Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-30
HE HAD A GRIEVANCE.
senate. Shannon Of Parker County to
Question of Privilege
do,csning q Dispatch Relative to Ger
lain Message from the Governor.
Galveston News.

Galveston News.
AUSTIN, March n Mr.. Shannon,
the siluriau representative of the
Tvsntieth Sena' ORAL district, rose TO
souestion OF privilege in the senate
his morning. He had grievance
,esinst the News correspondent and
Tanted to indicate himself He read
rom an Austin dispatch in the News
a Yesterday an account of the reoep-
ton of = message from the governor,
the contemp uOus manner Ia which IL
was received, and its publication In
the journal before 1t was finally read.
I The senator who WAS In the chair
when the message WAS received) said
no insult TO the governor was meant;
hat the fact that the message WAS
mol read was an oversight and q
mistake on his part, for which he alone
was responsible. He said that In at
/ lributing motives TO the senate which
4 the senate did not entertain, the News
correspondent was going beyond his
sphere, and finally that the action Of
the News correspondent in the matter
under discussion was malicious and
e)ntemptible.
During the delivery Of this little
speech the senator was In white
rage and had TO stop several times to
control himself lest he should say
something for which he might be sub
sfsuently sorry. There was not the
slightest cause in the world for the
senatOr's anger.
The News correspondent chung to
to facts altogether in stating the mat
ter. The message was received from
the governor, the senate was in ses-
sion, Mr.. Shannon was in the chair,
glanced at the message and tossed 1t
oRe side, The message was printed In
the journal next day and only read
Just before adjournment, or more than
twenty-four hours after IL was re-
celved. II Mr.. Shannon blundered in
the matter he should not blame the
News correspondent, who cannot
easily conform himself to senatorial
bunders.
When Senator Shannon stated that
the News correspondent" went beyond
his sphere when 1t attributed motives
10 the senate" it Is hut charitable to
assume that Senetor Shannon did not
know what he was IA king about.
There is nothing In Texas or be, ond
Texas of interest to the public that is
beyond the "sphere" of the News cor
respondents, and IL the senator from
Parker did not know this before, II Is
high time that he learned it.
That 1t was snub to the governor
not to read his message no one can
deny; and that there was something
behind the matter-whether Senator
shannon was cognizant OF 10 or not--is
we'll known to those who keep an eye
on inner events.
Now, since the News correspondent
has been picked up he will clear up
the matter. A certain Northern Texas
politician arrived ut the capital few
days ago, and held several close con-
ferences with the governor. He Qhe
Northern Texas politician) also began
TO lobby for an appropriation
20 defray the expenses OF o
lobbyist to Washington. 1t soon
became evident TO number of sen.
ators and representatives that the
Northern Texas politician, who, to be
specific, is Col J. q Chenoweth OF
BOnham, was to be appointed the lob
6yist to Washington in case the APP
preparation to defrsy his expenses was
made This was gossip around the
lobbies for twenty four hours.
Then came . rumor that the govern
or would send message urging tbs
appropriation for an agent to Wash
iDgton, and an hour or two after the
fumOr came the message itself. While
no one doubts that Col. Chenowett
Is an able man and, rs the
agent of the state at Washington
would satisfactorily acquit himself
still the fact that lie was interesting
himself in the passage Of an appro
priation. and that the governor, afte
conference with him, concluded I,
urge the matter, too, looked to many
rs If personalism instead of the pub
Tic good was being catered to.
Hence, when the purport Of tn,
governors message became Whispered
around there were many murmurs o
discomfort, IL not disapprOval; ant
\ when the document was not read I,
II the senate, AS all executive communi
II cations are, what could be NOR
natural than that the News CORE
4 4pondent should conclude that Their,
was motive for not reading II?
or course, a. Senator Shannon said
the fact that the message was not reat
might have been the result OF
n 6lunder, an oversight or carelessness
and there may have been no ulterio
=. motive. No doubt, however, the gov
II ernor-and very properly, tool
Il much displeased a. the acGiJn of tn
u senate, and Mr. Shannon, being
prominent aspirant for commissions
% the part of Texas TO locate tn
boundary OF Greer county, lie NATURAL
n much annoyed that he should hav
n bean in tho chair when the Haceident
N happened.