Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-03
CULBERSON WON.
PRIZE FIGHT MANAGERS KNOCKED OUT IN LESS THAN THREE
 HOURS.
Only One Vote the Senate and Five II The House Against the Anti-Prlze
 Fight Bill.

| AUSTIN, Tex, October 2.-There will be no prize fight at Dallas, Octo- Der 31, between Corbett and Fitzsim- mons. This fact was settled this afternoon by the Texas Legislature in exactly three hours by the watch.
 The two committees, one in the Senate and the other in the House, gave an audience to the Dallas at torneys all the morning to ascertain their objections and protest to the the gentlemen until noon the two committees adjourned, This after noon when the two houses met at 3 l o'clock both committees were ready to report and the Senate bill was was promptly considered. From the time the bill was placed before the Senate until it had finally passed was exactly fifty-fye minutes. Dur ing this time Senator Dean opposed l the bill and Senator Lasker spoke in it's favor. These were the only two gentlemen who spoke on the bill, the balance satisfied themselves by yot- ing. The vote on the final passage of the bill was q ayes and l nay; Dean being the negative voter. The bill was immediately sent over to the house and at o'clock that body began discussing it, substituting the the Senate bill for the House bill. After several gentlemen had spoken on the bill and the emergency feature pro and con, final vote was reached at 6 o'clock precisely and the bill passed the house 5y a vote of 110 to ,. Thus within three hours did the Texas Legislature forever put an end to prize fighting in Texas.
 Gov. Culbers0n's friends consider it a great victory for him and lost no opportunity tonight to congratulate his excellency on the outcome of one of the hottest and it might be termed one of the bitterest, as well as hottest political fights ever brought up in the Lone Star State on any one single man.
 The bill that will prohibit prize fighting in Texas in future, as pas sed today, reads as follows:
 Section l. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, that any person who shall voluntari- ly engage ill pugilistic encounter between a man, or fight between a man and bull or any other animal, for money or other thing of value, or for any championship, or upon the result of which any money or any thing of value is bet or wagered, or to see which any ad mission fee is charged. either directly or indirectly, shall be deemed guilty of 0 felony, and upon coviction shall be punished by Imprisonment in the Penitentiary not less than two nor wore than five years.
 Section ?. By the 'pugilistic en- counter,' as used in this act, is meant any voluntary fight or per- sonal encounter by blows by means of the fist or otherwise, whether with or without gloves, between two or more men for money or for prize of any character, or for any championship, or for any other thing of value, or upon the result of which any money or anything of value is bet or wagcred.
 Section g. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
 Section 1. The fact that there is now no adequate penalty against prize fighting and pugilism. or against fights between man and beast, creates an imperative public necessity and emergency requiring the suspicion of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days, and that this laws should take effect and be in force from and after it's passage, and it is hereby so enacted.