The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 245
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"Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the reasons of the Presi-
dent to the contrary?"
The vote stood 14 to 12, so the bill was lost, there not being a
constitutional majority.4
It was the opinion frequently expressed by the old settlers that
that if General Burleson had not been absent, Eblin's League would
have been the seat of government, but I find his name among those
who voted for the passage of the bill over the veto. Voting on the
nomination of a place for the capital, he did not support Eblin's
League until the second ballot, giving his first vote to Bastrop.
He was absent when the vote to create the county of Colon was
taken, the bill for which was also vetoed by President Houston di-
rectly after; and this probably gave rise to the notion I have men-
tioned.
In prospect of the seat of government being located upon Eb-
lin's League, the people of the vicinity had selected the lot first
settled by Professor Decherd, within the corporate limits of La
Grange, as Capitol Hill, and looked with confident expectation to
the outcome.
But the veto message came, and with results entirely unlooked
for by the President; for a bill was subsequently passed by a con-
stitutional majority, locating the future capital at Austin, or rather,
the bill resulted in that.
Tradition says that the southern members urged the extension of
the limits fixed by the bill, hoping to defeat it by exhibiting the
imprudence of the effort, but to their utter astonishment it passed,
placing the capital upon the outermost verge of civilization. What-
ever outcome as to the development of the country may have been
expected, this must at least be regarded as rather a daring act of
legislation.
The prosperity to Fayette that would have followed the location
of the capital on Eblin's League is easily understood.
JULIA LEE SINKS.
THE NAAME ALAo.-Even the casual observer notices that the
mission of the Alamo is the only one of the Texas missions which4Ibid., pp. 166-8.
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