San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-31
Lockwood National
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STATE LEGISLATURE.
sAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
J. g. LoCKwoop, President; J. MUIR. Cashier.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

The senate committee on internal
Improvement is at work on q railway
commission bill which will be offered
early next week as substitute for
all the bills presented in both houses
on this subject.
Senate repeats the existing coal oil
inspe ction bill.
Bill 6S, amending criminal pro.
ceedure and extending the scope OF
warrants issued by officers 30 as TO
be effective all over the state, was
called up out of its regular order and
passed.
Cranes bill on insurance was taken
up and as amended and passed pro
vides that in case of loss by fire of
the property insured, the insurance
companies shall not avoid payment
of said loss on account of any repre-
sentation made by the insured
in his application nor OH &C.
count of the failure of the insured to
disclose to the insurer the existence
of any fact, circumstance or condition
in respect to said part unless the rep
entation was made with fraudu-
lent purpose, or unless the facts as
existing at the time said application
was made, rendered the danger of
loss by frs greater than it would have
been had all the representations been
true, or unless the facts, circumstan-
ces or conditions not disclosed were
purposely concealed.
Bill passed under suspension of
rules regulating time of giving notice
in case of election to legislative va
cancie s. This bill was hurried through
that its provisions might apply in
case of election of successor to sena-
tor Mott.
Road commissioners bill was con-
sidered at length; so copies of the bill
as amended were ordered printed,
and the further discussion postponed.
Another large batch of bills was in
troduc.d and senate adjourned.
Petitions were presented in the
house from Limestone county asking
that the physiological study of tenn
perance be provided tor In the public
schools; and from HAMILTON County
asking for Increased bounty on wolf
scalps.
A mum Der of new bills were intro
duced and committee reports made on
bill previously referred as follows.
House bill SO: Authorizing the
missioners' court to employ q
county road superintendent and one
assistant for each commissioners pre-
cinct, was reported favorably with
amendment as to allowing exemption
of counties.
House bill al: Authorizing the sew
eral counties to work peDitent iary
convicts on the public roads and
bridges was favorably reported.
House bill 1876: Amending article
4406 of the law as to working roads
was reported favorably with amend
ment inserting sixty days instead of
six months.
House bill liz: Prohibiting rail-
road passes to certain state officials
was reported adversely.
The usury bill passed as engrossed.
1t prohibits greater rate of interest
than II per cent.
The bill providing that county
courts can dispose of certain criminal
cases in vacation came up for second
reading and was discussed at length
as to its constitutionality. Bill was
recommitted.
The bill as to hunting or fishing on
enclosed lands of another came up for
second reading. Several amendments
were.proposed, that OF Dills of Gray
son was adopted. This amendment
provides that no person shall be pro-
secute except upon complaint of the
owner or authorized agent; and
OBrien, of Jefferson offered an addi-
ton thereto, providing further that
no person shall be prosecuted under
this act unless the owner of the
pasture owns and controls all lands
therein enclosed within said pasture.
The bill was ordered epgrossed by
the close vote of AZ to 40.
There will be some music in the
air when Representative @. w. Full
ton,' of Arkansas, calls up his anti
scalper bill. This bill is a radical
one and makes the selling OF rail-
way or steamboat ticket, by any other
than the person holding the compa-
ny's authorization, a crime. 1t also
provides that the transportation COM
panies shall redeem the unused
mileage or coupons at the rate at
which they were sold.