The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-25
same day, we copy from house proceed
ings, March Sth, 1875:

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"By Mr.. Price-Senate bill for the re
lief of the International railway company
The bill passed in the senate this morn
ing. 1t grants twenty not alternate sec
tions of land on each mile of road between
jefferson and Laredo, the land to be alien
ated one-half in fifteen, the other in TWEEN.
ty years. 1t furthermore exempts all
property of the company from taxation,
state and county, as well as municipal for
twenty-five years requires the road
! to touch within one mile
and quarter of the towns of
San Marcos and New Braunfels, and to be
completed at the rate of forty miles each
| year from Jefferson to Laredo.
after reading the bill Mr.. Munson
moved further postponement of its CON
sideration until Wednesday next, and that
a hundred copies be ordered printed, fol-
lowed by a motion by M Epperson to
table the motion to postpone which was
adopted
This is the record, and yet the Laredo
Times says John Ireland did not advo-
cate the International" and that in the
ignorance of THE STATESMAN "Terrell has
made tool of it,"
If this is not enough, we have little
more in reserve on this same subject of
the International railroad and Governor
Ireland's support of it, which Will make
very interesting reading, if desirable.
The Laredo Times commenced the
campaign by Safeguarding the editor of
THB STATESMAN. Now its tactics are
changed, and it desires to impress its
readers with the idea that, the editor in
innocence of the knowledge of the times,
that these things occurred, Judge Ter
rell has resorted to tricks and duplicity to
mislead and use The STATESMAN as tool
The Times will find The STATESMAN is a
pretty sharp tool, cutting clean and nice,
before they get through with it.
The Times has forced this issue upon
us, and we make it in all confidence.
We assert, and defy contradiction, that
Judge Terrells legislative course through
eight years may be examined with the
closest scrutiny, and it will be found that
ne meyer voted for a single subsidy of
public lands to railroads, and that he has
Uniformly and inteligently attempted to
protect the public domain from the ra-
1acity of corporations and their allies, in
md out of the Legislature of the state, and
hat when these subsidies were made, he
vas always active in attempting to reclaim
very acre that there was ground of for
eiture by the railroads, and has for years
cen the untiring enemy of corporate
wnership of lands by railroads or anyone
lse. In an examination of his record
nd public speeches it will be particularly
oticeahle that he has exhibited sagacity
nd foresight in the craftsmanship which,
experience teaches, would have saved Tex
$ millions of acres of land that would
ow be available for the actual settler and
ne support of our now languishing public
chOols. AS many others see now, he saw
len, and being convinced that he was
ght, he has persistently urged his views
pom the state, until to-day the men who
opposed his policy are compelled to pal
ate and excuse their offenses against the +
ublic domain of Texas. We hope Gov d
nor Ireland's organ, the Laredo
lines, will treat Judge Terrell i
this canvass with the fairness and
,urtesy that every man who has attained t
lie same high position in the estimation t
the people deserves. d
1t is useless for the Laredo Times to l
tempt to "throw dirt" either at Judge II
errell or The STATESMAN. Weare willing t
} answer any fair and courteous argu- "
ent that or an ! other paper may make ii
,ainst our choice candidates, but we "
Innot afford to forget that we are gen a
emen.
We hope the Times is satisfied with the IL
cord. If not, we have some more of o
e same sort to which it is welcome. IL