San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-28
STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate refuses to engross bill
amending the title % of code.
Bill passes creating two district
courts in Tarrant county.
Senator Burney is laid up and likely
to be for some time to come.
No action yet taken on printing the
proceedings of the house from day to
day.
Telegram read announcing defact
of the force bill was received with
cheers.
Bill restricting divorces from mar
rage within one year of divorce is
lost q to2,
Senate confirms the appointment of
Judge Mari as one of the judges OF
court of appeals.
Resolution was adopted creating q
committee to investigate the peniten-
tiaries with o view to the manufac-
ture of jute by the convicts.
Senate confirmed the appointment
of Douglas, Smithers aud Findley as
penitentiary superintendent and
agent.
In the house, the pay of jurors sum-
moned in capital trials and not sworn
in was fixed at ST per day until dis
charged, but was afterward indefin-
itely postponed.
Petitions were received against fur
Their legislation in medical matters;
for q bounty on wolf scalps; for the
closing of barber shops on Sunday; to
amend Fort Worth city charter;
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The Moran. Hood contest is tied up,
as four of the ballot boxes have
neither the polling lists nor the tally
sheets.
Senator Pope's bill for the relief Of
railways passes. 1t provides for the
extension of the charter of such roads
| as have been chartered since 1887,
and have not complied with charter
conditions in the matter of common
cling operations, and the restoration
of Oh arters thus forfeited.
Judiciary committee report favor
ably bills for extending time of is
suing writs of error to two years; to
| amend articles 17O6 to 1715 penal code;
to regulate disbursement Of all money
| belonging to the several counties and
|
unauthorized by law. To provide for
appeals from Commissioners courts;
to amend code providing for garnish-
ment when debt is not due.
Gresham's bill for a constitutional
convention is as follows; and favor
able report is looked for from the
committee OH constitutional amend
ments, to whom it has been referred:
"Section /. Be it resolved by the
legislature of the state of Texas: That
a convention of sixty-two delegates
shall assemble at the capital of this
state ON the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in April 1892, for the
purro Q of passing new constitution
to be submitted to vote of the people
of this state for their adoption or re-
lection.
'Section 9. That there shall be
elected by the qualified electors of
each senatorial district of this state,
two delegates to serve in said conven-
ton.
"Section 8. An election shall be
held on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der for the election of such delegates,
and the governor of this state is here
by directed to issue in accordance
with law, the necessary instructions
therefor.
"Section 4. The compensation of
the delegates and officers of said con-
vention shall be the same as is now
prescribed by law for members of the
legislature.
"Section 5. That the sum of $50, 900
or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be, and the same is hereby APP
propriated out of any money in the
state treasury, not otherwise spprop-
rated, to defray the expenses of and
incident to; and the same may be
drawn and paid out as may be pro-
vided by said convention"