San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-30
WERE ALL DEAD BROKE.
Senators and Reps. Kill
Time But Raise Wind.
THE PER DIEM MEASURES WENT
THROUGH WITH A
WH00P.
Senate Becomes Mixed Again On
The Text Book Bill And Want
1t Thrown In Committee,
General Proceedings
Of The Day,
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Austin, Texas, May 29.-The House
did nothing yesterday save lay around
and wait for their salaries. They
passed the bill appropriating $4,000
to pay their per diem on Friday after
noon but they did not get the necessa-
ry two-third votes to put the bill into
immediate effect and as result when
they met yesterday morning it was
discovered that while they had pass
ed all right enough it did not go into
effect until 80 days after the adjourn
ment of the present session. This did
not suit the worthy members at all as
they were all busted and they accord
ingly reconsidered the vote by which
the bill passed and passed it again
getting exactly Sc votes that being
every vote in the House. 1t was eX-
aetly the necessary number to put the
bill into immediate effect however, and
the members were happy and imme-
diately sent the bill over to the Sem
ate for action. In the interval await
ing it's return the members sent up all
kinds of funny resolutions and made
funny speeches. In this way the time
was drifted away until 1880 when the
bill came back from the Senate hav-
ing passed that body without any
trouble and it having already been
enrolled and nobody kicking about the
enrolment of the bill like they did
about the text book bill at the regular
session. The speaker signed the bill.
1t went hustling back to the Senate
and was there signed and went imme-
diately to the governor who approved
it thus giving the hungry solons an OPP
portunity of drawing their per diem
without much further trouble.
Over in the Senate however the able
lords got mixed up over the text book
bill again. This bill as every one
knows marked the declining hours of
the regular session and this special
session has absolutely nothing at all
to do with how it passed that session
or anything at all about it. Notwith-
landing this fact however the sena-
tors yesterday morning after considera-
BILE wrangling and much personal priv
ilege talk adopted resolution looking
to the appointment of committee
whose duty it shall be to investigate
how the House amendment providing
that the bill shall go into effect in "18-
9S'' was lost from the bill before it was
considered by the Senate. The sena-
tors say that they do not intend to
reflect on any of the employees of either
House but that they want the matter
looked into. The result of their in
vestigation, while it will satisfy them
personally will have no effect at all
upon the bill, which is now in the hands
of the governor. If the governor signs
bill or allows it to become a law with
out his signature the present Legisla-
ture might resolute until doomsday
and unless the higher courts reverse
their previous rulings they will take no
cognizance of such action. Heretofore
the courts have held that they would
not go behind the signature of the
president Of the Senate and the spea-
ker of the House and therefore the ac-
ton of the special session in ivestiga-
ting will have no effect on the bill If
it becomes a law.