The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-03
CANNOT FIGHT IN TEXAS
THE LEGISLATURE TAKES 4 MOST DECIDED STAND IN THE MATTER,

Both Senate and House Accomplished, by
 an Almost Unanimous Vote, the Purpose
 for W hich the Governor Assembled Them
 in special Session-Another Place Than
 Texas Must be Found for tho Fight.
 Austin, Tex, Oct, 2,-Corbett and Fitzsimmons must find another place than Texas in which to pull off their proposed fight for the championship of
 the world.
 The legislature to-day by a vote that
 was practically unanimously in the
 senate and only a little less so in the
 house, passed the bill prohibiting prize
 fighting and thus accomplished the
 purpose for which the governor assem-
 bled it in special session. The vote by
 which the bill was passed furnishes
 the strongest proof of the sentiment
 of the state with reference to prize
 fighting. The only rallying point of the
 minority was opposition to the emer
 gency clause, which carries the bill into
 immediate effect. Certain members re-
 garded this as an injustice to such citi-
 zens of Dallas as had spent large sums
 in anticipation of the fight and opposed 1t for that reason alone. Their argu-
 ments were not effective, however, and
 the vote in the house on the passage of
 the bill was but five votes in oppU- sition with 107 in favor.
 In the senate the bill was carried with only one negative vote in the twenty that were cast. The sen ate made quick work of the measure. It took recess until 8 p. m. in order that the Dallas people might be given a hearing by the judiciary committee.
 Ex- Governor Gibbs, representing the business interests of Dallas made an argument against the emergency clause in the bill. Within an hour after the hearing closed the judiciary committee reported the bill back favorably and in fifty-five minutes after reassembling the senate passed the bill. A hearing to
 the opponents of the emergency clause was also given by the house judiciary committee, but the arguments were of no avail. The passage of the measure was not so expeditions as in the sen- atet. Several members desired to be heard upon the senate bill which was substituted for the house bill.
 Amid applause a number of amend ments were offered. Several were adopted, but these do not change the
 measure to any material extent ex- cept to make it still more effective. As a result of these amendments the bill will be returned to the senate to- morrow, but its adoption in amended
 form will be delayed no longer than necessary to call the roll. It will then be sent to the governor and when his signature shall have been attached | 1t will become a law
 The bill makes prize fighting felony and imposes a punishment upon the principals for every infraction of the | law by Imprisonment in the peniten- tiary for term of not less than two and not more than five years.
 San Antonio Tex, Oct. 2.-Charles Campbell a business man, to-day re- | ceived a telegram from President Stew art of the Florida Athletic club stat | ing that if the railroads interested in | having the Corbett and Fitzsimmons llSul Idhe plcCS HI 4NuNd htltto, INeA', would stand the expense of enlarging
 the bull fight arena he would favorably consider pulling the fight off there, if it could not come off at Dallas Campbell | is the owner of a concession for prize | fighting in Nuva Laredo, which he ob- | tained a few days ago from the state | of Tamaulipas, Mex. The matter is
 now in the hands of the International and Great Northern road