The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-16
IN COMMITTEE.
Senate conaresslonal pisttIoI

senate Congressional Districts.
The senate committee on superintendent
met this morning and received the report
Of tive subcommittee on congressional dis
tricts, copy Of which appeared in Thurs,
days Post. A few changes were made
and the report was then adopted. A bill
was framed from It during the day aud
VIII he introduced in the senate tomor-
row morning
A radical change was made in the mum
boring Of the districts. The present First
district becomes the Eighth, the First unuer
me proposed bill being that In the eN-
IRENE northeastern part OF the state. The
GALVESTON district becomes No Z
The changes made In the report OF the
subcommittee were MS follows:
Cochran, Hockey, Lubbock, Yoakum, Ter
~ Lynn Cara and Kent counties were
transferred from the Panhandle district
to the El Paso district
Comal county was taken from the Bcxar
county district and placed In the ne Witt
county district
Anderson was taken from the Navarro
county district and placed IN the Galveston
district.
Limestone, also taken from the Navarro
District was placed IN the McLennan dis
Robertson and Leon were put in the Ma
varro county district.
There was hut one vote against the bill
that Of Harris uIunD who will. however
support the measure when it goes before
the senate. The completed bin provides
for districts made up as follows:
First dsuict-Ited River Bowie. Cnss
Marion, Morris, Titus, Camp, Franklin,
Second dstfict-.Iefferso Orange. New
ton, Jasper. sabine, san Augustine, Ange.
Ina, Cherokee Nacogdoches, shelby, PIANO.
la and Harrison.
Third dlstrict-Hunt. Rains, Van zandt
Wood, Smith, Upshur Gregg and Rusk
Fourth Dissatisfaction, Fannin and La
Fifth district-Daras. Collin, Rockwar
and Kaufman.
Sixth district Ellis, Navarro. Henderson,
Freestpne, Leon and Robertson.
Seventh distrlct--GaivestOn Chambers
Liberty, Hardin, Tyler, Polk, san Jacinto
Trinity; Houston and Anderson.
Eighth district Harris. Bra2oria Fort
Bend, Austin Waller. Montgomery, Grimes,
Walker and Madison
Ninth district Colorado Wharton, Mata
g.9rda, Jackson, leavaca, Gonzales. De witt,
Victoria, Calhoun, Arkansas, Refugin 60
lad. Bee, San Particle, Live Oak, Karnes,
Wilson. Guadalupe and Comal.
Tenth dlstrict-W Williamson. Travis. Hays,
Caldwell, Bastrop, Lee, Fayette and Wash.
Eleventh district McLenuan Limestone,
Falls, Milan, Burleson and Bra2os,
Twelfth district-Tarrant, Parker, Pao
Pinto Hood someryell, Bosque, Hin and
johnson.
Thirteenth district Cooke, Denton, wise.
Wichita, Wilbarger, Baylor Throckmorton,
Haskell Knox, Ford, Hardeman. Stone
wall King Dickens, Crosby Cottle, Mot.
ley. Floyd, Hall, Lamb, Bailey Farmer,
Castro. swlsher. Brlsco Hall. Chlldress,
Collingsworth, Donley, Armstrong Randall,
Deaf Smith Oldham, Potter, Carson. Gray.
Wheeler llemphill. Roberts, Hutchinson.
Moore Hartley, Dallam sherman, Hans
ford, Ochiltree and Lipscomh.
Fourteenth disuict-Bell, Burnet, Lam
pasas. Coryell, Hamilton, Erath, Conan
che, Eastland Brown. Coleman and Mills.
Fifteenth district-Bexar. Kendall Rlan-
co, Gillespie Kerr, Bandera, Medina Frio,
AtAscosa. McMulen, La Sale, Webb, Duval,
Nueces, Cameron, Hldalgo, Star and IA
pata
sixteenth distrct-El Paso. JEFF Davis.
Preside. Brewster Pecos Crockett. Val
Verde, Kinney Maverick, Dlmmitt, Zavalla,
Uvalde, Edwards Sutton, Schlecher,
Menard, Klmble. Mason. Ilano, san saba.
McCulloch, Concho. Tom Green, lrion. Up-
ton, Crane Ward. Reeves. Loving Wlnklai
Ector. Midland. GlasscOck. Sterling. Coke,
tunnels. Callahan. Stevens, Shackelford,
Jones. TAYLOR, Nolan Fisher. Scurry,
Mitchell Howard. Borden, Dawson. Mar
tin Andrews. Gaines, Yoakum. Cochran.
Hockey, Terry. Lubbock Lynn, Cara and
Kent
The committee was in executive session
during the afternoon. considering some pro-
posed changes In the bill adopted during
thc morning. No definite action was taken
The bill will probably be presented to the
senate tomorrow and laid over until Sena-
to- Hanger has been appointed its floor
manager.