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would put an end to railroad wrecking
| in the state. There were instances OF
where railroads had been purchased
for four million dollars and then capt.
tailed for forty million. If the state
were in an attitude to become pur
chaser capitalists would have to pay
something like the value of railroads
when put up for sale.
Senator Dean moved that the fur
ther consideration of the bill be post.
poned and that the bill be made
special order for Friday. Lost.
Senator Lewis made the point of
order that the amendment was not
germane to the section which it pro-
posed to amend.
The chair held the point of order
well taken.
Senator Kearby moved that the
senate fix next Tuesday at IL a. M,
for considering an executive session
the appointments of notary publics
sent in by the governor today.
Adopted.
Senator Lawhon, by consent iutro-
ton of railroad or other corporations
and to prohibit the purchase or lease of
parallel or competing lines by other
railroads.
Adjourned till p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate met at 3 p. M.
On motion of Senator Simpson house
Joint resolution to amend the consti-
tuition so as to authorize the establish.
ment and maintenance of home for
INDECENT and disabled Confederate
veterans was taken up and ordered
engrossed.
The consideration of the generslap-
preparation bill was then resumed.
Senator Steele offered to amend the
appropriation of $4,000 to erect monu-
ment over General Sam Houston, so
that his romans and those of his wife
shall be removed from Huntsville and
buried in the state cemetery at Aus
tin.
Senator Simpson offered as a substi.
tute that $1,000 be appropriated to
mark the grave of General
Houston at Huntsville, and $4,000
to erect monument on the capitol
grounds.
Senator McComb eloquently APP
pealed for the erection of a monument
over the grave at Huntsville, the
place that had been selected by the pa
triot himself.
The substitute was lost-yeas u,
nays Is.
Senator SteeIe's amendment was
also lost.
Senator Simpson offered to amend
the appropriation so as to appropriate
$25, 900 to erect a monument on the
capitol grounds. Adopted.
Senator Lewis offered an amend.
ment to appropriate $4,000 for the re-
pair OF the Alamo building. He
thought the wooden roof ought to be
taken off the building and a stone
roof like the original one that was
blown off at the siege of the building
so memorable in Texas history The
was adopted.
Senator Kearby offered ali amend
ment to appropriate $4,000 to erect
over the grave OF General
4. }. Rusk and in the event that his
relatives shall remove his remains to
the state cemetery, then to erect the
there. Adopted.
Senator Jester amended the bill so
as TO appropriate $500 for publishing
for proposals for supplies for the asy-
lums, Confederate home and state re-
and $94 for book paper to
be furnished by M. A. Kopperl, for
the reports of the civil courts of APP
peals. Adopted.
Senator Hutchinson offered an
to the appropriation for
the support of the public free schools
so as to strike out the words "less the
appropriated from said pub
lie schools fund by this act for other
purposes Lost by vote of IA to s.
Senator Steele amended the APP
so as to cut the salary of
the chief clerk in the agricultural de-
partment from $500 to $1,000 per n
mum, and also the salaries of the agri-
cultural and historical clerks from
$500 to $1,000. Adopted.
Senator Yoakum offered an amend
ment so as to make the salary or the
filing clerk in the general land Office
Sl400 per annum, and that of an as
sistant 500. Adopted.
Senator Steele amended so as to
make the salary of the clerk in the
geological department S75 per month
instead of 500.
Senator LawhOrn offered memorial
from the New York, Texas and Next
can railway, asking permission to sue
the state to establish its claim to land
Gel tificates, claimed under act of Aug.
Is, 1876. Adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
The house met with Speaker Coch-