The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-07
WouId Listen to No Argument Against the
Huntington Grant Bill.
otLowINd THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS
I'D Gave Everything Asked for Until all Been Given Ava,
Sneaker Sheriff. is Not Giving Out Any information Re-
garding Votes Necessary to Pass Vetoed Bills

liens OF Bosque, Hill and johnson coun.
Ties asking that a pension be given New.
man McGee. an old frontiersman.
Hreer presented a petition from citizens
ol osn Augustine praying for the pas
sage over the governors veto, the bill
allowing the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas
Guy Railway company to purchase and
! operate the Gulf, Beaumont and Grea,
Northern railway.
Grinnan presented petition from cit.
izens OF Troupe praying for the passage
OF constitutional amendment reouirInc
payment OF poll tax as prerequisite tc
| voting -
patterson sent UP humorous resolution
! providing for sine die adjournment ON
April 20; the resolution was adopted by a
viva voco vote
the finance committee reported favor
apiy Johnson's bill Incorporating the
ieaening OF kindergarten work In the pub
tic free schools; also favorably bill by
Burns providing for the payment of fees
TO district clerks in tax suits where the
suits are dismissed by the State
by resolution OF Morriss the hall of rep
resentatives and senate chamber were ten
dered to the use of the Daughters of the
Confederacy for a musicale to be given
during the Confederate reunion in this
city during May
ING committee 10 VISIT the Southwest
ern insane asylum made further report
exempting certain architects from refec.
lions heretofore made In regard to them
by report made by the committee.
ON motion of Odell the senate concurred
IN mousse amendments to his bill authoriz-
ing railroad companies to acquire new
right of way for the purpose of shortening
the line or reducing the grades
Johnson secured final passage of the
house bill by Prince creating a more
efficient road system for Navarro county.
House bill by Childers placing certain
counties under operation of the law pre-
venting stock from running at large was
next considered.
Amendment by Linn was adopted strik-
ing Wharton county from the bill and
amendment by Dibrell was adopted placing
Guadalupe county in the bill and further
consideration Of the bill was deferred
House bill by Jones, carrying into effect
the constitutional amendment adopted two
years ago relating to suffrage, passed
finally.
House bill by Bailey, to require railway
companies to receive and transport all
freight coming to them from steamships,
steamboats, and other water craft and ves-
sells, without discrimination for or against
any other steamship line, steamboat line,
owner or company, or the owner or own
ers of any other water craft or vessel,
passed finally.
House bill by Crawford, requiring own
ers of coal mines in this State to have at
least two shafts to their mines for the
egress and ingress of miners, was killed
by being indefinitely postponed.
Substitute house bill, giving the State
board of education an option of ten days
on county bonds and on the bonds of in
corperated cities, and providing that
when premium is paid for bonds the
board of education shall refund the same
to the permanent school fund out OF the
first interest collected, was next consid-
cred, ordered engrossed and the constltu-
tional rule suspended, when Miller en-
tered motion to reconsider the vote on
the bill.
House bill by Tate. amending the
statutes relative to recognlzances, was
passed to third reading
Stafford presented resolution adopted by
the Texas Millers' association, in which
the action of the senate in passing the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Cot
ton Belt consolidation bills over the gov
ernor,s veto is commended,
Committee on judicial districts reported
favorably Sebastian's bill fixing the time
OF holding court in the Thirty ninth ju-
dicial district.
Committee on State affairs reported fav-
orably Coughs bill providing for the bet
ter preservation OF all tho personal prop
erty belonging to the State; also favor
ably on Turneys bill authorizing the Sec
rotary of state to make several exchanges
of court reports.
Greer's bill authorizing the Gulf, Beau
mont and Kansas City Railway company
to purchase and operate the Gulf, Beau
mont and Great Northern railway. passed
finally under a suspension OF the rules.
Bill by Goss further defining unlawful
intercourse was killed by refusal to adopt
the favorable committee report.
Dibrells bill validating acknowledge
ments to all instruments constituting links
in the chain of title. or affecting the title
to any lands in Texas. to quiet title to the
same, was next considered
Amendment by Burns was adopted pro-
viding that the provisions of the bill shall
not apply to pending litigation.
The bill passed finally under a suspen-
sion of the rules
Adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow.