The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-05
Capital City Cuttings.
TO WEED OUT PENSION FRAUDS

TO WEED OUT PENSION FRAUDS,
AUSTIN, Jan. 2s.-[Special.l Friends
of the bill to repeal the pension law
claim that the pension list is full of
frauds, and thew want to provide for
genuine veterans by special relief acts.
AFTER MEXICAN DEPREDAToRs.
Coy. Ireland to-day received letter
from Fred II. Frelinghuysen, secretary
of the United States, in answer to his
letter of the 10th instant, calling atten-
ton to the depredations along the Mex
lean border. Mr.. Frelinghuysen says
that negotiations eonding 70 remedy the
evils complained of have been in pro-
gress for seven or eight months, and
that draft of such treaty as the
United States will sign was taken to the
Jity of Mexico, by Mr.. Romero, for the
consideration of the Mexican govern
,ment.
Every one is com planning Of colds and
tiany are laid up.
THE CATTLE TRAIT BILL.
The bill introduced yesterday by Mr..
Browning to establish cattle trail from
the Colorado river near the southwest
corner of Brown county, to the Initial
Monument on the Tooth Meridian, where
it crosses Red river, Is an important
measure, but l have serious doubts of
it's passage. 1t cOntemplates the appro-
priation Of 500, 200, with which to buy
right-of-way and pay the expenses OF
laying the trail, and this legislature will
be very chary of giving money for any
thing where it can possibly be avoided.
The object and purposes of the bill may
be good, and they may appeal forcibly
to the sound Judgment of members, but
the 100000 is a fearful obstacle to over
come. The reasons urged for it's passage
are that the cattle owners of the south
west need an outlet through
the state for their cattle going to mar
ket, and as all that country from the be-
pinning to tbs ending of the proposed
trail is being rapidly settled and fenced
up, they will soon have no range on
which to subsist their droves. 1t is
claimed, too, by the stock raisers of the
northwest, that cattle from the south
west portion of the state give their cat
tie the splenetic fever, causing them to
die by thousands. The established theo-
ry concerning this epidemic fever is that
western portion of the state in the shape
of animalculi ssporules, and being Pc
cuIiar to them they are not affected, nor
is the disease contagious, but the ami
NAL so affected, feeding, deposits
spores ON the grass, and unaffected cat
tie, acclimated in a different latitude
from that whence these cattle come,
ICculuS hlbOI bbChi toNO tACSO spun %
into their stomachs with the grass, and
are Immediately made sick and die. 1t
is something like trichin@ in a hog.
They may not hurt the hog, but any
one eating the pork is directly Affected
with trichinosis. The panhandle
stockmen say they lose more stock from
this cause than from cold weather, sleet,
snow OF rain, aud they must have pro-
lection, even If they have to protect
themselves by refusing to allow south
western raised cattle to pass through
their ranges. 1t is proposed the trail
shall be two miles wide as rule, but the
commissioners to be appointed to lay it
off may, where they deem it proper, mar
row it down to the width of even a lane
between two farms or other enclosures
The distance from the point OF
beginning to the point Of ending
is about ITO miles, and say
four-fifths of the distance should be two
miles wide this would give approx
mately 1850 acres and with the re-
manning one fifth an average OF seventy
yards wide it would be an aggregate APP
rs cents an acre for the whole
would aggregate about $4,000. This
would leave $4,000 which to pay the
commission OF survey for its services
and for the posts marking the trail
With the trail established no drover
WOulQ % perm1Jt6u unuer neaVy p9n-
atty to let his stock wander from the
trail and of course stock owners along
the trail would not let their stock feed
on the trail and by that means it is
claimed the splenetic fever would be
warded off. 1t is not proposed here to
say aught in favor OF or against the
measure although there are many
strong arguments pro and con ;suffice II
to say, the cattlemen of both sections
want 1t.
THAT EXTRA CONSTABLE.
Mr.. Kimbrough's bill providing for q
constable for each justice of the peace
in the county, when it came up in the
house, was x -Aended SO as to allow q
constable to appoint deputy, as sheriffs
do. 1t was thought unconstitutional to
provide for the election of more than
one constables in a Justices precinct,
hence the amendment.
SENATOR HARRIsoN's BILL
regulating assignments, which was pub
lished in Sundays HERALD, was acted
upon unfayorably by a majority OF the
senate judiciary committee No. l, the
vote being s to but Senator Harrison,