The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-16
The Post Bureau,

> HOUSE started off today with bsre-
.,opsh members on hand to comply
~ ,he constitutional requirement in
otter of attendance in order to
r.rsact business. Those that were
resent stayed together long enough,
owsver. to pass the bill making the CIV
!, rebates by railway agents a fell
as we'll as the bill increasing the tax
tan min alleys from 500 to $3.50 per
ANN, and to engross the bill imposing
income tax of per cent on incomes
, oyer $4,000. After that 1t was only
~ the assistance of the sergeant at
rms that a quorum could be maintained
"a even he eventually failed in the at
smpt so that little else was done save
tempting doctors from the payment of
o occupation tax
y GOVERNORS OFFICE was anxious
watched all day in the hope that some
hing might drop from there to indicate
be fate of the new Katy consolidation
hi, but nothing transpired from which
he outside might draw the least con-
lusion In the matter. If one were to
,arer however, that the governor will
i'm the bill tomorrow he would be
living his money on what in sporting
ernacular is expressed by. the word
einch," and furthermore the same may
u sald with regard to the other con-
olldation bills in the governors hands.
they won't be signed tomorrow, but they
glll come through all right, as the time
llowed on them by the constitution ex-
res.
ID GOVERNOR this evening signed the
lin providing for the organization of
be corporations for the purpose of
boring, transporting, purchasing and
slling oil, gas, salt. brine and other
mineral solutions and to authorize them
operate and maintain such pipe lines,
bnks pumping stations, buildings, ma
hinery, apparatus and devices as may
necessary and to condemn. own, use
hid occupy lands and other property for
be purpose OF their incorporation.
q FOLLOWING was filed with the
uvernor today:
ION. Joseph D. Sayers, Governor, Austin
Texas
af1 t,,r 70 n
be 9th instant addressed to the railroad
pmmission OF Texas, transmitting copy
senate bill No 1913 and requesting the
plnion Of the commission in refereis {
hereto, beg to say in reply for my
III only.
A copy of senate bill No. 1893 is MOI
sfore me, but am sufficiently familiar
18th Its features to state that its para.
CUNT and main purpose is nothing more
less than the combination and consol.
lation OF the Missouri, Kansas ant
exas Railway company of Texas witt
Sherman, Shreveport and Southern
lway, and practically the same u!
nate bill No. 154, vetoed by your ex'
llency and now pending undisposed o.
the house Of representatives.
There may be Some variations In tn,
alter of the minor and unimportan
stalls, but in all the essentials 1t Il
deliberate judgment that these bill
2 the same.
have heretofore expressed myself a
myth In opposition to this measure
leylng firmly that 1t is wrong in prin
PIE, clearly violative of the funda
fntal law Of the land and but anothe
towards the Capitalization of cor
rae power in this State.
ne public Ia crying out against trusts
my Judgment the railroad trust /
most colossal Of them all. Its worl
insidious, but none the less forceful
concert of action--or combination,
please-the railroads of this Stat
We within the last few months arrest
,ne powers OF one OF the department
,ae government and forced an increas
per cent in freight rates; they hav
msa away from our seaport waite
ape'itlon. They maintain an organ
.on--outlawed from Texas, it is true
uecision of our supreme court
established in st. Louis-whereb
pe''lslon is had over all interstat
~ anectng Texas, These are bu
Instances hurtful to the public re
lug from combination, and is tn
ana natural outcome to be ex
~ OF the legislation under consid
aOn. ] beg to send you herewith
letter written March 81, ulti
~ Indicative of my views concernin
proposed consolidation. I have bee
- sa sick, confined to my room, fo
hln week and as you must act o
VII by tomorrow. am forced to con
assef with very hasty prepare
o. my opinion.
. aaai conviction that this bill Is 1
n ,suon Of section 5, article 10, of til
husalion Of Texas, and is fraugf
b,c many mischievous results to Ii
btss, moves me to enter an earnei
|psct, Hss.nst Its becoming a law. Yer
Allison Mayfield,
N. Commissioner.
's''er OF March 81, referred
ma ~ Inc ros'
slNArE FINANCE COMMITTEE
trough with the house appropriate
'''ay and will tomorrow make
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