The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-24

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ously discussed the project of redis-
tricting the into judicial districts.
Various members expressed widely
differing views, but the general opin-
ion appeared TO be that 1--WE can do
with less districtsn AT length it
was decided to refer the matter to a
subcommittee, and Messrs. Martin of
Wise, Shaw, Davis, Selman and
Browning of Lampasas were appointed
on the subcommittee.
The committee on
CONGRESSIONAL APP1R rIoNMENT
worked long and hard yesterday, and
by dark had hammered some seven or
eight districts into shape. The work
of apportionment goes ahead slowly.
The solons realize that they have a
heavy job on hand, and they are
toting it with exceeding great care.
THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
held an interesting session yesterday
evening and considered Senator Pages
text book bill at length. Mr.. Vestal
opposed the bill vigorously and argu-
st. John of San Marcos, Prof. Harris
of Dallas and Prot. Sutton of Houston.
Mr.. Moody also opposed it, having
bill of his own providing for county
uniformity. Senator Page and Mr..
Kirkpatrick advocated the Senate bill
with all their allied powers, and the
discussion ended with the substitu-
ton of that measure for all the others
The Page bill will be reported favor
ably to the House.
The subcommittee on
APPORTIONMENT
did the same yesterday as the day be-
fore-that is they worked long and
earnestly on the matter before them,
and are beginning to see the end.
THE SENATE.
Notw outstanding the fact that the
governor has mapped out ten times as
much as the legislature could do in
the thirty days allowed them, both
houses took q day off and waded into
national affairs with zeal and SEM
blance of understanding worthy of
Texans.
State affairs do not offer that wide
and exalted plane for action which the
average legislator desires. They seem
to think that anybody can run such q
small, insignificant thing as the state,
but when it comes to the nation there
must be multitude of counsel and
things must be done with a certainty
and dispatch worthy the imitation Of
the gods.
The first part of the morning hour
of the Senate was uninteresting in the
extreme. Senator Atlee's bill putting
into effect the amendment to the con-
stitution relating to the taking of u.s.
urious interest, was passed after some
discussion, but when the Secretary of
the House hove in sight and reported
the passage by that body of a resolu-
tion instructing the Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress to vote for
the free coinage bill, the tide changed
and the uninteresting gave way to
the exciting.
1t had been rumored that the House
was having hog killing time over
the resolution and the rumor when
run down proved to be not far wrong.
Whence the resolution come no one
knoweth but it went through with a
rush after the Mills men withdrew
their oppositions to it but when it
came into tie Senate it struck snag.
Senator Lubbock initiated the tea
party. He said he was in favor of
free silver but was opposed to the res
olution because he did not think it
best to dictate to those
who were in Washington
and better able to Judge of the effect
and influence which the passage of
the bill would have. He argued that
the passage of the free coinage bill
might seriously impair the chances of
the Democrats in the next election.
The majority Of the Senate thought
the same and with one accord they
hoped on to the lamb-like resolution
like q hungry duck on June bug
1t was punched so full OF holes, torn so
to pieces and carved up in such
fine style that it was necessary to put
in substitute for it. This was done
by the senator from Washington who
stuck the pieces together with the fol-
lowing plaster.
"Resolved, That we regard the ret
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issue before the American people and
that we also favor the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver and our sena-
tors and representatives are requested
to vote in accordance herewith
The substitute was adopted by the
following vote:
Yeas-Crane, Carter, Ingram, John
son, Mott. Potter, Page, Pope, Scale,
Searcy, Sims Tyler, Townsend-13.
Nays-Atlee. Burney, Clark, Gran
ford, Finch, Frank, Kearby, Kim
brough, Lubbock and O'Neal-10.
An amendment by Senator O,Neal
to strike out the part referring to the
tariff was lost by vote of II to I. SEN
ator Burney was next to try to effect
a change in the condition of affairs by
adding the words, "and especially for
the bill to come up on the
22d instant" but il could
not be done. The supporters
of Cleveland and Mills were too
strong and the amendment was killed
as dead as Hector.
The substitute, standing as the
original, was then adopted by vote
of II to 7. IL will now 90 back to the