Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-04-07
THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
summary of Matters Acted Upon by the
w-Malsers at Austin.

Senator Colquitt called up the sem
ate bill giving the railroad commission
power to make emergency freight
rates so as to meet interstate freight
rate wars, for the purpose of concur
ring in the house amendments. Adopt
ed.
House bill preventing imaginary
lines being drawn in precincts for the
purpose OF holding local option cleo
tions and combining election to q regu
lar precinct, was passed
A bill, making it Il fine of $500 as
punishment for u person to wilfully
permit to run at large stock, in any
county, district, etc, where the stock
law has been adopted, was passed.
A bill, restoring civil and criminal
jurisdiction to the county court OF Leon
county, was ordered engrossed and |
passed under suspension of the rules.
Mr.. Dickinson's bill, validating and
confirming an ordnance passed by the
city council of Laredo ceding to the
United States government certain
streets and alleys that intersect plot
of ground near Laredo, on which the
| United States government is to erect
fort to be called Fort Mcintosh, was
ordered engrossed.
The bill authorizing competitions to
become sureties on bonds and other OBJ
ligations of county and city officials
and others, was ordered engrossed
Bill relating to the appointment OF
auditors by district judges to audit
complicated accounts in cases Of part
nerships suits, on its third reading
was passed
Mr.. Affects bill amending the act of
this session requiring all instruments
of writing admitted to record to be in
English, by allowing instruments in
foreign languages to be recorded when
accompanied with translation in Eng
lish, came up and the bill was ordered
engrossed and passed under q suspen-
sion OF the rules.
House bill changing Jones county
from the thirty-ninth judicial district
and putting in the forty-second was
passed.
S Mr.. Colquitt's bill, regulating civil
i actions for damages, was ordered en-
: grossed-yeas 81, nays 2. The rules
: The senate bill by Mr.. Turner re-
$ storing civil and criminal jurisdiction
X to the county courts Of Menard ane
0 Atascosa counties was ordered en-
( crossed.
: The bill changing the time of be
v ginning of the fall term of the distric
f court of Grayson county from the frs
n Monday in September to the thir'
l. Monday in September was ordered en-
q crossed and passed under suspension
l. of the rules.
10 A bill creating more efficient roa'
! system for Marion county was passed
~ The committee substitutes for Harri;
a. and Gilbough's bills amending the cit
n charter of the city of Galveston wa
: ordered engrossed.
= The bill by Mr. Crawford requiring
in owners or lesses of coal mines to pro
- vide for the safety and health of EN-
= ployes passed.
- Mr. Burns bill appropriating $25
= 600 for the purchase OF the battle tiel
~ ~ OF san Jacinto and making a publ
ia park thereof, on its third reading wa
n called up by its author and final
lc passed without discussion. Yeas II
nays T.
N Mr.. Beall called up his bill creatin
ne more efficient road system for Eli
county, which was ordered engrosse
and passed under suspension of tt
rules.
ay In the senate, the house concurrel
ne resolution providing that the superb
at tendent OF buildings and grounds sha
lr- provide rooms in the capitol buildir
an for the exhibition OF relics of the r
An public OF Texas, and that the Daugh
iat ers of the Republic be the guardians
ct such exhibit, was adopted.
lse Mr.. Meade's cold storage bill,
ear third reading, came up and pass
APP without discussion.
me House bill creating more efficie
uld road system for Hopkins county, W
passed.
A concurrent resolution, asking co
gress for an appropriation reimburse
Ill citizens of BRENNAN for fire in Jul
an 1866, caused by federal troops. I
res claims amount to $l3o000 Adopte
an
a. A Story of Sir John SIillais.