Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1919-07-14
LEGISLATURES
final WEEK IS
HERE; ENDS I'D
Calendars Of Both House and
Senate Promse to Become
Graveyard for Bills.
new One NOT LIKELY
Gov. Hobby Opposed to Call
ing Another Session.
NEW One NOT LIKELY

t0y NJ ASS0NldltU tINSNt
AUSTIN, Tex, July 14.-With the
beginning of the last week of the sec
ond called session Of the Thirty-sixth
Texas legislature, calendars of both
The house and the senate promise t.
become graveyard for bills which
die at the expiration of the present
session at midnight, July %, at which
time this session adjourns sine di,
under the law which regulates its sit
ting.
Governor w. p. Hobby has stated
that he will not call another session
unless it is necessary for the final dis
position Of appropriation bills. If
q new session is called at once, all
subjects must be re-submitted before
they can be considered.
Members of the appropriation COM
mittee say that the appropriation
measures will be disposed of before
this session ends md legislators pre-
dict that even il another session is
called By the governor that only un-
finished appropriation measures will
be submitted.
With approximately $50 bills on
the senate calendar and It's on the
housc calendar, only one general bill
had been passed finally at the begin
ming of the last week. This was the
measure to authorize the organiza-
ton of corporations to guarantee bills
Of exchange issued on cotton and
thus make available for the financing
Of the crops capital of all banks.
Three general bills had reached the
Tree conference stage. The senate
substituted is hills for-the house elces
nosynary and judiciary appropriation
measures, and the house refused to
concur in senate amendments. The
third bill was a measure proposing
On approximate increase of $500 a
year in the salaries Of superintend-
ents of state eleemosynary institu-
tions- The senate passed the house
oil after amending it to include an
Increase of from $4,000 TO $4,000 a
year for members of the railroad
commission.
AT that time the senate had not
taken up consideration of the elee-
mosynary appropriation bill, upon
which the house spent the greater
part Of the week; and neither branch
had reached the departmental and
miscellaneous appropriation bills.
numerous local bills concerning
school districts, road law revisions,
etc, which carry the emergency
clause and demand roll calls, also re-
NAMED, and senatorial courtesy gen
orally allows a member to call up his
local measure in time to get it dispos-
ed Of.
The speaker Of the house announc-
ca early during the past week that he
would exert his efforts TO keep the
mouse constantly upon the appropria-
uon measures until they are disposed
Of; and he held them under recess
ior three days while the educational
u'ii was being passed upon. Under
sne rules Of the house, house bills
cannot be taken up within forty-eight
nours OF sine die adjournment, and
tne senate also has rules restricting
consideration Of bills TO within TWEEN
V-iour hours Of adjournment.
among the major measures pend
ing are the proposed revision of the
BOARD OF control law; the proposal to
pace state employees under civil ser
wee regulations; revision of the state
depository law; conservation and
reclamation legislation; health and
eahitary measures, and the bill pro
poslng the issuing by the state OF
sSo.oUO,O00 in bonds 10 provide a
soVo bonus for all Texas men dis
charged from the United States mill
tary service.
mere are also many pigeon holes
iul OF lesser measures. a review of
winch under present indications
would seem in the nature Of an obit-
uary.
me last days Of the session prom
- hveiy skirmishes by legislators
sno are trying to preserve their EN-
o'yo laws from oblivion. And ac-
so" near the end Of previous ses-
s'ons does not make improbable fill
susterlng, which becomes more ef.
'ecuVe as the end draws near.