Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-06


courts was passed TO the third reading
Nessrs. Frymier, Cochran and Chen.
oweth were appointed on the part oil
the house upon the joint conference
committee to settle the disputed
points i'm the tax bill.
Mr.. Cotton's bill to prevent herdlng
stock Except by consent oil the ianu
owner upon another's land, was heAs
considered, under favorable committee
report. ar. Cat, that
tho hill shall not apply to cattle IN
transit for shipment or while belng
driven TO market was adopted. Inc
bill finally pas :ed by vote OF o. ayes
to iS noes.
A message from the senate announ-
ced that that body had concurred IN
the appropriation of $4,000 Tor tne
New Orleans exposition. There VIII
be one chief commissioner with a saia-
rv Of - 600. eleven assistant commis.
sioners with salaries of 500 each ana
one clerk with salary of IL ,oOo.
The great question of the hour that
of adjusting the differences between
the two houses on the subject OF UNI
lawful Enclosures, then came up, on
renort of the free conference committes
consitinr of Gooch, Traylor and kle-
berps from the senate, and Taylor, NC
Kinney and Browning from the house.
There were majority aud minority
REPORTS, the latter from Messrs' Me
berg and Browning.
Section five of the bill was reported
upon favorably, and seems TO o, the
chief bone of contention. IL VIII "e
found FULLY reported elsewhere.
Mr.. Browning moved that ms MINOR
! ity report be substituted for the major
| itv report. He said he had lao oolec-
ton to the bill outside OF the herd law
proposition which 1t contained.
| Rather than have herd law IN ms
district. and in the Northwestern
portion of the state generaiiy,
he would prefer to see the ience-cut'er
continue his midnight marauding;
herd law in that part of Texas he hail-
ed from would simply mean the ae.
struction of the small farmers, ana thas
portion of the bill assessinga iine ana
demanding rent for the use oil schooI,
asylum or university lands was noth,
ing more nor less than PLAIN nerd
law. This part OF the measure
would not work. Why, if a
man was willing to pay even, twenty
cents an acre for school lands, what
good could it do him if the school
board refused him lease? He would
be compelled to remove his cattle
away after bringing them there, per,
hans Mt great expense. Now they all
knew. indeed it was a well known
fact that the school board authorized
only the leasing of the dry
sections. They refuse the renting
of watered sections. The result
, was that men in the part of the state
> he represented were compelled to turn
their cattle loose, especially in sum
, mer time. This line riding is simply
for the purpose of preventing them
from straying away. The cattle often
l have to seek the brakes for protection
. both from heat and cold. They al
knew that n bunch of cattle would
). sometimes turn and traverse distance
of ten miles rather than cross /;
half mile section of unwatere'
land. and he would say now that in
J. country like that the herd law woul'
i. be the destruction of every interest
a. He would rather zee the house adjourn
9, without enacting any law at all on thi
e. question than adopt Il measure like tn
@. one before them. He therefore hope
the'substitute would be adopted.
Sc Mr.. Taylor said the session was IA
IL drawing TO close, and IF anythii
was to be done, now was the time
do IL.
e. Mr.. Browning again spoke, deprec:
ed ing the passage of the bill, and foug
he hard for his substitute.
I'd Mr.. Mckinney favored the MAORI
ol report.
of Mr.. Robinson of Jack took the sau
nd stand and delivered n telling speed
.rt He thought fence-cutting should
stopped, but he thought line-ridi
mt should be suppressed ms well.
Ie- the two, he thought wire FEM
re were the least oblectonat
of These llne-rlders mark OIL
II line and agree among themselves
use certain tracts of land to the exc
ra- sion of every one outside of their co
ng bination. Having thus agreed IL
res drive away the stock of the poor N
d. and prevent him the use of the pull
lands and ] repeat that of the I
to- evils. wire fences and line-ridinl
prefer wire fences to the paid core
of fighting men employed by cert
cattlemen to carry out their purpo'
as Mr.. Browring--Who are. these cat
roi men?
Mr.. Robinson-I do not like, nor
VI | think it would be safe for me TO 6
,,;- their names in public. can
ION them to you or any one else In PRIV
' They employ certain parties rs Il
,,o fighting men and every one knows
y. 1t would not be right or prudent
,au me, who am out among them, to 3
"a, their names. This much /
ny say: The cattlemen in my district
Ia, for treating both parties alike.
iras all know that these line-riders are
ny the habit Of riding around armed v
10 pistols and controlling whole ter
FIJI rries in the interests of their employ
MD Therefore he would rather see
~, house favor wire fences than enc
Mn AN age line-riding. These men res
ms nothing save their own and their
tha ployers' interest, and ev,
pov. body else has got to :, N
All, on whenever they app
rhfs A friend Of mine recently had 10
y ar that part of the country where {
the men hold sway, and asked him
W." an explanation. He said he could
no IN live there; that he could not arm
Ire. employ sufficient men to make hin
ahe formidable enough to hold out an
wa them. Now, in Mr.. Browning's
,va trict there are some wire fences
not $50 miles long, and llns-riding in
the section occasionally covers as n
ground.
" In Mr.. Browning-Will this bill
. ex- now favor stop line-ridiny?
,pted Mr.. Robinson--God only XII
) the what will stop IL, or stop the influ
ation of the siX-shooter that accompani
mess L think, however, that this bill
fore. steD In that direction: that there