Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-19
THE LEGISLATURE.
synopsis Of Yesterdays proceeo'hss :"
senate and i use.
Interesting Debates on Grave Topics o'
the Times.
Discussion Of Terrell's Bill ana SUD-
iects Suggested.

Austin, JanuuIS ~ 4. ,,.s,s
presented petitions from the stoch nsJ"
ri tlons of Nolan, Fisher ana M'' ~
ell counties, protesting hgaihs' 'ne
passage Of IA herd law. .,.;or
Mr. Houston presented petluo.i
from the citizens OF Tom Green county
asking the passage of stringent ia"
against fence-cutting and the inclosihg
of lands not owned or leased
MIR. Farrar, for judiciary comml'tee
No reported favorably the bill au-
thorizlng county judges to make GER
lain orders during Vacations
nf Of" eolrt. Also favorably
The bill empowering county
commissioners to order more than iour
terms of the county courts annuaiiy'
Nc Fleming introduced a bill 70
authorize towns or villages, incOrpo-
rated for free school purposes only
TO issue bonds to purchase sites ana To
erect school HOUSES thereon. Reiericu'
The senate then went into commit
tee of the whole, Senator Buchanan IN
the chair, to consider Mr.. Terrell ;
motion to adopt the majority report Oh
The committee.
Mr.. Houston addressed the senate,
making powerful! and logical speech
against the bill.
Houston said such an emergency eX-
ists in Texas rs has caused the e&ecu-
tive to convene its E!g' teenth legisla-
ture in extra session. The question OF
the destruction of property rights Is
one of the most important which we
are 10 consider. do not know that
these evils have grown ont OF the
school lands by herds grazing on them.
To great extent, the crime OF fence
cutting has grown out of mistaken
land policy on the part of the state by
permitting the accumulation of inn
mense bodies of land in the
hands OF individuals and corporations.
Fence-cutting is great evil, but | ain
not pref AIRED to admit the assertion of
the senator from Travis that it is
Il revolution do admit it is an evil
requiring extraordinary measures to
suppress, but there is no occasion for q
panic. The senator from Travis on
yesterday entertained lis by re.
markable and re uliar speech. His
apology for being a candidate tor
governor and for being or not being a
friend of the present executive was to
me entirely unnecessary. 1t matters
but little for the practical purpose
before us who is governor or who 1t
is that is Photographed in some of the
great dailies of the state as probable
candidate. His speech was worthy,
however, of shrewd candidate for
governor. | cannot place the senator
from reading his remarkable spec IN as
published in the morning papers. i
don't know whether he is n commun-
ist or "A monopn list "A fence-cutter or a
pastureman. 1t is impossible 20 say
n one breath he denounced the one,
and in the next the other, until il
seems he has found himself on the top
ola barbed-wire fence. His bill will
-uot stop the troubles complained of,
Marching commissioners OF pasturage
over the state will not stop them. [
believe his bill will work an injury
aud Their fore / oppose it,
Mr.. Davis followed, saying that
when u man becomes sick it l. always
the custom to send for doctor, but
when state becomes sick il is not
necessary for there are ALWAYS politi-
cal doctors who are ready aud anxious
to offer their services. Some of these
| political doctors met here in Austin q
few days ago and concocted this
remedy (Terrel's bilD. It has
the appearance Of being q uuack COM
pound, and it is my duty 10 exnmin,
/ and investigate it, This have done
and in my opinion the doctors hav,
mistaken the disease, and the remedy
is worthless quack compound, anC
they have endeavored to fis
it up to please all tastes. They hav,
made the mistake that doctors, and e,
! pecially political doctors often make
/ lhey have sugar-coated the remedy 81
rs 10 conceal the real remedy 1t is ,
delusion and n snare. The preamhl,
Is fraud and the bill trick. 1t un
dertakes TO create gras.
commission 10 tramp over thi,
state backed by troops t.
regulate grass and the grazing OF
stock; something impracticable and
unheard of. 1t is said that ole object
OF the bill is To encourage the lease OF
the school lands. This is not necessa.
ry. The past history of the state
shows ii is not. There il no trouble
II leasing these lands. A man told
me on my way down to Austin
10 look out, that Jay Gould
was going TO have land bill intro.
ducei IN The legi stature. | DON'T see
what bill that man alluded to unless il
u this. The state by this bill, Lends
herself for the purpose of forcing the
collection of rents from lands owned
by railroads and parties who are un.
willing To sell or inclose them II will
be the death of ali small stockmen.
Again, it provides that il the cattle of
man happens To stray over the conn
~ line before November he shall he
guilty OF penitentiary oflense. Who
ever heard of such damnable
raw; Under ito provisions if u poor
WIDOW happens To let stray out one
more COW than the law allows she
snail be arrested and tried for treason.
rink of ii! 1t is simply an instrument
OF oaroarous cruelty. The inventors
OF TINS bill. this quack compound. saws
we are to take II, or they will leave
lhe Democratic party. Well, let them
10 So The Democratic party can get
along without them | remember an
olu man named Brown. He took sick
anu 'he doctors gave him up. He
. lot preacher who
prayed with and for him
IN leaving he took Brown by the
manu- and said; II hope, Mr. Brown
you are fuly prepared and ready to
Iie." "Oh, yes. said Brown. ~ leel
am prepared TO so and feel clad that
4 am gong TO die.u II am hannv m
near you say So" said the prescher
AN your neighbors have expressed the
va me r, ntiment.p lie these spIf.con-
slituted leaders go Their neiehLor.
WIN be glad OF IL. III had the nnyar
would administer the Demhera,ic
party a dose that would pur,e i,
OF all its leaders vino IN
slsl That consistency il lha
virtue OF fools. He severely condemn
~ the phi saying II was impraetica.