The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-27
THE RING

AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. Ex-Governor
Culberson tonight issued a proclama-
ton calling a. special session of the
legislature to meet Oct. L that will be
required to pass law that will knock
the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight
into a cooked hat. The governor issued
the proclamation at midnight tonight
after a lengthy consultation with his
cabinet, and gives the Associated Press
correspondent as the reason for his
action that in the present condition
of the law the fight managers are
liable to pull off the fight while the
courts are rowing over it; that the
chief justice of the court of criminal
appeals here is against the state and
now there is a mandamus case pending
In the supreme court that may go in an
entirely different line, thus raising a
conflict between the two highest courts
in the state. In order to settle all pos
sible contention he issued the call to-
night converting the legislature next
Tuesday in this city and sets forth the
purports of the call as follows:
Whereas, A decision of the presid-
ing judge of the court of criminal ap-
peals, lately rendered, will embarrass
the execution of the laws of the state
against prize fighting and other asso-
ciated attractions of good order and the
public peace, now imminent; and
Whereas, 1t is proper, In avoidance
of every pretext for disregarding the
laws, that all controversy regarding
them must be removed by legislation,
and all reasonable pacific means re-
sorted to in the first instance to force
them, and inasmuch as the present
| legislature unanimously passed pro-
! hibitory law on the 18th and oath days
| of April, to become effective August
| l, 1895, as part of the penal code, it
! Should require a session of only few
| days at small cost to remove any
| possible defect and put the law into i'm
mediate operation. An extraordinary
| occasion has arisen requiring the leg
islature to be convened in special ses-
sion
Now, therefore. I, Charles A. Gull
| berson, governor of the state of Texas,
! by virture of the authority vested in
me by the constitution thereof, hereby
| call a special session of the twenty
! fourth legislature, to be convened in the
city of Austin, beginning at noon,
! Tuesday, October 1, 1895, for the fol-
lowing purposes:
'@First-To denounce prize fighting
and kindred practices in clear and un-
ambiguous terms and to prohibit the
same by appropriate pains and penal
ties, putting the law into immediate
! operation and making necessary pro-
visions for it's enforcement, so that
the proposed exhibition of this char
acter within this state may be proven
ted, the undoubted will of the people
upon the subject respected, and this
affront to the moral sense and en-
ightened people of Texas averted
"Second-To consider and act upon
such other matters as may be presen-
ted, pursuant to section 40, article 8
of the constitution.
I'm testimony thereof, / have here
unto set nv hand and caused the seal
of the state to be affixed, this 18th day
! of September, A. D. 1895.
&c. A. CULBERSON, Governor
NEW YORK, Sept. 26-The stakes
lodged in Mr.. Phil I. Dryers hands on
the part of Bob Fitszimmons for his
coming fight for the pugilistic cham
pionship of the world with James J
Corbett, will not be released from the
attachment obtained on them by the
Metropolitan Job Printing company or
July 10 last. Judge Beekman, in
supreme court today denied a motion
to vacate the attachment The Metro.
politan job Printing company judg-
ment against Fitzsimmons is for print.
ing executed by them when Fitzsim.
mons was touring the country with q
speciality company, to the amount OF
$3,07S AS Fitzsimmons would not pay
the debt, an attachment was secured
on the ground that Fitzsimmons was q
nonresident of this state, and the s1I.
600 put UP in Dryers hands was
levied on.
WEIR CITY, Kan. Sept 26-"Padd,,,
Purtell and Johnson, "TRe Terrific aTdS
Swede," have been sentenced to one
year each in the penitentiary for fight
Galena.. The county attorney had order:
from Governor Morrill, to stop it, bu
he watched several rounds before inter
fering. Attorney General Dawes imme
diately took steps to have the fighter.
prosecuted and has been successful il
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-William A
Brady today issued a manifesto to thu
effect that Champion James j. Corbet
would not make any further objection.
to any arrangements made for hi
meeting at Dallas with FI1tzsimmons
his exhibition next Monday and pre-
pare for the fight.
Mr.. Brady said that Corbett woul
surely fight and would allow nothinj
e upon his part to prevent the meeting
y He is absolutely confident of Fitzsim
mons defeat and gave 1t out unofficj
ally that Corbett was in splendid con
dition and would show up at the ring
side as good as he has ever been. see,
5 under similar circumstances.