The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-21
HORRIBLE WEATHER AT AUSTIN.
Reform and Retrenchment-The Eads
lniquity "Bobs Up serenely"-Bin
to Sell the School Lands
Inauguration on Dts.

ialllng at all until very recently, and
consequently all vegetation parched up
ana persisted. l am told there are
thousands of square miles in those Sec
lions utterly destitute of grass, but
arid, barren plains. The consequence
was, stock got very thin, and
now That severe winter has come with
unprecedentedly cold, bad weather, the
cattle and sheep are dying, not by
scores or hundreds, but by thousands.
rms, with the closeness of money mat
ters ana the hardness of the times gen-
orally, enshrouds the country in gloom.
ana IT'S effect is to make the present an
unusually
ECONOMICAL LEGISLATURE,
II 1t is not carried to the extreme of par
slmony, no one can object to it, but
there is such thing as being
too economical. 1t is precedence, wis
dom and an actual saving of money ia
got what the state needs; to get the best
ana 10 pay what 1t is worth. There is
no difference between transacting the
AFFAIRS of the state aud ones own pri-
Vate aildlrs, in principle, and if iegisla-
'ors VIII view matters in this light we
WIN see Judicious, pratical and eco
monte legislation.
Both the senate and the house, the
people, Will be glad to learn, have started
off under the
BANNER OF REFORM
ana with the slogan of retrenchment,
Each mouse has already put itself on
record as severely favoriug economy.
IL Is well. tits record to be proud Of.
TO blazon forth with self graduation,
In each house resolution has
peen itroduced to instruct our
senators and request our representatives
IN congress to support and vote for the
bads proposition to obtain deep water
NJ G'lVeston. This proposition calls for
an appropriation of $7,75OOOO of the peo-
pies money to do that which engineers
equally as skilled in their profession as
Capt. Eads say can be obtained for one
nun mat sum OF money. Will this leg
lslature be consistent if il passes the
resolution referred to? viii ID not Stul-
NV Itself, falsity its record for economy,
IL IL puts its endorsement upon so stu
pendous steal? "But," said member
TO me yesterday, "the money will come
from The treasury of the general gov
eminent. There is plenty of money in
It's Golfers, and it does not matter if il is
spent that way' i answered
nun that we had an enormous public
uept TO pay, the interest on that debt to
sand ollice-holders to feed and clotbe
and give spending money to, and the
current expenses Of the government
generally to meet, to do all of which an
lnlquitous protective tariff was in force,
pressing down
THE POORER CLASSES
with its fearful weight. Estimating the
population of the entre country at So
0OO,0O0 and the population of Texas at
2,UOO,OU,the amount paid by the people of
texas of this sum of $7,750,OO0 asked,
should 1t be appropriated, will be exact.
~ $4,000. AS this is just five times
moro than the work contemplated
ought to cost, according to competent
engineers, this Legislature is asked TO
vote to rob the people of Texas of $2lS,-
9eO. ls there any economy in that.
WIN that stultify the record, or not?
Gan the members of the nineteenth leg
islature go home to their cons iituents
ana say To them:
"We saved you $1,000 of contingencies
penses by not subscribing for any news
papers to send you, that you might see
what the legislature was doing, but we
instructed our senator's and requested
our personalities TO congress TO vote
Tor the Eads bill, which only takes
S2lS,OOO out Of your pockets unnecessa-
rilY."
We will see what we will see.
A number of important bills have been
introduced in both the senate and the
house. One of the
MOST IMPORTANT,
! take IL, Is bill introduced IN the
house Monday by Hon. w. Scott, of
Kerr county. IL contemplates the sale
OF the public school, university and
asylum lands, OF witch there are some
2hVOO,OOO acres. Without endorsing or
ooiecting to the bill | will briefly give
its salient points.
THE BILL PROVIDES
that these lands shall be put upon the
market at once. In each county where
these lands are located there shall be a
board consisting of the surveyor, the
county clerk and the tax collector who
shall have oh lrge OF the sale OF these
lands. For lands situated in morgan
ICED counties, the officers named of the
county To which said unorganized coun-
ties are attached for Judicial purposes
shall constitute the board of manage
ment. For their services this board
shall receive per cent of the purchase
money. Tho members of the boards
shall gives bond each in the sum of
5000, conditioned that they will not be-
come purchasers of any of these lands
and for the payment of all
purchase moneys into the state treas
ury. The surveyor, who Is to be the
active agent in the sale OF the land, is to
receive one-halt the commission aud
the other two members the other half.
These lands are to be soid on
THIRTY YEARS TIME
at per centum per annum interest, one
thirtieth OF the purchase money and the
hrst years interest of the whole amount
TO bo paid down, the state taking the
vendee's notes with vendors lien, the
interest to be paid annually. The lands
are to be classified by the board of sale
into dry, exclusively pasture land, the
minimum price OF which shall be 81 per
acre; watered lands, minimum price, 81
per acre; cultivable lands, minimum
price, - per acre, aud timbered lands,
where the timber Is suitable for lumber
or shingles, minimum price,
" per acre. No one
purchaser can acquire title TO more than
nine sections of dry pasture land or one
section OF watered, arabic or timbered
land. The boards OF sale will be eX-
pected TO sell the lands, each quality, for
the highest price reasonably obtainable,
and they are paid u commission on sales
TO induce them TO do so, Ms the higher
the price the greater their commission.
| There IL no provision In the bill for
lease, and sales will DO final and ALSO.
Lutte.
TIE OBJECT
| of the Trainer of the bill IL 10 eliminate
these lands from tho politics ofthe state
so to speak; 10 make them of some prao.
teal use and beneit 10 the public
schools, the university and the asy.
lums, and to make them bear portion
OF the burden of the states taxation,
He estimates their sale will
speedily add to the public
school, university aud asylum funds nj
least S5S,0o0,000 In tho aggregate, III not
more, and increase the taxable values
OF the state by that amount. This will
enable the tree schools, he thinks, 10 he
kept open ten months in the year, will
Keep the rate of taxation down TO d
maximum of % cents on the 500, and
preclude thelpossibility of deficiency