Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-26

fund is kept In effect sax I'LL a
amendment is kept in effect. would
not amount to as much as the inter-
est alone would be 80 the amendment
is rendered imperative The needs of
the present, he aYerred We're as moth
Ing to the needs of the future, when
dense population viii be called upon
to face the questions of state aud So
ciety that are now little more than
threats. He attacked the per cent
law Us opposed 10 the spirit and gc-
MUS of the fathers who wisely PROVIDED
this permanent school fund for the
benefit of future generations. The ar
sument that II was the will OF the
people was, he said, rendered ineffective
by he fact that only about 5000 votes
were cast In the election at which the
amendment was adopted. ANA of these
10000 were for the amendment and
$4,000 against IT, He besought the
senate to preserve the sacred horit-
age which the fathers set apart for
the use of postcrlty.
Senator Pesler spoke for the minor
ity report. TO pass the Bepll bin
meant 10 take from the available fund
about S2lS,0O0 year and IN these hard
times he thought the tax payers should
from their pockets lie thought It a
poor quality of stateumanship that
the bcneit of those yet unborn.
senator Steele said there was a mis-
taken notion prevalent To the effect
that the fathers had set aside from
the schools the lands that had been
the foundation OF the permanent school
fund. This fund, he declared, had
been created aud the land set apart
for It since the war-the railroads got
the alternate sections OF lands and
the schools the remainder.
senator Gage made Il rafting speech
IN favor of the bill. "'rhe only solu-
ton OF this school question" he de-
clared," to meet increased needs by
internal taxes. He was opposed to
making lnroads upon the permanent
fund and squ0nderlng it upon the weak
plea OF present necessity" The Is
sue should be met fairly aud squaroly
by going down In our pockets for the
necessary money" The theory that the
rainfall would Increase IN Western
Texas, thereby increasing the perma-
mont school fund more rapidly than
the scholastic increased, was a falla-
clous one, He was in favor OF leaving
the permanent school unlmpaircd fol
posterity, and OF meeting present omer-
gencies by a proper increase In the
tax rate.
After several attempts at postpone
ment, the bill was postponed, on mo
tlon of Senator Gage and made the
special order for next Wednesday
senator Agnew's BIZ 20 prevent lille.
gal voting at primary elections held
by any party was talton IN, amended
and discussed nj great length by Seua-
tors Smith, Agnow. McComb and Al,
lee The BIZ was pending when IN,
senate adjourned.
The committee on constitutions
amendments reported favorably on
| drocr's resolution to amend the consli'
| tuition 80 as to make the terms of mem
bers OF the legislature, gtate and coun'
| ~ officers except the railroad commits.
spners. four yeara.
Senator Deane by unanimous consent
| presented q petition for Col IL. D.
Lane, asking that the members OF q
! regiment raised during the war fol
frontier defense DO admitted TO The
! Confederate home; also one from teach
ers VI El PasO county, asking tina
senate warrants be issued for the sal
| aries due them
Adjourned til tomorrow at 10 o'clock