The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-12
Capital City Cuttings.
THE LAND BOARD ACTS.

THE LAND BOARD ACTS.
AUSTIN, Feb. i.-[Special. Tho land
board to-day awarded bids to lease 200
sections of land at cents per acre, and
Immediately after, passed resolution
not to receive any more bids until the
legislature acts on the land question.
Considerable opposition 10 the bond
bill Is manifested in the house. Several
amendm enis Were to-day adopted, and
consideration further postponed.
THE PENITENTIARY COMMITTEES
agreed tonight TO meet at the Hunts
vile penitentiary on Tuesday next, and
go thence to Rusk, then To the BIaZos
farms. Senators Temple Houston and
Davis have their hands full looking
after the interest of their own dist lets
and that of the nineteenth district.
COLONEL ELLIOTT
was in the city to-day, submitting his
accounts in full for all funds thus far
expended for tho Worlds exposition.
He says he will have enough with the
appropriation already made, and will
ask for nothing additional:
to have the exhibits in
government building of all the states
and territories transferred this summer
to Europe Tor the great London Worlds
exposition, but whether this leglsla-
lure should be asked to add any
thing to the present appropria-
ton, and if so, how much,
should depend, he thinks, upon how
appropriation already made by
Texas. Col. Elliott having succeeded
in securing low round-trip figures tor
excursions from Texas to New Orleans,
is now at work on the securing of low
round-trip rates for visitors from other
states into and through Texas.
THE ODD FELLOWS
Of this city will give grand ball to-
morrow night, in honor of visiting
site for the temple was postponed for
two years.
SATURDAY AND MONDAYS WORK.
AUSTIN, Feb. 3.-[Special.l Saturday
and Monday were consumed principally
in discussing two bills. The one taken
up Saturday was bill by Mr. Brown
ing, of Wheeler county, to restore to
persons who had purchased lands under
the $l.00 act, the interest for one year
land board. The committee reported
the bill favorably, but Jones, OF Me-
Lehman, and Coombs, Of Dallas, dis
sented from tn views of the majority,
and prepared q minority report that
the bill do not pass US it would take
from the permanent school fund OF the
state some 100000. The discussion was
on Coombs' motion TO substitute the
minority for the majority report.
Coon rs made an able and most etfec-
tive speech in favor of his minority re-
port, being applauded by the house.
The discussion extended over to Mon
day morning, when several speeches
were made. The minority report was
adopted in preference to the majority
rAtA rs
victory Tor Judge Coombs, who by his
timely action and earnest efforts pre-
vented $4,000 from being taken fro IN
the school children of the state to 20
almost wholly into the pockets of land
sharks and SPECTATORS.
DoNALDSoN'S GAMING BILL.
Mr.. Donaldson, of Fannin, the young
est member in the legislature, being
only % years old, called by his friends
the tall cottonwood OF the Sulphurs, is
about feet, inches high, and is very
proud that his bill making all
gaming tables, no matter by
what name known or called,
exhibited for gaming, or whereon
gambling is done felony, was reported
favorably by Judiciary Committee No.
. committee composed of such able,
learned and reputable layers, as is this
committee, should favor the bill. 1t is
thought it will become a law. Mr..
Donaldson is a young man of fine ma
tive talent and fair attainments, and
there is nothing in the way of his be-
coming most able and useful legis-
lator.
MooRE's BILL.
The bill of Moore. of Washington, to
compel parents and guardians 10 send
their children, or wards, between the
ages OF and IL years, four months in
each year, will not become a law. The
author of tie bill is q colored map, and
his object is to force certain class of
solored people who prefer to make their
children between these ages to work
rather than give them an
education although they have
free schools right at their doors,
to do their duty. The object is praise
worthy Que, and it does seem as though
there should be some way to deal with
that sort of people, be they. black or
white, who can not be affected by moral
suasiOn or public sentiment; but the
measure proposed is undemocratic, is a
direct and positive infringement of one
Of these rights of the people that are in
herent and inalienable. The right to
force a man to send his children
to school carries with it the
right to compel him to teach
his children the tenets OF
the Catholic church, or Baptist church,
or the Presbyterian church, or Mo-
hammedism, or Ingersollism, and
this the federal constitution inhibits,
and public policy for bids.
LANDS FOR CRIPPLED CoNFEDERATES.
The bill of Armistead, OF Marion
county, to authorize the location of
land certificates, issued to crippled con-
federate soldiers on any land owned by
the state not appropriated for school
purposes, or TO the university, or any
one of the asylums, and to validate
such locations already made ON
such public lands, is good
law. These certificates were only is
susd 10 persons who were citizens OF
Texas, and permanently disabled by
reason of wounds received while In the