Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-01
The Proceedings Carried On in
Business-Like Way.
NUMEROUS MEASURES PASS
The Town and City Street and Bridge Tax
Bill Passes the overwhelmingly
In Favor of the 1. and &. ".
Investigation.
XII. LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

AUSTIN, TEX, March S1.-IheEOncurrent
| resolution offered by Mr.. Whatley to invite
| Hon. D. B. Culberson 10 visit Austin and
address members Of the legislature and
general public was adopted.
Mr.. Potter offered q joint resolution
| authorizing the governor to receive from
/ the United States government the money
| due Texas under an act Of congress to re-
| imburse states under direct tax laws. The
| amount coming to Texas is between $780,
600 and 100000
MIR. kearby introduced bill to regulate
telegraph companies and compel them to
promptly transmit and deliver messages.
Mr.. Lubbock introduced bill to validate
| the election of county and district clerks III
counties OF less than 5000 inhabitants and TO
| validate the acts of said clerks.
MIR. kearby's bill to require notices of
the sale Of real estate, to be sold under
judicial or other forced sale to be published
in some newspaper in the county, was
taken up and passed under suspension Of
the rules.
Mr.. Frank introduced bill to regulate
contracts for conditional sale or lease OF
railroad equipment and rolling stock, and
providing for Z record thereof.
| Mr.. Potter introduced q bill to authorize
! cities and towns to invest their sinking
fund in interest paying securities, and pro-
viding for the manner of such investment.
| House bill to facilitate the disposition of
1
taken up, amended and passed under suS-
| pension of the rules.
Senate bill to create the county of Sealy
was taken up and set as q special order for
! Thursday.
Senate bill to provide for the election of a
! committee of agriculture, insurance, sta
! tistics and history was taken up.
| Mr.. Crane moved to amend by striking out
| the preamble, which declares that it is a
| principal Of Democratic theory of the gov
| eminent that the people shall elect all their
officers, and that this is specially true as
| applied to the state officials and heads of
| departments.
The amendment was agreed to and the
| bill passed under suspension of rules.
Senate bill to provide for the appointment
! of assistant county attorneys in various
! parts of the county was taken up, amended
| and passed.
House bill to validate the incorporation
| of certain towns and cities was taken up,
| amended and passed.
Senate bill to amend the election law to
! prevent the throwing out of ballots on
| slight Irregularities was taken up, amended
and passed.
Mr. Weisiger's bill to punish persons for
using a false pedigree of stock was passed
under suspension OF the rules.
House amendments to the senate bill au-
thorizing the sale of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, and the bill to author
| ize the incorporation Of companies to buy
railroads already built, were agreed to.
| Adjourned until 10 tomorrow.
HOUSE.
| Special to the Gazette.
i AUSTIN. TEX, March 31.-On motion of Mr..
| Rogan of Caldwell the house decided to re-
consider the vote by which the Ignite bill
| was lost yesterday.
| Pending a call of the house, the bill pro-
| viding for IN increase of the compensation
| of county commissioners from So to 50 d day
| at regular sessions was taken up and en-
| crossed.
A companion bill providing that the fees
and salary of county judges shall not be
| less than $1,000, was argued pro and con and
| Indefinitely postponed.
| A resolution inviting Congressman Cul-
berSon to visit Austin and make a speech
was adopted.
Mr.. Cochran gave notice that he would
| cali up the Austin charter tomorrow.
Mr. Swaynes bill amending article 1922
title SIS, chapter of the Revised Statutes
making deed once of record always of re-
cord, was ordered engrossed.
A motion to suspend the constitutional
| requirement and pass the bill failed, owing
| to the opposition of Messrs. Lewis. Owsley
aud Mckinney, who objected to the proviso
! making the destroyed record construction
notice that any instrument therein has been
recorded, whether it has or not.
Senate bill authorizing towns and cities
incorporated under the general law to assess
| and collect Z street and bridge tax, not to
exceed Is cents on the 800, passed
Senate bill authorizing the governor to
appoint state revenue agent to superin-
tend the financial affairs of the state was
considered in committee of the whole, Mr..
Nelson in the chair, and favorably re-
ported.
The report was adopted and the bill
passed.
The Ignite bill passed to third reading.
Adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The house concurred in the senate amend
ments to house bill II, authorizing county
judges to try certain cases during vacation.
The special committee to report what
action the house should take on the Gerald
concurrent resolution reported unanimously
in favor of an investigation of the receiver
ship of the international and Great North
ern railway, the report thereof to be not
later than August l.
House bill amending the law relative to
legal fences was wrangled over and
amended for some time and finally recon-
United.
House bill for the protection of herons,
pelicans, and other sea birds and their
eggs, passed.
Mr. Owsley's motion to reconsider the
vote by which Mr.. Swayne's bill relating
TO burnt RECORDS was defeated, was spread
on the journal
Mr. Gossett's bill limiting alien owner
ship of land, but eXempting aliens who
have fled their intentions to become citi-
zens of the United States, was taken up.
The bill does not affect aliens now holding
land, but requires their heirs to part with
it in six years or become citizens. The bill
passed.
House bill by Mr. Baker of Tom Green,
providing for the sale of grazing land be-
longing TO the unworthy and public schools,
the land to be sold for grazing purpos es
when present leases expire, was taken up.
The bill was under discussion when the
house adjourned.
HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.