The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-29
minority report, gets
fba sapata V,hosa

before the senate. Those of Il
the committee with the minority I
the chairman, Senators A. w. Houston,
Terrell, Davis, Kilgore and Camp; the
Kieburg, Woods, and it is be-
lieved, Senator Peacock, who was absent
on smother committee when the bill was
considered, would have been with the
minority also. The senators in the ma
jority prefer for the assignment law to |
remain as it now is.
a GOOD JOKE.
They have good joke on Mr.. p, a
member of the house, and he tells it
himself with much gusto. His opponent
IN tho canvass for the legislature was
Mr.. s., who was a candidate for re-eled- !
ton, he having bsen member OF the
Eighteenth legislature. Both gentle
men being Democrats there could be no
| political issue between them, SO MIR. p.
sprung an issue, it being the pur-
| chase by the state of the Alamo
building at San Antonio. Mr.. P. ia.
vored the pdrchose, and that he might
strengthen himself ON the issues he
made an active canvass, taking around
with him an old man named M, an oc
tagenarian, feeble and decrepit, who
was one OF the first settlers ia Texas,
and veteran Of the wars of the Repub-
lie. Mr.. p. made eloquent speeches
about the Alamo, the chivalry and de-
votion OF it's intrepid defenders, and the
glory and renown of their immortal
deeds, and pointing to his old friend
would tell of his acts Of prowess and
daring, and speak of his gray hairs and
his trembling steps, tottering as he was,
on the verge of eternity, a memento of
the days of the Republic, the days
when mon perilled their lives, staked
fortunes and endured the privations of
war and famine that we of our day and
= time might enjoy the rich inheritance
now our own. He appealed to the pa
, triotism, to the gratitude and to the
generosity Of the people and put in the
, balances with these sentiments and
: emotions the dross of few paltry dol
+ lars, the cost of the Alamo, and asked
: them if pride, if reverence for tho mem
cries of the illustrious dead did not
prompt and urge them to give with a
good win and cofdiality this pittance to
preserve this ballowed spot cOnsecrated
by the blood OF heroes, martyrs to the
cause of liberty. His opponent would
a oppose on the ground OF economy, but
Mr.. Z. won the hearts of the voters and
at the polls they relegated Mr.. S. to
= private life there to study the problem
= Of dollars and cents versus state pride
patriotism and gratitude, When he
reached Austin Mr.. p. was astounded to
= learn that Texas had already purchased
D the Alamo, the bill being enacted by the
eighteenth legislature, of which Mr.. s..
f his opponent, was member. He even
i brought his aged and venerable friend
the veteran Of the republic, TO Austin
= with him, 10 point to as one Of the last
/. lingering links between the past and
q the present, when he introduced his bill
and advocated it in the house for the
n purchase of the Alamo. This incident
this fact suggests the query if the
: people when Legislators were sending
= out daily some 5000 newspapers
g giving an account of the proceedings,
r knew so little about what laws
the eighteenth Legislature enacted, what
a will they know Of the doings OF the
a nineteenth, which sends out no papers
5 aJ all? 1t was Draco, was it not, who
wrote his law in such small characters
n and hung them so high up on the walls
3 that his subjects could not read them
) yet he punished them for all breaches
thereof.
MAI. JOHN HENRY DROWN
is suggested as most eminently suited
and fitted in all respects for appoint
g ment as one of the commissioners on
the part of Texas to settle the Greer
' county question. If the people of Dal-
I las do not demand that no shall serve
r them as mayor, he will be urged by
!. friends for place on this commission
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