Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-02
80. HOUSTON Sc:

few thousand head OF cattle; he leases leases
all the asrh,m and
NJ lands, and the railroads a..
,nsnata ssctions inns section Is righ'
~ tbs middle of the baron's lease.
mr. bornn saws: "Jim, am going W
MT q bsrbed wire fence arouhu ny ny.
Iaass and Won will be fenced in, ana II
wHn dare cut my fence will senu you
Vu ,ha nenitentiary." But" says
In, .sif Won dare to put q fence
ornnns my land | will indict you ana
80 CO.., nov a fine Fine, ana pe
Id y retorts the barren, ut VIII COS.
me less to pay the fine thsn 70 ny my
fence so as TO leave you ou's'ue ot ~
in,losure; and, besides, can 20 Wv
to Austin aud buy immunity .Ioui ~
dictment by paying into the treasury
len cents an acre for your dariieu 'itsie
match. 1t will ouly cost me soi yeai
10 rent YOU out OF houseand home ana
now II YOU don't sell me
your patch at my own ny
,res. or lease to me at the same price
The state charges, / will build my
fanc. around Won and force you to ac-
cont my terms or to abandon your 1T
tie nent-up nest This will be the
nrartieal working of the law, should
The house stultify itself by concurrlne
i'm the monstrous amendments, anu
linn Stallincs will cut his way out ana
q iury of his countrymen Will rehueT
a yerdict-"not guilty" And then;
What then? The baron is furious, ana
linn Is calmly reposing on desperation
and n shotgun. Result: y dead
hqron. a trial for murder and another
acauittal; the feace gone, the cattle
drifted and Jim's house mortgaged 10
n LAWYER for defending him! Is the
picrure overdrawn? Possibly Senator
Matlock may live to see the beginning
and die to illustrate the ending OF q
little drama founded on his amend
ment. :. oo5 ,to
sanote and returned 10 the house.
The members did not recognize their
bantling when it came back, and there
was a feeble and fallacious effort to
disown il, but the grown-up, gawky
tramp had come to stay, and to-day
it will be taken up and disposed Oh
1t is not supposed that the mountains
Of amendments will be concurred, but
confusion prevails to an extent almost
bordering on dazed intellect, and
nothing will be surprising. The bill
will. by careful analysis, be found to
contain a herd law in most object
ionable form, and provides for
the Terrell bill army arrangement
without the commissioners.
Put such measure on the country,
and send the felony fence-cutting bill
along with it, and we shall have or
ganized forces that will defy the law,
cut away the fences, burn the grass
and make it dangerous for pasture men
and the barons to tramp the pralries..
And this is not all In the clang of
the nippers, the wild refrain OF law
lessness and the roar of tue prairie
fires will be heard the dirge OF the
| Democratic party; and by the iurid
glare of red handed revolution read
! the decree that there shall be no class
legislation in Texas, no barbed fence,
no landed aristocracy.
Senator Terrell's speech has already
been extensively published, but 1t is to
be put in pamphlet form and Q
hundred thousand copies printed
and spread broadcast. AS said hefor'
in this correspondence, thisspeech con
tains dynamic forces sufficient to pro
duce n revolution, and if its effect
shall be disastrous to land syndiCates
pasture men and others who wOulC
profit by this amendment, they will
have no one to blame but themselve
as it is ostensibly in their interest,
not shaped and published at their in
, stance. They will find il to be stu
! pendous boomerang charged with de
: structive elements.
| also inclose you the gate bill
passed yesterday. 1t provides a great
, convenience to the travelling public
4 and it is understood to be one of III
; generous concessions To the con ntry b,
the pasture men. They were freel.
quoted on the floor of the senate as be
, ing willing to put in the gates stipu
? lated.
! The senate educational bill as amend
+ ed by the report of the committee, anC
{ returned to the house yes terday, cam
up TO- day as special order at II o'clo. k
There are about one hundred amend
ments for concurrence or rejection
aud, in view of the fact that tie hous
, is in "a bad humor with the senate, it
' safe to say that many of these amend
ments will have to go to u cOmmitte
r. of conference.
= Senators Fleming aud Davis hav
a ! DtGll sdblN lillSsth ilOhi thNit NttstS w
several days, both being confined t
a their rooms by indisposton.
f Col. Lauther, Col. G. II. Breedlov
=, and Judge Mcfarland of BRENNAN ar
y q in the city to-day. Col. Lauther is
J. member of the state Democratic exc,
, utiye COMMITTEES, and Is inclined
!, give San Antonio one of the CONVEX
/ tons and Fort Worth the other
n The convention to nominate stat
+ officers ia most desirable for Mort
q Texas, and your enterprising either
q can probably secure 1t by using tn
q means they know SO well how to us
a to venture and capture. A committt
q OF your best citizens should meet ii
"a executive committee when ii a
n scmbes at Galveston to select tn
N time and place.
n We are having season of gloriou
!. weather, and the city is beginning I
n crowd out 10 enjoy the genial SUI
a shine.
q The New Orleans exposition hi
h still sleeps In the house. but it is gail
- ing friends and will doubtless g
.e through towards the end of the sc
: sion.
q THE full text of the bill discusse
d above will appear tomorrow