San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-27
WASHINGTON AND AUSTIN.
Notes of Proceedings in the National
and State Legislatures

legal expenses.
Sundry civil service bill was re-
sumed. Appropriation for survey
ing public lands was increased
from 100000 to 100000.
Amendment was adopted pro-
Viding a retired list for United
States revenue marine service.
Blackburn's amendment for pay
ment OF sugar bounty was present
ed and voted on after long discus.
sion, the vote standing 46 to 20.
The amendment as passed provides
$23S,2S9 for the bounties earned
prior to Aug. Is, 1894, at cents per
pound for sugar up to 80 degrees
by polariscope, and lie for sugars
over 50 and under 80 degrees. 1t
further provides 100000 for
bounties at the rate OF $40 of a cent
per pound on sugar produced from
August, 1894, to June 80, 1895.
HOUSE.
Conference report on post office
appropriation was called up but
not considered, and the national
arbitration bill his called up. 1t
provoked lengthy debate, and was
passed without division.
House passed Senate bill to aid
the Baltimore Centennial EXPOSE
ton in 1897.
The remainder of the day was
| devoted to eulOgies on the life and
| public service, of the late Phillip
Sydney Post of Illinois. Those
who paid tribute We're: MessrS.
Henderson and Bynum, of Indi-
ana; GrOsvenO, Ohio; Clark, Ala
bama; Broderick, Kansas; Wheel
er, Alabama; Deliver, Iowa; Stock
dale, Mississippi; Martin, Indiana !;
BOutelle, Maine, and Lucas, Of
South Carolina.
AT AUTSIN.
Senates' judiciary committee No.
2 reported favorably bill No. 159,
defining punishment for rape. AL
so bill No. 10l, to further define
connecting lines OF common car
riers, their relationship, etc. Also
| bill No. ia to amend article 800 Of
the criminal code by adding article
| 3S9. Also bill No. III, relating to
leaving dead animals in public
roads, with slight amendments.
Also favorably a substitute for bill
No. 1876, relating to lotteries and
raffles. Also bill No. 165, to amend
article 5l2, chapter I, title Is OF the
penal code. Also House bill No.
| SO, to define who are eligible for
the several State and county Off
| GERS.
The committee on state affairs
| reported favorably House bill No.
313, authorizing the board OF man.
ayers Of the State Orphans Home
at Corsicana to sell, lease, or dis
pose Of the surplus water flowing
from the artesian well on the
grounds belonging to the said
home.
SenatorsC olquit and Dibrell made
a minority report on bill No. 10l,
| concerning common carriers and
their relationship reported favora-
bly, by judiciary committee No. 2,
| for these reasons:
l. 1t might result in great hard
ship and subject shippers to incon-
venience and delay by railway
companies refusing to give through
bills OF lading where freight has to
go over more than one line.
,. 1t seeks to make one company
responsible for the negligence of
another, and fails to furnish re-
course of remedy to the responsible
party against the party who is
really responsible for the injury,
loss or damage.
3. That section of the bill
seeks to fix the liability of roads
out of the state, and to say the
least this feature of the bill may
be regarded as an unwarrantCd eN-
tension Of the states jurisdiction.
and therefore recommends that the
bill do not pass.
HOUSE.
Passage of bill giving qualified
voters the right to vote for all cleo
tive officers was noted in yester-
days dispatches.
The redistricting committee has
adopted the following for their
guidance:
First-That population, volume
Of business and railroad facilities
would be the principle guides in
forming districts.
Second-That in preparing the
redistricting bill the committee
would confer freely with the Rep
resentatives in the House and be
guided by their suggestions to a
great eXtant. but after the bill has