Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-27
a Minority Report Adverse TO the
Bill Of tho House Committee
on Railroads.
Shooting ARRAY in a Variety Thea,er
Senator Halls New Plan Of
Frontier Protection.
The Substitution Of Granite for Lime.
stone in the Capitol Almost
an Assured Fact.
IN Favor OF the RAILROADS.

Vsns, Jr., Of Montgomery county. and
J. r. Cowles OF Grayson county Of the
house committee on internal improve.
ments, viii tomorrow submit a minor.
ity report adverse TO the railroad oon.
mittee's bill offered ~ a substitute nv
the committee for Alexander's hilI
They will say that the hill wsnld
seI,ously cripple railroad interests
anu Iersrd the development OF
tne STATE that II invests absolute
p'oWNers IA commission which might,
eltnsr through Ignorant or corrupt
motives discriminate against one
ROAD IN favor OF another, and that
Whilesurrounded by these dangers IL
offers no benefits In return. II IS
thought Bergstrom Of Bexar county.
VINO Is absent, will sign the minority
THE FIRRMENs' CONVENTION.
Inc State Firemeu's convention
meets here tomorrow and a number
OF hremen from different parts of the
state arrived today. A large attend
Snce 10 expected.
TEMPORARY MARSHAL.
Burr Duval, chief deputy under
Marshal Gosling, received to-day tenn
pcrary appointment TO succeed him.
THE SENTENCE COMPUTED
Gov.llreland to-day commuted the
sentence OF Jesse Jackson, \ negro
murderer, who was to have been hung
at Houston tomorrow.
SHOOTING AFFRAY.
An atTay occurred at q variety thea
ter this afternoon between Dalton
brothers, proprletors, and some OF the
actors, concerning the financial enlbar.
Iasaments OF this former, In which
Tom Dalton WAS shot through the
hand
THE LAND BILL.
me one redeeming feature in the
land bill reported by the house COM
mittee and which secured for the bill
an almost unanimous Endorsement. Ia
the clause which provides that an
actual settler who purchases Inside OF
lease may also lease four sections adj.
dttional. This promises partially TO
remove one OF the most serious oh.
stscles 10 the development of the
West and RccOrds with the
spirit or the Democratic platform
adopted last August. IL Is the first
step that has been taken to remedy the
evils OF the present system, and after
weeks OF elaboration wRs adopted py
the committee as y Just compromise.
Yet, because IL bears free.grass in
dorsement, the lease-law cannone have
been unlimbered and the fight has com.
menced against It, Jones of McLeu.
nau county, who goes of into spasma
every time the words "grassn and "set.
tler" are used, Is engineering the plot
to kill It, and there /,
no denying that it Is developing
considerablestrength. Crane of John
son county Is also willing TO display
his antmosity TO free Rrassism by
assisting the opposition. II the con.
spiracy succeeds, then the bill IL nc
better, even II IL be as good, as the
present system, and the Western men
VIII night 1t. The issue raised Ia highly
interesting as a test Of the genuineness
OF the friendship of the lease men for
the settler. II this provision is de
ieated, then they had Just as we'll haul
down their colOrs at once and hoist a
BLACK nag TO the man turned west
Warui Following the pillow and the hoe.
FRONTIER PROTECTION.
Senator Hall from the Laredo dis.
trlct has new and somewhat novel
idea In regard to frontier protection.
de proposes 10 arm the people to de-
fond themselves by the Organisation
OF companies Of minute men in the
Western district. The bill which he
has introduced provides for twenty.
hye OF these OF twenty members each,
who are to be subject 10 the call of the
governor and receive 50 per day
while on duty. Senator Hall does
not propose TO abolish the ranger
force at once, but TO cut ii down by
degrees, az the people are educated up
to Belf-reliance. He makes some very
serious charges against the standing
OF the men who are employed on the
ranger force In his district, and init.
mates that they are more devoted 10
the protection Of certain private inter
ests than the general welfare. The
appropriation asked for to carry out
his plan is $4,000. There Is large
prepOnderance Of sentiment in
the legislature against Gripping
the police force in the West, and, upless
the Laredo senator can show that the
mlnute-men will amply fill the bill,
bis scheme will be nipped by an early
frost.
Inn UNIV LhnAAh htdENl %
IL is rumoTed, apparently on good
authority, that IL the legislature refus-
es TO take any action concerning the
university, soon after It's adjournment
there IL liable TO be very large vaeu.
nm in the regency. The governor may
remove whenever he sees At, and II IL
limited that the TeslgnAtious Of the en-.
tire lot will be called for.
GRANITE vs. Limestone.
In response 10 request OF the granite
committee, composed OF members Of
both houses, Col. Babeock, for the capilol
contractors, has submitted a prop0sl.
tiOR for the substitution of granite FOL
limestone In the new capitol. dc
places the entire cost Of
the change at S735, 600, which
includes the building Of the tap rail
road 10 the quarries. This differences
the contractors propose 10 ac
cept in convict labor.