The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-21

| treights, was unanimously passed and {
motion to reconsider was tabled.
Senate bill fixing the place of sale Of
real estate under deed of trust wa;
passed.
Bill attaching the unorganized counties
of Ector, Upton and Crane to Midland
county and the unorganized county Of
Glasscock to Howard county for Judicial
surveying and other purposes passed.
Senate bill pol, to provide for the pay
ment of warrants issued for services
rendered prior to January l, 1861, wat
passed.
Senate bill 81, for the government ei
the Gatesville reformatory, was passed.
Senate bill 291, to require foreign cor
pOrations to file their articles of inoorpo-
ration with the secretary of state, passed
Senate bill 3l4, for payment of fees in
quo warIanto and injunction proceedings
in which the state is interested, waf
passed..
Senate bill fixing the time of holding
court in the Twenty-second judicial dis
triot was passed.
Senator Burney called up senate substi.
tute bill revising and amending the pen,
sion laws, admitting to their privileges
certain veterans now excluded. Quite a
good deal of discussion was provoked,
showing the senate desired to grant every
advantage to the old veterans, while also
being anxious to throw around the law
all possible restrictions forbidding fraud
and imposition. The bill was engrossed.
At 11:50 the appropriation bill was
taken up. The bill was discussed and
amended for an hour and ten minutes,
when the senate, at l O'Clock, adjourned
to 2:30 p. IN.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate was called to order at 23O
p. IN. The senate at once took up the
consideration of the appropriation bill
The superintendent of public instruction
was granted one of the two clerks he said
his department imperatively needed, but
was refused the other. He was also, by
the president of the senate casting the de-
Gliding vote, allowed $500 year for tray
cling expenses in attending to the school
interests of the state. The seeming hos
tility of the senate to this assuredly one
of the most important departments in the
state government is truly inexplicable
Thirty-fve thousand dollars were added
to the bill for the completion of the wing
of the University now in course of CON
struction; $4,000 were also added to re-
pay the capitol contractor certain patent
fees for which he some time ago paid.
After discussing the appropriation bill
for three hours it was postponed until
this morning.
Senator Mcdonald called up and had
passed to its third reading house bill re.
storing the jurisdiction of the county
courts to Greer, Henderson and Donley
counties.
The governor sent in a veto of the bill
providing that all school moneys shall be
sent to the state treasury, except that a
pro rata of the available school fund of
any county for any current scholastic year
shall not be paid into the state treasury,
but may be placed in the county treasury.
The governor gave his reasons very fully
for the veto pointing out the Irregular
ties and injustice of the law so far as a
pro rata of funds by the counties was con-
cerned, in that some 115 cities and towns
would be placed in control of the counties
in which located.
Senator Olaiborne's substitute for the
appropriation bill was ordered printed in
the journal.
At 5:55 the senate adjourned to 10
O'Clock to-day.