The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-26

consequently the notice given by pub
lication of an intention to Introduce the
OLD Dill was sufficient to cover both
Whereupon both Messrs. Wooten and
Smith raised the point of order that
the bill was unconstitutional because 1t
contained the substance of a bill pre-
viously considered at this session and
subsequently killed by executive veto
The chair asked Mr. Wooten to cite him
to a precedent for sustaining this point
oil order. The gentleman from Dallas
replied that the constitution was S
precedent. The chair in return over
ruled the point Of order on the ground
that legislative custom has heretofore
sanctioned the Introduction OF other
bills in lieu of vetoed bills and cited the
instance of the Dallas charter bill We
toed by Governor Hogg, which was af-
forwards reintroduced and passed to find
Judgment in the statute books. Mr..
Sheriff. neglected to state that in this
case the governors veto was acuuiesced
in and that his objections were satisfac-
torily met in the bill that subsequently,
passed while this has not been done with
the Houston and Texas Central bill nor
the Katy bill either. for that matter.
TO BE PLAIN ABOUT IT, the speaker
simply held this evening that the ere
constructed" Houston and Texas Central
bill was not new bill when one point
was raised and that 1t was new bill
when another point was raised The OBJ
1ections of those who are opposed to its
passage having thus been disposed Of, the
committee report recommending its pass
age was adopted 1t was afterwards or
dered engrossed after the defeat OF an
amendment by Mr.. Shannon providing for
surrender of the securities carried by
the corporations involved and requiring
that new set of securities be issued
under the terms of the railroad stock
and bond law before the proposed con-
solidation shall take effect, this being
the third time this session that PROPOSE
tion to compel Mr.. Huntington to obey
the Texas statutes was resisted and de-
feated by his friends on separate and
distinct measures introduced for his
benefit. During the discussion which
preceded the engrossment of the above
referred to bill, Mr.. Smith of Collin made
some allusion to "that old republican
Federal Judge, Mccormick, who is al
ways ready to enjoin the commission at
the request OF the railroads" which dis
pleased Mr.. Masterson and caused hin
to rise in defense of the judge referred
to and to inform the house that said
Judge was gentleman and not deserv-
ing OF the slur cast upon him by the
gentleman from Collin. Further thar
this, he intimated that Mr.. Smith was d
populist, anyway. In reply Mr.. Smith
said he did not understand why it was
that a man should ever be subject tc
attack in a democratic house for CRITICS
ing certain of McCormick's rulings. As
to being a populist, he did not mind that
lie would rather be populist than
republican. And with the assistance OF
various and sundry raps OF the speaker
gavel the incident closed.
TELEGRAMs WE'RE RECEIVED herr
this evening from Galveston inqurnl
if it is a fact that two of the member
of the railroad commission have approved
the Huntington grant bill. When ques
toned about the matter the members o
tbo cornn,iseton AS we'll as the EOVernO
declined to make any statement about II
The general impression Is, however, tina
Commissioners Reagan and Storey nav
found nothing objectionable in the Dill
while Commissioner .Mayfield is of tn
opinion that It should not become a Law
owing to the rejection Of the amendmen
providing that the improvements to D
made on the property involved should b
subiect to the railroad stock and bont
law. The bill is now in the hands OF TN
attorney general.
ONCE DURING THE HUBBUB which pre-
vailed in the house this afternoon MT
Wooten tried to set the antitrust oil
for Friday next but his motion got los
in the shuttle and was not renewed. Al
attempt was made at o'clock to cal
IN the new Cotton Belt consolidation
hill but the house evidently had enoug
of railroad bills for one day, as
promptly adjourned as soon as the mo
ton to consider this bill was made