The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-07
A CLlNCH tR
Goseett Views Of the Farwell
Memorial

| Representative T. Jssett IN an IN
terview has KNOCK ID the eternal
filing out of the Clark Matlock
Mccormick capitol syndicate pro
position TO let the state have back
the land given for the erection of
the capitol at four times the estl-
mated price at that time lie says:
The memorial of M. Farwell
and the interview of Mr.. Matlock
on the sui sct of the capitol syndi.
cate lands and their proposition to
/ sell TO the state are remark. X able
chic fly for their impudence aud
gall, and in keeping with that pc.
sistent effort of the enemies of
T,xas to bring into disrepute her
good name a. home and abroad.
Mr. M .tlock says the syndicate
accepted the INVITATION and built the
capitol with the belief that they
would be protected in their rights
Instead of tina. the, are threatened
with contiscation If they do not
ALLEVIATE TO citizen Of the | nted
Stae s within a number of years
The above declaration betray. a
degree of ignoia ice touching The
capitol building contract, or is an ef
fort to impose upon the supposed
ignorance Of the people on this
sub act that is not creditable even
to III at gentltnln
In 1888 the state of Texas adver-
tlsed for plans for a state capital to
cost ! 800 600, TO be paid for in
5000 600 res or land, estin 4 ed
to be worth 30 cents p or acre.
On the 18th day Of Janu,ry. leS2,
Matthea. ochnell an Individual OF
Illinois, accepted the terms fl red
by the state and undertook to bni d
the state capitol according to the
plans, terms and spe ,ifications. On
the 3 list day of January, 1882, Mr..
Schnel sold a three fourlhs interes.
in the contract to Abner Tay Tor, A.
G. Babcock, John Y. Farwell and
Charles b. Farwtll, of Chicago.
GA the oh day of May Of the same
year Mr. Schnell sold his remaining
one fourth interest in said contract
to the firm of Taylor, Babcock x
Co. On the 10th day of June, 1852,
Taylor, Bah sock a Co. sold the en-
tire contract to Abner Taylor, who
assumed Individually all the obliga-
tons originally incurred by Mr..
Schnell, and as compensation for
the capitol building the 3 GOO, 0Co
acres were patented to Abaer Taylor
as an individual and not as a corpo
ration or capitol syndicate.
The state has bal no dealings
with the capitol syndicate or corpo
ration and when corporation un-
dertakes TO hold without limitation
100000 acres OF land in Texas
it does so iii violation of the fixed
and untroken policy of the state,
as is proven by the express limita-
tions and requirement to ALLEVIATE
within fixed periods all lands
granted by the state to railroads
i and other corporations.
There has been no law proposed
or enacted in this state that would
interfere with the rights of Mr..
Schnell, Taylor, Babcock & Co., or
of Abner Taylor, the only parties
with whom this state las hal any
dealings to hold without Limitation,
or make any use or disposition of
these lands desired. The present
owner of the 3 600, 600 acres which
paid for the Texas capital is an
English corporation, with which
the state Of Texas not only never
had any dealings, ut which itself
had no existencs for more than three
years after the capitol contract was
let.
An examination of the articles of
incorporation fails to show that Mr..
Abner Taylor, who built the capitol
and to whom the lands were patent
ed is even a stockholder in the cor.
poration now owning said lands.
But independent of these facts
the proposition to sell these lands
to the state on the same terms and
prices that the state is selling lands
to settlers throughout the state is
remarkable for its modesty.
These lands were estim ated