The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-31


lhfsfm silrn IN Q violation ~ The al, /,
sends ~ his tsoat N Inspect M
hfands ADD with his sbsifses Of deco
aud lfases, which slDpe are made ~
dence, he dsisrmines 90 yies
himself aud his ssern eonslablss II n
esnsr of ihe brands has enough land I'd
Tor ~ snppoft his cattle II tbe Law 10 vIt
lated, lao has no Jurisdiction finally 70 ir
but takes bonds retnfnabia Ia such o0untb
away from the extreme frontier, as the Id
may hr tbs venue In. Here, there IN
means provided 10 enforce the Law. III
this shocks the opposition. aud they raise
great cry ab1ut the Liberties VI the poOpl
bsing In danger, becsuse We would sen
frontier troops up there To aid the lss
appr shendins Its vlolstors. Bsautifpl col
sisi, ney This iame stock interest Whit
would protect In every legal IiHh', bl
which seek TO regulate, procured Ia lsTd
now on the statute books, which create
inspectors OF cattle. with unusual pows
to stop and inspect herds way up b.yon
tho settlements at the crossing OF I'd
River. Under that law your inspectors 90
have thousand armed constables u tn
want them, and IL 10 notorious that toy
did have such up there. All right hf
them; bui such aid to sworn judicial D.
GERS sent there 10 stop all OF them fftm
fupd, would be dangerous indeed. IN,
Bus the senator from Eastland fair
fnmed with establishment ~ the idea OF
quiring those cattle commissioners 10 O
tain copies Of tho marks anu brands Of %
tie, aud said IL would be impractical
Singular subteriagsi Unfortunate memor
That senator 10 Q lawyer, and has been
iudeo. Let him just read Art 4Gi6, and
will find that law passed for thu prots
sta NJ . kss al taelr tps ali aAu
quires his inspectors to procure those W
copies OF cattle marks and BRAN
and II those inspectors hs
done their duty, the copies
ready now. The truth Is. they nee In
machinery OF commissioners OF pasiur
that the sugar teat OF free grass Is abou
depart from the lips Of the cattle bal
and corporations, and they seize upon
pretext TO defeat the bill.
Now, / am not Q prophet, but II doe
require one to see that When this b,
defeated some high sounding lease bill
taxa Its place, but no tribunals vii
c-eated TO explore the unorganizsd conQties
to enforce it-where there is not even .
constable or magisi rate. 49,.
The senator from ashland, standing here
behind the barbeG wire OF his hundred'
thousand acre ps,tlre, moves with uneasy.
step In his assault on this measure; or
~
pasture safe sfier time, II he own,
II hs supports IL some OF his mona
stituents will first get mad and u
some of the grass inside now. Alb
you hear his confess Oh? that he fe
man who owned $40 acres, and
that man TO turn loose 1000 cat
pasture. The dread OF the nip,
wires is before him; the shade
midnight rider 10 over him,
L.. 10 ts
cattle In his pasture,
not complain. The objection
commissioners would 20 %
into the Panhandle seems TO
irivileus. What 10 ysur grand
detective tribunal 70 expose or
10 Q judicial commissioner With
bles, and would make him
force the laws OF Texas, sl
head OF the Peoos, wherever hI
water hole among the sands b
DIrEcrIvEs.
All this Apprehension abo
seems to me out OF place. w
Tails, the Tcxssfatgers. w
your titles your Legislature q
tain Tom Sneed, Of my town.
Texas this day owes as large q debt
itude as to any living man, to prt
them. They wrought painfully and
lence, until the penitentiary receiv
Erl5t Vi Rcutltueu lhuu lOIBSTb, WI
Swallowed the titles to a millit
acres of land. There is not a ro
the treasury department or in any
department without detectives; Z
not postoffice in America tlat Is n V
ed by them, or national bank or q vail
operated without their -.grese.;cr; nss. - Ses1
sci plows the ocean without ono on board
and there is no government or city On
earth that can protect property aud punisY| III
s.,sth 1,asno q = ~
all remember when Sam Bass and JOhny
Wesley Hardin with their gangs were Q
terror in the land. Hardin was tracked and
caught in another state by member OF
tho frontier battalion In disguise, while
Hubbard and his adiutant-general kept
detective force actively in search of
Sam Bass. Bat these commissioners
would go in daylight, armed with law, and
acting under Its limitations. All, sir,
Roberts freely used detectives to stop the
wanton persecution of sheepmen, times
have changed. AS the social disorder in.
creases, the means 10 check it diminish,
until now not frontier ranger can move
to protect property for fear he would
move, like the king of Francs, first up
the hill and then down again," nor can a
detective be sent to bring the criminal to
light. Free grass for wandering herdsmen
ganized counties will never cease until you
create new Judicial and executive machin.
cry to make it cease.
VENUE. ..
But am told you cannot. and ought
not, to fix venue away from the frontier
districts; put that the man should be tried
at home, and this, too. by lawyers. The
constitution invests ,hs power In tho ju.
dietary alone to change venue, but the leg. /,
tsl orfr mi I
when IL Axes venue. Go 10 your nports /
and see where, in the State W. Shspti, the
forgery was committed in Cald0INrish,
Louisiana, and the defendant was nerer In
Austin; and yet the law fixing tbsvenue
In Austin was held constitutional. Austin
does not oovet jurisdiction; my people have
been taxed long CROUCH tor state hgisla. =
ton; bat fix the vslue at least whre law
can be enforced. ~ Il
P,LICY OF PENALTiEs. ~ " d.
But, Mr.. Chairman IL il objected that
would visit heavy penalty ON the mar
who turns his cattle out to Craze, whd
owns no grsss outside OF bis pasture, q I'd
that my penalty is too heavy on him, Wild
without authority, fences in and uses tb
grsss.of school children and other people
and ais, on him who refuses TO give tb
way out of 1t. That may be; but 1t iShI
wisdom to be more than just 10 those
feel themselves oppressed by corpora 81
and capital, and need tbe projecting an
the slater Bewsre2 First be just toshi
who complains Of oppression bsfora TX
strike him. and then when he recoghi
your justice, he will obey the voice Of y
and II ne will not then make him Oh,
Should this turbulent element, which
srrayed it.elf against 1s1perty and ord
still uefy the lave, let 10 remember
even II the executive a II the states5
ha too waak thew vi I Ia mt dOV8