Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-06

fenced, creates an imperative public
necessity that the rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days
in each house shall be suspended, and
that this act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage, and it
is so enacted. All of which Is respect
fully submitted.
GSigned, A. II. MCKINNEY,
A. Nj. TAYLOR,
of the house committee.
We have grave doubts as to the con-
stitutionality of sections ore and five
of this act but we defer to the views o.
the members of the house committee,
and we are more constrained to do so
to secure the passage of other impor-
tant and needed legislation. We join
in the report.
GSigned, JOHN YOUNG GooCH,
JOHN HI. TRAYLoR
of senate committee.
respectfully dissent from the ma
jority report because the section in the
bill recommended, providing for pri-
vate roads clear of obstruction in addi-
tion to other passways across the land
of the person inclosing land of another,
is in open violation of the constitution,
destructive OF property rights and is
class legislation. [Signed.
KLEBERG.
/ beg leave TO dissent from the
opinion Of the majority of the commit
tee in their action in adopting that
part of the senate amendment provi-
ding for penalty for herd.ng upon
the public school university or asylum
lands. The policy of our government
has ever been to foster the stock inter-
est of the west and northwest portions
of the state, but this bill, if adopted
in the language proposed by your COM
mittee, will result in decline in
values of stock of all kinds, Il general
exodus of small stockmen from North
west Texas and detriment in general
to all that part of the state. / cannot
account for so sbort-sighted policy.
Every man who knows anything of
the practical workings of the
stock business will admit that
law making it penal to herd cattle
upon Unbiased or unsold school lands
in the Panhandle or adjoining coun-.
| ties thereto, is equival ent to a general
herd law to that country. But we
are met at the threshold with this
sort of argument, that if it is not made
penal the stockmen's cattle will eat
the children's grass without pay.
There are only about twelve million
acres of these lands in the siXty-seven
, counties represent, and 1t Is separated
and spread over the district in small
tracts, so as to render 1t unsafe at
all times for stockman to
herd without violating this law,
which inconvenience will force him to
leave the country or be n continual
violator of the law. No one Will ad-
init that the state can afford to strike
from its calendar of wealth and re-
sources this gigantic brand of business,
which pays nearly one-flfth OF the gem
eral revenues of the state, for the lew
paltry dollars attempted by this part
of the law to be thrown into the school
fund. The state should guard every
interest alike, and If one cannot be
fostered without crushing out another,
let il alone until the matter
can be adjusted equally and fairly be.
tween them. The flimsy argument
that the legislature is the guardian OF
this great trust of the children OF Tex
as is met and sufficiently demolished
by like proposition that we are also
the guardians of the public interest,
which is identical with and insepara-
BILE from the school interests. Are we
to heap distress and want upon the
people Of a particlar portion of tue state,
and reduce the general resources OF the
state for the purpose of getting a few
dollars out of the grass of the school
land? i say no; never will l give
my consent to such measure. l have
heretofore hoped that the peace and