The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-04

meet at q. m. each day, and hold evening
sessions as often AS practicable.
Upton moved 10 refer the resolution 10 |
the COMMITTEES on rules.
Brown-"rhAt Is not the intent of the |
resolution; want the resolution acted upon I
now, and desire that it oe referred TO |
The committee on public printing, public /
health, ro"ds and bridges, or even to the !
committee on insane asylums,h Laugh. |
teri
Cochran arose to point OF order, that as |
II was on amendment 10 the rules it should |
be referred.
The Speaker-"The point Of orier is well |
taken. The resolution il srssrred."
On motion Of Upton, Colonel Ashbell /
Smith was invited to u seat in the house.
Senate bill, providing that 5000 copies of |
the General Laws OF the sixteenth and !
eyenteenth legislatures, and the called |
session OF the seventeenth, be printed with |
an emergency clause, passed the house.
House bill amending article 3Sla of the
4 Statutes, so as to allow county conyiets,
when hired, SSi cents per day, instead of 50
cents as now provided, which was reported
/ nom the committee adversely with minor
| lty anu majority reports, was taken up, aud
Townsend moved 10 substitute the minor.
1 lty for the majority report.
Ha1lewood was opposed to the minority
/ report, and thought il wrong TO force men
/ to work out their fines for the mere pit
tance OF SSt cents per day.
Hill said the attorney general recon-
mented 10 the seventeenth legislature 10
allow convicts for their services 81 per day,
but when this subject came up before the
house, they would only agree TO give them
% cents, and that he was opposed to auy
change in the law
Woods said he hoped the minority re.
port would be adopted that as the law ex-
listed the taxpayers of the country suffered,
instead OF the criminals, iorthe reason that
officers arrSsting and committing a criminal
had to b" paid out Of the honest earnings of
the people.
Scott said that he was not only opposed
to the minority report, but was most en-
phatically opposed to the entire system of
hiring out convicts.
Townsend-"rhe author OF the bill made
a strong argument in its favor, showing the
necessity OF reducing the scale from 80 TO
33t cents per day.
Ayres hoped the motion would prevail.
He could see no Justice in iining a man and
permit him TO lay IN jail with salary of
~ per day until the fine was extingushed.
Townsend said he was originally opposed
!; to reducing convict labor to 90 cents. and
he should oppose any me isure tending to
its further reduction.
Jones favored substitution of the minor
ity report, and thought that the man who
committed an oilense should suffer and not
the innocent people.
Hurst moved to lay upon the table, The
motion TO substitute the minority report
Tor the majority report carried
The Spcaker-"The question is upon the
adoption of the majority report
Alter further discussion by Stout, Nc.
Q kinney ana Swan, Taylor moved the'pre-
Q vious question, and the report ofthe major.
ity was adopted
Kendall called up house bill making an
, appropriation of s., 800 for the deficiency in
[ the amount set aside for public printing
from the treasury for 1852 TO February 1888,
, aud, under suspension Of the rules, the
4 bill passed the house.
e HazIewood offered q resolution to grant
4 the hall OF the house of representatives to
the Rev. Mr., Hall, for the purpose of de.
@ liyeriug temperance lecture, on February
llth, at +. III,
| Armisted moved to table the resolution
/, The ayes aud nays were called for--ayes
y l3, nays, G2.
. Labatt-"I hope the resolution will not
4 prevail, on the ground of consistency
We have already refused one lecturer, and
O why permit another Everyone knows
n that am in favor OF temperance
o but think it is q reflection ou he mem her.
o to lecture to them on temperance. con
J. slder the members Of this house as sober 4
:. set by day ~ ever associated with"
Gravos-"l agree with the gentleman
l. from Galveston. twill take only one steJ
for them to ask for the use of the ball tor
Y church. think we are all sober enough. >
!. Upon moved to amend the resolution SC
G as to include any other l0bbiest around the
q Capltu.
Tay or-That while he sympa,higed will
/ the ob. ect OF temperance, yet he though
= the .dvicc Spoopenkyke gave his wifi,
would he arpllcRble-"go and hire q halt. u
Lakewood said the members were con
. sstent enough 10 allow the ha to be uSet
@ Tor the inaugural ball, but that now, wheI
{. II was asked for the cause of temperance
3 they objected and he therefore Withdrew the
resolution. Taylor, in reply TO the gentle
= man, said the bail was q part OF the inaugu
b ial, and was given in honor of our gov
# crnur.
G The house adjourned tlll 10 a. IN. to.mor
{. row.
;. CAPITAL CHRoNICLIsGs.
O The ingratitule of governments to
d ward those TO whom they are indebted au,
n especially the ingratitude oi Texas is pro
' verbal. Somehow the eternal fitness o
D. things seem TO be eternally msft, ant
J. there is stumbling aud wandering from TIN
IS path of justice where states are considerinj
"a the just claims of its public servants o
g. those who have served sell and passed
from public view. This is viyidly illus
If lrated in the present legislature, when con
Il siderlng the bill granting TO district an,
o county attorneys commissions for collecting
monies from deiaulting sheritts aud colleC
Y tors. From time almost immf
e mortal these officers have receive,
10 per cent. commissions for sucl
D. services. The late attorney. general, how
st ever, after falling TO get the comptroller {,
turn over certain of these cases to certain
"a attorneys, was suddenly seized with de
5 sire to oyerturn this well-established Jus
z and lawful usage, and brought suit agains
/. the district attorney of this county for com
missions retained by him. The district at
q torney was sustained In the lower court
presided over by one OF thu ablest mos
J. profound and careful judges in the state
The case went TO the supreme court, wher
( the district attorney was again sustained
le but the court reversed aud rcmanded, be
cause the Civil Statutes, while saying dis
10 trict attorneys are entitled to oompensa
te tion, failed to state the per cent OF com
missions, as is done in the Grim
10 inal Statutes The court, II
}, rendering its decision, says the legislator
must fix the amount of the per cent, an,
the above bill has that object, while at tn
same time II permits the district attoi
C. ney TO re.ain 10 per cent on all suit
brought him during the past two years
a This is eminontly just. No money Is 1
come out OF the treasury, and the interes
i. collected by the attorney is more tha
st double the sum OF his commissions II ma
not be amiss TO say that this interest wou
i not have been collected had the attorney
ne general been permitted by The courts /
$. condrct the suits ard settled with the d,
laultcrs as he proposed. The abov
rs bill is equitable and justiflabl,
II. and its passage will simply DO evenhando
justice TO public servants, who spend thci
rr money and time, as the law colnpels thet
ID TO do, in serving the state. Leaving ou
the attorneys If there is desire to eve
rs give the devil his due, 1t should pass. II
of don I pass, then bill should, by all mean
be hurried through compelling all alto
ns neys i'll this state, who have retained con
missions in similar cases, to step up lik
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