The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-22
CAPITAL CITY CULLINGS.
A POINT ABOUT PROTECTION.
Mr. kimbrough's Deadly Weapon Bill
The Reasons for Retaining the Ran
gers Reviewed-The Present
Law of Charters.


tive to depredations on the Rio Grsnde,
are heartily commended by legislators.
The general feeling seems to be if the
general government will not protect the
llves and property of our people from
l2wless Mexicans we will do it our
seves, and discuss the tormalities and
technicallties of International law after
wards.
Mr. Kimbrough has prepared a bill, to
take the place of the present law, rela-
i've TO carrying arms. 1t makes it an
Qlfense for any person to carry on or
about his person or in his saddle bags
any pistol, dirk, dagger bowie
knife or other knife manufactured or
used Tor offense or defense, razor, brass
knucks or other kind of knucks, under
penalty of a tine not less Than 500 nor
more than $500, sherifls, tax collectors
and policemen in the di.chalge of their
duty, and travellers going out of the
county OF their residence or out of the
state, and persons on their own premises
or at their places of business, excepted.
Inc blil also makes it a penitentisry
oitense for any person to carry or ex-
hlDlt or display any of the arms above
speclhed at any church, religious as
sehDly, muster, lecture, social gather
ing, circus, show, public entertainment
OF any kind, ball, party, or
at any voting place during
any election, state, county or
municipal. 1t provides that arrests
may be made for a violation of the fell
ony clause of the bill on the inforna
ton verbally made by any creditablo
person to an officer, and Furnishes an
officer, falling or refusing to make an
arrest on such Information, or on his
own knowledge, by fine OF not less
IMAM 500 nor more than 500. These are
the prominent features or the bill. He
IS submittingit to the judgment of mem
bers and lurists aud it is being gener-
ally approved. He will have it ready
Tor Introduction in tho house in a few
days.
Members from the frontier and
sparcely settled counties want the
state ranger force retained, in
part at least. They olsim
this force is necessary for
the protection of life and property from
the lawless element. They argue that
where the population is small in
county, citizens are 10th to assist the
ofhcers, rs posse cometatus, in the ex-
ecution of the law, not from fear of per-
sonal Violence from the depredators, but
from fear OF the destruction of their
property. If the sheriff should sum
mon b., for instance, in Tom Green
county, to sid him In arresting a law
breaker, the other law breakers in the
county would take revenge by cutting
BIS ien9e, killing his stock or setting
hrs TO his house and by secret assas 81
nation. If the state rangers make
the arrest or assist the sheriff.
they being mostly young men
without property in the reach OF the
lawless, have immunity from their ven
geance. They don't ask that the force
be Kept up to its present number, but
Will insist on portion of it at least he
ing retained. The recent complications
on the Rio Grande, by reason of the
murders and robberiss being commit
ted on this side of the river by Mexican
Dandltti and the inertia, TO call IL by
no hsrsher name, of the Federal force,
IN Texas, and the absence of an extra
dltion law, may lead TO an increase
rather than decrease of the ranger
force. by reference to the sdiu-
tant-genera's report, it will
be seen he desipnstes
the Mexican aiders az "greasers,b and
II there Is anything that will excite the
Ire OF Mexican to fever heat, make his
Latln blood boil, and arouse frenzied
ueslre Tor vengeance, IT, is TO call him n
| greaser. IL has been but little more
than fortnight since the mangled
forms Of two former residents of Dallas
county, husband and wife, the victims
OF Mexican brutality, were brought back
there and laid TO rest by soTrowinr
friends in the family burying ground,
| Nhen the blood OF murdered women
aud children, with that of stalwart men,
cries up from the ground, Lex Tdli1nee,
VIII assert its sway. The blood
OF Texas citizens is mora
| potent than hair-spltting legal in
trlcacies, than the cold and naked
letter OF international law or any other
law ofhuman making.
Inc governors suggestion in his in
augural, that the citizen should be
hedged about by just as few laws as pos
slple, best aims of society being re-
garded, meets with hearty approval. 1t
Is good, sound, Democratic doctrine.
TOO, with the ring of Jefferson, Jackson
ana Calhoun to IL. | think this
legislature will try and live up TO this
wise counsel by making as few changes
IN ana additions to the present statute
laws as possible.
There seems to be spirit rite among
legislators 70 curtail the ease with which
charters for private corporations can
now be obtained. A distinguished and
able jurist who now graces the
the ermine OF this state, by his learning
and his business, was heard to remark
to-day that under the present incor-
poration laws u charter could be OH
talnod for cesspOol, or words to that
elect There are some towns, and even
alleged cities, plastered all over with
charters OF private corporations. b, &
and want to sell milk, and they get a
charter for "rhe American Lactsal,
Oleomargsrine combination" Each
one OF them may be worth $4,000, but
the company, with nominal capital of
S2J0OOO, mas an actual capital of diminu-
1--WE cali lot, three long-horn COWS and a
ooo-tali bull. IL goes to work and sells
mllk and butter tickets, Holstein
milk and Alderney butter, ad
liotum, and buys COW feed bv
the carload until Il big indebtedness IL
piled up, The company waters its
stock aud its milk too. But a crisis
comes. Tho Tauriau gentleman with
the curtailed caudal appendage strays
of to quasi Cretan pastures, Europa
= lured may han, ana being fallen i'm with
by some modern Mercury is sold to a
butcher and Is cut up into porter house
steaks for the tirst-cldss hotels. One of
= the long-horn cows Is run over and
( Killed by railroad train, which acct
dent, 10y the law of metempsichosis or
metamorphosis, makes her Jersey, and
. the wire fence around the calf lot is cut
: by some lawless "Nester." These mis-.
hsps bankrupt the corporation, which
with several thousand dollars OF liabili.
. ties, has no assets, save one long. horn
COW, n fenceless calf-lot, and claim for
o a dolunct Jersey cow" The creditors
3 must be content with the assets, for the
q Individual property of b., q. and D., the
: inoorporators, Is not liable for the debts
Q oil the corporation. You can set 1t dowr
y - fact that no more land corpora
! tons Will be formed in this state after
the laws OF this legi Stature take effect
and II Is pretty certain, too, those al
ready formed, will be compelled either
8 TO dispose Of their lands or apportior
d them among their respective stoekhold
ers, TO be held by them individually. L
IN evident the legislature IN fully awak,
TO the evils and abuses that have grown
IL up andor this liberal system o
10 permitting land aud other corporations
81 rms RAID upon land corporations viii