The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-29
NINETEENTH LEGISLATURES
The PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY
A nls nsteh Of ns,i.t' i",r"dueed for
Consideration, bat Very Little Dis-
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safety NHlue-NOtes,


AUSTIN, Jan Zi'- NpcVisl' S'ihlolHy
committee No. reported several billH,
tho most important of which was re
ported unfsvorably, that to require,
record Of official bonds and contracts In
which tho state In interested.
Unfavorably; TO regulate assign
ments for tho bonodt OF creditors.
Favorsbly: 70 prevent the sale OF
liquors on election day by dealers out
side of their precincts.
UntRyorably; Authorizing the use or
con fes,ion by criminals while under
arrest aa evidence against them.
FaVorably: TO restore the mandamus
Fayorably: To punish the conversion
OF property by hirers, borrowers, Dali
lies,
Favorably: Changing the time OF hold
ing court in the thirty-iive districts
BILLS INTRopuCED.
To provide for the erection oil an addi-
tional pen,tcntiary, to cost SfOO,oOO'
To require tho attorney general 10
make a report bi-ennially, instead OF
annually, and requiring summary OF
tho business of the supreme court ana
court of appeals.
Making an appropriation for the state
government for two years, from August
81, 1885.
To amend tho school law.
To require all insurance agents doing
| business in tho state To get permission
| from tho state insurance commissioner
under a penalty OF not less than 5000 nor
more than $1,000.
TO amend tho act incorporating San
| Antonio.
The bill recurring the employment OF
female clerks, after long discussion,
| nnssed to engrossment. Yeas, 10;
| nays, 10.
Adjourned.
HoUsN.
Among the bills introduced were the
| following:
thenticate written instruments in the
| land office in foreign languages.
BY Mr.. Robinson (of jack: That al
reservations given To railroads prior 10
January, 1872, which have lapsed, or
which will lapse, he returned to the pub
lie domain, and be subject to location
only by actual settlers.
By MIR. Kimbrough: To fne mayors,
recorders or justices, knowing Of gam
ing and not causing the arrest OF the
parties, the fine TO be from 5000 to $500.
1 By Mr.. Faubian: To punish persons
selling liuuor in local option towns S5O
| to 500 and confinement in tho county
! Jail from i've to thirty days, or impris'
onment without the fine.
BY Mr.. Maxwell: To fine butchers
$50 to 500 for not taking to market the
! hide OF any animal slaughtered.
! By Mr. Foster, of Grayson: Providing
that the defeat in an election precinct
| shall not prevent an immediate cleo
| ton in the whole courtyard vice versa.
BY Mr.. Tankersly: To confine con-
victs in the penitentiary, except for ag-
| ricultural purposes.
By MIR. Bergstrom: Defining sodomy
and furnishing it by imprisonment hve
| to ten years in the penitentiary.
Bv MIR. Kimbrough: That no lack in
the form of style of bills, notes, etc.,
shall invaidate them.
BY Mr.. Tankersly: That all banks, OK
cept national, make at least five reports
per wear to the comptroller, giving a
detailed statement of assets and liabil-
tiles. The comptroller may appoint q
person to examine the affairs of such
bank and report its condition. All re-
ports to be printed in newspapers III the
place where the bank is situated.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Woods: That the motion to adj
iourn sine die on March IA, lay on the
table subject to call.
/ BILLS PASSED.
House bill amending the law so as tC
permit any person married and Skilled
in the treatment of the insane, be APP
pointed superintendent OF the branch
asylum.
The deficiency bill of about a quarter
of million, part of it is deficiency
under the 'pay as you go" administra
ton.
The committee appointed to visit the
penitentiaries is: Mckinney, of Walker
Haynes, Hendrick, Moore, Of Washing
ton and Kimbrough.
The committee to enquire as the sub
stitution of granite for the state capito
is: Ramsdell, Henderson, Upton
Armistead, Davis and Pendleton, o
Bell.