San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-22
WASHINGTON AND AUSTIN.
Notes of Proceedings in the Nationa
and State Legislatures


Senate passed resolution ex
pressing its appreciation of Next
co.'s courtesies on the account o
Minister Gray.
Allen, Of Nebraska, sharply
criticises the movement for 81, 000,.
600 sewer bonds for Washington
declaring that the country had
gone bond crazy.
Germans motion to reconsider
some features of the income tax
bill that had been changed in con-
ference.was laid on the table 81 to
10.
Consideration of Indian appro-
priation bill was resumed, and in
this connection the sectarian
school question came up. 1t was
warmly discussed and the point
made that II Catholic schools were
discontinued, Protestant schools
also should receive no support. The
test vote came on the continuation
Of the two schools at Hampton and
Lincoln and the motion to discon-
tinue was lost, 81 to 80. Other
amendments were proposed bat
not acted upon when Senate took
recess, a night session on District
of Columbia sewer bonds having
been decided on.
At night session there was no
quorum and no business done.
HOUSE.
Further conference ordered by
the House on the Hawaiian cable
question.
House agrees to conference re-
port on examination and classiti-
cation of mineral lands in the
northwest Pacific grants, Idaho
and Montana.
General deficiency bill was then
taken up, and eighteen of the
sixty-five pages of the bill con-
sidered when House took up its
special order and listened to eulo-
gies on the life and scenes OF the
late Senator Stockbridge, Of Michi-
gan.
AT AUSTIN.
The recess resolution was again
called up in Senate by Senator
Crowley's motion to reconsider and
was lost, motion being tabled.
Senate took up the bill for the
sale of school and other lands and
the same was discussed and amend
ed, the more important of the
amendments being that of Senator
Goss providing that "any owner of
land heretofore purchased and
which land has been or may be
forfeited for non payment of inter
est shall have 80 days prior right
after this act goes into effect or
after the land is again placed upon
the market to purchase said land
without the condition of settlement
and occupancy in case 1T has been
occu pied for three consecutive
years as required by law, but if
not, then he shall reside thereon
until the occupancy under the first
and last purchase shall together
amount to said term of three
years." Proceeding, the section
continues to read: "The purchaser
shall transmit" etc. as it now
stands.
President Jester, who gave the
casting vote tabling the recess mo-
ton, gives as his reasons:
l. While he believes in the duty
of the legislature to delegate to a
committee that which it was in
this instance elected to do, still he
is of the opinion that every men,
Der OF the legislature is directly in
terested in the redistricting Of the
state and should be present to ad-
wise and assist in the fOrma-
ton of the bill. Should the
legislature adjourn and leave
the committee to redistriCt
the state, aided only by an interest
ed lobby, the result would be that
when the Legislature ruCOnvened
it would require fully as long for
the bill to be amended as it would
for the formation of new bill,
while the entire Legislature is in
session, prepared with the advice
and assistance Of the senators and
representatives.
,. The adjournment for recess to
redistrict the state and revise the
codes would necessitate such a
great expense and Inconvenience
to the memb ers not on the COM
mittees that it would be difficult to
assemble quorum, in view Of the
fact that only these two measures
would be considered on recon-