The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-20

CUT or all compelltioh IN the sales OF land
and favored leasing system, believing il
~ou'd work Tor The best Interests Of the
people.
Foster, Of Limestone, approved A recon.
| sideration ofthe substitute, and argued that
the clause providing that the land shall be-
purchased only by actual settlers was a good
| one aud should be retained, even if 1t did
as some gentleman had asserted, XIII the
senate bill.
! Cochran moved the previous question.
\ and vote was taken upon the motion To
reconsider, with the fol- wing result-ayes,
| n; nays, 80. ieir
The question revertit, alpon the re-adop-
ton OF Browning's sd titute, Foster, OF
| Limestone, moved casvlf the house.
| Absentees not exoyhefl-Wurzbach and
| Robertson, OF Bastrop
| On motion, the abse ees were excused.
Hazlewood hoped 'fhat the substitute
would not be adopted nd argued that II
would give free pastu{ ske and bring i'm no
returns to the state,
Chenoweth conside - Browning's sub.
stitute rs opposed to t,ie apirit and letter of
the senate bill, and I Ned the substitute
would be rejected by I 80 house.
Dennis said that tia substitute defeated
the very object of all nd legislation. and
argued that it would 'end to take ali The
grazir & land off the d uarket.
III, The substitute wa. 'eiected-ayes, 40;
Adjourned till 3p. u.
EvESiNasgssIoN,
Moore, of McLennm, introduced con-
stitutional amendmen> providing that no
new counties shall have On area of less than
900 square miles.
Browning introduced = petition from the
citizens of Willbarger county, endorsing his
land bill.
On motion OF McGafrity the house bill
defining the boundary lines of the city of
Gonzales for municipal purposes was taken
up, and, under suspension of the rules
passed the house.
Armstead introduced a Joint resolution
increasing the number of senators from 81
to So.
The pending business wns the senate land
: bill, and the question: the adoption of sec
tion O. m
, Chenoweth offered sp amendment strik-
/ ing out the words "to suit purchaser ana
inserting mot to exceed four sections"
, Adopted.
Moursund offered = substitute Tor the
section, which provides tina. the land when
placed on the market shall be sold under
such authority and competition as may be
, prescribed by the land board, and that no
: person, agent corporation or company
agricul ural or waterea land, and five sec
a tions OF unwatered Hnsturc land 1t also
S gives the board powefto require the pur-
chaser of q watered setion to take five dry
: sections. The substitute was adopted
g ayes, As; nays, 81.
A Caven offered an amendment to the sub
stitute, providing thtt agricultural lands
& shall be sold only to actual settlers.
q Adopted.
/ Kendall offered an amendment rroviding
!. that when more than one section is pur-
y chased the sections purchased shall only be
g separated by the alternate railroad sections
Q Lost.
A proviso to the substitute that no lands
n shall be sold only to actual settlers was re
a jected-ayes, AZ, nays. 43.
McDaniels offered q substitute to the
substitute and amendment providing that
' no person or corporation shall acquire title
y to more than GAO acres and no person
other than an actual settler shall be per
a mitted to purchase any Of said land except
l. for works of public necessity and provided
Q further, that no watered survey shall be sole
y when such sale would prevent the !, asin.
n or selling OF unwatered surveys; attempts
= to evade the Limitation of this statute to b,
# deemed fraudulent. Lost.
v tjazlewoo5 moved 10 reconsider the vote
a by which Caven's amendment, providing
}. that agricultural lands shall be sold only
to actual settlers, was sdopted.
II The motion TO reconrdeT was lost.
e Brownings amendgssnt TO Moursund
J. lands TO be purohasoaS e ssSolsm agents, wsI
,. lost
q Patton offered an amendment prohbitn,
the purchase of land within five miles o
g the geographical center of any county
n Adopted.
Cotton offered an amendment TO strik,
II out five sections AID insert four wherever
n it OCCURS in Moursund's substitute
Adopted
|. Tilson moved the previous question OF
s. the substitute and amendments, and sec
tion g. as substituted and amended, wa
l. adopted-ayes, 60: nays, II
Section 7, prescribing the manner o
l. placing the land on the market, was mex
o considered. 1t provides that when a tabu
d lated statement shall have been forwarded
d to the surveyor of the county or lane
!, district, and the BOARD shall have desig
@ mated some person to sell such lands, ant
notice OF such fact shall have been pub
@ lished in more than three newspapers, un
v der direction OF the person authorized Il
/ sell for thirty days in the section where tn,
land Is situated, the land of such count,
@ will be considered upon the market fo
g sale. and the person designated to repre-
@ sent the state shall receive bids for thesame
t Frymer offered an amendment pro
@ viding that no sales shall be considered
o valid until approved by the board
n Adopted.
AS amended, the senate section wa
q adopted.
i Adjourned.
= CAPITAL CHRoNiCLIgGs.
/. There are not u few who heroically pre-
n dict that the legislature will be In session
o until the middle OF April or the frs
OF May, and there are not few ol
q the outside when they hear the abeye prob
ability mentioned who, with blancheC
d cheeks and trembling limbs, mournfull,
exclaim' God save tho commonwealth. '
Seriously speaking, from the present ap
If pearance OF matters, the session will be pro
/. longed into April, or the immacculat
body will adjourn without accomplishing
Il anything In the way of railway or land leg
q islation.
Colonel Robert Josselyp. who has been ae
d cused by the Statesman of writing to tn,
|. San Antonio Express ut the instance OF th
governor, states that since he has been al
}. executive clerk he has had no conversation
o with the governor In regard TO any politica
d subject, the appointment to Office or tn
q penitentiary lease. This disposes of tn
/. charges Of instigaton. Your reporte
4 knows from his own personal knowledg
Al that Governor Ireland was not aware OF til
: letter having been written and sent to tn
Express, and more than that probably kne,
nothing about II until after It's publication
81 The Beaumont Fire company filed char
,e ter to-day.
n The Frohsinn association, OF Brenham
filed an amendment to It's charter, increas
r. Ing the capital stock to $4,000.
10 II is found by some members Of th
house that there is q disposition brewing 4
|. smother in the senate the house bill to SO
N aside fraudulent sale Of ,chool lands and /
e 'ppoinl commisson to continue the inves
legation.
10 The adjutant. general has information
/. that cattle stealing Is growing alarmingl,
h frequent on the lower Rio Grande and Il
.. certain portions of the Pan Handle. He ha
II been asked for rengers to assist In suppress
d sing II.
The executive committee OF the Stat