The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-27
COMING TO ITS SENSES


Austin. Tex. April % Members
Of the house are organized against
the liquor inspection bin and the bill
providing that property owner
must swenr TO the value of his real
holdings. aud Will make every effort
to keep them from coming up az this
session
Just who are ia this organized
move cannot be learned. but they
can be classed with the insurgents,
since the bills against which they
have organized are administration
measures They claim they have
strength enough To keep the bills
from being considered. and II that
Is the case the session will pass out
with the bills on the calendar
We don't propose 10 make citi-
gen swear when he renders his prop
erty and swear when he gets through
rendering It," said one OF these In
surgents tonight. I'VE have the or
ganization to do 1t and while | do
not doubt the governor Will recon
vene the legislature II these bills fall,
we are determined To defeat them IL
we can. | don't want OF stay until
June. but ii looks is If we will be
here most all summer"
The gross receipts bill is dragging
slowly along. 1t is being contested
at every step of the way and then
finally the chances are that 1t will
have to face a vote to decapitate 1t.
This vote, however. will fail, and In
one shape or another it will go to the
senate. The purpose over there Is to
whip it into something like reason
able shape in the committee before
it gets into the senate and shut off
some of the contest on it. The sem
ate does not take kindly to the prin-
ciple of a gross receipts tax.
Except on the textbook bill, Sen
ator Meachum may be classed as an
insurgent He made a strong speech
today against radicalism and, while
he said he was not sure that all these
proposed changes came from the gov
ernor. he wanted to say that he was
against them, it mattered not whence
they originated His speech was d.
rect answer to Senator Senter, who
| took his fellow senators to task for
being slow in their work.
! Nk Meachum will support the ad
ministration textbook bill, but OF
other questions the insurgents CLAIM
he is with them.
| Mr.. Aledrdice has come out III
open defiance of the governor. The
little article published Few
days ago in which comment was
made on the governors views regard
ing the book trust, has aroused MIN
and his manifesto of insurrectlon IS
sued today is caustic in the extreme.
1t presents startling number OF
statements regarding the book trust,
declares openly that the BOOK trust
is doing business in the state To-Day
under a state contract and says II SO
emphatically that it leaves no doupI
as to his knowledge More thah lhaV
he shows why the governor ought
NOT IN have a free hand in the selec-
ton of the text book board ana ms
statement is one of such weight that
it is bound TO be noticed.
The killing at Groveton may nave
the effect of passing another drastic
bill. Representative Moore has pre-
pared bill, in the Introduction OF
which others have joined him, II II
can be considered under the govern
or's call. making II a penitentiary
offense To sell liquor in local OPP
tion precinct II is hoped 20 hurry 1t
through under the excitement OF the
Croveton tragedy as the gambling
bill was hurried through over the
Fort Worth tragedy.
Mr.. Moore is from Gray son county
I which is local option. but II Is known
| that in sherman and Deuison liquor
Is yet sold.