Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-25
THE SENATE'S TRAYESTY.
The Land Bill Made into a Herd Law
by the Senate A Death Blow
to the Actual Settler,
The West Turned Over to the syudioatss
The Entering Wedge to Final
Division Of the State.


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AUSTIN, TEX, March "a Tho
special session of the Eighteenth leg.
stature "monkeyed" almost a month.
and then, adjournment In sight, took
up the fence.cutting problem and
attempted to solve itin ajitiy. Ii was
hazardous nndertaking-mere legis.
lative gu 5ss workout the land en-
closure act was brought forth; fence.
cutting which had ceased prior to the
Legislature was not renewed, and lis
members RECALLED themselves with self
| congratulations over the supposed
virtues OF that enactment
THE NINETEENTH LEuIsI. ATURE
Is following clorely In the track Of Its
predecessor. The senate STAYED OIL
consideration Of the land bill until the
last moment, and as n result in an In
nnltely short space OF time conceived
caricature upon legislation, a mtas-
ure which for pure awkwardness and
singular unwisdum was never equRlled
before, unless 10y its very prototype,
the Terrell herd law OF the special
| session. IL IL no secret at all
that they are children of the
| old, the crafty eX senator
CREPT IN BY NIGHT
| and ere the newborn chiId had been
slowed away In its swaddling clothes
substituted his own dishonored found
ling A senate pledged 10 execute The
faith OF the Democratic party not only
stood passively by. but appiauded the
trick. Judge Terrell has said 1.-THE
herd law must come-and he Ia TO be
proved true, though the interests of
three.fourths of the people of
Texas are made 10 suffer. There
can be no Disgusting OF the
fact that the bill, as passed by the SEN
ate,
is A HERD LAW;
further, there Is not feature in IL,
| from root TO topmost branch, that not
only strikes at the future settlement
| of the school lands but 10 calculated
to work persecution and annoyance 10
10 the present settlers. For instance,
the house bill gave the present occu-
pants a prior right for ninety days to
lease their ranges. The senate, deter
mined to leave no provision up
turned that offered even the
slightest measure OF relief
10 THEPIoNEERs
OF the West, struck This out, and said
In effect TO the mammoth corporations
come on with your cash and take
the country; Ii Is yours Judged by
the verdict of these grave senators II
would seem an objectionable sin FIR a
poor man even TO enter the sacred
precincts Of the school lands. Repre-.
sentativts from the W. st do not hest
tate TO say that the adoption and ex-
ecuiion of this measure means
violation In that country, attended
with all
THE HORRORS OLA CIVIL WAR.
Syndtcates may lease up every foot
~ territory but when they attempt to
eject the present occupants such
storm will follow. as Texas, with all
her experiences has never witnessed
before They predict further that
within six m0ntbs after the passage of
this measure, every fence In Western
Texas
WOULD BE HEwN DOWN,
and all the p,wer OF the state could
not estop the devastation of property.
This IL not given AS threat, but HI
an honest warning. 1t comes from
men who have ever been identified
with the conservative element, and
who hate lawlessness OF every sort.
But they are thoroughly acquainted
with the condition OF the West, snd
cannot blind themselves to the i'm.
pending Consequences Of this measure.
UBIQUITOUS LEGISLATION
was respous Bile f,r the last spasm of
lawles-ness, aud II Ia now reklndiiDg
the flames of disorder aud de.
struction, which will burn with "A
more fervid heat In that the fuel has
been warmed before
AT HOUSTON
last August. representatives Of West
ern Texas swore fealty 20 the Demo
cratic party upon the assurance that
the interests of their section would
be pro 'ected The house of repre-.
senIatives has honestly endeavored
to fulfill that pledge A large
majority Of Its membership are
averse TO any policy that
they deem would retard the settlement
OF the country, but the senate. In har.
mony with the peculiaritles that have
distinguished 1t from the Fl rat, refused
even TO hear the 'un els OF represent.
atives most interested In the West, rs.
sumed all patriotism and wisdom TO it,
self
GAGGED THE WESTERN MEMBERS
when they began e seud up their
amendments aud passed bill
which, whatever be It's demer.
its, will at least please Mr.
Alexander Terrell. There are others
who think that ils inevitable results
would be dis strous 10 the state and To
the school fund, and that 1t wonld
prove the entering wedge to final
"a fa Nw.Nf s.sR MI lau V.ala