The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-22

thoi NinB the dttorHey-Rcnefhl, on rc-
fusal of lessees to pay rents. to Sc
quester the stock herded or feeding
on the land was lost.
Senator Davis moved to reconsider
the vote. Carried.
Senator Houston offered to substi-
tute striking out "district court of
Travis county, and the provision
authorizing the Encouragement to
sequester stock, etc. Adopted.
An amendment was adopted pro-
viding for the sale of land on which
there is timber suitable for lumber,
fencing, telegraph aud telephone
poles, at So per acre.
AN amendment of Woods was
adopted providing that no timber
shall be moved or cut until the entire
amount is paid on the land
An amendment was adopted pro-
viding for the sale of tracts of less
than $40 acres IN organized counties
at so per acre cash.
Adjourned.
Senate bill transferring Brazos
| county cases TO the Galveston branch
of the sinreme rnnrts rama up for
passage.
Amendment striking out Rock wall
county from the bill, leaving cases
from that county sppealable only to
the Tyler branch was adopted. The
bill passed.
House bill providing for the laying
out of public roads, with or without
the county surveyors, passed.
House b II providing that no person
shall be compelled to do over five
days road duty passed.
House bill amending the law rela-
tive TO killing stock by railroads so as
to make them 10 per cent. damages,
unless the road is fenced, passed.
House bill prohibiting sale, loan or
giving minors deadly weapons, pass
ed.
House bill prohibiting destruction
of fish by dynamite, etc, passed.
A motion to reconsider the vote OH
the railroad commission provoked a
long discussion, pending which the
house adjourned.
la the evening session In committee
of the whole the appropriation bill
was further discussed.
An amendment of Mr.. Moore, of
Travis, to strike our FROM the Cayitt
500 from the university fund for the
lost. The amount was changed to
$4,000, OH motion of Mr.. Watson.
An amendment increasing appro-
priation from general fund from &c.,
900 to Sl2,500 each year, for the A. n
NJ. college was lost.
This section with some minor
amendments was adopted. So the
college gets $1,000 for each year fiom
. the university fund and $4,000 each
year from the general revenue.
The penitentiary appropriation wa.
next considered. A substitute bond
ON suggestions of the penitentiary
superintendent and financial agent
asking for $3O0,500 was lost.
Pending further discussion the
house adjourned.
!, NIGHT SESSION.
: House bill providing for manage
ment of the Dumb Institute was en-
crossed. Ii changes terms of officer
to two years to conform to the consti
tuition.
A motion to reconsider was entered
House bill to purchase 200 volume
!. of court of appeals reports was en-
r crossed. go
Mr.. Upton moved TO put the bill o
n its third reading, when II was ioun
" there was no quorum aud adjourn
ment was had.
THE GREER COUNTY BILL.
This prodigy about which so niue
70 has been written and said was gent
81 famed to sleep in the house COMM
.e tee on Thursday, Notwithstanding thu
k gallant efforts were made TO keep Il
10 breath of life in its little body |
H. those who presided at its birth. III
committee were with scarcely oil
w senting voice decided that 1t was. u
Of worthy to live-puny, crippled a.
s- deformed, ii could only go out in
the cold world to be a source of pi
nv TO its friends aud the subject of rebu
n aud cuffs by its enemies, In the Sc
ate. championed by such knights
ed Davis and shannon, together with I
&c. senator from McLennan, it sail
a smoothly along through I
nv first days of Is she
life, but when II came to
threshold of the cold world witho
/. and was met by the frowns
those not its friends it uttered O
siokly wall and died. Poor thins
YOU started out to perform good f
EEK but oh how ignobly you fail,
10 Jones, of McLennan, helped in setti
ISL on foot the grand scowl that xii
the infant and together with the
he acted ms pail bearer.
of The senate still labors under
lis. misfortune of being without a q
rum about half the time. The b.
I'M is disguised with itself, it would Sc
the aud strenuous efforts are necessary
ose keep enough members in tho cham
TO transact business.