San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-15

on final passage were: The county
commissioners salary bill, the 3d.
100000 emergency school appropria-
ton; permanent university fund; the
Pope bill, multiplying the recent text
book awards; the county school unit
bill and the officers removal for in
toxication bill.
Among the many and more i'm
portant measures which died on the
calendar in various stages were the
following: The SHREDDER evolution bill !;
the quo warranto bill for removal of
officers :. the Bell prohibition enforce
ment bill; the emergency appropriation
for state schools; the free text book
| provision, and the constitutional con-
| vention resolution.
New Lobby Rules.
Before final adjournment in the
Senate, q new rule relative to lobbyists
and visitors on the floor of the Sen
ate was adopted. Under the new rule,
no person will be given the privilege
of the floor of the Senate until he
has sent his card to the senator he
desires to see and the doorkeeper has
received instructions to admit the WIS.,
itor. This is the result of declara-
tions on the floor Of numerous in
Engagements under the present plan. 1t
also resulted from the criticism leveled
against Governor Neff for appearing
on the floor when members support
ing the chief executive declared lobby
lists have had the privilege of the
floor on numerous occasions during
the session. However, the governor is
entitled to the floor of the House and
Senate any time.
Senator W. Il. Watts of johnson
county, was elected president protein
ad interim of the Senate during the
closing hours of the session. His
term, however. is expected to be COM
paratively brief.
The report of the joint legislative
committee on prison relocation, failed
of adoption in the Senate following
an extended debate by Senator Lewis
of Grimes, who advocated a minority
report, was referred until the called
session of the Thirty eighth Legis-
lature. The majority report recon-
mended that the prison be relocated
within IS miles of Austin in Central
Texas.
The House received the report and
it wss accepted and failed, but joint
action is necessary to make the re-
port effective as well as the recon-
mendations.
The report Of the legislative COM
mittee on the feasibility of accepting
an offer by the city of Decatur Of
100 acres Of land near that place
for branch of the North Texas Nor.
NAL College at Denton. was adopted
by both branches of the legislature.
There was also filed the report of
the state, railroad inspection COM
mittee.
Programs Overlooked.
The regular session Of the Thirty
eighth Legislature passed into his
tory without having carried out the
elaborate revenue-producing program
that had been planned for the gov
ernor's law enforcement proposals. and
only little progress was made in the
constructive and educational pro-
grams.
While the main features of the
governors law enforcement program
met with comparatively easy sailing
in the House, it was different in the
Senate. The governors principal bill
was the Patterson Officers
removal bill which passed by big
majority in the House but met de-
feat in the Senate during the last
days of the session. This is the bill
that the governor said the Senate
smOthered to DEATH"
The bill would have authorized the
attorney general, under the direction
OF the governor, to institute quo war
ranto proceedings for the removal of
county officers who failed to do their
duty or refused to enforce the laws.
Another OF the governors bills was the
measure which sought. to make more
severe the Dean prohibition law: it
also failed in the Senate after hay-
ing passed in the House.
The bill sought to make the posses
sion of still. or possession of q
pint of liQuor for the purpose of sale.
prima facie evidence of the guilt of
the possessor. The bill repeating the
suspended sentence law, another meas
ure favored by the governor, failed
in the House. as.
All of these measures, il is ex-
pected, are TO be submitted by the
governor at the special session. As
their contents are well known to the
average member, there will be no need
for any lengthy debate on these meas
urcs.
LeSturgeon Bill Defeated.
Representative LeStourgeon of San
Antonio. sought to have adopted. lust
before the House adjourned sine die.
q resolution providing that the House
committee on revenue and taxation
shall meet within two weeks of the
special session for the purpose of max
ing out a comprehensive taxation pro-
gram. He declared that the committee
could work out plan which would
be definite and basis on which the
House could work.
Representative Patman. who plans
TO introduce his intangible tax bill
at the coming session, opposed the
resolution on the grounds that the
authors OF such tax bills would not
be present to explain them TO the com.
mlttee. The resolution was finally
| defeated. '
Governor Neff signed late Wednes.
day the Observation-Disclosures yx-;II;o -.