San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-15
LATE STATE NEWS.

San Angelo ships So cars of cattle to
Elgin, Kansas.
Ed Plckens, Choctaw Indian, jailed
at Sherman for killing his wife,
Texas Grand Lodge of X. of p.
meets in Galveston today.
Two men seriously and seven
slightly hurt in the new elevator
building at Galveston.
Anderson's gun store Oh Houston
street, Fort Worth, burned; loss,
$l35, 600.
Complaint lodged with railway
commission of excessive charges on
bread fIoR2 New BTauDfels to Austin.
District clerks of counties not max
ing report will have no more accounts
for fees audited until reports are sent
in.
Laredo Is on the warpath for the
man who wired Washington lie to
defeat the appropriation for public
building.
Sheriff Spradly shoots Sapp at
Nacogdoches, who had been poach-
ing on his land, after Sapp had drawn
his pistol
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Legislature defeats the resolution
inviting Hill to address that body.
Kinney county democrats endorse,
Hill, Hogg and Chiffon.
Senate opened in regular session
with all the members present.
Reading of the governors message
was dispensed with by The senate.
Hogg is In for the defeat of Mile,
believing that the Mills crowd has
made an alliance with Clark.
The senatorial fight st Austin is
conceded to be Hogg and anti-Hogg
trial of strength.
McFall is elected enrolling clerk of
the senate and King assistant journal
clerk.
The extra session Of the 22ud
Texas legislature is in session, and
go back on the newspaper crowd.
Memb ers of legislature must pur-
chase newspapers st their individual
expense.
The governors message favers
another alien land law without the
Objectionable features of the old bill.
The reapportionment of the state
under the constitution cannot give
more than 81, senatorial districts.
There is money enough in the state
treasury to pay the bonds of 1871,
meet expenses of the extra session,
pay all regular expeDces under q tax
reduction of 25 per cent.
So far as can be now ascrtained the
members of the legislature who favor
Mills are about equal to the Chiffon
and Culberson men combined.
The representative from this dis.
trict, with Senator Burnet, will work
to secure q congressional district of
west and southwest counties, with
San Antonio as the centre.
The fret batch of bills presented in
the senate numbered Is; four of these
referred to congressional reapportion.
ment.
Bills are introduced authorizing the
governor to receive monies due the
state on direct tax of 1861; to allow
actions against railway receivers for
damage; to have 5000 copies of the
message printed, 5000 in English;
and q resolution appropriating S24S,-
700 to pay indebtedness of the state
on bonds now falling due.
La the house Chief Clerk Dixon,s
resignation was accepted, and George
w. Fenger elected in his place; Ches.
ter Halle was elected reading clerk;
resolution inviting Hill to address the
legislature was voted down, SO to 3s.
Bills were introduced into the house
apportioning the state and putting
San Antonio into the 18th district; for
q uniform system of text books; for
| registration of voters in all cities of
10, 600 or over; amending the usury
law; amending mechanic lien law;
providing for the proper issue Of
school teachers certificates.
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