The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-28
HOOF AND HORN.
AFTERNOON SESSION OF THE TEXAS
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION ON
SATURDAY.
Resolutions Adopted-A Trail Wanted
Through the Indian Territory-Fenoe
Cutting and Grass Burning should
be Treated rs Felonies.


Medina; Secretary, G. w. Hinkle, OF Besar;
Treasurer, John Devices, Of Bexar; Marshal,
Lee Hall, of La Sale. The Executive Com
mitee is composed Of A. +. Carothers, of La
Sale; John T. Lyle, Of Medina; James Mar
tin, ST., of McMullen; John Timon, Of Live
Oak; Benjamin F. Buzzard, Zavalla; II. c.
Tardy, Kinney; Thomas Devices, Bexar; John
F. Camp, Pecos; P. II. Wentworth, Crockett;
William Votaw, Dimmitt; ]. T. Woodruff,
Maverick; N. G. Collins, Duval; John F.
Tom, Atascosa; Jesse Pr essnall, Wilson; w.
A. Pe,tus. Goliad; A. c. James, Bee; B. L.
Crouch, Chairman, of Frio.
Mr.. Lane again thanked the audience for
the honor done him in making him President
Of such a convention and urged the delegates
to Immediately proceed to the transaction Of
business.
The Committee on Constitution and By
Laws then submitted its report through II. +
Barnard, OF Bexar.
Captain Lee Hall moved an amendment to
the bylaws by which every member should
contribute SIS. His motion was adopted. The
report was then adopted as whole.
Section one provides that the name of the
association shall be the Texas Live Stock as
sociation.
Section 2. The object Of the association is
for the pasture owners TO act in unison as a
cooperative and protective body; to protect
each other against frauds, injuries and thefts
10 protect grass against injury Of every kind;
10 give information to each other whenever
In ig N af-
fecting the interests OF any other member.
Mr.. Barnard presented the following reso-
lutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense OF this con-
venton that the laws proposed now before
both Houses OF the State Legislature, in regard
TO public roads, are unwise and detrimental to
the public interests; that they require in all
counties in the State that the Commissioners
court shall lay out first and second class roads
aud that the same shall be free Of obstruction,
thus depriving the Commissioners court of the
discretion heretofore exercised-to class the
same as third class, and permit gates across
the same. In the counties which we repre-
sent, the passage and enforcement OF such a
law would work great public inconvenience,
and would be calculated 10 keep up the pres
eut agitation and prejudice against a mans
enclosing his own land in lhis-that our peo-
pie are pastoral in their pursuits, and that our
respective counties are pastoral in character
and used as such, and that the opening up of
roads through our counties, first class, free Of
distractions, would cause the same to be
fenced and constitute lanes through and over
our county, thus depriving our people and the
travelling public of water, grass and shade for
reaches from 10 TO 10 miles, thus increasing
and ageravating the prejudice against the use
and enclosure by citizen Of his own pro-
perty.
We protest against the passage of suck a
law as denying the right OF our people to local
self-government in the State that it is the
assumption OF the members Of our Legislature
that the people who pay for the reads, who
work their roads and who use the roads do not
know their own wants or their and our in
terest We, therefore, respectfully protest
against the passage OF such a law unless there
is pro,iso or an exception thereto; that in all
pastoral countries in this State the people
may, by majority vote, have the right to de-
termine whether or not all the roads through
such county may have on and across them
light gates.
And We respectfully request our members in
both Houses Of the Legislature to support and
vote Tor such qualification to the proposed law.
Resolved, that il is the sense Of this con-
vention that law should be passed making II
unlawful in the future for any person TO en-
close any lands not his own nor under his
control, with sufficient penalty thereto to en-
force the same.
Resolved, further, that as to pastures here
tofore constructed, in which the lands Of
another have been enclosed, that we
invoke, at the hands OF the Legisla-
ture, a law that wherein the parties
cannot agree, that the party having his land
enclosed may have the right to have the same
arbitrated as to rental value, if such he claims,
or the right Of common pasturage therein II
that is desired, or that the person so enclos-
| ing such land can exonerate himself from all
liability by fencing such land off from his pas
ture, and giving the owner thereto as many as
four gates, with right of ingress or eeress
through and over his pasture.
Resolved, That we deem it the duty Of the
Legislature to pass law at its present called
session making the willful destruction, injury,
cutting, breaking, or tearing down of fences
around any enclosure, felony, and that no
law with less penalty than that imposed for
ielonies will correct the evil and prevent the
continuance Of this crime.
Resolved, That the willfu setting fire to
grass, either within or without enclosures, for
the purpose OF destroying the grass or fences
oil any persons within or around any pasture
or enclosure, shall be made felony.
Resolved, That laws should be passed re-
curing the Sheriffs of every county within
this State to hunt down and arrest all persons
who shall have committed any offense in his
county, and 60 to the theatre OF action on infor-
nation, without waiting for the Judgment OF
warrants in their hands, and making it an Of
tense subject to heavy fine for any Sheriff
to refuse or neglect to do so.
A committee, consisting of Messrs. Crouch
Lyle, Barnard, Devices and West were ap
pointed to memorable Congress to have q
trail established through the Indian Territory
Mr.. Masterson brought forward resolutio,
endorsing the Terrell bill as voted down i
the present called session OF the Legislature
and asking that it be reconsidered. Me,sr,
Barnard and Lane opposed this. They b
lieved the main features Of the bill we're COZ
rect, but it had been very much changed il
committee. What the people want now is
law to make fence cutting and grass burning
felonies. Mr.. Masterson's resolution wa
voted down unanimously. After hearin