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FRIDAY NIGHT,
“A TEXAS GIRL”
SATURDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT,
“RIP VAN WINKLE"
TENT THEATRE
25th and Winnie, Next to Post*
office.
ADMISSION 15 CENTS
H. D. RUCKER’S FAMOUS KORAK
WONDER COMPANY.
Tent Theater
* 25th and Winnie.
E VST
Mr.
With
aa
ADMISSION 25c
The Tent Is Absolutely Waterproof.
TONIGHT
The most elaborate and finest
production ever seen in the South
of Goethe’s immortal legend,
Wm. J. Wickoff
Mephisto.
Dr. C. W. Trueheart, city health phy-
sician,- does not agree with County
Physician Cox's charge made in Austin
regarding the leprosy cases in Galves-
ton. In a report from Austin County
Physician Cox, who was at the capitol
in the interest of the bill for the es-
tablishment of a Texas leprosy colony,
is quoted as making statements before
the legislature which rather startled
the lawmakers. Among other things
he is reported as having said:
“There are 12 to 15 cases of leprosy
in Galveston; that an old lady is dying
of leprosy in Galveston, and that her
grandchild, who nurses her, is attend-
ing the public schools; that he
Cox) has seen men with leprosy
dances and public receptions in (
veston, and that' a young man
flicted with this loathsome disease
licits orders for a meat market all <
Galveston.”
When asked by one of the le
lators why such conditions were al-
lowed to prevail, Dr. Cox is quoted as
saying: “I can not tell you. I am not
the city health officer of Galveston.
Perhaps he could explain.”
Dr. Cox is charged with having
stated that the disease is contagious
and infectious and that there is only
one way to stop the spread of the dis-
ease and that is by the establishment
of a leper colony in Texas.
DR. TRUEHEART’S OPINION.
Dr. C. W. Trueheart, city health phy-
sician, ■ does not believe Galveston-
should be at all alarmed on account of
the existence of leprosy here, and does
not agree with Dr. Cox when the lat-
ter sounds the warning that the dis-
ease is contagious and infectious and
that there is real danger of its spread.
In a brief interview given a Tribune
representative the city health physi-
cian said that he admired the county
physician and agreed with him in the
necessity of a state leper hospital for
the treatment and care of those afflict-*'
ed. But as to the statement of Dr.
Cox that leprosy is dangerous and con-
tagious Dr. Trueheart says this is all
nonsense. Dr. Trueheart said that Dr.
Cox is doing good work in trying to
get the leper hospital, but that he al-
lowed his ambition and enthusiasm to
get the better of his good judgment
and that as a matter of fact Galveston
is not a plague-infested city and lep-
rosy is not a dangerous disease among
the Caucasian race.
“Even were it. necessary to isolate
a case of leprosy and confine the pa-
tient in some house or premise,” said
Dr. Trueheart, “there is no federal,
state, county or city law authorizing
me or the health department to take
such action, and really there is no oc-
casion for any alarm and no danger
of the spread of leprosy. Why, I and
many others remember well the case of
a man in Galveston who was afflicted
with leprosy for years and conducted
a manufacturing business in Galves-
ton. He lived here about thirty years
or more and I was the family physi-
cian. He lived in the house with his
wife, niece and other relatives and none
of them contracted the disease. Take
the case cited of the two brothers af-
flicted in a family of six or seven per-
sons. The father and mother have lived
in the same house for many years with
these two patients, as did also other
brothers; the father and mother have
nursed and'cared for the two afflicted
—one of whom died some weeks ago—
for many years, and none of the other
members of the family contracted ^the
disease. Take the history of these
three or four or five cases in Galves-
ton, covering a period of thirty or for-
ty years, and what do we find? Has
the disease spread to any extent even
in the immediate family of the afflict-
ed? It has not.
“In the Far East and among the yel-
low race it is a dangerous afliction, but
not irf this country and among white
people, and such alarming statements
are not warranted by the facts. There
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9,
AMUSEMENTS.
COM<
75c
and
25a,
NO FREE LIST.
SEVER SALOONS
FROM BREWERIES
CONTINUES ARGUMENT.
to
Governor Hadley of Missouri Of-
fers Suggestions Touching
the Liquor Tariff.
•-------------- - ■ ■ ..3
is no sense in advocating a quarantina
or imprisonment for these unfortunate
creatures. But I am heartily in favor
of a leprosy hospital or institution,
where, those afflicted can receive treat-
ment and care without being looked
upon as outcasts to be shunned.”
PEOPLE’S-MAJESTIC
Fostoffice St., Bet. 21st and 22d.
DON’T MISS SEEING THIS BILL.
Tonight and All This Week at S:15(
NAT. NAZARRO TROUPE,
Europe’s Greatest Novelty Gymnasts,
CLARENCE A. LUTZ,
The Armless Wonder.
THE MUSICAL FREDERICKS,
Herbert mid Willing.
FRED AND BESS LUCIFER.
MURIEL WINDOW.
Matinee every day at 3 p. m., except
Monday. Prices, 15c, 25c. Night Prices,
10c, 15c, 25c, 35c, 50e.
PHONE 1999.
By Associated Press.
Jefferson City. Mo., April 8.—Wheth*
er by submitting to the voters a con*
stitutional amendment providing fox
statewide prohibition and thus making
the matter a subject of active contro*
versy for two years, any useful publid
purpose would be served, was declared
by Governor Hadley yesterday to be tha
best method by which the legislature
should treat the measure. The opinion
was expressed in a special message
which the executive addressed to tha
general assembly.
Governor Hadley said he favored tha
severing of saloons from breweries ami
distilleries and of whisky dealers from
politics. He suggested a license for
clubs in order that Sunday observa.-^jat
may be controlled, and favored laws
the establishment of district local
tion.
Standard Oil Attorney Is Asked Som<
Perplexing Questions.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., April S.—Attorney Mil-,
burn, heading the Standard Oil Com*
pany’s array of lawyers here in tha
government's suit to have the corpora-
tion declared illegal, today resumed his
argument. The four judges of tha
United States Circuit Court sitting on.
the bench are following the lawyer's
address with marked attention, but da
not hesitate to propound perplexing
questions to him when his meaning is
not quite clear to them. Today Milburn
devoted sA'eral hours to replying ta
Kellogg’s charges that the
Standard
had earned an enormous profit of $700,*
000,000 upon a capitalization of $87,*
250.000. That the profits exceeded th<
sums paid out as dividends the attor*
ney said was true, but such surplus
had been used in the extension of othei*
properties.
The Gay Musician
By Julian Edwards, Composer of
“Dolly Varden,” Etc.
THE ORIGINAL NEW YORK
PANY AND GREAT SINGING
CHORUS.
PRICES--$1.50, $1.00,
Seats on Sale.
Dr. Trueheart Does Not Agroe
With Alarming Statement of
County Physician Cox.
OFFICERS DO NOT
AGREE ON LEPROSY
house bill was offered for adoption.
The reading of the amendment was de-
manded by Adams and one or two oth-
ers. A large majority of the house ob-
jected as the amendment had been read
in the house several days ago when
the house bill was up for consideration,
but the speaker, following the previous
custom, ordered the clerk to read. As
the amendment is very long it would
consume several hours and the mem-
bers looked for a repetition of dilatory'
tactics. But Speaker Marshall has been
looking up the authorities with a view
to stopping the obstructionists and be-
fore the reading clerk had proceeded
far he stopped him and announced that
hereafter flip chair would adopt a new
ruling. He stated that the chair will
hold in the future that two-thirds or
a quorum of the house constitute the
house and that four-fifths of the mem-
bers present, if a quorum, could sus-
pend any constitutional rule, not alone
the rule requiring bills to be read on
three separate days, and that if any
bill or amendment had been printed or
read once, four-fifths of the house
could refuse the demand of a smaller
number to have another reading.
Under this ruling further reading of
the amendment to the bill was stopped
and the house was proceeding to the
consideration of a number of amend-
ments offered when the recess hour ar-
rived.
The Season’s Big Eventl
John P. Slocum Presents the Famouf
Comic Opera Triumph,
SENATE HAS
GOVERNOR IS
If Prices Talk
ACTED ALSO
A SPECTATOR
BANK GUARANTY
STATE EXPERIMENT
BILLS IN DOUBT
STATIONS TANGLE
All for $3.00
No Item Sold Separately
NEIGHBOR TELLS
STORY ON STAND
ILLINOIS HOLDS
STRANGER WITH
THE MOST COAL
BLANK MEMORY
of
CHASE HAS SMALLPOX.
ROBBERS VISIT
re-
GAMBLING HOUSE
MME. MODJESKA DIES.
to
Former
BANK DEPOSIT GUARANTY.
Hanse
AMUSEMENTS.
gram.
ARE INDICTED.
BY
MR.
Pictures
OUR NOVELTIES TODAY
had
CROPS DAMAGED.
not
on
V.
More Diplomatic Repre-
sentation Urged.
Sees Filibustering Tactics
in House.
Bement Says Only About Half
of One Percent Is
Exhausted.
Unknown Member of Elks Lodge
Is a Patient at Sealy
Hospital.
Cover Dealer and Patrons of
Ogden Resort and Get
About $2000.
Relatives of Harry Sampson Also
Testify in Proceedings
at Lyons.
There Is no Solution in Sight
for Several Legislative
Problems.
Cotton spinning was performed by
hand-wheels until 1776.
Phone Your Orders
PHONE 723
This is,
and the
279,818,101
because
crude methods.
The first knives were used in Eng-
land in 1553.
and
free
T HEVAUDETTE
What Three Little Tots Saw in
The Land of Nod
.$1.25
. .25
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2000
L_
Two Measures Printed in Sen-
ate’s Journal But Final Out-
come Problematical.
B. A. COOK
Special to The Tribuna-
Austin, Tex., April
The Jewell Affair
Thoinp- |
“You’ve
to a
morn-
ing on the second reading and this
committee amendments substituting the
Land Men Accused of Advertising Lot-
tery Through Mails.
By Associated Press.
Little Rock, Ark., April 8.—The fed-
eral grand jury today returned indict-
ments against the Cooper Investment
Company of Texas and the Rock Island
Town Company of Gotebo, Oklahoma,
charging the officials. J. Wells, W. W.
Raines, J. E. Ellison and Al Sexton,
with using the mails for advertising a
lottery. It is also alleged that they
conducted the Santa Fe Town Company,
the Missouri, xvansas and Texas Com-
pany and the Texas Land/ Company,
with town site sales at Cooper, Texas;
Gotebo. Pleasant Valley, Elgin, Brock-
ville and New Walla, Okla.
THE CRYSTAL
TODAY
New York American’s Firsthaseman in
Pest House.
By Associated Press.
Augusta, Ga., April 8.—Hal Chase,
first baseman of the New York Amer-
ican team, is in the pest house here
with a severe attack of smallpox, and
’ the other members of the team were
vaccinated as soon as Chase’s condition
became known.
A Cleverly Constructed
Detectiv* Story.
SUMMERY SPORTS
AND
United by Misfortune
The Beautiful Pictures.
25 lb Sack Standard Granulated Sugar....1
6 Bars Octagon Soap
5 Packages Pearline and 3 Sopade.
2 Pint Cans Carnation Cream
3 Cans Winner Milk.—*
y2 lb. Choice Mixed Tea.
1 Pint Bottle Blue Label Catsup
2 Packages Noodles .1
1 Package Pearl Starch---------.------------------
Here’s a Scream
Polish Actress Succumbs
Long Illness.
By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Cali., April 8.—Mme.
Modjeska, the famous Polish actress,
died at 10 o’clock t.eaay at her- home
near Bay City, aged 65, after an ill-
ness of two months. Brights’ disease
caused her death.
adopted an amendment providing that
any citizen of the United States, and
not only of Texas, shall be permitted
to engage in the fish and oyster busi-
ness; also amended the bill by provid-
ing that the license to engage in the
business shall be $2.50 instead of $5
for each 10,000 pounds of fish bought
during the previous year.
There was some objection in the sen-
ate to the consideration of the house
concurrent resolution urging President
Taft and Secretary of State Knox to
give cotton producing states recogni-
tion and representation by appointment
to diplomatic positions in foreign coun-
tries to the end that the market for
cotton maj' be extended. Senator Alex-
ander objected on the grounds that he
did not think it proper for a Demo-
cratic legislature making such a re-
quest upon a Republican president. The
resolution went over.
Senator Senter late in the afternoon
offered a resolution urging upon the
governor, when he submits the general
appropriation bill, to submit to the
legislature the recommendation as to
whether the occupants of homes which
were destroyed in the Fort Worth and
Dallas fires, shall be relieved from tax-
ation under a provision of the constitu-
tion authorizing such exemptions. The
resolution was laid on the table sub-
ject to call.
THE LYRIC
Sicilian’s Revenge
and Rag Tags’ Ball
The Child of the Regiment.
OH. RATS!
(A Domestic Story.)
With memory a complete blank as to
name, residence, age, where he came
from and the names of family or
friends is the condition of an unfor-
tunate man whom the local lodge ’of
Elks now have on their hands, a pa-
tient at the Sealy hospital.
Tuesday morning there came into the
institute a well-dressed, intelligent-
appearing man, who asked to see the
superintendent and the physician in
charge, and upon being taken to their
presence he startled them with the in-
Thinking
that the man might be suffering from
a temporary mental stroke, he was
cared for, but not improving the fol-
lowing day and the finding on his
clothes of a leather case of an Elk’s
traveling and membership card the lo-
cal lodge was at once notified.
Exalted Ruler Romanet and the
lief committee called upon the patient
and have ever since been trying to get
from him some information which will
lead to the establishment of his iden-
tity.
He is a man about 40 years of age,
weighing about 160 pounds, possibly 5
feet 6 inches in height and has dark
hair with a bald place on the top of his
head. On all matters which he can
remember he is rational and it is the
opinion of the physicians that he is
only suffering a temporary loss of
memory. When questioned by the lodge
committee he demonstrated beyond any
doubt that he is a member of the lodge
and the fact that he has suffered a loss
of memory is worrying him to a great
extent. He states that he remembers
some time in the near past of drawing
from' a bank, or intending to draw, he
does not know which, the sum of $3000,
but he is not sure as to actual facts.
That he was in San Antonio and in
Houston he remembers, but does not
know how he came to be in the first-
named city, his last memory being that
he was on a train. At Houston he stop-
ped at a hotel and remembers register-
ing his name but what name he does
not now know.
On his person was found some’ small
change and the card case referred to
above, and in the button hole of his
coat there is the imprint of an Elk’s
pin which was afterward found in one
of his pockets. No letters, papers,
cards or any identifying marks are on
his clothes, which are of the latest cut
and of good material, but in his hat
was found the card of a New Iberia,
La., hat dealer. The idea that the man
has met with an accident or has been
the victim of some memory-destroying
dope is dispelled by the physicians, who
have made an examination of the gen-
tleman, but rather the idea is advanced
that he has sjuffered a temporary
breakdown from a severe business
strain and it is believed that a few
days’ rest will restore him to his nor-
mal, mind. In all things except the loss
of memory as to his identity and his
past history he is normal; he reads the
daily papers and in realizing his con-
dition desires to mingle with people in
the hopes that his lost memory will
come back to him.
A report from the hospital today is
that he is better and in conversation
with the physicians seems to be grad-
ually getting farther back in his recol-
lections of events that have transpired.
The Galveston lodge of Elks has
communicated with New Iberia in the
hopes of getting some information as
to who he is, and are in the meantime
furnishing him with every care and as-
sistance in their power.
BAjNK WRECKER SENTENCED.
Kentucky Jury Spends Only Thirty
Minutes Finding Verdict.
By Associated Press.
Hawesville, Ky., April 8.—James H.
Parrish, who was president of the de-
funct Owensboro, Ky., Savings Bank
and Trust Company, was given five
years in the penitentiary after the jury
had deliberated thirty minutes today.
He was charged with receiving depos-
its when he knew the bank was insolv-
ent. Two of his brothers are under in-
dictment for the same bank-wrecking.
In the Shape of a Combination of Quality
and Quantity:
By Associated Press.
Ogden, Utah, April 8.—About mid-
night last night five robbers walked
into the White
house, held up
their escape,
guns
twenty-five
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., April 8.—The senate to-
day adopted the house concurrent reso-
lution urging upon President Taft and
Secretary Knox to give representation
to the southern cotton producing states
in making appointments to the service
in the diplomatic corps in foreign
countries.
The senate also adopted this morning
the senate concurrent resolution appro-
priating $5000 to be used by the gov-
ernor in aiding and co-operating with
the bureau of coast and geodetic sur-
vey of the United States and state fish
and oyster commissioner in making
surveys of oyster beds in the Texas
coast for the protection of oysters. The
senate passed finally the house bill
creating a more efficient road'system
for Cherokee and other counties; also
passed •finally the senate bill creating
independent school districts for Bronte
and Robert Lee counties. Watson had
passed his bill providing that no life
insurance company doing business in
Texas shall transact fire business, and
visa versa. The senate committee on
insurance and baking today submitted
an adverse majority report on the
Cureton bank deposit guaranty bill
passed in the house last week and sub-
stituted the Senter-Hume substitute for
the bill.
NO ACTION TAKEN.
No action as yet has been taken on
these reports but both the Cureton bill
and the Senter Hume substitute were
ordered printed in the journal.
Saturday night the senate passed the
Senter-Hume substitute for the Alex-
ander bill but no action had been taken
on the Cureton bill as yet. This indi-
cates that the senate will not concur
in the bill passed in the house at 1.45
this morning, which embraces both -the
Cureton bill and the Senter-Hume sub-
stitute.
The senate next took up the Senter
bill Tegulating fraternal organizations
which measure is endorsed by the lead-
ing fraternal organizations of the coun-
try. The object of the bill is to pro-
tect the public against fraudulent so-
called fraternal concerns.
The senate recessed at 3 p. m. with
this bill pending.
Cold Weather in Mississippi Causes a
Considerable Loss.
By Associated Press.
Natchez, Miss., April 8.—A sudden
drop of twenty degrees in the tempera-
ture following the recent cold night
winds will seriously affect the tender
plants of early vegetation and will
damage the cotton which was planted
ahead of time to overcome the ravages
of the boll weevil. The cold spell will
necessitate replanting-
the Parisian!
EVERYTHING NEW.
THOMAS, LANE AND THOMPSON I
In a Repertoire of Comic and Senti- ■
mental Song.
Miss Lane will sing Mr. ”
son’s own composition.
Changed Just Like a Tadpole
Frog.”
ILLUSTRATED SONG
THOMPSON.
“Like a Star That Falls From
Heaven.”
Feet Best Motion
Changed Daily.
ADMISSION, 5 CENTS.
By Associated Press. ,
Lyons, N. Y., April ’’8.—Mrs. Eberts,
wife of a neighbor of Harry Sampson,
was the first witness today in the trial
of Georgia Sampson, charged with the
murder of her husband Harry last No-
vember. Mrs. Eberts’ tsetimony cor-
roborated in many details the evidence
given by her husband and the parents
and relatives cf Mrs. Sampson.
A microscope stood on the desk of
the district attornej' and indicated
that expert testimony regarding the
bullet hole in Sampson’s shorts will de-
velop before the trial is over today.
Gertrude Sampson, a sister of Harry,
testified that she visited the Allyn
home the evening of the shooting and
some person whom she thought was
Mrs. Georgia Sampson left the room
when she entered. Miss Sampson asked
for Georgia that evening, but did not
see her.
Miss Sampson was followed on the
stand by his mother, who said she and
her husband called at the Allyn home
the day Harry was shot. Mrs. Samp-
son said she did not see Georgia that
day. Mrs. Sampsoon’s husband died
a few weeks ago.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, April 8.—Alberto Bement
has informed the Western Society of
Engineers that Illinois probably con-
tains more unmined coal than any oth-
er state in the union.
“Calculations show that about one-
half of one per cent has been exhaust-
ed,” he declares.
He states that the Illinois coal field
has produced 650,739,771 tons, having a
value of $1,626,849,427 and that approx-
imately 279,818,101 tons have been
wasted because of extravagant and formation mentioned above.
Elephant gambling
the place and made
Four of the men held
on the dealers and a crowd of
... . players while the fifth
robbed the games of between $1500 and
$2000.
Eill Goes to Senate With the
Changes Attached.
Special to *The Tribune.
Austin, Tex.. April 8.—As the bank
guaranty bill passed the house finally
at an early hour this morning and went
to the senate it includes both the Cure-
ton bill, which was first passed by the
house, and the Senter-Hume bill, which
came over from the senate, embraced
in one bill, and providing that state
banks heretofore organized may ac-
cept and maintain a system of bank
guaranty under whichever of the two
methods provided that it wishes, but
that banks hereafter organized must
maintain the system of guaranty pro-
vided in the Ctireton bill. The amended
bill has not yet reached the senate. If
concurred in at all by the senate it will
be after the adoption ^>f an amendment
making it optional with all banks "here-
tofore and hereafter chartered to ac-
cept either system of bank guaranty it
prefers.
The dilatory tactics adopted in the
house yesterday and last night were
caused not so much by opposition to
the bank guaranty measure as by the
desire to keep the house busy as long
as possible with that bill so as to pre-
vent the Robertson-Fitzhugh liquor
traffic regulation bill coming up on
final passage and going to the senate,
its opponents apparently not having
full confidence in the promises of its
enemies in the senate that it would be
killed there.
Today being senate bill day, the sen-
ate state board of health bill has pre-
cedence on the calendar and seems
destined to occupy the house all day,
so there is little likelihood of the liquor
bill going.to the senate until tomorrow.
NEW REPRESENTATIVE.
In the house this morning the new-
ly elected representative, Matthews,
from Colorado county, was presented
by Representative Standifer and after
presenting his credentials took the oath
of office.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendments to the house bill
creating four additional experiment
stations, and Terrell (Cherokee), Jack-
son, Munson, Chaney and Anderson
were named on the free conference
committee.
The senate state board of health bill
was laid before the house this .
the second reading and
Tex., April 8.—Governor
Campbell was an interested spectator
of the proceedings in the house yester-
day afternoon during the practicing
of the dilatory tactics on the bank de-
posit guaranty bill which occupied the
entire time of the house last evening.
The governor, however, was not on the
floor of the house but occupied a seat
in the gallery. Those who are opposed
to the Cureton bank guaranty bill are
now devoting all their efforts in order
to bring about its defeat,
however, now in the house,
prediction made some time ago in these
columns ■ that the bank deposit guar-
anty measure will have to be settled
ultimately by a free conference com-
mittee seems to hold good. That the
senate will not agree to the Cureton
measure has already been practically
demonstrated.
It is now almost certain also that
the question af carrying out the Demo-
cratic platform demand for experiment-
al stations in Texas, will also have to
be settled by a free conference com-
mittee. It is almost a certainty that
the house will not agree to the meas-
ure substituted for its own yesterday
in the senate. Much depends then on
who the president of the senate and
the speaker of the house will place on
these committees as to now the ques-
tion will come out.
SOON TO SENATE.
Within a very brief period now, the
senate will be face to face with that
stringent liquor law which has already
been engrossed in the house, and which
is certain of passage there. The forces
are already beginning to line up on the
measure’ in the senate and the battle
is expected there. It is believed that
there are a sufficient number of mem-
bers in the senate who are opposed to
statewide prohibition to defeat the
measure in the senate should it reach
that stage before final adjournment.
The senate has already decided to ad-
journ as far as it is concerned, Satur-
day afternoon, but the house has not
concurred in this matter, but on the
other hand refused t'o fix the house
time of adjournment for Saturday at
noon. j
Therg is a hereafter, however, and
should this measure fail at this session
the chances are 10 to 1 that the gov-
ernor will resubmit the question at the
next special session which is to be call-
ed for next Monday at noon. From
the tangle into which the legislature is
now in. it is not expected that the final
session will come to an end before
some time Sunday morning.
SOMEWHAT VARIED.
When the house met yesterday after-
noon the regular proceedings were
somewhat varied from the regular pro-
“Panhandle” Hall was allowed
the privilege of the floor and made a
brief speech along the lines of the
passage of measures for the improve-
ment of the code of civil procedure, de-
claring that Texas was several cen-
turies behind England in this matter.
Dr. Cox, county health officer of Gal-
veston, was permitted to briefly address
the house on the question of the pas-
sage of the bill providing for the es-
tablishment of a leper colony in Texas.
This bill has already passed in the
senate.
Representative Chaney secured the
engrossment of the senate bill provid-
ing for the appointment of a drainage
and irrigation engineer by the com-
missioner of agriculture, which is a
substitute for his original irrigation
bill?
Representative Gilmore had passed
finally the senate bill providing for the
creation of road districts and the is-
suance of bonds therefor, by a two-
thirds vote of the district.
The house then tackled the bank de-
posit guaranty bill, or rather the
Hume-Senter substitute and then the
fun commenced. Representative Fitz-
hugh demanded the full reading of the
bill and this was in progress when the
house recessed until 8 last night.
Prior to that dime Representative
Mobley sent up an amendment for the
entire bill which is a modification for
the original Cureton, in that it makes
it optional for established state b^nks
to take advantage of the guaranty de-
posit feature and makes it compul-
sory on state banks which may be or-
ganized in the future.
WORK IN SENATE.
The senate passed finally yesterday
afternoon the house bill amending the
fish and oyster law of the state, after
the adoption of a number of amend-
ments. An amendment was adopted re-
ducing the salary of the deputy game
and fish warden from $150 to $125, also
fair.
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114.
VOL.
1909.
APRIL 8,
GALVESTON,
THURSDAY,
TEXAS,
XXIX.
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Tonight and Friday, generally
Moderate northerly winds.
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