The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-15

chase of merchandise" and is therefore a
violation of subdivision 3, section l, as well
as other portions of the ''Trust bill" Your
duty is to enforce all provisions of this law
without respect to class, and as the COM
mittee ask you the plain question on
statement of facts, showing. that the m
tended organization has for its object vlo-
lation of the statute defining and prohibit
ing the like, you should warn them of the
consequences if the combination should be
perfected. Very truly,
[Signed.] J. 5. HoGG,
Attorney-General.
coMpTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The tax rolls of McLennan county were
revised yesterday. They show an increase
of taxable property over last year OF
$325, 200.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
The report of school affairs in Brown
county received in office of Superintendent
Cooper suggests one fault in the district
system, which the writer regards as very.
essential. This is the prohibition OF
transfers from one district to another
except in case of actual removal. The
writer thinks a district should have but
one school and no transfers be permitted,
and that transferring renders trustees al
most powerless and frequently breaks up
school,
AN ITEM.
| The story is told in one of the depart
ments of a sheriff from southern county
bringing back to the lunatic asylum an es-
| capped lunatic, a woman. The sheriff, 1t is
| alleged, employed his wife and daughter as
guards and charged the state $3.50 for the
| trip. The sheriff was paid $3.50, so it is
stated, but the officer sent back his bill to a
| law firm in Austin to be collected, accom-
panied by an affid avit that he had been
paid only 500, whereas the papers in the
case show he has been paid $3.50 as above.
from Tuesdays DAHL
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The following charters were filed in the
office of the secretary Of state yesterday:
The N. c. Simmons, Jr., Medicine COM
pany, of Grayson county. Capital stock,
$4,000. Incorporators n. M. Lee, of Sher-
man; j. J. Simmons, of Dallas N. G.. Sim
mons, Jr., of Dallas; L. NJ Harris, of DIAL
las; Wright Jones, of Dallas.
Gaffney Hardware company, of Terrell
Kaufman county. Incorporators: Eli Calf
| featuring business.
Texas Star and Soap company, of Hous-
ton. Capital, $4,000 Object: Manufac,
| turing. 1ncorporators: W. G. Halsey, OF
Galveston Jacob Weinberger, of Galveston !;
G. Bender, c. S. Benedict and M. B. Rich
| ardSon, OF Houston.
Waco Tree Transplanting company. In
corporators: Sam Sanger, John N. Lyle,
| Thos. C. Smith.
Alexandria, Tyler and Northwestern
Railway company; principal office at Tyler.
Capital, 100000; runs fifty years. Incor-
porators: R. B. Hubbard, ]. B. Douglas,
James P. Douglass, w. j. Goodman, G. G.
Wimberly, r. Bergfield, John burst H. NJ.
Whitaker, J. H. Brown, H, H: Rowland,
A. L. Clark, G. 7. Bonner, all of Tyler, and
A. Wettermark and B. S. Wathen, of Rusk
county. The proposed line begins at a
point on the Sabine river, in Sabine county,
runs northwest through the counties OF
Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Nacogdo-
ches, Pamela, Rusk, Smith, VanZandt,
Kaufman, Rockwell, Dallas, Collin, Cooke
and Wise counties to point on the Fort
Worth and Denver railway in Wise county
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OFFICE
The following concerning the farmers
and the bagging trust explains itself:
DENTON, Tex, May 81, 1885,
Hon. j. S. Hogg, Austin, Tex:
Dear Sir-I herewith send you the letter
of ]. w. Holford ct al, which fully eX-
plains a matter upon which they desire
your opinion. Please to examine and re-
turn same with your opinion of the law
therein asked about Very respectfully,
Signed. j. L. DOTTORF,
County Attorney, Denton county, Texas.
PILOT POINT, Tex, May 81, 1889.
j. r. Bottorf, Esq, County Attorney Den
ton, Tex:
Dear Sir-The farmers of this part of the
country and of other portions of the state
are anxious to take active measures fol
their protection against the bagging trust
| of na or bat oh ttxyal uf
months ago combination was formed by
the manufacturers of jute bagging toput uT
the price of bagging, and that the price was
advanced and sustained, raising the price
to the farmers more than so per cent, anC
they have made no material reduction il
prices to this date. Now, what the farmers
wish to do is, to form combination or as
sociation of farmers similar to those nov
formed in Georgia, Alabama and othel
southern states, agreeing among themselve
to use, and recommending to all cottor
raisers the use or adoption of cotton bag
ging, such as is now manufactured by thu
Lane mills, of New Orleans, and othe
mills, as permanent covering for thei
cotton, or at least until the jut,
bagging companies reduce the pric'
of jute bagging to what it was be
fore the trust was formed. But after care
full examination of the trust law enacted b.
our last legislature we fear that we canno
take the desired action in the matter with
out violating that law, which of course W,
do not think of doing. Now we admit tina
the object of our combination or associatinj
ourselves together as body, is to reduce
the price of bagging which is an article o
merchandise and if the movement is sue
cessful it would have that effect. We als'
admit that in agreeing to use cotton bag
ging to the exclusion of the jute bagging i
the agreement is carried out, virtually bar
the jute bagging from free competition il
the markets, and does restrict trade as ia
as jute bagging is concerned, and is in fac
conspiracy against trade as to jut
bagging, and we justify our move
ments on the grounds that they 1.-THE manu-
facturers of jute bagging) first conspireC
against us; and we see no redress for on
grievances only for the farmers to associat
. themselves together as body and virtual
boycott these jute establishments until W
, obtain our object-that is cheaper cover
! ing for our cotton. Now we as law abidin
citizens do not wish to become violators o
! the law, and we have deferred taking an
! action in the matter until we could becom
fully informed on the subject. We hav
} read the law carefully, and from the read
ing, as we understand it, as an individual
! man might use whatever he pleased an
pay such price as he pleased for GOVERN
/ for his cotton, but if we went beyond tina
and took definite action as a body for tn
2 purpose of effecting a reduction of the pric
of an article of merchandise, by barring tha
/ article by our action from free competitio
in the market, restricting the trade in tn
5 same, and probably causing great pecuniar