The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-22
LETTER FROM AUSTIN.
LEGISLATIVE oalfr UP 10 DATE.
uss ,he Desp water Hesoiuiiaa ns.
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Jahnssn aud His Extremely
Crude Ieonomy Notes.

AUSTIN, Jan. l7,-lEdltorlal Cores
pondenoe, In the senate to-day num-
her OF bills we're reported fayorablS hy
Senator Davis, chairman IT Judiciary
committee No, 2. Among others the
bill 10 diminish tho civil aud criminal
jurisdiction OF the county court Of Mon
tagus county, On motion Of Senator
llOusiOn,Of WheelrT,ths bill was passed,
| Senator Jones came IN tho trout to-day
with his resolution requesting our mani-
hers In congress Ia urge the pa ssage Of
the ERds hill. The hill was referred Ia
the committee on federal relations, Tho
committee reported IL back immediately
with the recommendation that it do pass,
A motion was made Ia suspend tho
rules aud pass tho hill, The senate did
not agree with the committee aud re-
Insed 10 suspend the rules by vote OF
7tol7.
a similar resolution was introduced
by Mr.. Foster, OF Galveston, in the
house, IL was not pressed, hut prob
ably will meet with strong opposition
aud similar fate 10 that OF the senate
resolution.
The senate has had short sessions So
far, but the committees are getting
down 10 work, aud members are pro-
pairing their bills.
Senator Harrison will introduce "A Till
In a few days for the benefit of eN-cnn-
ied crate soldiers who have unlOcalyd
land certificates, Such a bill
will probably meet with but little oppO-
sition. There will also ba a strong Of
| fort made 10 pass n bill allowing rail-
roads that have land certiiicats To lCcaiO
them as II II claimed, there are plenty
Of lands unappropriated aud the friends
of the measure say the claim, that
there were no lands upon which 10 To-
cate these certificates Is ERRONEOUS.
That justice aud equity are ON their
side.
I Nearly enough time has been taken
up by tire two houses in discussing the
newspaper resolution 10 have paid for
the papers had the per diem been so APP
piled. That is what the retronchment
and reform men call economy. Tho
course of the legislature upon this sub
ject Is almost universally condemned
here as it will be elsewhere.
The senate bills lead in the opposition
by, Senator Jones of Harris
and JoGnson Of Collin b,sr o, mo No
down on the newspapers and the Demo
cratic party. His speeches hers can
hardly be said To DO anything else than
an attack upon the party. 1t claimed
that Gov. Ireland congratulated Sen
ator Johnson on his speech against the
newspaper resolution on the first day.
But as 10 his speech on the second day,
we have not heard of any coDgratula'
tons, and there will hardly be any from
the administration, as no said that this
was the most eXtravagant administers
ton Texas had ever had not excepting
any. Senator Harris, l learn, was
active in his support OF the newspaper
resolution at the last session. Why he
has changed it is not known unless II
may DO that he is fixing to retire from
politics, as the people OF Harris
continue HIM as their senator
at least a prominent gentleman from
Houston says he will not be returned
again. Mr.. Calhoun, of Eastland, IL
another reformer, With a vengeance
: He was very indignant over an article
in the Statesman that he claims reflect
ed upon him and his con- tituents.
In the house the members whC
, were active in their opposition
/ edge it is We gather here) were Tarle
ton, of Hill, Crane, OF Johnson, Kim
, brough, of Dallas, Pendleton, OF Bell
. Pendleton, of Tarrant, and Yeager, o.
: Ellis. The latter is newspaper man
He discovered what all previous legisla
lures had not learned lEat the taking o
newspapers and paying for them out o
the fund for contingent expenses was
: unconstitutional. There VIII probably
be resolution introduced in the house
to require members to pay
! for postage stamps and stationery
: especially that part OF the stamp ant
: stationary that is used Tor private pur
poses. This will hardly pass. 1t is {
| queer school of economy in which these
gentlemen have been educated, wher
they pay So per week for boys as pages
, that can be hired in mercantile esiab
lishments for from SO to 50 per week
The same will apply to porters, who ge
81 per day and could be hired for II
, Yet these same gentlemen think it eX
, travagant for a member to- subscribe fol
twenty papers at 3 cents per copy tt
send to their constituency. 1t may bt
true, as has been suggested, that many
Of them are candidates Tor reelection
ana don't care for any one to know
what or how little they were able to do