The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-08
SENATE.
Roll call; quorum present.

to prohibit contracts being entered
into to limit the liability of employer
to en- p DYE for damage.
b. D.ckson-For the relief of A.
n I George. who was convicted of muir
Il der and sentenced to the penitentiary
4 from Fsyc,te county, where he served
II four years, when II. NJ. Sharpe made
y deathbed confession that he was the
b murderer George wants $1,000
u By Gcss: To authorize the relin-
N aus hment to the state of Texas by the
N owner of state, school university or
d asylum lands owned by them in excess
~ Of 6l acres.
rs BIZ creating board of pardon ad
N vlsors passed
n BIZ prohibiting the employ ment Of
III aued Piukertons passed
HOUSE.
q Roll call; quorum present.
81 House bin No. 6, known as the
81 Mechanics Lien bill, introduced by
n Fiulay, of Galveston, and which occu
\ pied almost the entire session ves,er.
day, WAS again the subject of discus.
sion this morning, pending the dis.
cussion Of which the house ad urne d
/ to D a. m. tomorrow.
GOVERNOR $ MESSAGE.
q The following message from the
governor was transmitted to and read
III bo,h houses this morning.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6, 1898.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of
Repretatves:
1t becomes my painful duty to en-
phasize to you the nece ssity of taking
some steps to pre- ent mob violence in
Texas The recent terrible holocaust
at Paris is but an illustration to what
extent the mob spirit will 90 when the
laws ale inadequate to check 1t
While the victim of that affair was
guilty of an atrocious, barbarous
\ uime, appalling to contemplate, for
Mich he was certain of full punish
mint under the constitution and laws
-four state, civilization stands as a
execution Of the age, in which large
numbers of oi'zfns openly, in broad
day, publicly, became murderers by
methods shameful to humanity.
Brushing away sentiment, which
should never accompany punishment
for crime, the public murder commit
ted at Paris is disgrace to this state.
Its alrocl'y, inhumauity and slckening
effect upon the people at large cannot
be ooscured by reference to the savage
act Of the culprit himself in Brutality
taking the life of an innocent child.
For his deed the death penalty awaited
him under the law. The imputation
that he could net have been legally
executed in any court in this state is
SANDER upon the integrity of every
citizen To contend that his execu.
TONERS, who publicly murdered him,
can neither be indicted or tried in the
county where that crime was COM
mtted is pretense and mockery.
So he condition exists in our state
that " bile one man may be convicted
fer murder, hundred men who pub.
iicly commit murder cal not be. The
laws, therefore, without further legis.
laton, may be held in defiance in any
community where the forces are strong
enough to overawe the local officers
and set aside the legal machinery Of
Juptice. Our constitution ia not so
hide bound that this condition must
continue. 1t is in the power OF
the legislature to adopt suit
able measures to either prevent mob
law or to bring to punishme all the
mufderous executioners. No combi-
nation Of men should ever be so strong
In any government as to successfully
override the law. They should never
De so numerous as to make it impos-
siole to brig them to trial tor their
Crimes in the proper court.
~
This late execution at Paris is not
me onl y one that has been performed
by a mob in that county within the
past twelve mouth for within
mat period three other men were
hanged to death in that neighborbood,
VINO had committed no crimes. Their
presence in the community was often
slve or perhaps menscipg to the pleas.
use and equanimity Of the same band
u, murderers who took their lives.
1nere have been other instances in