San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-07
STATE LEGISLATURE,

Legislature is very wrathy over it,
as the action taken in caucus plain
ly shows, where Senate stood by
its guns, declared that it had worked
hard and that the sessions business
was well advanced. There was a
to hurl the message
back at the governor but good ma
ture prevailed and it was not done.
HOUSE.
House caucus took action indie.
pendently of the message the eau
Gus having been agreed upon some
days previous. On motion a COM
mittee Of one from each Congress
sional district, to be selected by the
Democratic members from such
districts, was agreed upon for the
purpose OF selecting such admins.
tration and platform bills as should
have preference, and to report the
result OF their deliberations to the
caucus next Friday night. The
committee is as follows: Dashiell,
Feagan, Evans, Of Hunt, Armi-
stead, Peck, Smith, of Hill, Patter-
son, Morrison, Giddings, Stubs,
Bailey, Wurzbach and Beall.
The Democratic platform was
read, as it was thought that bills
bearing out its demands should
have precedence, and then the
music began:
Tarver stated that he would not
submit to the beating from the
club welded by the Governor,when
he knew that no bill bearing the
administration stamp had yet
been refused the right Of way in
the House. He said he was tired of
having it thrown at the Houses
head that it had done nothing,
when the committees had been
wrestling night and day with over
600 bills, and protested in his own
behalf and that Of his fellow mem.
beers against the continual repeti-
ton of the charge that they had
not done their duty.
Ward declared that it was one Of
the beauties Of American institu.
tions that the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government
were separate and he pointed out
the dangers Of the encroaching Of
one department upon the other.
He characterized the Governors
message as an insult and asked to
be shown when the house had been
recreant in it's duties. IL Mr.. Gull
berson had not made eXtravagant
and impossible promises upon the
hastings he would not now be try
ing to whip the legislature into
helping him out Of his dilemma.
He for one did not proposed to be
whipped into voting for any meas
ure. He thought that the chief
executive had got into his head
that certain laws involving some
Of the most wildcat legislation
ever heard Of ought to be passed,
and he called upon the members to
be men and let the Governor know
that il he would run his end the
Legislature would look out for its
own business. He resented as an
insult the imputation made by the
Governor that the House was in
any measure derelict in the per-
Torrance Of its duty. While he
had never before been a member Of
the Legislature, he had lived in
Austin for over twenty years and
had never in that time known
House which had been so atten-
i've to its duties. "This charge
from the young man in the eXecu.
tive chair" he continued, sis I'M
called for and unwarranted by the
facts. The charge that the House
is not paying proper attention to
the platform demands comes in
very bad taste from the Governor
when it is we'll known that in ten
minutes after his nomination he
got Off the platform and under it.
| have nothing personal against
Gov. CulbersOn, and would yield
him a hearty support in the pas
sage of proper laws, but | refuse to
be whipped into the support OF
wildcat legislation by the eXecu-
tive lash"
After the chin music was over
the organization of the caucus was
made permanent, and adjournment
taken until Friday night.
The general appropriation bill as
finally formulated by the House
finance committee and sent to the
printer calls for an appropriation
Of $2,349,O93 for the first year and
s., l24, l69 for the second year, or
an increase of some 100000
upon the bill as first framed.
These appropriations do not
include the amounts required
to pay legislative expenses, to re-
tire outstanding registered war
rants and deficiencies in appropria-