Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-10
SENATE WORKS
LATE SATURDAY
Many Important Measures
To Die With Close OF
41st Legislature

AUSTIN, March 9.-tP)-After
Lieutenant Governor Miller had
warned that this probably was the
last day a senate bill could be
passed with any hope that the
house woul breach it, the senate
maintained a quorum until late in
the afternoon.
Most of the measures were local
bills or brought no appreciable
contest.
The house bill permitting the
sterilization of persons who had in
herite depilepSy, idiocy and insan-
ity was killed and the Parr senate
bill, calling for an elective highway
commission, failed of engrosSment.
These measures elected some dis
cussion. The highway commission
bill seemed dead at the start be-
cause of the lateness Of the session
and the governors promise to
veto it.
Sign Death of $50 Bills
The vote on engroSsment was
eight for, IS against, and three
pairs.
Parr o Benevides, author of the
measure; Martin of Hillsboro, Mil
Ter Of Weatherford, and Hornsby
Of Austin, spoke for the bill, while
Love, Dallas. and Small Of Well
ington opposed it.
Holbrook, Galveston: Berkeley,
Alpine, and Deberry, Bogata, led
the fight against the sterilization
bill, which resulted in it's being
killed by a Is to 7 vote, with one
pair.
Sometimes working on g. bare
quorum the senate kept on until
nearly 6 o'clock when a motion for
adjournment until Monday was
made.
When Lieut.. Gov. Miller called
for the "ayeS" in favor Of kissing
the rest Of the senate bills good
bye" some $50 in number, the re-
Spouse was almost unanimous.
Senator Miller made a last at
tempt to salvage his motor bus bill
but the senate refused by one vote
to reconsider the vote by which the
measure was killed.
Reach Land Bill Accord
The house bill to put motor
trucks under the railroad commits
sion was passed, 10 to 5. The house
later refused to concur in senate
amendments and a free conference
committee was appointed.
Wirtz of Seguin said that differ
enceS between the two houses on
university land leases had been ad-
juSted in the free conference COM
mittee of which he was a member.
He said the house bill, placing
the leases in the hands of two
members Of the Texas university
board of regents and the land COM
missioner, was taken as a basis but
that the free conference commit
tee would recommend that a major
ity Of this board Of three might act.
The senate bill had given all au-
thority to two members Of the
board of regents while the house
had added the land commissioner
and required unanimous consent
before any action could be taken.
Oppose Nomination
Williamson of San Antonio,
chairman of the senate committee
on governors nominations, said ne
would ask the governor to with
draw the name of D. R. Wortsman
Of Dallas as an appointee to the
state optometry board.
Williamson said the attorney
general had held that no vacancy
would exist until November Is. A
strong figh was waged against
Wortsman, especially by members
of the State Optometrist asSocia-
ton.
A bill by Senator Love of Dallas
requiring the chronological pay
ment Of taxes, killed early in the
session, was reconsidered and
passed.
The proposal of Hyer of Fort
Worth that convicts be given dou-
bic credit for overtime work was
approved by the senate, which also
passed the small bill ratifying the
Canadian river pact between Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico.