Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-10


accurate and misleading.
owsley defended his amendment and
declared that he was n friend OF the
superintendent Owsleys amendment
was lost-ayes, 40; nays, 40. The bal
ance of the recommendations were
swallowed whole by the house without
amendment.
Recess until p. m.
AT the afternoon session, Bounds
local option bill was considered. This
bill provides that in local option towns
alcoholic stimulauts should only be
sold upon the writ % prescription OF a
regular pracucing physician. and after
said physician had appeared before a
Justice of the peace Tor any other
officer qualified to administer OATH and
made oath that he has examined the
applicant and the patient needed the
whisky. After two hours discussion,
during which time the enemies OF the
bill had loaded 1t down with amend
ments, Rogers OF Washington moved 10
strike out the enacting clause Bounds,
Patterson, Williams and Evans Of
Hunt, friends OF the blll who were
sore over the way the measure had
been slashed, interposed no objection
and the bill was killed Mills, Burns
and King made the fight ON the bill
and routed the extreme local option
lists.
4 llf uNubt ltHNlItl t0HHluEIAllUn Oh
the Zee bill. after refusing to take up
the Chambers Fort Worth and Denver
funding bill, The pending question
was tine substitute offered by Brown Of
San Saba for the committee bill, which
the house refused to table on Friday
last.
Seabury OF Cameron offered a substi-
tute for the pending bill and moved
further discussion be postponed until
next Friday, Thomas hoped that the
motion would not prevail The sub
stitute. he said, was clearly uncon-
stltutional, as 1t gave to the commits
sioncrs court the power to fix solaries
of county officials Carpenter Of Fnnnin
moved that the motion TO postpone be
tabled. Ayes, 81; nays, 40.
Monroe moved to adjourn until $3.50
tomorrow morning. Lost. Reagan
moved that the substitute offered by
Seahury be tabled. A call Of the house
was ordered. The house refused 10 eN-
cuse the nbsentces by n vote Of Go TO
30 This tied up the fee bill and Way
land moved TO suspend the regular or
der and take up his bill taxing fire
and life insurance companies, Blair de-
clared the bill 10 be unconstitutional,
and Allen and Mills asked the
house to take It up and pass It The
Populists. OConnor and Radford, eN-
cepted, voted against suspension of
regular order. BY n vote OF 90 to S6 the
house refused to suspend.
Adjourned to $50 tomorrow morn
Ing.
Bills introduced:
BY Patterson (by requesO-A bill to
be entitled an act to prevent and pun
ish judicial officers who may form or
retain a law partnership while In Of
fee.
Petitions introduced;
testing against the passage OF the Nc
Comb connecting carrier bill
From 1000 citizens of Be&ar county,
asking the legislature to pass the
o'Connor metropolitan police bill.
PETITIONS.
BY Mills: Citizens OF Waco pro-
testing against the passage oil the con-
netting line carrier at.
BY Mills: From the Waco Com
merciIl club asking nat Texas lie
represented at International Exposition
at Atlanta.
BY Ward: A proposition OF NJ. NJ.
Shlpe ct al. TO lease the temporary
capitol building.
By Blair' By business men of San
Antonio against passage OF McComb
connecting line bill.
BY Ward: A resolution authorizing
The payment 10 the Water Light and
Power company out of the fund for
contingent expenses Sb75O for water
furnished the house for the months OF
February and March, 1899
BILLS INTRODUCED
By joint committee: The bill to re-
district the state and to repeal all laws
and parts Of laws in conflict with the
provisions of this act.
BY Mckinney; a bill amending the
law relating to the mode II pIcvtrtiug
certain animals from nnu'I s-at-lu ,se
in counties and sub-divisi AS t;,a.tcI.