The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-10-10

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! favorable report on the Ward anti-prize
| iqht hill. with q corrective amendment
in the caption and the insertion OF the
words cor for any championship" after
| tho words thing of value" in section 4.
Mr.. Owsley moved to suspend the rule
recurring bills 10 be printed.
Mr.. Allen of Dallas opposed the mo-
ton and deprecated what he called extra,
ordinary attempts to rush the Dill
through. o.,.-
A vote having been taken, the Owsley
motion prevailed by vote of 80 to "a,
those voting in the negative being Allen
of Dallas, Brown, Graham, Kennedy,
King. Langhammer. Martin of Coryell,
McI.enore, Mitchell, Moody, Maroney,
Morris. O'Connor, Orr, Patterson, Reiger,
Rogers, Smith of Brazos, Sowell, Speck-
els, Spivey. Stubs, Tarver, Wurzbach.
The bill was then read and the COM
mittee report adopted. -.
On motion of Mr.. Beard. section of
the bill was amended by inserting the
words ''or otherwise" after the word
first"
A motion by Mr.. Stubs to make the
offense misdemeanor instead OF
felony was overwhelmingly defeated
On motion of Mr.. Feagin the caption
was amended by adding the words ''and
10 prescribe a penalty therefor"
On motion of Mr.. Graham the amend
ments recommended by judiciary COM
mittee were adopted.
At this point message from the SEN
ate was received announcing that that
body had passed the Ward bill by vote
of 81 to /. The message was greeted
with tremendous applause.
Mr.. Allen of Dallas moved to strike out
the emergency clause, and having OBJ
tanned the floor argued earnestly and
eloquently in support of his motion. He
had nothing new to present, however,
vested rights" and investments" being
the burden of his talk.
Captain Tarver of Webb also spoke in
favor of striking out the emergency
clause on the ground that the bill which
it was proposed to railroad through would
make felons CT members of the Young
Mems Christian association who indulge
in gymnastic exercises.
Chairman Cough of judiciary commit
tee No. 2, to which the senate bill had
been referred after being read and re-
ceived, reported favorably thereon, with
the house amendments added thereto.
Mr.. Ward spoke against the notion to
strike out the emergency clause. He de-
voted himself almost exclusively to the
legal points involved and spoke most
effectivity. Among other things he told
of the pillar to post career of prize fight
ing until it had been made felony in all
States. Public sentiment and statutory
law had driven it out of almost every
State until Texas was about to be in
vaded by its advocates. Even the presi-
dent of Mexico had shut the door against
them. lie had at the regular session op-
posed Governor Culberson but now his
excellency was in the right and he pro-
posed to stand by him.
Mr.. Cough moved to suspend pending
business to take up the senate prize
fighting bill. The motion was carried.
The rule requiring bills to be printed
was also suspended. The constitutional
ruler equiring bills to be read on three
days was suspended by vote
of 107 to 7, and the bill was placed on it's
second reading.
The committee report was read and
adopted and an amendment to conform
the emergency clause to the caption was
adopted.
Mr.. Reiger moved to strike out the
emergency clause and Mr.. Robbins
moved the previous question.
The Reiger amendment was lost and
the bill was placed on it's third reading
by ~ vote of 40 to 5.
On final passage the vote stood as fol-
lows:
Ayes-Allen Of Colorado. Andrews, Ar
Avery. Bailey, Barron, Bass,
Beall. Beard, Bertram. Bounds, Bran
lettc. Brigance, Brown, Bumpass, Bur
Burney, Burns, Cameron, Car
pertcr, Carson, Chambers, Cooke, Cure
ton Dashiell. Davis. Drew, T'rirkard,
Edwards Evans of Hunt, Evans of Gray
son, Fake, Feagin, Fletcher Foster,
Freeman, Giddings, Gilliland, Good,
Cough, Graham, Greer, Haller Harrison,
Henderson, Huddleston, Jackson, Jen-
nines, King, Langhammer, Lillard, Lind
sey, Logan, Long Martin of Coryell Mar
tindale, Mcbride. Mckinney, McLemore,
Mcneil, McWilliams, Mills, Mitchell,
Moody. Moore of Morris, Moore of
Lamar. Morris, Murchison, Nix, O'Con-
nor, O'Neal. Owsley, Patterson. Peck.
Peyton Radford, Ragsdale, Rhodes of
Wood, Ritter. Robbins, Rogers, Roy,
Rudd, Scago, Sebastian, Simmons, Smith
of Milan. Smith of Runnels, Smith of
Colorado, Smith of Brazos. Stokes.
Strange, Thomas, Tompkins Townsend
of Lampasas. Turner, Turney, Ward,
Wayland, Wester, Whitacre, Williams,
Nays-Alleu of Dallas, Kennedy, Ma
roney, Reiger, SOwell-5.
Mr.. Blair was absent and Messrs.
Stubs and Tarver left the house to
avoid voting on the final passage.
On motion of Mr. Ward the vote by
which the bill was passed was reconsid
cred and the motion laid on the table.
thereby clinching the vote. The bill
now goes back to the senate for concur.
renee in the amendments.
The house adjourned until 10 o'clock
this morning
THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
The senate judiciary committee No. 2
met yesterday morning to hear argu
ments from the Dallas attorneys on the
question of the extent to which Dallas
would be damaged by the passage of
this bill with an emergency clause. At
tOrney w. 2. Ellisson appeared before
the committee first and presented the
claims of Dallas, citing the fact that her