. L. Wurzbach on the
part of the house, Who paid high and
deserved compliment to the recipient.
The accompanying resolution expressed
the wish that the captains shadow may
never grow less Qne captain weighs
about $50 and is over six feet high) and
that his jug may never grow
dry. Laughter and applause
Capt. Booth responded at length In elO-
quent and appropriate terms. After
making acknowledgements and compli
menting the house and officers, he re-
ferred to the state university and new
capitol building, and to the great works
of internal improvements Inaugurated in
the state. as evidences of Its growth and
prosperity. The utmost confines of the
state being bound, he said, by links OF
steel, taken in connection with the cree.
ton of great state university and capt.
toll building, in which our interests are
involved for,,millions, should dispel any
apprebensions that may be enter aimed as
10 the danger of the disintegratiOn OF
Texas at any future time.
Hon. j. z. Ayres, OF BraZ0s, was next
the medium OF presentation to Speaker
Gibson, on part of the house, OF q fine
gold headed cane, and, as usual with that
gentleman, made the presentation in
most graceful terms; eliciting applause
by his eloquent remarks. He alluded to
.1yn- lald or hrnfh nr
upon whose counsels we have all relied,
and flom whose decisions no appeal had
been TAKEN" The testimonial, he said,
had appropriately inscribed on 1t star.
the representative emblem OF the lone
star that first appeared in the constel-
lation oil states in April, 1886, and had
shone with undiminished lustre in the
darkness that arose in the land, through
the clouds of war, and risen again in
brightness above the horizon OF our
ma ional history.
Speaker Gibson said:
Gentlemen of the house of representa-
tiyes- The hour of parting approaches.
Soon the gavel will sound for the last
time, and the eighteenth legislature will
stand adjourned without day 1t will go
before the country on the record it has
made, and time will determine whether
or not it has reasonably met the public
expectation. To satisfactorily legislate
for so grand state Win sucn diversity
of interests is no common achievement.
1t cannot be accomplished without mutual
and the exhibition of q de.
gree of patriotism unknown to those who
are differently situated. We have had
important questions before us-questions
which have elected animated discussion,
and at times threatened to defeat har-
monious ending 10 our labors. The most
ardent believer in the ability of the two
houses to successfully grapple with the |
important measures before us could not |
refrain,a few weeks ago, from expressing |
the deepest solicitude and anxiety in re. |
gard to the final result. We were, it |
upon q boisterous sea, without |
pilot or compass, and with every prospect
Of being stranded upon the rocks of con-
fusion and discord. The country looked
on with intense interest. and the press
the medium through
which dissatisfaction was be-
coming known. At this juncture
Of affairs the members of the two houses,
ayinp aside prejudice and sectional feel
ng, marched boldly up to the post OF
inty and furnished the people of the
tate with ample evidence that the work
II the Eighteenth Legislature Is at last
,rap d success. [Applause.l
Important questions have received the
.ttentIon which they deserved, and ex-