Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-05
Considerable Talk Over the Bill
Changing the Time to August.
The Measure Recommended by Several
Members of the Texas Delega-
ton in Congress.
The Occupation Tax Bill Under Discussion in
the HOuse-HOw Various Committees
will Make Reports.
OCCUPATION TAX BILL.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Feb. 4.-The oecupa-
ton tax bill still holds the boards in the
house and will probably not be disposed
of for two or three days, though the
house may get down to hard work and
finish it tomorrow so as to have it out OF
the way of the commission bill which will
begin a long engagement Wednesday.
HANDY IS ELECTION BILL.
There is q good deal of talk about
Hamby's bill changing the time of hold
ing the state elections to August This
was prepared and introduced in view OF
the Republican proposition TO have Fed
eral supervisors appointed and TO avoid
having officers of the general government
interfering with state elections. 1t is
very probable that it will become law,
as it has the Endorsement of the strongest
men here, and has been recommended by
several members of the Texas delegation
i'll congress, as mentioned in these dis
patches heretofore. The bill providing
for Federal inspectors introduced in the
senate by John Sherman is being read
and discussed among the members here,
and is q strong argument for Hamby's
measure.
PROTEST FROM SHERMAN.
The governor has received long letter
from citizens of Sherman protesting
against the passage of the bill to compel
railroads to provide separate coaches for
colored people. The letter says the law
would be degrading to the state and
would keep ont many good people who
would otherwise come to Texas.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
House judiciary cOmmittee-NO one
VIII report favOrably house bill $40 ex-
empting from the payments of debts all
money recovered or liquidated by agree
ment for settlement on account of per-
sonal injuries and to prevent the same
from being so applied by gar
nishement, execution or other legal
process; also house bill No. AL, validat-
ing certain acts of notaries who have
seals with the word ''Texas improperly
engraved thereon; also house bill No.
367 ratifying and confirming the title OF
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railway. company to the Cen
tral and Montgomery from NavasOta to
Montgomery and the Chicago, Texas and
Mexican Central from Cleburne to Dallas
and authorizing the Santa Fe road to own
and operate the roads named under its
own charter.
CAPITAL CULLISGS
The board of trustees of the asylum for
the blind met tonight and reelected
DR.. Frank Rainey superintendent and
DR.. 7. J. Tyner, oeulist. DIR. Rainey
has been superintendent for twelve
years and is one of the
most successful in the country.
He is a thorough Christian gentleman,
beloved by his pupils and who is as popu-
lar with the public as he is successful in
management. DR.. Tyner is a highly ed
ucated surgeon !, having attended lectures
ut Edinburg, Scotland, and has been
most successful in practice in Austin.
Like DR.. Rainey, he is a gentleman as
well as a learned and skilled physician.
Galen Grow, Jr., u young Texan be-
longing TO one of the old families of the
city, was married in DR.. Smoot IS church
(Presby-terian) tonight to Miss Graham
OF Austin. A large audience was in
attendance.
Col. Nat Q. Henderson was in the city
to-day getting slgners to petition for q
place in Washington under the Harrison
administration. Many of Col. Hender-
son s old friends among Democrats are
signing it, although Col. Henderson left
the party during the campaign.
Memorials were presented i'll the SEN
ate to-day from Dallas for the issuance
of road bonds, and from the bar of Fort
Worth asking the concentration of the
supreme and appellate courts at
Austin and from citizens of
Walker county against the occupation
tax. Committees reported favorably on
the agricultural bureau bill and unfavor-
ably on the bill limiting
interest TO per cent and
unfayorably on several unimportant
bills. Pope, for the committee, on in
ternal improvements, reported favorably
on the bill prohibiting railroad corpora
tons from restricting their liabilities for
damages III carrying goods, beyond the
common law.