The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-04-02
THE XIX LEGISLATURE
GIVING IFS EXPIRING KICKS.
MA Record az "Lost" In the aenate, In-
rludinE an Constitutional Amend
monts-The House Litti. Better
bucket shop biii,
ADJOURNED SIN c DIE AT LAST
'But Little Legislative Labor Performed
Mutual Admiration and Hiiarity
the General order After the
Bucket-shop Bill Passed.
HENATE.

SENATE,
AUSTIN, March 3d. Special. Ire
ports OF the conference committees on
the land and appropriation bills were
adopted.
A resolution was adopted retaining
tho secretary aud his second assistant
TO index the journals after adjourn
ment.
House bill No. 40, providing for an
nual pensions, passed,
Mr.. Kleberg moved Ia indefinitely
postpone the house telegraph bill, Lost
yeas, 10; nays, IL. The bill was then
killed.
House bill restoring the jurisdiction OF
the county courts OF COncho, Tyler and
Erath counties, passed.
House prohibition resolution was
lost-yeas, ii; nays, 1-Messrs. Fowler,
Glasscock, Hall, Jordone, Kleborg,
knittle. Pfeitier and Woods voIins in
the negative.
House buckot-shop bill was road and
passed to its third reading.
All the house resolutions proposing to
amend the constitution were lost.
! House bill providing for a commits
sl0ner of agriculture was lost.
! Senate bill 10 regulate banking was
| lost.
House bill amending the law of dam
ages whore stock is killed by railroads
| was lost.
House bill increasing the penalty for
| keeping houses of prostitution was lost.
| House bill granting leave OF aesence
I TO district judges was lost.
The motion 10 reconsider the vote APP
| pealing from the decision of tho chair
/ on the insurance bill was called mp, and
I the chair sustained unanimously.
I House bill Incorporating tho city OF
Calvert was Lost,
Adjourned TIL 3p. IA.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
The hour of III a. IN. tomorrow was
| set aside for suitable memorial services
! TO the memory OF the late Hon. j. &.
| Buchanan.
House bill to restore the criminal ju-
risdiction of the county court of Orange
county passed.
House bin to provide for a live stock
sanitary commission was lost-yeas, IL;
nays, 10.
Mr.. Fowler moved TO reconsider the
vote. Carried, but the senate refused
to suspend the rules to take action on
tho bill.
House bill amending the school law
was lost.
Adjourned till o'clock.
NIGHT SESSION.
The senate met tonight and adjourned
till TO morrow morning.
The general impression tonight is
that tho senate will pass the bucket
shop bill tomorrow.
HOUSE.
The report Of the conference commit
tee on the appropriations bill was
adopted.
The report of the conference commit
tee on the land bill WAS adopted.
The report of the special committee to
investigate Committee Clerk j. M.
Tryon, ON the charge of an attempt to
blackmail S. S. Floyd, that he be dis
missed, was unanimously adopted. -,
| The senate amendment TO the tax bill
was concurred in.
The livestock sanitary commission
bill was considered in committee of the
whole, Epson in the chair. Eighteen
thousand dollars to pay the salaries of
commissioners and contingent expenses
was appropriated, and the bill passed
under suspension OF the constitutional
| rule.
| Mr.. Bergstrom offered resolutions:
| WHEREAS, Some employees had coup
| led the name of Marshall Tankersly,
q member from Harris county, with the
scheme to blackmail S. ). Floyd, on the
bucket-shop bill, it is the sense Of this
house that he is not guilty, and that the
house repOsos tho fullest confidence in
his honor and integrity.
So much opposition to the resolution
was manifested, two speeches being
made against it, it was Withdrawn.
MIR. Davis made motion TO recon-
slider the resolution allowing the jour
mai clerk GO days to index tho journal,
for the purpose of substituting the
name of Mr.. Saddler, chief clerk. He
made feeling speech in behalf OF Mr..
Saddler, because of his crippled condi-
ton, but, on motion OF Mr.. Cravens, the
motion was tabled.
Mr.. Tankersly asked that commit
toe be appointed to investigate the ru-
mors of his connection with the scheme
to blackmail s. S. Floyd on the bucket
shop bill. A committee was appointed,
consisting of Messrs. Taylor, Jones, (ot
McLennan) and Cravens.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
1 Senate bill, paying the veteran board
salaries, was considered in committee
of the whole, Mr.. Blount (of San Au-
gustine) in the chair.
An appropriation was made and the
house passed the bill
Senate bill prohibiting the mortgag-
ing OF personal property exempt under
the homestead law, passed.
The bill in relation to appointments
for commissioners of deeds in foreign
countries and states, passed.
The bill amending the stock inspec-
ton law exempting Pecos, Reeves, and
other counties, passed.
The bill amending the game and fish
law was killed.
The house adjourned till 9:3O to-mor-
row morning.
| SENATE.
AUSTIN, March 81 [Special.l The
senate did little work of special i'm
portance to-day aside from the passage
Of the bucket shop bill, previous to ad !:
| iournment sine die. The usual
ceremonies attendant upon the ex-
piring hours OF legislative bodies
were INDUCED in, and the balance Of the
day after the fall of the Presidents
gayel was given over to hilarity and
general good-fellowship. The bucket
Shop bill went through smoothly, only
four votes being recorded against 1t.
| HOUSE.
The last hours were spent in concur
ring in or rejecting senate amend ments,
enrolling and signing enrolled bills.
The governor sent in a message Veto
ing the road bill allowing commission
ers courts to increase the number of