The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-21

came law without his signature. See
acts Twenty-second Legislature, regu-
lar session, page 40.
lie claims to have forced the rail.
roads to have good passenger depots
and to keep them well lighted and
warm, etc, when the act re curing tt
same became Law without bis sigma.
ture. See acts TWEEN y. second legls
lature, regular session, page As
When called to account here in Hous.
ton for. allowing so many bills becom-
ing law without his signature he said:
81 read them but did not sign them,
for if | did they would go into effect
Immediately, and l was afraid they
might iDjure someone, so l let them
take the usual ten days" 1t would
have hurt lots of people, wouldn't it,
to have signed the usury, the good
depot, the fellow servants billR
"RstsP' If l could not give better
excuse for neglect of duty would not
give any at all. Neither one of these
bills had an emergency clause and
could not have gone into effect until
ninety days after adjournment
Of the Legislature If he had signed
them in thirty places. He claims
he followed the Democratic platform
and procured the passage of the sep
crate coach bill for darkies, This bill
did not get his signature. See acts
Twenty second Legislature, regular
session, page 40. He claims he had
law passed regulating express oompa-
MES, declaring them common carriers.
This act became law without his APP
proval. See acts regular session leg.
islature, pages As and 49,
He claims credit for the passage of
the law Tor revising and oodifying the
laws of the state. This act did not
get his approval (see acts Twenty.
second Legislature, regular session,
pages SO and 90 He claims that he
procured the passage of an act regu.
lating the purchase and sale of rail.
roads at judicial aud other sales, but
said act did not get his official approval
(see acts regular session of the legis-
lature, 1873, 129 and 1907 He claims
that he provided against issuance of
bonds, etc,, by cities and towns, etc.
Said act did not get his signature (see
acts regular session of the Twenty.
second Legislature, pages 100 to 1867,
This, my fellow workmen, is a part
of his record as governor He seems
to have adopted Jim Blaine's motto
Claim everything for me- We
might just as well have had
THE WOODEN MAN
that stands in front of M. T. Jones'
office on Main street he executive
chair Out of rIS bills passed by the
legislature, there were fifty five of the
no st important which did not receive
his approval, yet section IA of article
of the constition which he is sworn
to support makes it his duty as gov
ernor to approve or disapprove, and
if he approves to sign, and if he dis
approves to return it to the house in
which it originated, with his objec-
tons. But, fellow workmen, what is
the use Of quoting the constitution to
him! He seems TO have been oblivi
Gus OF the existence of that instru-
ment He seems TO know none of
the requirements Of that instrument.
Otherwise he would have never signed
the most inlquitous measure that was
ever passe by any legislature IN these
United States--the alien land act,
tweniy-second Legislature, a bill that
was passed in the dead hour of night,
when half of the legislators were
asleep and the balance 100 tired to
know what they were doing. | have
this on the testimony of Harry Tracy
in his discussion with Charles Stew
art at Market Hall. Tracy was the
steerer of the measure. This bill re
ceived his signature, aud although he
had been repeatedly asked did he
read it before signing it, he has made
no reply. If he did so ought he not
be impeached! If he read it and then
signed it, then he stamps himself as
an ignoramus, for it violates one of
the plainest provisions of the cousti-
tution-that a bill shall not become a
law without head or title. This thing
had no head and was promptly
knocked out by the supreme court
But during its brief exis ence it cast
sorrow and distress in 10000 homes
in Texas. That act ought to con.