The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-24

70 OF the Fan Handle section, asking
Id change in the school law to abolish
5, the lease system and competition
Of sales, and to sell to actual settlers
e, also aga nst passage of herd law ant
+, asking for better road law.
y, i, BY Mr.. Dennis-Petition of citizen
er OF Wharton county in reference Il
stock and fence cutting.
n BY Mr.. DEMONSTRATION of citi
a zens OF Kinney county against here
2 law.
y The following was offered by Mr.
il Newton:
a Whereas, We, representatives of the
u Eighteenth legislature, now in ses
: sion, friendly to the administration
r OF Gov. Ireland, desire il a public
i manner to express our opinion OF his
a course as Chief magistrate Of Texas
2 Therefore,
= Resolved, That we regard him a.
: an honest, conscientious and upright
ohlcer, who Is ever anxious to dis
f charge his whole. duty under the con-
7 stltution, and any failure in the ex-
| ecution of the laws is n It chargeable
to him.
Resolved, That we regard many Of
; the unkind criticisms on his admins
tration unfair, unjust and calculated
: to render the execution of laws more
: difficult. That while there is consid-
! cradle diversity of opinion as to the
J legislation at present best calculated
;; to restore peace and order in our
midst, and while members may differ
with the governor in what
: he has recommended, yet we
believe all may accord to him
honesty of purpose, integrity of char
/ I.,hl er,,N {,
following his own convictions of duty.
That we believe he has construed the
constitution correctly with reference
to the limitations of his power in call
ing into reQuisition the military DOW
er of the state That the failure of
grand juries and other officers to in
dlct ViolatOrS of the law, is no ault of
the governor. That we will use our
influence with our constituents to
sustain and support Gov. Ireland in
the discharge OF his duties, and also
dIScOuntenance all violations of the
law, and thereby aid him in his ardor-
GUS duties as the chief executive Off
Ger of the state.
The resolution caused considerable
discussion, participated in by Messrs.
Etheridge, Douglas, Swan, Brown.
Mr.. Cochran (speaking by request OF
and for Mr.. Benavides), Messrs Nash,
Durant, Wurzbach, Foster of Lime
st )ne, Scott, HaZlewOod, ChenoWeth,
McGaroty and Upton.
Mr.. Upton said as the time of the
House was short and much of it
would be taken up with fence-cutting
legislation, for which the session was
specially called by the governor, he
moved that the resolutions for the
present be laid upon the table subject
to call.
The vote resulted ayes 45, noes 45,
and Speaker Gibson, voting aye, de-
clared the resolution laid on the table
! subject to call.
The speaker in giving the casting
vote, said that while personally and
| politically great friend Of the gov
ernor, and while he did endorse his
! administration, it was inopportune to
| have the resolution come up now. |
when we can not have q full and fair |
expression of the whole house, as |
some Of the members were absent and |
the vote showed that half of the |
house was not ready to vote upon it. |
Mr.. Acker presented resolutions of |
citizens OF BUrpet county favoring |
herd law. Referred to committe of |
twenty.
Mr.. Hill, chairman of judiciary COM
nittee No. 2, reported favorably on |
House bill No. -, relative to selec- !
tion of jurors ID county courts.
Mr.. Upton, chairman, reported on |
House bill No. 80, providing for some |
deficiencies, with amendments, max |
ing the amount $4,000 for Texas !
veterans, and $3.50 for employees of |
last session and adding the emer- |
gencV clause.
Mr.. Dennis, chairman, report ed ia |
vorably on resolution asking Con-
greSs for right-of-way for the Gulf,
Indian Territory.
judiciary act so as to provide changes
in the urt in his, the panhandle dis
trict, was taken up and passed.
Mr.. Thompson, of Bexar, introduced
House bill No. 76, making appropria-
ti0n for the New Orleans cotton CEN
tennial.
Mr.. Thompson, as chairman of the
committee, reported properly en-
crossed House bill No. Al, amending
article S04 of the penal code; also, as
enrolled substitute to House bill No.
IL.
Mr.. Upton in the chair.
Mr.. Foster. of Grayson, called up
the special order his bilD, House bill
No. 13, to amend the act providing for
the sale of all real estate bid off to the
state at tax sales, the owners of, which
have n,ot redeemed the same.
The bill, after some discussion, was
finally ordered engrossed as amended.
A message from the Senate an
nounced the passage of Senate substi-
tute bill No. 8 to prevent destruction
of fences.
Mr. Wurzbach in the chair
The speaker from the floor called up
the resolutions endorsing the admins
tration of Gov. Ireland, which alter
considerable further discussion, were
adopted by the following vote:
The vote on the adoption of the res
olution endorsing the governors ad-
miniStration was:
Yeas-Speaker Gibson, AckeI Adams, Ayres,
Benavides, Blount, Brown, Browning, Burns,
Caven, CHAMBERS, ChenOweth, Cochran, Coli
man, Cotton, Gamer, Cravens, Dennis, Duff,
Hays, L ,ster of Grayson, Frank, Frymier, I
Graves, Harrison, HaZz' 'ewOod, Hearne, Hen
derson; Hurst, Jones; King lindsey. MeeAilen'
Merriwether, Moore of MeLennon, Moore OF
Wash ngton, Moursund, New on, Patter'on, +
Pattoon, Peers, Pendleton. Phelps. Rainey. .
Robinson OF Basrrop, Robinson CT Jack, Rodg-
ers, Rosenthal, Rushing. Stagner, Stout, Swan,
Taylor, Thompson OF BeXar, Tilson, Townsend,
Upton, Watkins, White, Wilson, Woods,
WOrtham, Wurzbach.-70.
Nays-Allison, Armstead, Barry, Camp, Gun
diff, Davis, Durant, Fo ter OF Lin stone, Galt
Garrison, Harness, Hill, Jackson, Kendall,
Lee, Moore of Easiland, Nash, Pasons, scott,
Steel, Thompson of Austin, Wyatt.-22
Mr.. Durant rose to question of
privilege, but in the excitement to adj
journ failed to be recognized by the
Speaker, and on motion the House
adjourned till 10 a. m. Thursday.
The bill of Mr.. Foster, of Grayson,
| above alluded to, House bill No. 13,
as amended, provides for the redt mp
tion of lands sold for taxes and
bought in by the state and not re-
deemed as required under the old law
in two years. The bill allows redemp-
ton at any time before final sale by
the state. and is not to be in force un-
til the lapse of six months from the
time the bill takes effect, and provides
| thas the proceeds OF sales shall go into
| the treasury as special fund.
I In the resolutions endorsing Gov.
Irelands administration an amend
ment was adopted, as offered by
| Chenoweth, confning the allegations
as to grand juries to counties in which
llawIeSsness is charged to have pre-
| vailed.
MIR. Ethridge said he had voted
against Gov. Ireland and used all his
power to carry his county that way