The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-25
Tae Merits Of Senator Gibbs aud OF
ssSe ator Matlock's Bills.
lncxcusanlc Hardness In Reception o!
Department Reports.
Dallas and the Supreme Court Power
fal Arguments.
oihcr Chroniolings at the Capital.


made in the land.oiiice, Of the grazing. Il
agricultural, and the timber lands. Und
this bill it is permitted 10 actual settlers
purchase the agricultural lands in bodi
: not 10 exceed one section, or $40 acres, at
minimum price of SO per acre. Grain
lands are TO be leased in tracts Of not few,
than live sections, or more than thirty Sc
tons at minimum rental Of not less tina
0 cents per acre per annum. Timber land
tpine shall be sold in tracts OF not few
than 6l0 acres, at minimum nill
OF So per acre, A few dawn lands.
sent you Senator >-Hen the latter
providing for their, except that this
There is no .ansr actual settlers make i'm
and Sepss before any patent issue, and
ls~.ol Matlock provides for sales only,
.S,Ehcreas Gibbs makes provision for sales or
leasing, according to the character OF land.
The expediency Of
SELLING THE LANDS, OR LEASING
the fullest consideration. If thew
be sold, then the state can invest the
cash payments received at a rate of interest
equal to that borne by the deferred, and
VIII also have good security by the mort
gage. twill also receive he taxes that may
be due by the then holders. This is one
view OF the case. On the other hand, If the
state only lease. 1t will have fine incon c
OF constantly improving property, and at
the end fthe term be able to sell at largely
advanced figures. 1t is true that the CO.
centper-acre act of 1879 overwhelmed us
with purchasers, our own citizens
and those abroad, even in Eu ope,
and has thus enabled us, Nv
that splendid advertisement, TO deman d.
higher prices now,yet the question remains
VIII not the railroad companies, with their
immense acres, be strong competitors of
The state at the price fixed by the Gibbs
bur understand that they are propoqing
TO lease at five cents per acre. Another
important question is, will parties in the
livestock region be willing to lease, and be
thus placed under the necessity of driving
OIL and thus antagoniaing very wealthy
and powerful interests who may happen
TO have possession of the lands for their
herds, and seek to exert sort of iorcible
presumption right? All these things
will require careful thought on
the. part of our legislators here.
AS Tor the pine lands, 1t is contended by
some that the price OF So per acre has driven
much foreign capital into Louisiana where
hey are now being sold at 50 to $3.50. But
thoreply to this Is that Texas has at pres.
ent'noneed to sell them, and can well af-
fo'd TO wait. The time is rapidly coming
upon US when every tree will be wanted
for railroad cross.ties, bridge and car.
building, etc., to say nothing of other pur-
poses.
Whilst on this land business may here
appropriately add that there is some dispo.
sition in some quarters to enact
\ LAW TAKING FROM COMMISSIONER WALSH
the discretionary power he has here ,.
lore. had, Not that he has M.
used 1t in any way, but that
the principle is set down in the
"bill oil rights" that all officials shall act
through operation OF law alone, and thai il
Is aproper thing that no citizen should be
deprived of any right or privilege, or &C.
corded any, save when the law expressly
speaks. ! bear that, VA bill to cover this
principle will shortly be introduced.
- @larNlsef applying daily in the cfllce OF
the secretary ukstate for
REPORTS OF THE RESPECTIVE STATE DEPART.
NENIs,
bot thus far several of these are without Tia q
needed printed data. 1t OCCURS to me con.
stantly that i'll were legislator | should
desire and require to understand fully and
clearly the exact status of affairs before
attempted TO legislate upon them. 1t must
be exceedingly inconvenient for com
mitteemen and Others to be every now and
then calling upon the various official,
for Information ny piecomeal on this sub.
iect and on that. These biennial reports
coming out In the midst of session. re
mind one ofthe tardy Congressional Gloh,
and the other Federal government publ,
printing. They Comeso late they are well
nigh valueless. Some enterprising member
can win for himself reputation by putting
through some such bill as will require tha
said reports shall be furnished to member:
elect, senators und representatives, say
thirty days after election, the results
whereof, which believe, are hereafter to b,
made known within that period OF time
under the proposed new mod,
OF counting the ballots, Ii
that manner members can inform
themselves how the states businesses stan,
and can prepare accordingly, and with am
Pile time for reflection, and for consultation
with their constituents,
DALLAS CLAIMS FOR THE SUPREME COURT.
And now In regard to most importan
matter that so Immediately and intensel,
interests the citizens of Dallas, and indee,
the people of all north Texas. ] allude /,
the branch of the supreme court for GU
city, instead of ut Tyler, rs now. If TIN
court Is not to DO consolidated, certainl,
Dallas Is the locus for Il, and not Tyler
Let some powerful facts and figure
substantiate this assertion. by ref
ercnce TO the state statistical map
prepared bv Commissioner Spaight
we knd that Dallas and the nine oountic
Of which il is the centre, gave to Governo
Ireland $1,000 votes. They pay take
to tho state on s6i,000,00O of property
They have population OF $4,000 people
Per contra: smith county and the min,
counties of which II Is about the centre
rave n gubernato-ial vote 10 the presen
Incumbent of only 1880 They have
population OF but i3S, eco souls. They pa,
taxes on lust $1,000 900 Of property. Thu
difference against Tyler continues to grow
II we spread the area. Besides these con
alterations, Dallas and four adjoining
counties send more business to the court
nj Austin than goes 10 the entire lyle
TORN for the whole Tyler district; and, be
s aides this, Dallas has over 1900 i/e,
OF direct railroad line passing threSh II
HAT again: Tho state satisfy maj
further evidences thsA Dallas " The ad
Joining Sounties have icqbled ~ the las
decade I'm population aud wealth, Will
Smith and the other eastern counties have
In the Same period, lost In both. Thel
oven paid less TO the state In 1882 than the!
didin 1881. Senators Gibbs, Davis, Mat
lock, Fleming and Traylor Will work har,
for us, and thcy seem TO think that our sue
cess In the senate ct least u assured. IL
~ rug oLp DEMOCRATIC pooQRiSrs
al, ~thc1 prcatsst good 10 the creates
number. and that "the benefits o
Fovernment should be distributed 40
ccrdinR 70 wealth and. population.
mean anything, certainly they are com
pletcly applicable 70 the case have JUS
nrcscitcd' and particularly would this ap
mar 10 the candid mind 20 be true wher
( sisepsion Is directed % the further feet thai
north and northwest Texas are to-day pay
inr over one-haif Of the expenses Of The gov
srimsnt OF Texas, and have but little Il
show as consequences; no nsylums, nc
oo,,r,s' no penitcntlary institutions, n,
4 oovthinR that brings some monies TO thei
vIcinlties. Even old Rome treated nei
provinces better than this II.
L ft a ourlsus Wager. t
( rnitApELrurA. Pa, Jan Ala move
WAGER has been made between John II
Marx, The boxer, and y. +. Byrnes. Of No
. Il us.> ~s--Ht In or.lpr A scprlnin the