The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-01
FROM The STATE CAPITAL.
y ability Of Gold Clause Municipal
Bonds Being Inquired Into.
No DECISION YET RENDERED IN TEXAS
|Ofncial Tribute to the Memory of
General Snycrs-Cash Receipts
by the Treasury.

III Austin, Texas. February 2S-The attor-
hey generals department is being flooded
skiih letters of inquiry from various quar-
8ers with regard to bonds containing the
II odd clause the writer's of which are labor
Ing under the impression that an opinion
has lately emanated tberefrom TO the ei-
3&ect that such bonds are invalid. No opin-
Lon has been written by MIR. Crane, now :
3&ver, but the question of the Legality OF
I'd Id clause bonds has lately been presenter
10 him. and ho is looking into the matter
with view of passing upon IL later on.
43Ic same question Is now before the Fort
Worth court of appeals in a case involving
MIC validity of certain Fort Worth gold
SSls,,sc bonds which were sustained in the
;bwer courts on The ground Of public pol
s7cy The contention cf the parties attack
ing said bonds is that as States. counties
[4nd MUNICIPALITIES have no authority TO
}7Nact anything bat lawful money of the
Emitted States" in the payment of taxes.
hey can not enter into obligations to pay
5 old and undertake to discharge such OBJ
jhgations without the power tn collect gold
10 the exclusion of other money. The SUI
4kremc courts of Ohio and Mississippi rave
e cid that gold clause bonds are invalid The
4fississippi case was carried TO the supreme
&ourt of the United States. where the State
court was sustained but not upon the main
gEsue. as the Federal tribune OF last re-
}&ort found n way of deciding the case with
Mut discussing the gold clause proposition,
;$he terms of the bonds in question being
l5uch as to admit of the construction that
They were payable in lawful money"
81 TRIBUTE TO GENERAL SAVERS.
General order No. 3.
81 Headquarters West Subdivision, u. G. ".
u. G. Booth, Drevet Major General. COM
,1handing. Austin, Texas. February 26.-To
III the camps and comrades of United Con
Moderate Veterans of the West Subdivision
IN Texas: Comrades--lt becomes my pain
Hui duty to announce the sudden death OF
Dur late commander for the department of
Texas, Major General William b. Sayers
bf Gonzales, Texas. and in doing so 1 can
bot refrain from paying my humble tribute
10 his memory, as from my intimate
my old regiment Terry's Texas Ran
GERS. so well remember his gal
liant services on the field of bat
lie. In fact. in my recollection I see
him the model soldier, faithfully perform
Big every duty devoiving upon him. both
IN camp and the field. A brave, heroic SOL
bier. although mere boy in 1861, he soon
%on merlted promotion. and during tho las,
dwo years of the war was adiutant of Tom
Harrison cavalry brigade.
4 After the close of the war he returned TO
FIonzales. and I'D to the time of his death
5wes the model citizen. us he had been the
Holdier of the Lost Cause.
Comrades. you are requested to wear
mourning for thirty days in honor of the
memory of our deceased commander. Major
General w. b. Sayers by order of
j. q. Booth,
|Brevet Major General. Commanding West
Subdivision, U. C. V.
i. NJ, Phelps.
Colonel and A. A. q.