San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-29
AUSTIN LETTER.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. %, 1895.

All during the past week the
Hobbies Of both houses of the legis-
lature has been crowded by law
yers, politicians and railroad mon.
These gentlemen have not put in
an appearance before for the very
reason that they wanted to let the
able Legislators get comfortably
seated, get all their little personal
business settled and all their pet
hobbies introduced and referred to
the proper committees. Another
reason that these gentlemen have
held aloof is found in the fact
that they were patiently, though
anx iously awaiting the introduce
ton of the first flood of bills to see
as to whether any OF these meas
ures concerned them personally.
By this time all the measures, or
| rather most have been intr oduced
and the interested parties have
had an opportunity OF reviewing
the situation and some OF these
| aforesaid parties are simply nom
plused and that is all there is to it.
For instance there are the rail
| road men. Senator Simpsons bill
providing that in future railroad
companies shall receive only two
cents per mile for hauling pasSen-
gers has occasion9d such tlutter
among these gentlemen as was
never heard before. The minute
the bill was introduced they
solemnly but emphatically began
to sneer that If the bill became
| law they were destined to death by
slow starvation. They claim the
rate to be WIDELY unreasonable
and possessed Of neither justice
nor equity, and say that
they can so demonstrate it il they
are given a chance. In view Of
their complaints the Senate COM
mittee having the matter under
consideration have agreed that
they will give audience to the
railroad men on next Friday with
view OF having a fair and un.
partial examination into the merits
Of the case before they return the
bill to the senate. In case the bill
is killed in the committee room
and the senate sanctions the MUIR
der all will be we'll and good
but il it goes to the contrary then
you may look for lobby on its
passage OF the two houses that will
make the average county legislator
think that he is really some body.
Even should the bill be defeated in
the Senate it will then have to run
the gauntlet Of the. House with its
12S voters that are as hard to man.
age as a youngster of twelve sum-
mers. In view OF the uncertain
and extremely inclement weather
that such bill is likely to
encounter in either house, the
railroad men are very anxious to
witness it's vicious slaughter in the
committee room and their main
efforts will be to secure its death
there. In case they are not sue
cessful there they will OF course
carry the fight into the Hobbies of
the two Houses, where it will be
bitterly waged to the very last.
In view of the preparations that
are being made against this bill 1t
is very evident that the fight over
it will be bitter and long.
For the past week in both houses
the great question Of retrench
ment and reform has been as still
as death itself. This movement is
not dead however, but only sleep
eth. Ere another fourth night has
rolled around the same will be the
livliest one on record, and it is safe
to predict that the respec-
tive members Of the lower
House, especially, are simply
holding their horses until
they hear the sound of the bugle's
blast. The various sub-commit-
tees who have been Investigating
the departments have found sever
al bung holes open which they
will recommend, must be plugged,
and a blind man would be safe in
saying that Judging from the pres
ent status OF affairs, he could see
that the members Of the House es-
peclally intended doing the plug
ging act all right. A. G. SHOOT.
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