Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-25
The Electoral Returns Of Texas
Are Properly Signed.
Col. Robertson is interviewed in Re
gard to the Action of the
President of the Senate.
Senator POpe's Bill Compelling Railroads to
Keep Their Offices in the State to be
Reported Favorably.
SUNDAY LAW AMENDMENT.

OfSSidA 10 GaZ6lte.
AUSTIN, TEX, Jan. 24.-Gen.
Handy, representative from Travis
county and the capital city, is being
much commended for his introduction of
an amendment to the present Sunday
law. This law closes up not only saloons
but theaters, gardens, and all places of
amusement, all stores and places of bust
ness from midnight of Saturday night TO
midnight of Monday. The law has been
rigidly executed throughout the state ex-
cept at San Antonio, and under it beer
gardens have been closed. Gen.
Handy IS amendment closes the saloons
only from 8 a. IN. till 4 p. m, virtually
returning to the old law on the subject.
1t is thought it will pass both houses.
Gen. Handy certainly has the German
element, a large one in Texas, with him
in what is called a compromise between
the religious element and the more num-
erous class who can only spare Sunday
for recreation. Gen. Hamby's bill is
simply halfway house in the direction
of the European Sunday.
NOT IN LOVE WITH INGALLS,.
Col. Robertson of Bell county, meSsen-
ger for carrying the electoral returns to
Washington, arrived here at CLOCK
this morning on the International and
Great Northern railway. He has with
him the returns which were refused by
ingalls,, president of the United States
senate, owing to an informality alleged
by him Qngalls) the envelope not bear
;po no oY,f Of oil no
electors summoned by Governor Ross by
wire had also arrived and about noon
meeting was held in the library
of the capitol at which the
alleged infOrmality was remedied,
the signatures of the electors affixed
and the returns replaced in the hands of
the messenger who departed by the 7:15
p. m. International train for Washing
ton. He will reach that city Monday
morning if no accident happens. The
correspondent of THE GAZETTE called
upon Col. Robertson at his hotel this
afternoon in company with Elector Wood
of the Sixth district. In reply to an in
quiry of the correspondent. Messenger
Robertson said he left Washington Mon
day evening, and his journey to Aussin
was without incident.
"And so ingalls,, the Kansas crank,
refused the returns, - raid the CORE
spondent.
eyes, and for the alleged reasons al
ready given in THE GAZETTE -
''YOu of course had an interview with
him?''
eyes. The Kansas senator and 1
talked face TO face
What does he look like, anyway?'
"He is the incest, pOlitest little man I
ever saw.
cat the time of refusing did he make
any sort of expression towards the South
ern peOple?'
'fNo; you bet he didn It. If he had
would have nailed him then and there,
but, you see, he is too sharp for that
You know when Voorhees, cursed him on
the floor of the senate he took all quietly
as pet lamb. In fact that is part of
his business, L mean politeness and
suavity.
''How are things up in Washington,
anyway"
''Oh, there is more depression among
the Democrats up there than there is
among the Democrats in Texas-more, [
think, than there is any necessity for. -
Mr.. Wood said in reference to the ae-
ton of ingalls,, that he desired to say to
the readers of THE GAZETTE that the ac-
ton of ingalls,, the Republican president
of the senate. in refusing the re-
turns, was absolutely unauthorized
by any law found in the
revised statutes of the United States and
that his object was to delay the count, as
evidenced by HOar's resolution in
troduced in the senate, because one or
two Republican states were behind with
their returns. Ingall g action was
without any grounds in law or common
sense and Elector Wood denounced it as
an outrage on the rights of the states,
and Texas in particular.
WILL REPORT FAvORABLY.
The committee on stockraising consid-
cred the scalp bill introduced by Judge
Williamson this evening and will report
the same back with the recommendation
that it pass with Tolar's amendment.
The original bill repeats the present scalp
law and pays the following prices for
scalps For coyote wolf, 81; tabo wolf,
81; wild cat, panther or tiger, 81; and
appropriates SIS, 600 from the state to pay
for said scalps. Tolar's amend
ment pays 5 cents for jack rabbits,
and 1 cent for prairie dogs. This bill,
while it offers a very small reward for
dogs, will demonstrate in the next two
years whether it is sufficient to distroy
the great pest of the western range.
POPE s RAILROAD BILL.
The internal improvement committee
of the house viii tomorrow report favor
ably Pope's bill providing that railroads
not keeping their general offices in the
state shall forfeit their charters.
Brown of Grayson viii submit minor
ity report recommending the adoption of
a substitute. Pope s bill is to compel the
offices to be kept at the places heretofore
or hereafter agreed upon by the roads
and impress forfeiture of charter for
breaking a contract. Browns substi-
tute simply provides that the offices shall
be kept some where in the state. Browns
objection to the Pope bill is that it is re-
traetive and therefore unconstitutional.
THE SOUTHWESTERN ASYLUM BILL
was considered by the asylum committee,
and there viii be two reports on it to-
morrow The majority fayors and the
minority opposes the bill. Carwile led