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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

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TIE opponents OF the 3Iex;can
treaty mustered inst enough votes 10
defeat 1t. The grounds OF objection
were various, and have already been
stated. The chief reason lay in the
danger apprehended by the sugar and
tobacco interests, and the successful
fight made in their behalf is another
proof of the difficulties which lie in
the path of any free trade tariff legis-
lation this winter. The chief suffer-
ers By tie rejection of the treaty will
be the trans-continental railroads, and
the failure of their effort to increase
trade along their lines viii hurt the
value OF their properties. The Next
cans viii naturally feel agrieved, as
they hoped to reap substantial bene-
fits from the treaty, SO that the action
of the SenatejWill tend to increase the
Jealousy and ill-feeling of that coun-
try towards us. So far as the failure
Of the treaty will have any effect on
our export trade it VIII be disastrous,
but Mexico IS not, and is hot likely
soon to become large buyer, and its
markets are pretty well controlled 10y
European houses. The much adver-
tiSed trade excursions have not had a
very solid foundation, and, aside from
giving ali hands concerned a jolly and
picturesque picnic, have not amount
ed to much. It is quite needless to
say that Senators Coke and Maxey
voted in favor of the treaty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

SENATOR GORDON. of Georgia, has
been led to make a statement in re-
gard TO his position in the Scott
Huntington contest. He says:
You remember the character of that
contest. Mr.. Scott, who at the
time was at the head Of the
greatest railroad corporation in he
United States, was seeking to have
Congress vote for q bill requiring the
government of the United States to
indorse the bonds of his corporation
for an amount of money, equal. be-
lieve, to the enormous sum of $50,0O0,-
OO0. Mr.. Huntington, on the other
hand, was asking nothing of Congress
either by way of government indorse-
ment of his bonds OF of subsidy in
lands. lie asked only to be let alone
and allowed to build the road on the
same general line, and was actually
constructing it rapidly without any
government aid.
AS a United States senator, / op-
posed the Scott bill on the ground that
the government of the United States
ought not on principle or as a public
policy to place its Endorsement on the
PdPCl "a al pIlNuGc COI pOEdllOu. ESp6-
cially was this true in view of the
fact that another corporation was
proclaiming its readiness to do the
work without any subsidy.
As q Southern senator was pro-
foundry anxious that, if we were to
have road across the continent
claiming to be Southern road, it
should be such in fact and not
merely in name. Mr.. Scott was
at the head of great lines of
road leading from New York
and Philadelphia to st. Louis. He
was seeking to extend from st. Louis
through Northern Texas to the Pacific
ocean. l believe then, and l believe
now, that. if this great Southern line
had been built and owned by Mr.
Scott and his associates and success
sors. their interests would have COM
PEELED them to induce the tranSconti-
mental freights to pass over their own
lines by way of ST. Louis to Northern
ports.
On the other hand, Mr.. Huntington
not only declared his purpose to carry
the road to Southern ports. and
Southern ports only. bat he had no
interest in carrying it anywhere else.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

LET US still hope that the fence
cutter is to be made felon; that the
presumptuous fencer must give up
that which he has improperly taken;
that ways must be opened TO running
water at convenient distances; and
that there must be more respect paid
to the people in opening public ways.
If these things be granted. and if free
grass be abolished, then these legis-
lators may safely turn their faces
homeward: but If these things be not
granted, they may as well emigrate at
once TO the land Of the greasers, and
set UP school for teaching the read
lest modes for establishing and main
tanning anarchy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

SOME of the Texas editors are pecu-
larry metaphoricql in their language.
'Grice, of the San AnroniO Express"
says one, "wiIl socn halter a fair
bride" It is difficult to decide
whether the delicate allusion Is to the
process Of lassoing broncho or
stringing up horse thief.-SayanDah
News.
Since it was TIE STATESMAN that
made this delicate allusion to the ap-
preaching feat Of the San Antonio
editor, we may be permitted to explain.
The News Is informed that very diff
flcult pastime IN Texas is to capture
and tame wild mustangs. The fur
Their west you go the more mustangs
there are, and since San Antonio
stands or the extreme verge of the
west mustangs abound thereabouts
Everything out there becomes mus
tangish, and to overcome any living
thing is a difficult task. A Texas girl,
to say nothing Of a Texas widow, is
the widest thing of them all. Does
the News catch on?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

The New Orleans papers report the
preparations for the coming exposi-
ton as progressing rapidly. The
building will have three fronts; a
main front of 1900 feet facing the city
proper, one side of 800 feet facing the
Mississippi river, and the other of the
same length looking towards st.
Charles street. The rear VIII face
Carrollton. Architecturally the build
ing will greatly resemble the Louvre
of Paris. The floor space will be
1890, 300 square feet, of which 1.048.-
752 feet will be used for exhibition
purposes. The exposition will con-
sist of cotton in all its conditions of
culture and manufacture.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS MATTEKS AND
THINGS.


In the geological gardens of London
there is 4 macaW known to be 119
years old.
Three days imprisonment was the
fate of man VINO cali. 8. ) a German
judge to speak louder.
1t is said that nearij half Of the
patents applied for in recent years
have been for car couplers, and still
the bulk of car coupling to-day is
done with the primitive link and pin.
We never could see why any man
should waste time in contrddicting
his wife, when it is SO much easier
and deucedly more harmonious to sit
down ana wait till she gets good and
ready to contradict herself.
According to recent returns it has
been demonstrated that the popula-
ton Of Paris alone spends over 81 Co.,.
900 year on theatres, without count
ing the large subsidies which the city
pays to certain theatrical institutions.
Kaiser Wilhelm is proficient on the
flute. He has for years been accus-
toned to this mild, mellifiuous, soul
soothing, weird Aolian music, which
was always most pronounced and eff
fective whenever Mrs. Kaiser blew it
at him.
Sharfu, wonderfully clever East
Indian. who confessed TO nearly 100
crimes, was lately sentenced to penal
servitude for life. His practice was
to ingratiate himself with travellers,
drug. rob and, if necessary, murder.
The American hog is quite capable
of standing alone. And neither France
nor Germany are powerful enough to
topple it over. Being Chicago pro-
duct it is evidently tiat-footed. if not
exactly Il piantigr;lde. and its feet are
abundantiy able to support its avoir-
dupois.
4 young lady friend now in college.
writes that it is maliciously false that
Vassar girls half-sole themselves with
leather to prevent their-tO prevent
the seats OF their-to-to-(ohi dear,
how can we put it ?)-to prevent their
wardrobes lis that right?) from wear
out while sliding down the banisters.
Advertising has reached q fine art.
It absOFhS everything-from artistic
paintings to making and eating of
pumpkin pies in public. At Roches-
ter, lately, two young people hired
themselves cut to clothing house
firm for the purpose of being married
in the show window in the evening,
in full view Of the crowd.
The yield of the naphta well just
sunk at Baku promises, it is said, to
outrival the most famous of the
American wells. The fountain In
question yields from $1,000 to 10000
pools of naphta every twenty-four
hours. The power of the gush is SO
great that a three-inch cast-iron
plate fastened over the font, in order
to divert the dow to particular side,
was broken to pieces.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
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THAT portion Ct the Texas co1sti-
tuition, bearing upon the right OF the
legislature to make N appropriation
for the benefit Of q Leuisianz enter
prise. may be fund under article 3. 1t
reads as follows:
See. IS. The legislature shalt not have the
right to levy taxes or impose burdens upon The
prople, except TO raise revenue sufficient for
the economical administration Of the govern
ment, Ill which may be included the following
purposes: The payment OF al interest upon the
bonded debt of the state; the erection and re-
pairs OF public buildings the benefit OF the
sinking fund, which snail not be more than two
per cellfum or the l;ublic debt, nd for the pay
nent Of The present floating debt OF the state,
including Inatured bonds 1or the payment OF
which the sinking fnnd IS inadequate;
the support OF public schools, in
which shall be included colleges and
universities established By the state,
and the maintenance and support of the agri-
cultural and mechanical college OF Texas: the
payment OF the cost of assessing and col ectDg
the revenue, and the payment Of all officers.
agents and employees Ol the state government,
aud all incidental expenses connected there
with; the support OF the blind asylum, the deaf
and dumb asylum and the insane asy um, the
state cemetery and the pubic grounds Of The
state; the enforcement OF quarantine Tegula.
the frontier.
Sec. ~. 40 debt skall be created by or on be-
lalI OF the state, except TO supply casual de-
ilcieacieS OF revenue. repel inYasions, suppress
InSurrection, defend the state iu war, or pay
existing debt and the debt created to supply
deficiencies In the revenue, shall never exceed
IN tine aggregate, at ally one time, two hundred
thousand OllarS.
Sec. 80. The Legislature shall have no power
70 give Ut TO lend, or to authorize the giving OF
lending, OF the credit OF state in aid VI, or 10
any person, association o" corporation whether
municipal or other, or To pledge the credit Of
the state in any manner Whal SUeyer, for the
pay ent of th5 liabilities, present or pros
| pectiye, of any Individual, association of indi
| vIdual5, municipal OF other corporation what
| Soeyer.
Sec. 81. The lGgisla ure shall have 10 pOwe
TO make any grant, or authorize the making o
anyg ant, public money TO any Individual
corporation VIII tsoever; provided, that thi
shall not be so cons rued as to prevent IT,
grant IL aid IN case OF public calamity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

A HIGH protective tariff handicaFs
the iron interests of the South, and
inures to the benefit alone Of Eastern
manufacturers. BY giving the Penn
sylvania manufacturers, who cannot
produce iron as cheaply by several dol
lars a ton as Southern iron can be
made, the benefits of the protective
tariff they are enabled not only to al
most entirely monopolize the business,
but so supply the market as to pre-
vent any great amount OF capital
from being invested In developing
the iron resources of the South.
Having a profitable home market
these Eastern manufacturers do not
seek foreign markets, and the people
are thus heavily taxed in the interest
of private gain, while the develop
ment OF slumbering industry in the
South is prevented. What is true Of
iron IS true in greater or less degree
OF other manufacturing In the South.
Our advantages are such that with
proper experience and adequate capt.
tai mills here can afford to compete
| with those of the old countries. as
well as at home. The cotton mills Of
the South, owing to the power of
Eastern monopoiists, arc confined to
the manufacture Of the coarSer and
less profitable grades of goods.
With this power snce broken
the advance OF the manufac
turing interests Of the South during
the past three years would appear as
trivial compared to what it would bt
in the near future. Instead Of TIT
cry of an overstocked market and thu
stagnation caused thereby, ships by
the hundreds would be carrying oul
goods and wares to foreign lands
Our commerce would he redoubled
and while our own consumers would
in Il great measure, be relieved O.
oneTous and unnecessary burdens
other countries would contribute Il
our prosperity, and the blessings
that would follow would ex
tend to every village and ham
let in the land. Texans can no
look upon these conditions without
a prayful desire that they may bt
changed. Texas is rich in agricultur
al and mineral products; her iron ant
coal fields are as rich as are to be founC
in the world, and these conditions
coming to manufactured development
in the South, must be removed befor
the great advantages that may be de
rived therefrom can be realized.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

THE American Public Health AS
sociatiJn urges upon Congress the
necessity of making suitable annual
appropriations for experimental in
vestigation relative to the cause and
prevention OF infectious and prevent
able diseases. Another invites the
attention of Congress to many evils
resulting TO the American people from
the large number and undue proper
ton, according to population, of in
sane, criminals and paupers, among
the foreign born population IN the
United States,a and to the urgent neces-
sity for the enactment by Congress of
efficient laws TO prevent as far as pos
sible the coming Of this foreign detec-
tive and criminal population to bur-
den the resources Of this country. and
to deprive, by transmission of their
defects to the children, the mental,
moral and physical qualities Of the
present and future people Of the Uni
ted States. Another Is in favor of the
re-enactment of the law Of June 2,
1859, to prevent the introd1 ton of
infectious and contagious diseases in.
to the United States, and another in
favor OF an appropriation to provide
a fire-poof building for the med
ical museum and library OF the sur
ge0n generals office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
That Resolution.
Georgetown Record. ]

In our opinion the resolution was
ultimately and entirely out of place.
If the administration of Gov. ireland
has been d good one, it will meet
with the appreciation of the people;
and, if SO. and he desires it, he will ba
returned as governor of the state,
without any legislative enactments
endorsing him.
On the other hand, the enemies of
his administration will say that it has
been a weak one, and was falling, and
that it required legislative bolsterlng
to prop it before the public.
The legislature, too, in passing it,
not only endorse the governor, but
also parade themselves to the public
as paragons Of virtue and excellence,
they are part and parcel of the ad-
ministr3tion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

y NICE little game, By which the
Republicans in the Maryland legisla.
ture attempted to name the United
States senator, was defeated through
the readiness with which Democrats
WHO had sustained the man, around
whom the Republicans had agreed to
rally at an oppoitune moment, aban-
doned him at the critical period. Ex-
Gov. Thomas had been leading, and the
plan was to give him the election af-
ter the ballot had been announced, by
the Republicans changing to him. No
sooner did Republicans begin to ask
to be recorded for him instead Of for
Dixon, whom they had sustained.
than the Democrats, who had sus-
tanned Thomas, began to request q
change Of their votes. All the Demo
Gratis who had sustained Thomas
changed over to Wilson and he was
thus elected. Score one victory
against trade.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
TnE defeat Of tbe Terrell bin was

THE defeat Of the Terrell bill was
heraldei throughout tho state with
delight by all the lawless classes that
hang oa to the live stock business.
The bin had its defects. but at its
bottom were principles which the peo-
i,le demand shall be enforced. Its de-
fsat was antagonists. therefore, to
rular good. Il could have been
!, al IS the basis OF most necesss- :.
.st.he supporters OF free grass.
he ascendant in tho Senate,
me - had "a go. Whether tho
tree grass senator's will be able to
stand up as boldly against IN ipdAg-
insnt ubIlc Is 10 be seen,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

TIE San Antonio Express hopes
"the new bill will have at least the
effect sought to be obtained by the
Terrell bill" 1t says;
Members say they are in favor OF
protecting the property rights of citi-
Zens. yet they hesitate to say man
shall not maintain more cattle than
his land will support, knowing that if
he does it ne must encroach upon the
property Of others. No constitutional
law can lie passed that secures to one
man greater rights or privileges
than another. One measure has
been presented which, says one
citizen may have the use of public
domain, while another shall not. The
man who own pasture. no matter
what the size, shall be excluded from
the use OF the public domain, while
his neighbor, who mayhap owns no
land at all, can have free range. The
object sought is to prevent pasture
men from preserving their own grass
until the public range is exhausted,
and to that extent the intention is
most excellent, but one evil should
not be corrected at the expense OF
still greater one. Al rights on the
public domain are equal among citi-
zens. whether one has IL house and lot
in San Antonio, a farm on the BRACES.
a pasture in Western Texas, or no
property at all.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

a STATUTE makes 1t obligatory on
county commissioners to publish state
ments as to the financial condition of
counties. There have been a number
Of failures to make such reports, and
it Is suggested that grand juries win
have to look after the conduct of CON-
missioners.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

A writer in Detroit paper gives
the following account of how Robert
e. IDgersoll came to be called by the
majestic title Of "Royal Bob" The
first time President Garfield visited
Washington after his return from
Mentor, Bob Ingersoll and several
more Of his admirers went to the
depot to meet him. As the president
elect stepped off the car, Ingersoll
went forward, held out his hand and
said: How are you, general?' Gar
field smiled and replied: "RoyaI.
Bob" A reporter wrote up an ~
count of the meeting between the
president and the noted intideI: but
the intelligent compositor and the
still more intelligent pFoot-reader
consigned to an early and unhonored
grave the comma between "Royal"
and Bob so that next morning It
appeared In the paper as Royal Bob. /"
This spread throughout the Emitted
States, and hence the nAnas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
A Dick Mailer.


There are no less than fifteen candi-
dates for positions on the Texas COM
mission to represent the state att the
New Orleans exposition-provided
such commission is authorized by law
and an appropriation made for its ex-
penses. Among the prominent can
didates. DR.. Orr, of Terrell. with his
usual serenity, "bobs up" He is al
ready assistant doctor, or something
Of that kind, of the Terrell asylum,
and would turn an honest penny while
that institution is in course of con-
struction. Hence his application for
a seat on the commission. tie is q
dick mailer at primary election or
pTecint convention, and Is more dis
ringHished for this than for any other
requirement. The people of Kauf-
man join IN wishing him an pnsuc-
oessful trip to Austin,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
WE cannot credit the rumor which

comes from Washington to the effect
that in consequence Of the publication
of Senator Hills postal telegraph
speech in the Chicago Inter-OceaD, the
Western Union telegraph company
has abrogated that journals lease of
its special wires. 1t seems altogether
unlikely that such shrewd men as
comprise the management OF the
Western Union sh7uld do so foolish,
80 suicidal thing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

SCHOOL teachers in Sacramento,
CAL, have adopted the plan of having
scholars bring copies of the daily pa
pers to school, and then questioning
the children about the location of
places named in the telegraph items
and other news. OF course the teach
ers are careful in selecting papers
whose moral tone is apt to elevate in
stead of degrade young minds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
A LoblolIy state.
dallas Times.1

The people will be perfectly salts
fed it the legislature will pass a fence
law containing enough justice to pre-
vent the calling a special session to
repeat 1t. Whatever law is passed
will be eInasculated or repealed at the
general session. This is the interest
that can be asked, because of the null
titude of counsel which has beat the
subject into a loblolly state,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

The girl that married the living
skeleton, who has been on exhibition
in dime museum in Philadelphia,
has gone crazy. She stayed with her
husband one night. then became ner-
vous and excitable, and left him to
seek her fathers house, where she
now raves and cries out, "Oh, take
him away! Take him out-out Of my
sight" We state these things to
warn young girls, and cd ones, too
that it will never do to admit skele-
tons into their closets.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

THEY have had an earthquake in
North C:,,o'iHa. An earthquake Is a
small thing III comparison with the
popular coInmotion that will follow
the failure to abolish free grass In
Texas. The Java disturbances were
not more disastrous to the famed
island in the Indian Archipelago than
a failure to correct an evil that puts
On trial the political existence Of
Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

SOMETHING has been said about u
repeal of the law granting pensions to
Texas veterans. The called session
can not take up the subject. and even
If 1t could THE STATESMAN hopes it
would not be agitated. 1t is about as
little as this generation can do to pay
the few men who achieved indepen-
dence for Texas an annual moiety.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

A GOOD many of the papers are
satisfied that if the governor be given
extraordinary power. with state po-
lice at his command, murders will in
crease. That is the way it was under
Gov. Davis, and nobody condemned
the system more than these men who
now want the unholy system revived.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

AMONG the subjects mentioned for
legislation is one relating to deficien.
cies of pensions. Assuredly the leg
islature will not fail to pass def
cheney bill covering this and other
necessary matters. The passage of a
deficiency bill. based upon the valid
current claims against the state gov
ernment ought to be without dis
senting voice. Deficiencies are a
charge against the state and must be
paid. and certainly there should be no
delay In passing the measure.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

THE Rockport Transcript thinks
the Terrill bill is what the state needs.
A majority of the Senate did not
think so, and the wonderful relation
that such opinion bears to the public
is that of personalism instead Of pub.
lie policy
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

THERE are now nearly II, 900 labor
ers at work on the Panama canal.
The careful sanitary regulations
adopted have prevented many Of the
ills incident to the climate. and the
mortality was only thirty-four dur
ing July, the pnhealthtest month on
the isthmus.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

IN the House of Commons forty
members are necessary to make a
quorum, in the House of Lords only
three, and frequently in one night
measures affecting lives and proper
ties are passed through two readings
by three old gentlemen In gilded
roam