Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10
LEGISLATIVE.
Bill Making Two New Judicial Districts
in the Panhandle Passed.
The Senate Bill Making Appeals From Tarrant
County Returnable at Tyler Passed to
Third Reading.
Twenty-First Legislature.

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Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. Feb 9.-The house met
at 10 o clock, Speaker Alexander and a
quorum present.
Prayer by the chaplain, Rev. H. w.
Dodge.
House bin further providing for and
regulating the control and management
of the public free schools in cities and
towns in this state where the same may be
vested in board of trustees, and further
defining the duties and powers of such
trustees, passed to engrossment. with
amendments which were accepted by the
author of the sbill. It is the bill which
applies in general way to the case of
the arsenal lot i'll Austin.
Petitions for a railway commission were
presented by Messrs. Newton, Crayton
and King for their respective counties of
Cherokee, Rockwall and Hamilton.
Messrs. Owsley, Hathaway, Handy
and Brown presented petitions from the
counties of Denton, Lamar, Travis and
Johnson, praying for the repeal of the
occupation tax.
BY Mr.. STANDARDIZATION from citizens
of Fro county for a more efficient scalp
law.
Mr. Hancock from citizens of Brown
county against changing the time of hold
ing courts i'll Brown county.
Mr.. Frosst from citizens of Freestone
and Navarro counties for legislation bet
ter defining wire fencing.
Mr.. Pickett presented bill establish
ing and making appropriation for the
farmers institutes.
House bill passed restoring certain
jurisdiction i'll the counties of Blanco,
Llano, Kimble, Gillespie and Menard.
MI. Gresham, for the committee, re-
ported fayorably as to the investigation
Of the clerk S offices of the supreme
court, that they found the same salts
factory, and the work of the offices at
Austin and Galveston could not be better
The report was adopted.
Mr.. Pope, for the committee, reported
favorably the substitute for the sundry
bills as to trusts, and asked that the re-
port be printed. Granted
Mr.. Weldon called up senate bill sixty
nine, Incorporating towns OH county di-
viding lines, and the bill passed.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the Waco charter bill.
The Houston city charter bill was or
dered engrossed, but failed of the vote
necessary to suspend the rules for its
passage.
The house conclrred in the senate
amendments to the bill amending the
thirty ninth section of the judicial act
The senate bill repeating the law for
the election of a district attorney in the
Eighteenth district, passed.
Also passed senate bill 50, fixing terms
of courts III the Eleventh district.
House bill establishing Coke county
passed.
Senate bill making appeals from Tar
rant county returnable at Tyler passed to
third reading.
Senate bill amending sections 80 and
80 of the judicial act and creating the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh districts
in the Panhandle was discussed. Pend
ing consideration the house adjourned
til o clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house resumed consideration of
senate bill ll2, the object of which is to
make two new judicial districts of the
Panhandle section of the state The bill
passed.
The Houston charter bill was again
voted upon and passed.
House bin for relief of Charles E. Bar
nard, appropriating S3430 for supplies
furnished state troops in 1859, was, after
some discussion, postponed till next Sat
urday
An invitation from the Hood camp to
visit the Confederate home in the west
ern suburbs of the city was read
Senate bill "A, amending the law max
ing city and town wards separate election
precintS, was called up by Mr.. Crayton
and passed.
Resolution offered by Mr. Jagoe, allow
ing the state Republican executive COM
mittee to hold their session tonight in
the hall of representatives and that the |
public be invited TO attend, intended as a
joke, was adopted
Adjourned till 10 0 clock Monday.