Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-31
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Prospect Of the States Representation
ut New Orleans.
The Hancock ResolutiOns-Th Two
C0lOred Members.
Campaign Documents-POlltical Dots
Lamar's Representative.
No Herd Law POsslble--The Tax Rate
Problem.

Special TO the Gazette.
Austin, January 30.-A member oil
the house, who will vote against the
exposition bill, remarked: 81 hope ii
will pass-that there are enough mem
bers who believe it is not unc0nstitu-
tional to put 1t through. AS for myself.
cannot conscientiously vote for IL with
my understanding of the constitution.
If were an outsider would work for
! il and urge the legislature TO pass II. v
| This from one of the most intelligent
and conservative members of the legls-
lature.
Those proposed Hancock resolutions
seem to have blufled the old war horse
clear Off the track, Now is the time
for the vendor of liver pads to get In
his work.
There il born caricaturist fitting
around the capitol in tho person of u
Jolly, jovial Journalist One of his re-
cent efforts put staid and stoical SEN
ator In Il towering rage, which ended,
however, in smothering itself.
In making a 'diligent search" for
vindication II Is a sorry Journal In
deed, that don't know where To search.
1t can never be said Of the two col
ored members of the house that they
impede its business with flow Of
"gab.p In the light of recent events
that IL no mean recommendation for
reelection in itself.
Campaign documents for the state
election are being prepared and the
work of distribution will commence
soon.
The GAzETTE's house report Of
fnnlax,fa ,,rnaaaHinna Itninfapt |.
Nv did Mr.. Odom an injustice by the
statement that 'he designated the men
who dug their way out OF their inclos-
ure as hell-h0unds." What Mr.. Odom
really did say was to administer II
scathing and deserved denunciation of
the crime of fence-cutting.
Somebody should enter protest on
the Journals against the too frequent
repetition of that linguistic torpedo,
'Mist-ah Speak-ah.p
II seems To be accepted as fact by
common consent that the legislature
has wasted a great deal of precious
time In mere talk. Unless u remarka-
BILE change takes place Immediately, II
will have to be re-convened next We'd
nesday, or else affairs left IN no better
condition than at the beginning.
"This year will witness the warmest
fight ever waged within the party
ranks,v IL the opinion OF political
sage, and from the way the clouds are
drifting the indications are that he IL
not far wrong.
Lamar county II ably represented In
the house by Mr.. Il. g. Henderson.
He never clogs the wheels Of business
with an Incorporate flow Of words,
aud generally votes right---the highest
commentator that can he paid to any
public servant.
Ii would be easier for camel to slip
through the eye Of needle than
herd law TO get through tne house.
Maybe the senate would unconsciously
almost gulp 1t down, but the house
never!
Legislators who trouble themselves
to figure on the tax question are be-
ginning TO flop over 10 the
position Of the comptroller, and
there Is talk now OF fixing the rate ut
twenty and ten--tweniy cents for rev.
enue purposes and ten cents FOR The
schools.
The senate Is generally supposed TO
act as . check ON the house and IN the
case OF the present legislature the ex.
act reverse Is true. "There are just 81
4 OF them and the way they swap votes
Is astonishing" was the way Q mem
Der Of the lower house put ", referring