Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-13
Correspondence Of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, March 12-Representative
Robinson, who arrived yesterday, carried
three bills in his carpetbag which he pro-
poses to spring on the house next week.
The first is bill amending the law in reia-
ton to the responsibility of receivers of
railroads for claims for damages and other
causes arising under their administration
of the property, and removing the exemp-
tion in such cases that now exists in their
favor. Under the bill their res possibilities
are made the same as in cases against rail-
road companies.
Another bill relates to the manner and
time of issuing certificates to school teach
ers, and a third to the usury law. Mr..
Robinson has an idea that private banks
and others ioaning money should not be
Disseminated against and in favor of ma
tional banks by state law. Usury laws Of
the state can not apply to national banks,
which are subject only to the Federal law.
The penalty for usury under this law is
forfeiture of the interest only. Under our
present state law the penalty is forfeiture
of not less than third nor more than all
Of the principal The result of this strin-
gent measure, says Mr.. Robinson, IS to
force private banks to become national
banks.
His bill proposes TO make the state law as
TO usury conform to the Federal law so as
to place all individuals and an : on a
plane of equality, and remove the S -ringent
penalties that operate in favor of national
banks.
BELCHER TALKS.
met G. W. Belcher, a prominent farmer
Of Hill county, at the capital to-day, he
having stopped off on his way to San An
tonic. MIR. Belcher is a State Alliance
lecturer of the sub-treasury school and has
travelled, he says, all over the state in the
capacity of a lecturer. l asked him how he
stood with reference to the race for gov
ernor. "Hogg," said he, tooth and. toe
nail"
well, that is pretty positive. 1t was
thought that you sub-treasury people were
either on the fence or else taking no dish
in the fight, and that some OF the leaders
were against Hogg."
''Yes, know" said he ''but that is all
a mistake. l, of course, speak only for
myself, but tell you l am for Hogg and
the commission from head to foot. Hogg
is the only man that had the nerve to take a
bold stand in favor of regulating the rail
roads, and am opposed to making martyr
of him in order TO please the people who
own the roads.
That is what they are now trying to do,
and it is all wrong and shame. Hogg is
the man the people have looked to and still
look to for regulation, and to no pretended
advocate of that idea. l have been around
-
about The people are with him."
How about the sub-treasury rank and
flel''
They are the very people 1 am talking
about Of course there are exceptions,
men who have teen led astray, but the
masses are Just where they were two years
ago and are not going to be deceived now
by the same crowd that opposed Hogg and
the commission then. They are not such
fools as that, I can tell you. That is what
/ learn from mixing with them, and 1 be-
Geve l am right"
Mr.. Belcher spoke very highly of Judge
Reagan, when, he said, the people trusted
fully in the work of administering the COM
mission law. Mr.. Belcher did not take
much stock in Judge Clark's conversion to
belief in the commission. He thought it
too sudden, too abrupt add lacking in the
essentials of thoroughnesS and sincerity.
Hogg and Reagan were good enough COM
mission men for HIM. He was glad enough
to know that Judge Clark had seen the en-
ror of his ways and had joined the true
faith, but thought it well 10 keep him on
probation for a while before trusting him
with the fortunes of the commissi(n law.
MIR. Belcher in reply to a questi about
Mr.. Einley's idea concerning the s,dudIng
In the Democratic party of the sub
warrant for what Mr.. Finley said on that
subject. 1t was all undemocratic and
would not hold water. He condemned Tall,
holding that the doctrine of the sub
treasuryites was the doctrine of Jefferson,
Madison and others of the fathers of
Democracy. In essence the doctrines were
the same, and no man had q right 10 hold
that a sub-Jreasuryite was not or could not
be good Democrat J.F.O.