The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-03
NO PUCILEM IN TEXAS
0orbett and Fitzsimmons Knocked
-. Out by Lawmakers.
PRIZE rIeHT1Ea MADE A FELONY.
xhs sweeping Measure PASSES Both Houses
in EXACTLY rhrs. Hours After rss Intro
daotiop. Having Total of But SIZE Votes
Against It.

In ExAetiy rhrs. Hours After rss Intro
daotiop. Having Total of But SIZE vetss
Against IL.
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. a.--There will be no
prize fight at Dallas Oct. 81 between Cor
bett and Fitzsimmens. This fact was set
tied yesterday afternoon by the Texas leg
islature in exaotly three hours. Tho two
committees, ono in the senate and the
other In the house, gave an audience to
tho Dallas attorneys all the morning to as
certain their objections and protests to the
passage Of the law.
After hearing the gentlemen until noon
the committees adjourned. In the after
noon, when the two houses met at o'clock,
both committees were ready to report, and
tho senate bill was very promptly con-
sidered. From the time the bill was
placed before the senate until 1t finally
passed 1t was exactly fifty-fiye minutes.
During this time Senator Dean opposed
the bill and Senator Lascar spoke in its
favor. These were the only two gentle
men who spoke on the bill, the balance
satisfying themselves by voting. The vote
on the Anal passage Of the bill was "a ayes
and nay, Dean being the negative voter.
Tho bill was Immediately sent over to
gan discussing it, substituting the senate
bill for tho house bill. After several gen
tlemen had spoken Of the bill and the
emergency feature, pro and con, final
vote was reached at 8 o'clock, precisely,
and the bill passed the house by vote Of
10 to 8, Thus, within three hours, did
the Texas legislature forever put an end to
prize fighting in Texas.
On Tuesday 1t would have been impos-
siblc to have passed bill with an cincr-
gency clause. There were only ninty two
members present then, and of that num-
bcr fifteen were opposed to the emergency
clause, and it was necessary to have eighty
six votes to carry it, The administration
forces readily saw that the minority would
defeat them If the matter came to a vote,
SO they wired all their friends to come here
immediately, and then sat about killing
! time until their forces could arrive. They
had eighty-two only on Tuesday night,
but the absentees came flocking in ON yes
terday's trains. Each additional arrival
| added to the administration forces and
when everything was arranged the rush
for the vote was made.
The fight managers were confused at the
way the solons swarmcd in, and practi-
cally gave up the fight by 8 o'clock in the
afternoon. 1t was almost a certainty in
the morning that the Populists would be
called over to the Dallas side of the quns-
ton, but the plan fell through, and they
voted with the administration forces, which
decided the matter. Governor Culbcrson's
friends consider it great victory for him,
and lost no opportunity to congratulate
his excelleney on the outcome Of one Of
the hottest and, 1t might bc safely termed
one of the bittercst, as well as shortest, po
litical fights ever brought up in the Lone
Star state on any one single man.
The bill that will prohibit prize fighting
In Texas in the future reads as follows;
Section Amy person who shall volun
tarily engage in a pugilistic encounter be
tween man and man, or II fight between 1
man and bull, or any other animal, fol
money or other thing of value, or for an,
championship, or upon the result of whicl
any money or anything of value Is bet O
wagered, or to see which any admission
fee is charged either directly or Indirectly
shall be deemed guilty of felony and
upon conviction, shah be punished by i'm
prisonment in the pcnitentiary for not les
than two or more than five years.
Section BY the term ''pugilistic en-
counter" as used in this act, is meant an!
voluntary fight or personal encounter, b,
blows by means of the fists or otherwise
whether with or without gloves bctweel
twoneLet result of which any money q
ANYTHING of value is bet or wagered,
Section 3-Thnt all laws and parts a
laws in conflict herewith be and the san,
are hereby repealed.
Section 4-The fact that there is now n,
adequate penalty against prize fighting, O
pugilism, or against fights. between nm
ana beasts, creates an imperative publi
necessity and emergency recurring thc s,,s
pension of the constitutional rule reanir
Ing bills to be read on three separate dnys
and that this law should be effective M,
be in force from this passage, and 1t /
hereby so enacted
In an interview last night Dan Stewart
manager OF the contest, snid: II vii
surely bring the contest off on the date nd
Nertised at u point outside of Texas q
easy access. Due notice will be given