The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-03-02
AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN THURsr A. MARCH 4 ,as


ceeded to business:
y Lord, our FI1nsr! H,pust, see
that the hall in which we labor is
r'oiless to infinity, with every word
and deed beneath the eye and
oenediction of the All-wise God
Our Father, deepen our faith in i'm.
mortality. May we never forget that
without immortality, commerce is the
piling up of sand.hills upon an ocean
shore, to be swept away by the Ie
turning tide; science, Il putting forth
OF leaky rats toward illimitable seas,
to be whelmed before they pass the
shadows; tn ought, the mounting up
ward of rocket to spangle for a
moment an infinite midnight; love,
the slipping round the heart with JOY
thrills, of the fingers of u fiend, and
be better to tear it from the bosom,
Make each man in this room, not only
q wise citizen and a faithful senator,
but true, tender loving, compass
sionate man, who speaks and thinks
and labors as hecometh one who dwells
tor a little in the vestibule of life, in
the porch OF the infinities, and to Thy
name be praise and honor now and
always. Amen.
Bills and resolutions were introduc-
ed and referred as follows:
BY Mr.. Kearby-Joint resolution to
amend the constitution 30 as 10 make
the railway commission elective.
Senate bill to authorize the general
land commissioner to issue patents TO
lands in quantities less than Urlginal-
ly purchased, was laid before the SEN
ale on third reading and was passed.
Senate bill to amend the revised
civil statutes so that the presidential
electors shall meet in Austin on the
second Monday Il January alter the
election was laid before the senate on
third reading and was passed.
Senate bill to establis h a state nor
NAL school at Denton and appropriate
$50, QUO out OF the available school fund
therefor was laid before the senate OH
third reading.
Senator Hutchinson opposed the
bill on the ground that iU was not
constitutional TO appropriate part of
he school fund Tor such purpose,
and that 1t was an unheard of pro.
ceeding for the state to accept the offer
of donation of building aud grounds
without investigating the condition
of affairs.
senators Tips, Kearby and Smith
advocated the bill as necessary to sup
ply the annual demand tor teachers,
while Senators Baldwin, Boren and
steele opposed it's passage, as did also
senator Douglass.
Ihe bill vas passed by vote of 10
to 10.
Senator Yoakum moved to take up
senate bill tor the creation of additional
u 'urts Uf clVII appeals.
Senator ImbOden said that the bill
was not properly before the senate a.
the bill and all others on the same
subject had been referred to joint
committee of the two houses
and the majority report of the COM
mittee was not in accorGonce with the
resolution under which the commit,
tee was created.
The chat: held that the point OF
Or0er was not we'll taken as there Was
still pending motion to decline to re-
ceive the report of the committee.
This motion TO decline to receive the
report of the committee was adopted
by VOTE OF IL to II.
Senator Imboden renewed his point
of order in Senator Yoakum's motion
Oh the ground that all those bills. per-
tanning TO creating new civil courts OF
appeals were still before the joint com.
mittee.
Senator Presler argued that the
point was not we'll taken, as when the
senate declined to receive The report
the functions of the committee were at
an end.
senator Douglass thought the point
well taken.
The point of order was not decided,
however, and on motion of Sc laJOr
Douglass the vote by which the sen-
ate refused to receive the report of The
joint committee was reConsldered and
the motion to decline TO receive the
report was then lost.
After considerable further discus.
sion the motion of Senator YOakum to
lake up senate substitute bill CT eatlng
three additional courts of civil appeals
was lost.
House bill to create more efficient
road system in the county of Cald vol
was laid be ore the senate on third
reading and pending discussion the
senate adjourned.
SENATE COMMITTEES.
The senate committee on claims met
yesterday afternoon and decided to re-
port tavorably the following bills:
Bill to refund to w. b. Brush $275
money paid out by him as right-oi-
way for state sewer. Bill to ascer-
tain whether f. J. Baker and Others
or any of them have a lien on certain
land owned by the state in Navarro
county.
Senate committee on education
spent the afternoon in consideration
Of the Carlisle educational bill. The
object OF the bill is to vest the control
of the public schools in cities and
towns in board of trustees, a d to
take The matter entirely out of the
hands of the city councils. The COM !
mitteee agreed upon a substitute bill,
which will be reported to the senate
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