San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-20
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WHILEHE WAS TALKING
YESTERDAY.
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THE UNFORTUNATE MAN WAS
TALKING TO SAVE THE FEE
BILL AND SUCCEEDED.
Members Make All Haste To Draw
A Days Salary They Do Not
Earn Today Winds Up
The Business Of The
Present Session.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Austin, Tex, June 19.-While the
special session of the Legislature does
not adjourn until 10 o'clock tomor-
row, the real closing scenes were en-
or at least a number Of the members
left on the 12:45 train for the Nash
vile exposition. The closing hours in
both Houses were rather exciting. The
members were anxious to get away,
but they were not half as anxious as
some of the clerks and outsiders who
were going on the excursion. The re-
suit was that both Houses met at early
hours and tried their best to rush
along in the legislative line against
time. They were successful and sue
ceeded in passing all the bills the gov
ernor asked them to pass save the bill
prohibiting the gate system" on Tex
as railroads which was killed in the
Senate by an indefinite postponement.
All the other billsIwere passed, howev-
er.
AS soon as the House met the old
proposition of retaining certain House
clerks after adjournment to fix up the
journal, etc., came up and raised con-
siderable discussion but was finally
adopted. After that the House took
up the occupation tax bill and con-
Cured in the Senate amendments
thereto. The Senate amendments to
the House anti-mob law bill were also
concurred in. The bill requiring the
payment of county taxes in recognized
currency of the United States was
passed finally. With the passage of
the Senate fee bill correcting errors in
the fee bill passed at the present spe-
cial session the House was through
with it's business. The bill had not
been signed, however, and it was there
fore necessary to stay in session until
the bill could be signed by the speaker.
The bill had to come from the Senate
and as it had to be enrolled it took
something like half an hour to get it
back in the House. In the meantime
a small sized riot was narrowly avert
ed. 1t came about in the following
way: On Friday the warrants of the
members were made out for $35, which
paid up till tonight. AS soon as the
Senate adopted the concurrent resolu-
ton to adjourn sine die tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock, however, that
gave the members a chance to draw
another IS, for alleged services tomor-
row. They were not slow about do
ing it either and soon there was such
crowd around the chief clerks desk
that the speaker had to ask the mem
bers to take their seats, assuring them
that he would have the clerk fpass
among them and give them their war
rants. With this assurance the men,
bers sought their seats but were not
contented until they had secured their
additional IS. Several of the members
thought may be they had better not
accept the IS as they were going to
Nashville, but arguing that the war
rant had been made out they took it
and with thanks.
Another interesting scene attendant
upon the morning session was when
the House had passed the fee bill and
was waiting for it to come back from
the Senate to be signed. AS soon as
the fee bill had been passed midst
much confusion (for everybody in the
House from pages on up were making
a noise) a resolution was sent up
thanking the Texas and United States
senators for their support for the Gu
ban belligerent resolution and urging
the Texas congressman to give said
resolution their support in the House.
With the coming OF this resolution one
would have thought that General Wey-
lar. had inuadad the Ennse so great was