El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-28
THE STATE
CAMPAIGN
May Hinge On a Fight On The
Tax Question
RESOLUTIONS PASSED
And the Indications Now Are That
Lively Times Are Ahead In Poll
tical Circles This Year.

A dispatch from Austin Gays: That
the tax bill will be the leading subject
of discussion during the coming cam
paign no one who has watched the pro-
ceedinRs of the special session of the
twenty-sixth legislature doubts, but
there are many who deprecate that
this question should be brought into
such prominence as to oversnaooW
other important Issues.
On the closing day OF the special ses
sion there was held q meeting of mem
bers who had opposed the passage of
the revenue bill submitted by the tax
commission, and resolutions were
adopted declaring their attitude to-
ward the measure aud f0recasting
their course, should the advocates of
the paramount issue OF the bill persist
In thursting 1t formed as the campaign.
This N getting was called at the sug.
gestion of r preventative Grubbs and
was presided over by Representative
Norman G. Kittrell.
It was an 'open session." Rspres-
entative Grubbs having declared That
be did not waat to be accused of hold
ing an FOWL caucus" or anything of
like character.
In explaining his purpose In extend
ing An invitation to those who op-
posed the commission tax bill to meet
with him, he said he did not want to
see the tax bill made the chief f. ature
of the campaign, but preferred t, sc
au # TT ma q to bring forward the in
au.trial development of Texas as thu
leading issue to be presented to the
people.
He believed there has been sufficient
discussion of the tax bill at tue special
session to educate and inform the peo-
pie fully as to all its provisions, and it
-hould not be thrust into the campaign
to provoke further bitterness and an
tsgonism.
He proposed resolutions that he hop
ID would remove the acrimonious feel
ings engendered by the debate on the
tax question and wanted an announce
ment to the people of the state to be
Issued in accordance with these resolu-
tions which are as follows:
"Whereas. The first called session
of the twenty-sixth legislature which
convened on the 23rd day of January,
1900, for the purpose, among other
things, Of making general revision of
the taxing system of Texas, is about to
close the passage of the bill furmulat-
ed by the tax commission or any other
measure to that end: and
Whereas, There is average number,
If not q ma jOrity, of the lower house of
the legislature, who have been unwil-
ling to accept the work of Said tax
commission and vote for the passage of
the same without careful consid GRAFTON
and after full discussion of the hume
rous provisions thereof; and
Whereas, Some of the leading
supporters of the measure have re-
psatedlv questioned the motives of
those who entertain a different view
upon the justice a. d the expediency of
the adoption of said measure without
full discussion and careful considera-
ton and have threatened to inject
same into the ensuing campaign as q
dominant and controlling issue, there
fore be it
"Resolved, That we. a portion of
the members who have opposed the
acceptance of said tax bill without
question of IFS merits and the advis-
ability of its passage at this time, sin
cerely depreciate the avowed pur-
poses of the supporters thereof afore-
said.
''Resolved, that it is the desire of
the members of this conference that
there be no bitterness INDUCED in by
either side in the ensuing campaign
should 1t be made dominant issue, as
threatened, but that in the event the
fight is forced upon as we are entirely
able and fully prepared to justify our
action in the premises before the
democracy and the whole people of