Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

I recognize the legitimacy OF the
marriage of the whites and nc
groes; therefore 1T is not in the
least astonishing that misguided
white and colored people get mar,
ried.
THE committee on rivers and har.
bors has extended a cordial invita-.
( ton 10 all senators and represen-
tatives to appear before the com.
mittec when their states are
reached in consideration ofthc ap,
preparation bill.
/ a NUMBER of weekly papers OF
this state are going to begin the
publication of continued story.
The story may be a good one and
may please the readers Of the pa
pers, but if it Is no better than the
average story of the day is certain
ly very trashy and the reading OF
it will be time lost.
The land board has decided to
send ont the grass commissioners
with instructions. Strenuous cf-
forts will 10 made to protect the
school lands. The agents will pro-
curc testimony upon which suits
against l'rcc-grazIers may be
brought.
The Age does not believe in the
proposition to have the United
States government appropriate
money to support public schools.
1t would perhaps be better for the
government to reduce its revenue
and allow the several states to
manage their own free schools.
Mr.. WEAVER has introduced 4
bill for the issuance of S75,000,000
in shInplasters or fractional cur
rcncy of the denomination of 10,
Is, % and so cents. The country
has already had sufficient expe-
rience with fractional currency,
and now that silver is abundant
there is no occasion for it.
The Gazette says when the Dill
introduced by Mr.. Wcllborn to
grant right of way to the Fort
Worth and Denver railway through
the Indian Territory is passed,
building will begin. The Gazette
"lso suggests that it Is about time
the Santa Fe rallw".' coHilne"ee"
building through the territory.
LAST Friday, January sth, was
the anniversary of the battle Of
New Orleans, fought by General
Jackson and IN which he whipped
the British forces. The day in
anti-bellum times used to be cele-
brated. 1t seems now TO have been
wholly forgotten. The daily press
did not even make mention of it.
The cattlemen's convention met
at Austin on Monday; many prom
inent graziers from south and west
Texas are in attendance, but few
from the Panhandle arc present.
Stockmen IN southern Texss are
opposed to tree grass. As a large
majority of the stockmeu IN south
Texas own their pastures or ranges
it is not surprising that they op-
pose free grass.
SENATOR CocKRELL introduced
bill authorizing the settlement Of
the claim of President Monroe for
half-pay due him as lieutenant
colonel from November 8, 1888,
the close of the revolutionary war,
to July 8, 1881, the time of his
death, payment to be made to his
legal representatives. 1t is Ger
talnly strange that this claim was
not settled many years ago.
THE Houston Age says, in speak
ing of the failure of the Houston
City Bank, expresses the opin-
ion that had Major Bolts still
lived confidence in the bank
would not have been i'm
paired and none of the large de-
posts would have been withdrawn
President Baker in his statement
attributes the failure mainly TO loss
of confidence. Why President
Baker was unable to inspire con-
fdence is not stated.