The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-15

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NJ ~ estrays De made at justic precinct.
ne amendment and substitute Aae lost.
Taylor moved TO reconsider the h;ll and
lay II ON the table. Carried. This vote
virtually Kills the bill.] WV
Inc special order was the bill providing
that commissioners courts take charge Of
lunatics at large in the various counties,
ahu that the state reimburse the counties
Tor taking care Of them.
Taylor offered an amendment that the
counties shall be reimbursed S. per week
ior each lunatic by the state. Adopted.
MLsoh offered an amendment providing
other. place than jails for the keeping Of
lunatics.
Jones did not see how any other place
could be provided, and was sure that no
private iamily would incur the responsi.
bility.
Brown said that he might be.teimed par.
slmonious on many things, but that he was
IN iavor OF providing proper accommodate
tions for the insane.
Durant held that Il would be improper
to place insane females in the cells OF RUTH
ans.
Jones moved to amend the amendment
by inserting the words, "if such place can
beprocured.
Cravens hoped the amendment to the
amendment would be adopted, and made a
solid argument in its support.
Hurst moved TO lay the amendment
ana the amendment to the amendment
on the table carried and the bill passed 10
engrossment.
Wurzbach moved 10 suspend the consti.
tutional rules, to put the bill upon. its third
reading and final passage. Adopted.
Parsons offered an amendment making
the proposed bill conform TO the bill passed
lew days ago, establishing a branch asy.
lum. Lost, and the bill passed with the
requisite majority to make il take effect i'm.
mediately after its passage.
The substitute bill making il n misde.
meanor for a tenant TO fraudulently dis.
pose OF property upon which the landlords
lien exists was put upon its second reading
Taylor opposed the bill and thought the
law as 1t stood was sufficient and he con
sidered II just and equitable.
Laoatt said he knew little about tn,
workings OF the landlords lien law. Tn,
merchant gets the farmer in his coils, as tn,
spider does the fly, and then sells him
goods at an enormous per cent. He con
siders the Dill proposed an oppression.
| Caven said the gentleman did not under
stand the bill; that mortgages had nothin,
whatever to do with with it, and that III
bill simply made 1t misdomeanor whe,
the tenant removes property with intent /,
deiraud, The laboring man had no NOR
Jealous support on the floor than himself
0ut ne thought the passage of the bill es
sentiai ior the protection OF property.
Douglas considered the law as il no,
stood sufficient to meet the desires OF tn
people.
Nash offered an amendment proyidin
that If any landlord shall refuse to paw
tenant for labor performed, with intent I
deiraud such tenant, he shall be guilty @
misdemeanor and fined not less than 81
nor more than $l5. Nash said that the oil
lect OF the amendment was to put the land
lord and tenant in the same boat; that h
did not believe any amendment to the Ia,
On motion of Rosenthal, the bill, wit
amendments, was tabled, which hills tn
bill.
Cochran arose to point of order. an
stated that the bill making an appropri,
tlon for clerk to the secretary OF educ,
ton. which was decided by the chair to tax
elect immediately after its passage, ooul
not, u1der the provisions of, the constitr
ton OF the state, take effect till ninety day
after adjournment Of the legislature. III
chair ruled that the point was well taken.
Adjourned.
CAPITAL CHRoNIcLINGs.
The land question is stirring to its yer
depths the legislative waters, and man
and divers are the opinions that suddenl
bubble up, iloat for n while on the suriac
and then burst. There isl disposition o
the part OF some to adopt the sale policy c.
cluslvelyi while others favor lease Of a
pasture lands and sale of timber only froI
the pine land. The first contend that til
sale policy is the most advantageous, for th
reason that the interest on purchase none
ana taxes on lands will be maguifcer
available lund for school .purposts The
clam that il tho sale can be made at ne
less than 81 per acre the sum realized wi
be in the neighborhood of eighty millio
dollars, which will be placed TO the cred
OF the permanent school fun,
Interest on this at for
per cent, per annum will be 81, 100000, SUI
1 plementei by an ad valorem tax on $50
UOJOVO valuation, will increase the amour
to 1910 900, or q sufllciency to school 1Sg
OoO children ten months in the wear at
per month each. OF course, as the lant
are improved and Increase in value ii
taxes will be increased and lhe availab
fund augmented in proportion. All of hi
ABOVE IS very nice on paper.
The advocates of lease claim that If tll
lands can be leased at not less than 8 cenI
| per acre, the amount will be 81, 200 600 Al
nually, which, added to the present avail
able school fund, will more than suffice Il
running the free schools ten months eac
year for the next twenty years, at th
end of which time the schools wi
have all the benefit of the increase In va
nes, 1t may not be amiss TO say that MOI
OF the legislators have risen up to explai
how long II will require to sell the lands {
to whom they are to be sold. The bill
thus far on this sale business limit til
quantity to be sold to any one purchase
and vast number will have to be gathere
in to take all these lands. The same can
SAID oi those who favor lease. They hay
neglected tvstate IL all the lands can b
leased, and to whom. The problem is il
tricate and perplexing, and whichever wa
the legislator turns he sees two huge horr
OF dilemma staring him in the face, an
he knows not which one to grapple witt
The final disposition of the question wi
consume much time.
The penitentiary committee were In se
sion this evening, considering the recer
lease OF the prisons, Treasurer Lubboc
and Superintendent Goree were before tb
committee and explained the lease. Th
latter, in beginning his remarks, allude
to paragraph published in the Huntsyil
Item, few. days ago, and said that
the charge that he had forbidden an
personto enter the same, by whomsoey,
made, was an Infamous lie. He the
showed the benefit of the leas
by comparing 1t with former one
lie showed that under the present lea.
that the state, in addition to money r
ceived, saved $25, 600 per annum in tran
portation ofprisoners, and several thousand
in other items, all of which will have to /
paid by the lessees. He read from repor,
of other states, showing in every instant
that where prisons were run on publ
account, the result was great loss to th