The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-07
THE EXTRA SESSION.
ANOTHER HOT DAY IN THE HOUSE
AND SENATE.
Matters Of Moment That Were Handled
Alien Land Law in the House
Full Synopsis Of the
Proceedings.

tinued talking ii up in Interested
groups in the House. The friends OF
the Hon. Ras. Jones are waking up
since Mr.. Vestal has been brought so
prominently to the front. His home
paper comes to the House and says
that when the news that Ras Is in the
race came to Pamela, the boys at the
fork, of the creek, threw their hats up
and split the air with their yells.
The Legislative labors that the gen
tlemen are engaged in are being quite
satisfactorily brought to a focus, and
the end approaches.
The members were all on hand this
morning looking as innocent and hap
Ply as il they had not deluged the
House with the blood of the uniform
text book bill less than twenty-four
hours before.
After the morning hour the alien
land law was brought out for inspec-
ton. Immediately the warriors don
ned their paint and feathers and pro.
ceeded to dance about the bill. Some
of them were disposed to pet and some
to poster it, and between them it was
pulled about in most distressing
style.
Various members took the floor and
pumped their voices into ii until it
tl9ated like q water-logged ship on
the sea of their eloquence, and when
they had pumped until after the hour
of noon, and the Texas legislator could
no longer stand the pangs which
know no assuaging other than that
which pancakes and kindred
dainties give, they adjourned
for the day and left the bill drifting
helplessly on the tide. The waves
rolled on and 1t sagged from side to
side In the trough of the sea, and thus
they left it, with the reporters roost-
ing disconsolately on it's rigging.
THE COURTS OF CIVIL APPEAL.
Judiciary committee No. l held o
red hot rampant session yesterday
afternoon, and had "a timen over the
senate bill locating the courts of civil
appeal at Galveston, Fort Worth and
San Antonio. That is, the bill did
propose to locate the courts when it
left the senate, but when it disappear
ed in the hopper of the committee
mill and Clerk Pool laboriously ground
it out at the other end it didn't do any
locating worth speaking of. In fact, it
looked like very demoralized bill.
The gentlemen jumped on it vigor-
ously and kicked all idea of locating
out of 1t.
They patched it up some before
they left it, and when it is returned
to the House, they will recommend
three districts in which the courts
shall be located, and in one of those
districts will be found Austin, San
Marcos and San Antonio, in another
Tyler, Galveston and Houston and in
another Fort Worth and Dallas.
The fight will be finished in the
House and it will be hot one.
The alien land law will also come up
in the House Monday, d. V.
THE SENATE.
The Senate had q veritable monkey
and parrot time yesterday. Senator
the stage upon which the tableaux
took place. Very few of the potent,
grave and reverned seigniors failed to
do their part in the dance. The roll
call disclosed the fact that about nine
of the members had gone home to
spend Saturday and Sunday with
their families. The seance was in
with song by the Senator
from Hopkins, who desired to post
pone pending business, which, by the
way, was the investigation of the
receivership, to take
up the bill apportioning the
state into congressional districts, he
was assisted by Senator Page, the
basso profundo from Houston. Several
joined in the chorus but the melody
was doomed to be prematurely and
rudely hushed for few of the men,
bers have been so busy that in the
three weeks spent here they have not
been able to examine the bill dividing
the state into congressional districts.
When this song had been squelched
Senator Kearby in his we'll modulated
tenor called upon the Senate to take
up his bill providing for local option
in parts of counties less than
a Justices precinct. Just
here the sage from Navarro
raised his vioce in long metre plea
that the speeches might be put Off I'M
til night in order to give the members
of the House a chance to hear them.
This did not meet the approval of the
senator from Coleman who evidently
thought the song was sung in too
high u key and he proceeded to de-
his objections without par
leying. He said that the speech MAX
ing was serious matter and ought not
to be showed off until night like they
we're going to have corn shocking,
log rolling or quilting. The senator
from Navarro interviewed (pardon the
but no harm is meant. The
word is used in its original significa-
ion and does not mean any
hing wrong) and said that he
lid not fully understand what
he terms just used by his
lend meant, whereupon he was
informed that If he had