The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-17
A Full Synopsis of the Proceed
ings OF Both Houses
Yesterday.
Chatty and Newsy Gossip Picked
Up In the Lobbles and
Committee Rooms.
The Senate.
From Thursdays Daily. ]

Quorum present. Prayer by the chap
lain, Doctor Smoot.
Reading of the journal WAS dispensed
with.
Senator Johnson had spread upon the
journal a motion to reconsider the vote
fixing the number of committee clerks.
Senator Claiborne, for special com
mittee, reported the governor had been
waited upon and notified the senate was
organized and ready for business, and that
the governor would at an early date com
municate with the senate.
Senator Claiborne raised the point of
order that the Twenty first legislature was
not yet fully in session, as the house was
not yet organized, and that therefore all
legislation was at this time out of order.
The point OF order was sustained.
A resolution was offered by Senator
Lane that the president of the senate be
empowered to appoint special commit
tee to be known as committee on min
ing, geology and irrigation, to which all
bills on these subjects shall be referred.
The resolution, under the rule, went over
till next day.
The motion to reconsider the vote on
committee clerks was called up and mo.
ton to table IL was defeated by vote of
16 to IL.
The motion to reconsider then prevailed.
Senator Mcdonald then ntioduced al
amendment providing, as his original res
olution of Tuesday, that there be five com
mittee clerks, one appointed by each of
four committees, viz: Judiciary Nos.
/ and 2, finance, aud internal I'M provo
ments, and the president of senate to ap-
point the fifth, q general clerk.
The amendment was adopted.
Senator Kimbrouga's amendment, that
Che president of the senate be empowered
to appoint five general committee clerks,
was tabled by vote of 20 %.
The original motion, as amended by
Senator Mcdonald, then was passed.
Upon this the president of the senate
named as the one general clerk under the
resolution John +. Flint, the other four
to be selected by the chairmen of the
above designated committees.
Recess was taken until 2 O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate met at 2 O'Clock without
quorum. A quorum was secured in n few
minutes, and Senator Mcdonald intro
duced n resolution calling for the presi-
dent of the senate to appoint committee
of three senators, whose duty it should be
20 assign the senate committee rooms to
the different committees and to report
such assignment to the senate.
Adopted, and senator's Mcdonald, Jarvis
and Burney appointed az the committee.
Lawrence Douland, u cripple, was given
the privilege of having cigar stand out
side the senate door.
Mr.. James Il. Gibson, son OF ex Speaker
Charles Gibson, OF the Eighteenth legisla-
ture, was sworn in as postmaster Of the
senate.
The senate then adjourned to 10 o'clock
this morning.
from Fridays DAily.l
The senate was called to order at 10
= O'o.ook by LieUtenant-goverDor Wheeler
Quorum present.
Prayer by chaplain, Doctor Smoot.
ReNdtng of the journal dispensed with
y message from the governor was re-
ceiyed; also message from the house,
stating 1t was organized and ready for
business.
A resolution by Senator Woodward, that
the sergeant-at-arms of the senate be and
he is hereby instructed to procure two hat
and cloak racks for use in the senate
ohamDer, was adopted
A resolution by Senator Townsend, that
each member of the senate be permitted
to subscribe for any number of newspa-
pers published in this state, not exceeding
twenty, TO be paid for out of the contin-
gent expense fund at the rate of four
cents per copy, was ordered to lie on the
cable.
Senator Lane called up his resolution
providing for the appointment Of ape-
~sial committee on mining, geology and
Irrigation.
Upon suggestion OF Senator Burney it
was made regular standing committee,
and the resolution in that shape passed
the senate.
Tue special committee appointed to no
tify the house of the organization of the
senate reported they had performed that
duty.
Senator Mcdonald reported for special
committee the assignment of committee
rooms to the committees they had made,
and the report was adopted.
At the request of Senator Glasso ok
he was, by the president of the senate,
"relieved as member of, and from serv-
ing on, the following committees: Mil
itary affairs, penitentiaries, general land
Office, privileges ami elections, engrossed
bills, public lands and judiciary No. 2.
message was received from the house
notifying the senate of the names of the
officers it had elected.
At l0;l5 O'Clock the secretary began to
read the governors message. The read
ing occupied an hour and twenty minutes,
and was listened TO with the most marked
attention by all the senators.
At the conclusion of the reading Sen
ator Townsend offered resolution pro-
vidiug for the printing of the governors
message, for the purpose OF distribution,
5000 copies in English, 1000 in Ger
man and 1000 IN Bohemian. Senator
Naetze moved to amend by making it 5000
instead of 1000 copies in the German
language. Senator Burney moved further
to amend by adding 1000 copies to be
printed in Spanish. Senator Allies
Seconded strongly Senator Burney's
amen iment, and it was apopted. Senator
Maetze's amendment was accepted. Sena-
tor Davis moved as a substitute that 1000
copies be published in English. Defeated
The resolution as amended was adopted,
allowing 5000 copies in English, 1000 III
German, 1000 in Bohemian and 1000 in
Spanish to be printed for circulation.
The president of the senate announced
he appointed Senator Harrison as chair
man OF the committee on general land