The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-12
Our Austin Letter
AUs7Ix. April 10, ! ,a8

ne Senate ma ng AZ lodrned on
Saturday until Wedne,iay there
will be 40 session Of that Jdy IN.
til tomorrow The house has been
in the throes Of the general appro-
prlation bill and frequently finds
i self in committee OF the whole
with no quorum yoting.
There vas an excaedlngl y spirit.
ed light made upon the proposed ap.
preparation of 500 for the Jay.
ment Of salaries in the ad iutant
generals department aud for the
maintel ance of the bienn al encamp-
ment Of the state militia. Caves,
of X arnes, introiu ID an amendment
reducing this appropriation to SO.
'0.0 which brought Represen i've
X we'll to bis feet Rowell made
an earnest defense 81 appeal in be-
half of the militia Of the state, He
vas interrupted t. 4uestion as to
whether he Wa not a colonel in the
militia. Rowell retorted that he
wa, but that his services to the
militia were source of expense to
himself alone sLd did not cost the
tate of Texas cent.
Graves though, the Texas militia
was veil enough, perhaps, in its
way. 1t might be IA to look
upon, and ne did not doubt but that
the reunions contemplated we're
seasons of great Ell yment to the
boys, who carried away with them
lea'a1t recollecliol- Of retty
faces, sweet voices and unlimi.t i
qlantities of beer. He thou ght the
whole system not only e doubtful
value to the state, but productive
of positive harm. He regarded The
militia as standing mel ace to
peace, and a-gued that the presence
of armed men in ZINES Of peace, in
free country, operated az dare
az much so as though they we're
stalking about with chips on their
she uiders and inviting som .boiy to
knock them off. He had been made
district attorney for western
district, and upon his induction
into flee had found the people
armed with Winchesters, and in
such a state of ferment over the
presence Ct armed rangers that a
collision was liable to occur at any
time. His first official act was to
secure the withdrawal of the rang
ers, and az soon az popular eyclte
ment had subsidized. the trouble was
at aR end.
Simmons of NJ erlck, the silver
tongued and golden toothed GATOR
OF the house got way up in the
pictures in his argument against the
am endment and he made one If the
most classical ard elo quent t. ks of
the session yesterday and another
this morning shown 9 the necessi, y
for stimulating the martial spirit OF
the peol e, as well as the necessity
for mill airy discipline and training
in order to furnish nucleus and
rallying point around which the
people can gather when grim Wis,
aged war shall rear lis shaggy.
front, or words to that effect.
Plato and Diogones, Cicero, Napo-
leon the first, and several other ais
tinguished figures Of history sta.ked
through the gentleman's argument
with noncha auce and abandon
that was truly refreshing, but the
effect of the speech was favorable
to the militia ust the same. The
item was c1t to $780, and a. I'd
this morning.
The ball was opened ;::today in
com mittee of the whole, by Ball, of
Bowie. 1.-THE gentleman from
Arkansas" who moved that all the
items in the appropriation bill ur-
der the heading railway commits.
sion" be stric ken out except the
item providing for the salaries Of
the commissioners. McGehee, Of
Hays, offered a substitute providii 9
that the appropriation shall remain