The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-01-26

MINOR" The committee amendmen
was adopted, providing that wher
ths saloon keeper has acted in goot
!; ialth and has reasonable ground q,
believe the minor of age, the penalt,
shall not attach.
Another important change from ID
old law is that it prohibits the saloot i
Keeper from selling adulteratt,l
liquors. The present law prohibit
y MIN from knowingly selling adulter
: ated liquors,
The bill was ordered engrossed.
A message from the governor wa.
read asking consent of the senate tt
the following appointments:
Geo. w. Smith of Mitchell county
secretary of state.
II. L. Henry of Bowie county, as
sistant attorney general.
w. II. Mabry of Marion county
adjutant general.
DIR. r. M. Swearingen of Travis
county, state health officer.
John E. Hollingsworth of johnson
county, commissioner Of agriculture,
statistics and history.
w. T. Hardeman of Travis, super
intendent of public buildings and
grounds.
r. s. Harrison of Travis, state reve-
nue. agent.
r. w. Finley of Travis, financial
agent of penitentiaries.
James P. Gibson of Cherokee, assis-
tant superintendent of Rusk peniten-
tiary.
J.P. Smither of Walker county. as.
sistant superintendent Huntsville
penitentiary.
l.. M. Green of Henderson county.
inspector of penitentiary camps.
Sam II. Dixon of Dallas county, in
spector of penitentiary camps.
E. B. Smyth of Limestone county,
A. P. Woodbridge of Travis county,
f. II. Lubbock of Travis, commission
ers of the state penitentiary.
Il. A. Whatley of Cass county,
superintendent of penitentiaries.
James e. Mcclure, superintendent
of house Of correction.
y. b. Colquitt, j. B. Port or, s. E.
Wascom, B. H. Scott, J. E. billiard of
kaufman, board of managers of North
Texas lunatic asylum at Terrell.
| Appointments made since the adj
journment of the Twenty-second leg
islature:
E. D. Cain of Galveston, criminal
district judge of Galveston and Harris
counties.
K. l.. Henry of Bowie, assistant at
torney general.
Il. G. Taylor of Coryell, vice E. A.
Mcdowell, resigned, one of the board
of trustees of the home of correction.
j. E. billiard of kaufman, vice Mes
tor Morrow, resigned, one of the board
of trustees of the North Texas lunatic
asylum.
Peter Walls Of Zapata, inspector of
hides and animals.
T. B. Norris of Starr, inspector of
hides and animals.
George w. Littlefield of Travis, vice
w. H. Tobin, resigned, one if the
board of trustees of the blind asylum.
On motion of Senator Imboden the
senate fixed today at II O'Clock q. M,
to go into executive session on the ap.
pointments.
Senate bill to put into effect consti-
tutional amendment authorizing any
subdivision of a county to hold local
option election was taken up, and,
pending discussion, senate adjourned
till 1Oa. m. today.
THE HOUSE.
The house met with Speaker Coch-
ran and quorum present.
Petitions were presented from citi-
zens of Fredericksburg opposing an
option bill.
From citizens of Coleman, Concho
and McCulloch counties, asking for
the creation of Reagan county.
Mr.. Chambers raised the usual OBJ
jections and caused deal of sem
timental expressions of opinion by Of |
fering resolution that the subscrip-
lions for thirty copies daily of daily |
for each member shall ex-
pire January 81.
Mr.. James made the point that the
was out of order, as q mat
ter already settled by the action of
the house.
Speaker Cochran ruled that it was
for the house to repeal or
rescind any Objectionable rule.
Mr.. Chambers argued that it was
not constitutional to use the money of
the state for subsidies to the press.
He did not understand that it was his
duty to act as q news agent for circu.
lating the papers. All the papers sent
out did not reach one man in 500,
There is good press in Texas pub.
fishing everything of interest to the
people. Our proceedings will be pub.
lished whether we pay them or take
hem or not. The papers get their
pay by subscriptions from the citizen
ship. The people are generally in
,elligent enough to have the papers.
If constitutional enough for us to con-
ract for the papers why limit the
lumber to thirty? Why not have
enough to send to every voter In the
tate?
Mr.. James Il voted against the
'riginal resolution taking the papers
,ut think 1t is out of order to rescind
t. He quoted from Cushing's Manual
N the question.
Speaker Cochran-I have decided
hat it is competent for the house to
escind its action.
Mr.. james, contend that it will be {
breach of contract to rescind the
esolution, and for that reason oppose {
he proposition.
Mr.. Wilson-I understand that the &
enate refused to reconsider it's action [
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