San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-24
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying

What the People are Saying
The final action" has again been
put off until next Monday, and If this
racket can be worked, final action
will not be taken by the city council
| in the Boelhauwe.Ho case until
Mr.. Csllaghan returns.
Pro Tenn Mayor Schriener chopped
of the business of the city council
yesterday in q very sudden manner,
and announced that he had taken the
liberty to submit the Boelhauwe-
Hoefiing case TO q good lawyer, and
had been promised an opinion in time
for that meeting, but the good law
yer" had informed him that he could
not complete his task until Saturday:
then the mayor pro tenn cast know
ing wink at good lawyer" Lockwood
and he motioned to adjourn until
Monday evening, which was declared
carried in characteristic style.
This trifling with the mandate OF
the supreme court would be very
summarily dealt with by any good
lawyers, ~ in fact 1t would not take
good lawyer" five minutes TO tell
the mayor pro tenn that he had better
settle with his adversary before
the sun went down as he
was in danger of being
handed over to the officer, and
the officer would turn the key of the
prison on him.
Cases of con tempt for disobedience
of supreme court mandates are very
rare, we know of but one other in the
history of1the state. During the ad.
ministration of Gov. Davis, Judge
Nancy, of Seguln, put Judge Ireland
and other prominent lawyers in Jail
for contempt; they appealed to the
supreme court; the supreme court is
sued a mandate requiring Judge
Nancy to reverse his action. He refus'
ed to obey the mandate of the su-
preme court because he thought
it wrong; the supreme court
sent q sheriff to Seguin and
arrested Judge Nancy and took
him to Austin and put him in
Jail. Judge Nancy was district
Judge and stood high as q citizen and
an officer. This was under repub.
lican rule 1t is true.
Another child slaughtered by the
cleo tcic mon ster. Not On hour IN tn
day but just such horrible accidents
as the killing of little Hauser can
happen. The intersection of West
Houston aud Soledad streets has been
turned into q switch yard for the elec-
trio motor lines; at times, in fact, all
day long business and travel are
seriously interfered with by the con-
centration of the cars from three
different lines; all the narrow streets
between the river and San Pedro av.
monopolized by car lines; the people
who come and go from the nothern
portion of the city In that quarter can
ence of these car lines.
North Flores street offers the only
chance for relief, let the city council
abrogate the franchise on that stree I
and allow the company to chose a
street west of the San Pedro. This
should be dOne before the electric line
is substituted for the mule.
TIE people know that they have
mayor, somewhere; in France, or on
his way home again; they know that
we had a city attorney, but they
could not guess within good many
miles of his present whereabouts; it
would not astonish the people to
wake up some of these fine summer
mornings and find that the whole
"kabOodle" had skipped. except
Beckmann and Hoefiing. The people
can't be surprised any more.