The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-29
Capital City Cuttings.
TO WEED OUT PENSION FRAUDS.

AUSTIN, Jan. D. Special. Friends
of the bill to repeal the pension law
claim that the pension list is full OF
frauds, and they want to provide for
genuine veterans by special relief acts.
AFTER MEXICAN DEPREDATORs.
Coy Ireland to-day received letter |
from Fred Il. Frelinghuysen, secretary |
of the United States, in answer to his !
letter OF the 10th instant, calling atten- !
tion TO the depredations along the Mex |
lean border. Mr.. Frelinghuysen saws
that negotiations tending to remedy the
evils complained Of have been in pro-
gress for seven or eight months, and
that draft Of such a treaty as the
United States viii sign was taken to the
City of Mexico, by Mr.. Romero, for the
consideration of the Mexican govern
ment.
SAME EVERYWHERE.
Every one Is com planning ofcolds and
many are laid up.
THE CATTLE TRAIL BILL.
The bill introduced yesterday 10y Mr.
Browning to establish cattle trail from
the Colorado river near the southwest
corner of Brown county, to Che Initial
Monument on the Tooth Meridian, where
it crosses Rcd river, is an important
measure, but have serious doubts of
its passage: IL coutemplates the appro-
y right-of-way aud iay the expenses Of
Nlaying tlAe trail, and this legislature win
be very chS[y CT giving money for any.
thing where u 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 j. a fearful obstacle 10 over
come. The reasons urged Tor its passage
are that the cattle owners of the south.
IL rNfrl,
the state for their cattle going to mar.
ket, and as all thatcOuntry from the be-
ginning to the ending of the proposed
trail is being rapidly settled and fenced
up, they will soon have no range OF
which to subsist their droves. II 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 I,
die by thousands. The established theo
ry concerning this epidemic fever is tina
IL exists in the cattle raised in the south
western portion of the state in the shap
Of animalculi sporules, and being pc
culiar 10 them they are not affected, MOI
is the disease contagious, but the ami
NAL so affected, feeding, deposit
spores on the grass, and unaffected cat
tie, acclimated in different latitud
from that whence these cattle com,
feeding after them take these spOre
into their stomachs with the grass, an
are Immediately made sick and die.
is something like trichinm in hol
They may not hurt the hog, but any
one eating the pork Is directly aitecte
with triohinosis, The pan-handl
stockmen say they lose more stock frol
this cause than from cold weather, slice
snow or rain, and they must have pr
lection, even If they have to prote
themselves by refusing TO allow sout
western raised cattle TO pass throul
their ranges. 1t Is proposed the trS
shall be two miles wide as q rule, but Il
commissioners TO be appointed to lay
Off may, where they deem il proper,na
row 1t down to the width OF even q la
between two farms or other enclosur,
The distance from the point
beginning TO the point Of ondi
is about ITO miles, and =
four-fifths Of the distance should be u
miles wide this would give appro.
mately H. i0 acres and with the
naming one fifth an average OF seven
yards wide IL would he an aggregate
proximately of ll2,750 acres which
rs cents IN acre for the witt
would aggregate about $4,000. III
would leave $1,000 which TO pay |
commission of survey for its servii
aud for tho posts marking the tri
With the trail established no dro'
would be permitted under heavy p,
atty 10 let his stock wander from I
trail and of course stock owners ale
the trail would not lot their stock (,
on the trail and by that means Il
claimed the splenetio fever would
warded OIL. It's not proposed hero
say aught in favor OF or against
measure although there are ms
strong arguments pro and con ;suffic
10 say, the cattlemen Of both secti
want IL.
THAT EXTRA CONSTABLE.
Mr.. Kimhrough's bill providing "a
constable Tor each Justice OF the pc
In tho county, when IL came up In
house, was amended SO as TO allo
constable 10 appoint adeputy, as shoI
do. IL was thought unc0netitntiona
provide for tho election Of more &
one constables In n Justices precil
hence the amendment.
SENATOR HARltIsoN's ELL
Regulating assignments, which was ?
lished In Sundays HERALD, was nc
upon unfavorably by majority OF
senate judiciary committee NO. 4,
vote being 9 70 ., but Senator Harris