The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-01
MAY Be THIRD SESSION.
II the State Is to Have Any Money
to Pay It's Expenses.

been dropped from the bill, ne replied that
There was no immediate necessity for such
building and that Furthermore there Sas
not room on the present site Of the nstl-
tute for It,
! He pointed out that IN the aggregate
the appropriation for the university had
been reduced by about $4,000 below the
senate bill ana explained minor changes
made in the house bin, taking occasion to
lay particular stress upon the adyisahility
OF permitting the penitentiary board to
purchase a sor7T mill to he paid for With
the cane crop ON the Clemens farm.
Mr.. Napier opened the fight on the com.
mittee report. The burden of his remarks
| was that the institution FOR the care OF
the lame, the blind and the hate had been
sacrificed that the higher Institutions OF
learning might get all they asked for 1t
panied him that one Of the experiment
stations had been done away with, TO the
detriment Of the farmers: that the appro-
priatton for the orphan asylum had been
cut down and that the Confederate yeter-
ans had been sighted. In fine, he-was of
the opinion that the committee had Te.
ported bill so inequltable and so full Of
unconstitutional propositions that to vote
FOR 1t was equivalent TO inviting political
death. and that 1t was SO monstrous and
unjust that IL would he better for the state
that the present legislature should remain
In session until the Twenty eighth should
meet than that the committees report
should he adopted.
Mr. Walker of Grayson made an earnest
appeal for restoration Of the appropria-
tion for the erection OF new building for
the blind institute, denying that the ac-
commodatlons 1t now afforded are adequate
for the care Of the blind children, most of
whom belong to the poorer classes and
whose parents are unable to give the at
tention they need.
Mr. Murray defended the report. He
was followed by Mr.. shannon, who com
planned that the opponents OF the appro-
priation for the university had not been
given representation on the free confer.
ence committee and charged that the
speaker had dealt unfairly with half the
members of the house, He did not care,
he sald, whether his language was parlia-
mentary or not, he felt that way about It
and he was bound to speak out.
Speaker Prince explained, quoting Mr.
Jefferson as his authority that 1t was the
practice TO refer bills TO conference couta
mttees composed OF friends thereof ava
that the committee had In this case been
appointed in accordance with that practice
Referring TO the tie vote by which the
motion 10 strike out the appropriation for
q girls dormMory AZ ss1e yllyersity had
been defeated when the appropriation bill
was before the house. the speaker said
that though he had voted against the mo-
tion IL would have been defeated Just the
same without his vote, Ss a tie vote was
the equivalent Of negative action.
AT the conclusion OF the speakers re-
marks the previous question was ordered
on motion Of Kennedy Uimestone), and
showdown was had
The result was that the free conference
committee report was rejected and recon-
mltted by vote of Sc to Is.
Discussion Is rife tonight as to what the
effect of this vote win he. many believing
that third extra session will be neces-
sary, as the senate is apparently prepared
To stand by the report while n majority
Of the house seems willing to stay here