The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-11

DALLAS News, May 10.
The News is permitted to use the
following letter to Judge Turney:
TYLER, Tex, May l6.-N. g. Tur-
ney, Esq, Dallas, Tex: My dear sir
i have just received your letter, in
closing extracts from the speech of
Gov. Hogg at Sherman. as follows:
"There before my eyes the bill
known as the Terrell substitute was
prepared, and saw, that bill dot by
dot, IT. by It, made to conform with
the will of the people. The railroads
sent their attorneys down there and
things were confused. l don't believe
the members understood the bill as
we'll as did )" etc. And again; "Hhe
lobby was there and so INSTRUCTED
legislation that it required three
months to get it through"
L had expected Gov. Hogg to quail
ify this statement or else deny the
correctness Of the report, but as he
had done neither L Judge that the
charge was deliberately made and
correctly reported. In his effort to
show the means resorted to by the
railroads to defeat and delay legisla-
ton, he has reflected upon the entire
legislature, and has done his friends
an injustice You call upon me for
statement of the facts within my
knowledge, which / make with leave
to publish as you request. The gov
ernor, as now remember, has stated
that the Terrell substitute was the
joint effort of Terrell, Brown and
himself.
The statement, then, that the rail-
road lobby had confused everything,
that the members did not understand
! the bill as he did, and
that the bill was prepared be-
fore his very eyes, and that he super
intended it dot by dot and st" by st, f."
shows that the governor had lost con-
fidence even in those "old war
horses Terrell and Brown and could
not trust them out of his sight. The
governors charge that the lobby 30
obstructed legislation that 1t required
three months to pass the commission
bill is disputed both by
THE RECORD AND THE FACTS.
On the third day of the session Col
Brown introduced his commission
bill, printed in full in the house jour
nal of the twenty-second Legislature Q,
page ten, and it was on that day, Jan,
10, referred to the committee. There
it remained for thirty days, till Feb
IA, unreported. Who caused this de-
lay? 1t was within the power OF the
committee to have reported the bill al
once or at any time. If we are to ac'
cept the statement of Gov. Hogg, il
was the work of the lobby, who had
"confusedn Col. Brown and his com
mittee.
1 give a list of the committee tina
the public may judge whether they
were unable to resist this unlawful
influence: Brown, Gossett, Owsley
Derden, Truitt, Fielder, Lewis, Cray
ton, White, Womack, Moody, Francis
McCunningham, Gresham, COnollee
Rogers, Erskine, Nelson.
The truth of the matter is that thii
delay was caused by Gov. Hogg, Col
Brown and myself. First there was
subcommittee from the house and thu
senate to compare and reconcile tn
various bills on the subject of a com
mission. These subcommittee thel
entrusted the work to Col. Brow
d and myself, and the delay in on
S work was due mainly to our failure t.
o. agree with Gov. Hogg on certain pro
visions which he insisted should b
Ii in the bill and the consequent confer
ences which we had with him ant