The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-28
BURIED.
FL On the Deceased HOgg Amend
ments Held by tle House.
.rIlL HAS NOW COME TO THE FRONT
..s 10 Do Sometime Which Is Not
| 7. me Power OF the lee'sIature-Sen-
ate Appropriation Bill.
AnstIu Texas. February q

Austiu Texas, February ~
|,HE RESOLUTION providing for the SUD
p,..,on of the Hogg amendments came
= ,oday on final passage. An attempt
" made to amend 1t by changing the
,,,a Of the proposed submission from
,a,r 1901, to November, 1902. but 1t
,.nod Part of the morning and all of
a. avenlng sessions were consumed in
sscussion of the resolution. motion
,,aerlng the previous question and mo-
,,or proyidlng that the debate should
.l.ss at noon on Friday having sbeen de-
s..,od Great as was the flow of ora
,orv. not vote was changed; neither
rss anything new said on either side.
Tho friends of the amendments, as has
hsen their wont, Insisted on digging po-
,nical graves for the opponents thereof,
mile the latter reported that they were
xtllnr TO take the consequences of votes
,ost against a proposition, the details of
which were never read, either to the
state convention or to its platform COM
mittee.
uR GARY, one of the gentlemen from
Smith. departed from the line of argu-
ment followed by the friends of the
amendment, however, and made the best
speech heard on that side of the ques-
tIop. It was concise, argumentative and
sbref, and presented the affirmative of
the question in the most favorable light
4 possible. Mr.. Robertson of Williamson
created some enthusiasm by producing
letter from Judge Reagan to II. w.
Hudson, written last May, in which the
Hogg amendments are Endorsed, supple
mented with the statement that Judge
Reagan is still of the same mind as he
was when the letter was penned.
WELLS OF GRAYSON made the most In
terestlng and most attentively listened
10 speech of the day. He had been both
cred by the question involved more than
BY any other question presented and he
believed that n great many other mem
hers were in the same fix, but he did not
think that any one outside of the leg
stature was being bothered by it, TO
his mind there was much that was good
and much that was doubtful In the
amendments and ms the doubtful seemed
to predominate he would vote against
&
Mr., Wells talk the previous question
was again moved and this time ordered
and at $40 the final vote was taken, re-
suting in 40 ayes and 40 noes The
speaker, Mr.. Prince, announced impress
sively "Therc being 40 ayes and 40
noes, the noes have 1t and. the resolu-
ton is defeated, as 1t takes SO affirma-
tiyN votes to carry it, and there was
spontaneous and Continued applause,
after which a motion to reconsider and
table the vote by which the resolution
was defeated carried and the funeral
was over. There were four pairs and
Mr.. Walker asked to be recorded as be-
lag present and not voting. The OPP
ponents of the resolution are In high
feather over the result, as they had es-
pected the other side to show up strong
er, although confident all the time of
winning ont. o4..- ,-a
Mr.. MURRAY today obtained permission
to have printed in the house Journal a
letter from the railroad commission con
demnlng Greer's bill providing for the
leasing of short lines of railroad to their
Interstate connections on the ground that
II Violates the spirit of the constitution.
THE SENATE FINANCE committee re-
ported a general appropriation bill today.
It Is pretty liberal document and pro.
vldes for an expenditure of 81, 10000 for
me maintenance of the State govern
ment, institutions and courts for the two
years ending February rs, 1908. Aside
from this amount bills have passed ap-
propriatlng 100000 for the erection of
an epileptic asylum. the establishment
OF two State normals, etc., running the
total OF prospective expenditures up to
5000, including Sl3O,000 for the ex-
penses of the session. The estimated re
sources for the two years will amount
10 So $4,000, so that the passage of the
senate bill would leave working bal
ance of 1924, 900 in the treasury. This
Is considered too narrow. however, and
me governor has been asked for further
information with regard to the amount
OF revenue in sight for the period In.
yolved.
ioN. ID. A. MFALL has gone into the
OIL business again. This morning in the
house he introduced bill declaring the
Waters-Pierce OIL company fraud and