The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-14
PROCEEDINGS.


Austin. TeMss. February 1S.-Lieuten.
ant Governor Browning called the senate
to order at 10 o'clock this morning and
it was hve minutes before a quorum was
secured
The citizens of Abbott and Hillsboro
Methodist churches and Hilsboro
Womans Chrlsuan Temperance Union
peciioned for an amendment TO the local
option baw 10 prohibit express companies
from !mpor;ong liquor into local option
districtg.
A petition from the Texas Truck Grow
crs association was reld Va which
$4,000 appropriation Is asked to be uscd
In establishing additional agricultural
experiment stations.
Balty secured the SUSPENSION of the
regular and special orders and had con
sidered his bill requiring persons, firms.
ETC.. daillinS for oil to eauip the wells
with full way gate valves securely at
tached to The outer or inner string of
pipe before reaching the oil bearing
stratum The bll also requires the valves
to remain closed until sufficient tank
tge capacity is available and making 1t
unlawful 10 allow oil 10 escape CT dow
uncontrolled A number Of "whereasesn
are incorporated in the bill reciting that
Operation of petroleum exists in this
State believed to be similar to the exist
ing conditions in Baku, Russia, the scene
OF recent horrible oil conflagr5tion.
The penalty is a fine Of not less than
5000 nor more than $1,000. or by impris
onment not to exceed one year The
bill was ordered engrossed and finally
passed under a suspension Of the rules.
Wlyland made a successful motion to
rt,f .r1,s IL ff,a
sheraton OF his bill appropriating $4,000
with which to erect dormitory for girls
at the State Agricultural and Mechan
lcal college.
Wayand had adopted an amendment
restricting the dormitory to the use OF
white girls. Adopted.
Savage offered an amendment providing
THAI the said dormitory shall be known
as an annex 10 the Agricultural and Ne
chemical college for the industrial e1uca
tion Of white girls in the arts and
sciences
Senator II3nger WIS opposed to locat-
ing the girls industrial school at the
military college of the state.
Senator James said he was unwilling
to insult the women of this State by
locating the industrial school at the
Agricultural ard Mech meal college. aud
contended that the pla tform demand is
q
lulso objected to the Agricultural and Me-
chanlcil college and that section of the
STATE securing al of the State institu-
tons: North Texas is paying large
share o. the taxes and has only one in
stitution-an insane asylum
Senator SEBASTIAN also opposed loc]t-
ing he school at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college. and thought II should
be a stparite school.
is a bill pending founding State INDUS
trial school for girls and that the locl-
ton is left open, and that therefore the
measure under consideration is n the
mature Of "a cart before the horse"
Senator Savage stated that he is not
wholly in favor of Locating the schooi
at the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege; unless his amendment were adopted
he would oppose the bill
Senator Dibrell said that the present
bill is a splendid economical measure and
thar it is unbecomlng to get into a scram>
BILE over a site for this school and tur-
Their that ne did not care TO become en-
t3npled In a contention over the question
of North and South Texas, and thlt the
duty of legislator is to be economical
Senator Dibrell said that he not only
favored the establishment of the indus
trial school at Bryan on account OF the
the advantages at Bryan; called atten-
tion to the fact that coeducation exists
at the Sam Houston Normal, State uni
versity, all high schools and at nearly
every university in the United States;
said that fol- seventeen years the coiored
girls and ycGths have enjoyed Industrial
education at Prairie View without OBJ
lection or "a single case OF SANDER. he
also smoke of the efficient corps OF teach
ers at Bryan and said that the girls could
secure advantage of the arts and sciences
at a minimum cost 10 the State; advoeat-
ed the enlistment of the question OF To-
Icality. that IL seems that the question
Ipenaing is more for the benefit Of the
locality rather thin for the Deneht OF
the state or for the heneht OF the III
istltutiou; warned the senate that IN es-
tablishing separate institution II Woula
require large annual appropriations ana
tbst already more than SS,O0O,O0O annual
Ily Is expended and that there must be
| halt He favored carrying out one pro-
vision Of the railroad platform"
! Goss moved TO postpone further consid-
GRAFTON OF the bill until next Wednes ay'
which motion prevailed By a viva voce
vote.
AS per agreement OF yesterday the
senste went into executive session and
| confirmed the nominations OF d. j.
4
members Of the board Of msnagers OF
the Southwestern insane asylum.
Coss secured consideration OF his bill
to validate title TO school lands affected
! nv the schw8 re- mccall decision only
! where the purch ser has himself in per-
SON previously occufied for three years
me home section or some part OF the adj
Iditional land. An amendment was offered
and the bill laid on the table subject TO
patterson secured the fnal passage Of
his bill requiring railro5d companies TO
provide iu.erlocking or other safety de-
vices at railroad CROSSINGS.
The serlte adopted the house concur
REM resolution Increasing the time OF
line committes within which to sisit the
storm stricken district
House bill exempting Cherokee county
from the provisions Of the fish law were
Transferred Yeti had Burnet and Wnl-
li9mson counties stricken out OF the ex-
lemptlons Griunsn placed Brown on the
lIist OF counties exempted. Further con-
sheraton OF the bill was POSTPONED I'M
lin pomorTow. "a, ~,
Psulus secured inal passage OF MS o,ll
lrroviding for the punishment Of shefii,s