El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-08
MONEY BILLS UP
IN LEGISLATURE
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port OF the states judiciary system for
1 the next two fiscal years
] House committee on appropriations
/ IS now at work on the bill making mis-
| celianeous appropriations and expects
/ saturday The deficiency bill IS also
] expected 10 be ready shortly.
senator W1llseys chairman OF the
/ senate finance committee, has present.
! ed to the senate the educational and
/ departmental sections of the senate ap-
preparation Dill These two measures
VIII be substituted for the house bills
on the same SUBJECT and the house viii,
more than likely, refuse to accept them
and this viii bring the money bills to
free conference committee
OIL Fine To Be spent.
Within the next few days there will
be no traces of the $500, 600 Standard
OI zine, except on the records Of the
treasury department The last hope OF
setting aside a part Of that money
Szu7, O0O-for the retirement Of A. and
NJ college bonds, vanished when the
mouse indefinitely postponed cOnsid-
ehauOn Of the Hudspeth senate bill
which carried such a provision The
legislature. it is evident. did not take
TO the governors plan to retire bonds
WIN TINS money and preferred to have
Ine money IN the general revenue fund
W nile the state treasurer has not as
yet transferred the sos. 600 he had set
aside to retire the college bonds. he
another call is made for registered
warrants Thus the states deficit of
nearly S1OOO,000 has eaten up the half
mlIllon collected from the Standard OF
New Jersey
Witness Fee Measure.
AFTER a hard fight, representative
Henry, OF Hale county. has succeeded
IN obtaining the final passage of his
bill providing for the repeal OF the
witness fee bill passed by the S3d leg
Islature This is the bill which al
n nj
diem Of $50 when the prosecution is
IN the county of the residence OF such
witness The bill now goes to the SEN
ate for consideration but its chances
OF passage there are not so bright New
erthelesS Mr.. Henry declares he ex-
poets to have the senate act favOrablv
on the measure which he estimates will
save the state S1,O0O,0 600 a year in such
witness fees
Training school ResuIatfon.
the house has passed TO engrossment
Of Wichita, which seeks to regulate the
state Training School for Juveniles.
An amendment was adopted to the bill
providing that no inmate Of the insti-
tuition shall be permitted to remain
there for more than a term Of five
years This is a reform measure and
provides for teaching the students in
the school OF letters as well in agri-
cultural and other pursuits The law
Is also changed in several other in
stances-which have heretofore been ex-
planned in these columns.
On a point of order raised by repre-
sentative Wagstaff a bill introduced
by representative Fuller several DAYS
ago. was ruled out as not coming with
in the purvieW OF the governors recon-
mendatiOns. This bill sought to make
1t a felony for anyone to solicit busi-
ness for foreign corporation when
such corporation had no permit to do
business in Texas
COiQuftt Is Away.
Governor Colquitt is taking day or
two off and has left the lawmakers to
their own devices He went to Fort
Worth to attend a meeting of certain
learned he will proceed to Mineral
Wells and spend day or two and is
expected back on the Job by Saturday
az the latest. On next Monday the gov
arnOr may have something TO cOmmu-
licate to the lawmakers.