The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
State Capital Gossip.
Correspondence OF the Gazette.

special correspondence Oh Ile odZelte
AUSTIN, TEX, May 13-Socially, Austin
was quite gay last week. First came the
drummers with their convention, and then
the bankers, with the regulation banquet
at the close of each. This week promises
to be rather quiet, as is always the case
after season of rushing and busting and
social dissipation.
The banquetS were elegant affairs, both
gotten up and managed in an elaborate and
very satisfactory manner, as is the custom
at the capital. That is one thing that the
people of Austin know how to conduct well,
and if the drummers don't have many good
words for the people of the capital, it will
not be the latter'S fault.
But 1T Is DULL HERE,
not only socially, but politically. Since the
various political and judicial appointments
have been made, interest in such things
has subsidized almost entirely, and people
who can afford it have turned their atten-
ton to the North and the various watering
places, at which they expect to spend the
summer.
There is some little curiosity to know
when, if at all, special session of the leg
islature is likely to be held: and occa
sionally one is asked about it. Nothing
definite can be told now. The governor
was asked to-day for some information on
the subject, and would only say that
when an
EMERGENCY AROSE
for a special session, he would call the
members together. He declined to say
what he would consider such an emergency,
or whether the need for apportioning the
state would constitute one. He thought
his message to the legislature while in
session, recommending that it apportion
the state before adjourning, was sufficient
answer to the inquiry. While he preferred
to be
NON-COMMITTAL
on the subject, it did not appear that he was
enthusiastically in favor of increasing the
expense of an extra session, unless some
thing more pressing and important than
redistricting and Reproducing the state
should arise to demand it. He would per-
haps prefer to hear from the people before
coming to a definite conclusion about it.
If there snail be no special session and two
congressman at large will have to be voted
for, there will in all probability be
GENERAL SCRAMBLE
for the places. There is any amount of
congressional timber Illustrating in seques-
tered loneliness in various parts of the
state. When the tocsin is sounded the
field is likely to be crowded with eager and
ambitious Richmonds, each anxious to play
a winning hand with the farmers. In the
event mentioned, the political race next fall
promises to be an interesting one.
NONE OF THE RAILWAY
commissioners are here now. Reagan and
Mclean are at home, and. Foster is some
where east Of the Mississippi When he
returns in couple of weeks, they will meet
and begin the work of organizing by select
ing secretary and clerks, preparing blanks,
tables. rules of procedure, etc. After that,
the railroad people will be invited to meet
the commission and lend their aid in the
task of classifying and preparing freight
schedules. Such is likely to be the pro-
gramme pursued by the commission.
THAT TEXT BOOK BILL.
The opinion seems to be on the increase
here that there was crOOkedness in the en-
rollment of the text book bill At what
stage of the game it took place, If at all no
one can figure out.
Strittmatter, the chief enrolling clerk.
appears to have cleared his skirts of any
blame in the premises. since he had no hand
in the enrolment of the bill.
Senator Page makes statement of his
connection with the whole process of en-
rollment which
HE SUPERVISED
while it was being done by the assistant en-
rolling clerk, Feagle, to whom he had the
bill referred because, of his intimate ac-
quaintance with its provisions and his
efficiency as clerk. The senator declares
that he took the bill after F'eagle had en-
of the enrolling committee, and the two went
over the bill carefully together, comparing
it with the various amendments that had
been adopted by the conference committee,
and finding it
CORRECTLY ENROLLED"
He believes the enacting clause was in it at
that time, but can not be absolute about it.
The corrections which he says were made
by Feagle at his Page's) suggestion, while
enrolling the bill, are plainly observable in
the bill, where erasures were made, and
the corrections inserted. These corrections
appear in many places. but not on the first
page, which should begin with the enact
ing clause
BUT DOES NOT.
That page is unlike every other in the
bill and, in the opinion of experts was not
written at the same time with the rest of
the bill, and clearly not in the same style of
penmanship, although evidently by the
same hand. The chirography is in a
rounder hand, Astounding more in flourishes,
but not sufficiently disguised to suggest a
second hand. At least that Is the unani-
nous opinion Of those who have exam
ined it.
A Il win be investigated at thu next sit