The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-21
Secretary Of State.

Germ is placed at 100000.
Comptrollers Department.
The comptroller yesterday pur-
chased $4,000 Of the Lubbock county
court house and Jail bonds for the
permanent school fund.
The revenue deposits yesterday
amounted to Sl0,OO8.69.
Department of Education
superintendent Carlisle has issued
the following circular, which was
yesterday being sent out by the
clerks:
TO County and Ex Oliclo County supcrintcnd.
cnts and Assessors:
The blanks for the collection of the
scholastic census have been forwarded
10 you. Will youplease acknowledge
the receipt Of them.
Your attention is respectfully called
TO the directions printed on the covers
OF these blanks and also to the follow
ing. The assessor should write the
age OF each child opposite the name in
the proper column:
The school law, Chapter NI, Section
2, digest Of 1891, provides that: at
shall be the duty Of the assessor Of
taxes for each and every county in
this state not to operate under the
district system prior to the first day
of June Of each and every year, to
take an accurate census Of all the
children within their respective
counties who will be of the age Of
and under the age Of lG on the LIST day
Of September next succeeding the
taking Of such census
This law having special reference to
die taking Of the scholastic census is
certainly applicable to all counties,
towns and cities in so far as the age Is
concerned, and the school officers of
the state are directed to observe this
rule in fixing the ages Of children TO
be enrolled.
County judges should especially
call the attention Of trUs.Ces 20 this
rule, as the time from which the ages
are to he estimated was accidentally
omitted from the directions TO trustees
5nd county superintenderts.
The assessors in community cOuu-
lies will observe that 1.-The district
No.--' appears in the certificate.
which is a mistake, and can Ice
stricken out when the roll is sworn 10.
In taking the scholastic census ali
printed directions, as modified by this
circular, are to be observed. SO that
there may he uniformity in this
work.
The Railroad Commission,
Yesterday morning the following
gentlemen waited on the commits
sioners to continue the discussion Of
rates and taitfs begun on Tuesday:
General Traffic Manager Polk and
Mr.. Littlefield of the Arkansas Pass,
Mr.. Lord of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande, and Mr.. Smith OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas.
Mr. Lord opened the discussion and
went back to the question of the rate
on compressed and uncompressed cot
ton as presented the day before. He
argued that the interior merchant
should not be required TO give up TIE
soc per bale 10 allow the Galveston
merchants to do business, as they
claimed was necessary. While he
supposed the man at Galveston had
20 do business, he did not think that
it should be done at the expense and
loss of the man at the other end of the
line.
2fr. Smith in speaking of the mat.
Ter said he was positively and en-
phatically opposed to any order that
would have for its basis the same rate
on compressed and uncompressed cot
ton, as had been suggested. He il
lustrated by saying that car could
carry twice as much compressed cot
ton as it could uncompressed, so that
If the same rate was made I
ON both classes of the staple the |
roads would be required to carry
Just twice rs much uncompressed T.
cotton as compressed cotton for the
same price, In other words, they
would have to run two cars and only /.
get as nuch for it as they would if the .
cotton had been compressed, when it |
could be carried by one. He claimed |
that as the principle of the thing was
radically wrong, it would not only be |
great injustice to the roads to re- |
quire it, but he thought that no good !
results would accrue to anyone. The |
situation at present, he said, is eX-
actly the same between the producers
and the Houston and Galveston |
buyers as it was before the first
interior compress was built
The discussion then became general !
in regard to the condition of affairs |
before the commission took hold, and |
chat existing now, but no very start |
ling or significant points were brought
out,
Mr.. Polk then took up the question
2 the general merchandise tariff
hich the commissioners are engaged |
III formulating, He prefaced his re-
marks with the statement that he in
tended to be very mild in his requests |
but still he said he wanted |
every tariff promulgated by the com,
mission up to the present time raised.
He made this demand because, as he
stated, the commission assured the
railroad men some time since that
they did not intend to deprive the
railroads ofauy income heretofore de-
rived, but to 81 arrange all rates and
as to max it as far as pos
sible satisfactory to all parties. Mr..
Polk came prepared to show by fig
ures taken from the books of his com
pany that they had lost money on
every commodity tariff issued by the
commission.
He first called attention to commod.