The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 21, 1895 Page: 1 of 16
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Never catches . .
The progressive H"* 1 ^ ^ 0
Advertiser . . . JL llllC/O
The Newe is tbo medium.
THE^"^
®l)t lategtoi Bdilij
MINUS 250,
LF.AVKS
s 350
VOI, LTV--NO. 28.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1895—SIXTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1812.
Cotton
Charity Circus tags
'Mvon by the Gentlemen of Galveston,
WEDNESDAY, MAY I, CH™TYi
On the Beautiful Grounds. Hath Avenue
and Avenue M.
Three rings and hippodrome track.
The great menagerie.
Equestrian evolutions by Galveston's
best riders.
Acrobatic, gymnastic, athletic acts.
Clowns and ringmasters by well known
business gentlemen.
Great Roman standing race by two well
known gentlemen.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Marks, the cham-
pion riders of the world.
□ The almost human performing elephant
Nit.
The wildest of Wild West Shows.
Curious freaks from all parts of the world.
The great street parade.
Four military bands.
Fifty cages of wild animals.
Special rates on all railroads.
Galveston's great day.
Ceneral Admission to Circus 50c
Children 25c
Clittering Street Parade 10.30 A. M.
Afternoon Performance 2 P. M.
Night Performance 8. P. M.
GKAND LAWN BANQUET.
GIVEN BY THE
Knights and Ladies of the Golden Eagle,
At Woollam's Lake, Tuesday, April JiJ3.
Prizes for youni? and old.
Races and sports of all kinds.
Concert by Berry's hand.
Tableaux and dancing in tne evening.
TICKETS 25 CENTS.
Children under 12 years free.
WE ARC
HEADQUARTERS
FOR THESE GOODS
and with increased facilities are
prepared to meet
ANY
competition
WRITE US FOR PRICES
BEFORE ORDERING
Clarke & Courts
GALVESTON
Waukesha Waters.
The Arcadian Spring Water Is known
throughout the country wherever pure
water and pleasant beverages are appre-
ciated. The Arcadian Ginger Ale made
with the water is a most delicious and
healthful drink and is pronounced by ex-
perts to be superior to the celebrated im-
ported Belfast Ale. We have the water in
barrels, half barrels, ten-gallon tanks, half-
gallon, one doisen in case, and quart bottles,
lifty in case. Ginger Ale, quart bottles,
fifty in case. Wild Cherry Phosphate,
uuart, fifty in case.
For sale by all leading druggists and re-
tail grocers. Send in your orders.
MOORE, McKINNEY
.) IIIUIMIIIIkl & CO.,
Wholesale Agents.
TO THE
4
LUMBER DEALERS
or TEXA8.
We carry the largest and most complete
Stock of
Long Leaf
Yellow Pine
in the State—BRIGHT, FRESH STOCK—
and can give orders prompt shipment. Mail
*"""^rders have special attention and at lowest
market price.
' otAUMONT ldMdth CO.,
BEAOMONT, TEXAS.
*
COTTON
ONCE MORE!
Before withdrawing our cotton
advertisement, which we will
soon do to make a place for
our APEX GOODS, we
would suggest that there is
really a sharper demand for
cotton in this market right
now than shippers would
suppose.
This is because there is not
enough cotton in the coun-
try at this season of the year
to occupy the chief buyers,
who, therefore, are apt to
operate in larger markets
like this.
MMll&CO.
HOUSTON, TEX.
I. LOVENBERG
NOTARY PUBLIC
SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR
Dr. Harter's
Wild Cherry Bitters.
$6.60 PER CASE,
Ullmann, Lewis&Go.
Distributing Agents. (iulveaton, Tex.
Monogram
Whisky ....
Famous for its Mellowness, Purity
and Excellence. The fact of its be-
ing manufactured by Rosskam, Gerst-
ley & Co. of Philadelphia is a guaran-
tee of its superior quality and stamps
it free from adulteration. Ask for it.
Jake Davis & Co.,
Sole Agents, Galveston.
-AND-
Fire Insurance Agent
Representing the J'ollowing Companies:
Caledonian Ins. Co. of Scotland.
Orient Ins. Co. cf Hartford, Conn.
Merchants' Ins. Co. of Newark, N.J.
Amerloan Central Ins. Co. of St.
Louis, Mo.
Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. of San
Francisco, Cal.
Sun Ins. Office of London, Eng.
Mechanics and Traders' Ins. Co.
of New Orleans, La.
German-American Ine. Co. of New
York.
N. WSEKBS. ED MCCABTBT. A. H. PIBBCB.
Weekes, McCarthy & C°«
BANKERS.
Successors to
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
Of Galveston, Texas,
Room
1 For Rent?
An Ad ill the
Want Column
of . .
THE NEWS
will rent it.
DEPOSITS received ami COLLECTIONS
made on favorable terms. Foreign and Domes-
tic Exohango Bouffht and Sold. Cable and Tele-
graphic Transfers made, and Commercial and
Travelers' Credits furnished, available in all
parts of the world.
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
Foundry, Machine and
Boiler Work executed
promptly and satisfac-
torily at low prices and
terms to suit the times.
Boiiers, Engines,
Presses, Cins,
Shafting and
Supplies Stock.
HOUSTON, TEX. Call or writo and make
our wants known.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS.
Sl.OO YEAR.
ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Hartweil
Ironworks
BRIGHT'S DISEASE
OF THE KIDNEYS
Is rocopnizod as one of the most provalent causes
of mortality.
STAFFORD^^
MINERAL SPRINGS WATER.
Springs Near Vossburg, Miss.
Is a certain prevention and has effected many
remarkable cures in cases of long standing.
Many prominout physicians have recominenued
and proscribed it.
PACKED
In Casos of 12 Half-Callon Bottles.
In Carboys of 12 Gallons Each.
For sale by all druggists and by
SOLE AGENTS.
La Plant! ""tt
IaI X Itlll id
Best on the market. Try
them and duplicate orders
will follow
P. J. WILLIS &BR0.
GALVESTON, TEX.
21J1C WEATHER.
WASHINGTON FORECAST.
Washing-ton, April 20.—Forecast for Sun-
day:
For Eastern Texas: Partly cloudy; cooler
in extreme northwest portion; south, shift*
ing to -west, winds.
LOCAL FORECAST.
Galveston, Tex., April 20.—Local forecast
for Galveston and vicinity for the twenty-
four hours ending" at midnight April 21:
Fair, but partly cloudy; slight changes
in temperature; southerly winds.
TEMPERATURE RECORD.
Yesterday's temperature record at Gal-
veston, as shown by the thermograph on
the roof of the cotton Exchange, was as
follows:
7 a. m Gfi 1 p. m 71
y a. m G8 3 p. m 70
11 a. m 70 5 p. m 70
COMPARATIVE RECORD.
Galveston weather record for April 20,
1895, with corresponding dates of the last
three years:
Time— Bar. Ther. Wind. Rain. Weather.
8 a. m 30.21D tifi.4 SE 6 .00 Clear
8 p. m 30.131 C7.5 SE 12 .00 Pt. cloudy
1S93 1891 1S93 1892
Maximum temperature. 71 80 7" 75
Minimum temperature.. (!4 07 56 70
Average 08 74 03
Precipitation 00 .00
THE LEGISLATURE.
.00 .00
TEMPERATT7RE AND PRECIPITATION.
Temperature and precipitation at Galves-
ton for April 20, 1895, and since January
1, 1895. as compared with general averages:
Normal temperature, 71.
Deficiency for the day, 3.
Accumulated deficiency since January 1,
515.
Normal precipitation, .10.
Deficiency for the day, .10.
Deficiency since January 1, 3.15.
TEXAS COTTON* REGION BULLETIN.
Following is the Texas cotton region bul-
letin for the twenty-four hours ending at
6 p. m., April 20:
Stations-
Gal vest on
Abilene
Brenh&m
Corsicana
Columbia
Cuero
Dallas
Hearne
Houston
Huntsville
Longvievv
Luling
Orange
Palestine
San Antonio
San Marcos
Sherman . f.
Tyler
Waco
Weatherford
Means
Max. M in. Ra in-
temn. temp, fall,
71
<il
.00
8U
r.s
.00
8li
r.4
.00
82
54
.00
7S
48
.00
S2
r.s
.00
S4
48
.(Ml
84
(it!
.00
74
4S
.00
78
r/j
.00
82
48
.00
84
52
.00
74
4S
.00
80
54
.00
KJ
50
.00
82
5<;
.00
S2
70
.00
82
5(5
.00
82
5<»
.00
82
(J2
.00
84
56
.00
£0.5
55.0
.00
RESULT OF HIGH 1TEEF.
Hundreds of Families Go Fishing Along
the Lake Shore.
Chicago, 111., April 20.—Along the lake
shore for miles yesterday were Iwmdreds
of men, women and children fishing. They
were not desultory anglers out for sport.
In Eome cases entire families were* out,
and in the 'evening they went home -with
strings of fish long enough for a number
of meals. Otherwise they must have been
content with bread and potatoes.
"Times tvere hard enough before meat
went up." said a man going home with a
string of perch. "I can not afford to buy
meat any more, so I have been fishing' for
several days. My family can't llvtr on
bread and potatoes alone." said he. "They
must have something- solid, and we can not
afford to pay the high prices asked for
meat, so 1 and my two boys have been
fishing."
The rise in the prices of meat has seri-
ously affected the poorer people of the
city. People in better circumstances do
not mind paying a few additional cents a
pound for beefsteak, but it means much to
it workingman supporting a large family.
BOTH KILLED.
The Anti-Fee Bill Advocates
Hold Their Ground.
THE FORTY-ONE FIRM.
Close Confinement, Change in Diet
and Lack of Sleep, Telling Heavi-
ly on the Members.
SAN JACINTO DAY SALUTE,
Richland. Pa., April 20.— A train on the
Philadelphia and Reading road struck a
vehicle, containing Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Frank, this afternoon near here, and both
were instantly killed. The couple were old
arid wealthy.
KILLED HER HUSBAND.
Cleveland, O., April 19.—Thomas Jones of
Avon street, died to-day as the result of In-
juries received at the hands of his wife,
Maria Jones, on last 'Monday. A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of the
woman.
Sergeant at Arms Doughtie and a 17-Year
Old News Boy Have a Fight—Fort
Worth and Denver Bill Passed.
Austin, Tex., April 20.—Old Sol rose on
the sorriest looking set of legislative night-
mares this morning that ever assembled in
any commonwealth, poor old Arkansas not
excepted. But they had good reason for
looking sorry. They had been up all night,
or rather most of them had, and those
who had not did not enjoy more than three
hours' sleep on the floor of representative
hall. Their eyes were the color of carmine
and their supreme disgust was protruding
from every pore. In other words, the
house has at last succeeded in wearying
itself. A continuous session of over twenty
hours is li'able to tire ever a $2 per day
statesman. It has but little effect on him
mentally, 'but it wears his physical frame
to a frazzle. If a stranger had dropped
into representative hall about 5 o'clock this
morning he would have concluded that he
had- chased down a Detroit Lime Kiln club
in the throes of a midnight orgie and over-
grown jag. Some twenty odd of the boys
had provided themselves with blankets, and
they were laid out In different sections of
the hall, while the balance of the house
was discussing the Jennings assignation
bill and. shaking his hand in a congratula-
tory spirit on making the ablest physical
effort of the session, even the speeches of
Mr. Evans of Hunt not being excepted. The
husky snoring of some of the members, the
speeches of others and the speaker's gavel
commingled in an inglorious manner, while
the tired correspondents guyed each other
with a view to keeping their eyes open. It
was a disgraceful scene and one which
lasted through the long night, but it may
be stated In extenuation of their puerile
conduct that the members did more work
than they have done in the same length of
time during the session. They passed sev-
eral bills, measures that reflect no credit
on sensible men, it is true, but still 'they
sawed wood.
As to the blame for this uncalled-for pro-
ceeding, it must seriously be laid at the
door of the supplementary democrats,
who compose the majority of the
house. They are endeavoring to
rani an iniquitous fee bill down
the treats of a patriotic minority, and
be it said to the credit of the latter the
effort has proven abortive up to date. The
heroic little band of democrats, forty-one
strong, has successfully resisted the on-
slaught so far, and to-day, after a sleep-
less night, they are more determined than
ever to stand pat. They can afford to
spend a dozen more sleepless and hungry
nights rather than to see poor old Texas
burdened with any more legislative in-
famies. These are (iiddings, Blair, Spil-
lane, Dashiell, Avery. Graham, McLemorc,
Harrison, Allen of Dallas, Tarver, Morris,
Brigance, Rudd, Rogers, Good, Ward, Sea-
bury, Wurzbach, Monroe, Turney, Burmels-
ter, Oilliland and others, and they are
stayers from away back where the creek
forks. The pending bill on which all this
filibustering Is being done provides for fixed
salaries, to be taken out of the fees re-
ceived by the office. The surplusage, if
any, after paying salaries, is to go to the
treasury of the state and of the counties.
It is ascertained, however, that only twelve
or thirteen counties would have any sur-
plusage, and the opponents of the meas-
ure logically contend that it is undemo-
cratic, unfair and unjust to take from these
twelve counties any part of the surplusage
and put it into the state's strong-box; that
it is a system of unequal taxation, in view
of the fact that these counties pay their
ad valorem Ux to the state, the same as
the counties that would have no surplus-
age, and that it would be taxing the peo-
ple of the twelve counties for the benefit
of the other 250, which is clearly in viola-
tion of the constitutional provision that
taxation shall be equal and uniform. In
addition to this the compensation provided
for officers in the populous counties is in-
adequate to secure efficient services—more
and better service being required in these
larger counties than in the small ones. As
the compensation allowed could perhaps
be collected In six months, it is not a
logical presumption that any man will
work as earnestly and as vigilantly when
he gets no < ompensation for so doing. The
anti-fee bill men's contention is that the
proper manner in which to cure,any exist-
ing evils is to reduce the fees paid by the
people to an amount that will render the
compensation received by officials reasona-
ble in this way the people who pay the
fee's will get the money. In other words,
they are opposed to the pernicious system
of letting the state profit off the Individual
exertion of the citizen and of transforming
every little officer in Texas into a tax-
gatherer and demander of tribute. Every
one of the forty-odd opponents to the pend-
ing bill are democrats except Republican
Haller while the populists, in accordance
with their platform demand, are fighting
4"or it. assisted by the supplementary demo-
cratic contingent.
The first manifestation of disintegration
'n the populist-democratic combination of
'feebillimits was exhibited thitt afternoon
-When an intimation was given by .some of
■t«heir leaders that terms couild probably be
reached if the anti-fee brll democrats would
receive them. The anti-fee 'bill democrats
at once replied that they would cheerfully
rece:ve any proposition looking to a settle-
ment of the difficulties, and, 4n a caucus
iheld immediately, appointed the name com-
mittee Messrs DashieM, Owsley, Ward,
Oiddings and Mills, to receive any proposi-
tion The opposition might offer. The con-
ference was held soon after and, to the
surpr'se and amusement of -the anti-fee bill
men, t'he only .proposition that was prof-
fered and that as an ultimatum, was that
opponents of the bill should at once con-
sent to the passage of the blM to engross-
ment and promise to -forbear filibustering
When t he bill should come up again on
"Kuesdav. In short, this proposition was to
the effect that a strong, vigorous and vic-
torious minority should ignominiousily eur-
Highest of all in Leavening Power,—Latest U.S. Gov't Report
Powder
Jm&QUDTEVU PURE
render to a demoralized and disgusted ma-
jority.
The proposition, when reported to vhe
anti-fee bid caucus, was rejected, and rhe
members of the meeting, forty-one in 'num-
ber, pledged themselves to .-land together,
if It took a month to kill 'the pre posed law
or secure such modifications of it as w mM
make it a just, constitutional and demo-
cratic measure. Ii is pretty safe to gamble
•that the ant is will w'n. Meanwhile the
wa'• gors merrily on, but the close confiji"-
ment. changes :• diet, and lack of p
are telling heavily on the members.
POLICE COf RT LAWVMRS.
Seeking to Trample on Rights of Others
and Increase Their Own Emoluments.
Austin, Tex., April 20.—The general dis-
satisfaction with the action and inaction |
of the legislature is making members of
both houses unhappy and restless. A dis-
position exists to shift responsibility or
shirk it. They want their unhappiness di-
vided with the governor and the press.
Privately, his excellency is abused for not
being explicit in his demands. When he
has suggested a reform or retrenchment
they want him to draw up the bill. They
are Impatient with the press for reporting
their proceedings when passion and con-
fusion control their action and language,
i'nparliamentaiy proceedings and exple-
tives are hourly more frequent as they
come face to face with the result of the
garrulous session. The reforms and re-
trenchments they promised have disap-
peared in the smoke of wordy war, and
what is left is an advance of 50 per cent
in lax burdens or chronic treasury bank-
ruptcy. The News has foreshadowed this
inglorious climax and the reading public
now perceive it. .^i last the legislative
belies also appreciate the situation and are
out of temper. From now on the effort
will be made to pacify the people by polit-
ical measures, tit.- discussion of which in
the campaign will divert attention from
the failure to adopt practical reform legis-
lation. In the house particularly the reg-
ular democracy, sustained by the speaker,
have vainly sought to adopt practical re-
formatory measures. Their measures have
been knifed by a fusion of populists and
populistic democrats who have frittered
away the session in doodlebug retrench-
ment. The members of the house are
more particularly exposed to the general
censure on the part of the people. They
are nearer to the incensed and disappointed
public. Their sensitiveness to criticism
is becoming painful. The press has re-
ported the situation daily, and from this
source the public has received the evi-
dence upon which the condemnatory judg-
ment is based. It is, therefore, expected
that the galled members would seek their
revenge upon the press. This is not con-
fined to the house. Of course the press
expects the enmity of the doodlebug re-
trenchers, but the feud does not stop with
the press. Members more often fall out
among themselves, and in passionate, un-
parliamentary language bandy opprobrious
epithets. They declare they hold them-
selves responsible on the floor and on the
outsiue for their Insulting language. They
waive their privilege conferred by the con-
stitutional clause—'"no member shall be
questioned in any other place for words
spoken in debate in either house" as if
they could suspend the operation of and
abrogate the constitution.
From a political standpoint, t'he legisla-
tion adopted promises disaster to t'he dom-
inant party. It is bad enough to double up
tax 'burdens and perpetuate extravagance
that has been stftfflled upon 'the govern-
ment, but what can be expected from the
wrath of the true and tried democracy
when 'their representatives have aOlcnated
from the party on the one hand the
farming- and laboring efoment co-operating
to protect 'themselves from the exactions of
rhe octopus corporations, and on the cither
hand have estranged the business element
by withdrawing the freedom of contract,
even forbidding the (party contracting, n
certain cases, from giving the party of the
other part more than sixty days' credit. In
addition to taxpayers, farmers, laborers and
business men who are regulated and op-
pressed or 'threatened 'by pending measures
the local official famliy of nearly every
member has been alienated. These classes
may visit t'heir wrath upon their representa-
tives or upon the party, and in some cases,
upon both. In all the debates over the
various fee bMls, not a word has been said
P.)r the county official except by the op-
position to these bills. Not a single popu-
list member is wit'h t'he opposition. The
fusion majority started out to r< luce fees
In compliance w.th the governor's views
and to save the treasury. The retrench-
ment feature of the measure was soon ab-
andoned. 'however. The b/.ls finally under
lire will not save 'the treasury a douiur,
but will simply place county officers under
'the ban uf county commissioners' courts.
These courts are to be given -power to as-
sess the Incomes of their county officers
and divide the proceeds between the school
fund, the treasuries and t'he great dead
•broke .sta,te "government. The record of ef-
ficiency of county officers, particularly the
sheriffs, collectors and assessors and court
•clerks is remarkable. It has been years
since a single county collector of the 215
organized counties has been In default. The
sheriffs have .performed and are perform-
ing a great work in Texas. There are hun-
dreds of court clerks that have in custody
•immense sums uf money and not one has
'been in default for many years. What will
be the result of antagonizing this great
body of efficient, 'honest, faithful officersV
it will induce many to retire, and result In
the introduction of new, untried and in
cases unreliable material in official po-
sitions. At any rate, It will alienate a great
ibody of Influential voters from t'he party
responsible for the onslaught. The (regular
conservative democracy have managed to
put ir. office and keep tin office
for many years? a grand body of
pubMc servants which t'he new-fangled
populist element would turn out of party
and out of office altogether. It is, however,
hoped and believed t'hat the old regulars
will take their revenge by repudiating their
misrepresentation. Id is suggestive in this
connection to note the fact that t'he con-
■trolliiig element in the two houses 'intent
upon taxing the labor cf the county of-
ficials are by the laws given special license
.to assess as officers of the state whatever
fees they can squeeze out of t'he people,
and the lawyers are, in the terms of the
law, officers of the court, 'hence officers of
the state. They enjoy (immunities, privil-
eges and emoluments derived from t'he laws
but it'lley propose no tax upon their 'incomes
and no reduction nor ilintltadion upon their
fees and charges. They come here to every
legislature and put the regulation and limi-
tation jacket upon some other class of peo-
ple or officials. They lead the political as-
sault upon every other interest, but never
curt a ill their own demands.
The spectacle presented by this legisla-
ture and the condition of affalfo it leaves,
if threatening to democratic ascendancy,
will, in that respect, promise at least one
beneficial result. A legislature of popuilists
would contain lew if any of the unrestrict-
ed, and, at this time, unresectable court
officers who practice law in t'he justices
courts and come to the legislature.
GOV. CULBERSON IN THE HOUSE.
Austin, Tex., April 20.—If the house keeps
U]' Its present lick the members may hear
from Governor Culberson again and in a
manner more forcible than eloquent. Ills
excellency spent some time In the house
to-night, and in a quiet way, just before
the body was called to order, had a whis-
pered conversation with Speaker Smith.
As soon as the conversation was over the
speaker promptly called the house to
order and during the night be exhibited a
strong inclination to push things and keep
down hilarity. It is not difficult for Gov-
ernor Culberson to see the attl-
ti de the house Is placing his ad-
ministration in. and all in behalf
of a populist platform demand
measure, Some people think it is
about time for him to interfere, and a red
hot message from "the young man down
stairs" may be shortly forthcoming.
PREPARING A STATEM EXT.
Austin, Tex., April 20.—The president of
the senate, in reply to criticisms of some
newspapers for vacating the chair a few
hours during the tie-up over the anti-trust
bill, proposes to offer for publication a
statement of the time each member of the
senate, including himself, has been absent
and the amount paid them for the time ab-
sent. Some of tin* senator* have been ab-
s< nt long
he hn b<
r than th<
n seldom
ar.d his ruling has b
he has doubtless tin
happened that, he v.
portatu crisis when
pcet the static
taile
until his return to
■ president. In fa
nwiij from his phe
•en impartial, tin u
de mistakes. I I jl
as absent In an i
lie had every reus
I no would be nu
Hands of Whisky w« havo stored in froe
Kentucky warehouse; tax paid before the
20c advance. Hig bargains in lois to suit.
Writo ufc.
WM. B. KING & CO.,
Wholoualo Liquor and Cigar Dealers,
HOUSTON, TliXAS.
MK)J?UO'JJOqif I
—i
2:» was postponed until
chair.
M'l.li.MORK S DAM MILL.
Austin, To\., April l!». .Mr. McLemore's
bill granting to the Corpus Christi water
•ompany the right to construct a
was report
IV': bill
title 1
regulai i
•anor '
11
amending
of tile cod
ng the fee
a ses, was
article li#4.
• of criminal
■i of sheriffs
ordered en-
dam across the Nu<
ed favor ably by t he
affairs this evening.
> river
commute
on state
THE SENATE.
Hill to Provide for Organization of Fidelity
and Guaranty Companies I'asses.
Austin, Tex., April 20.
sent up reports as < halrin.
tee of town and city •
Senator Tips of finaiic .
propriation bill, herctofor
Senator Lasker
hi of the commit-
orporations, and
onunlttee on ap-
• reported.
Senator Smith offered a concurrent reso-
lution to suspend the joint rule requiring
the enrollment of the bills, and to adopt
the civil and criminal codes. Adopted.
Senator Smith offered a resolution t.>
suspend the senate rule requiring the en-
grossment of the foregoing bills,
Senator Gage failed to procure action
upon his partition bill.
Senator Smith withdrew motion t<> re-
consider passage of the civil code bill.
Senate bill pending at adjournment to
provide for tic- organization of fidelity and
guaranty companies was taken up.
Mr. Goss substituted his ; inendnient of
yesterday by one providing that "0 per cent
of the authorized capital shall be sub-
scribed, and 10 per cent of the subscribed
stock shall be paid in before the charter
shall be filed.
Mr. Bowser opposed such limitations as
tending to stifle enterprise, lie held that
If the restrictions proposed were applied
to private persons or mercantile and manu-
facturing enterprises the entire business of
tiie country would be paralyzed. The
amendment was adopted.
.Mr. Dean offered an amendment to au-
thorize' under the bill tne organization of
companies for irrigation, mining, water-
works, etc. Adopted.
Mr. Ilailey offered an amendment to in-
clude authorization of citizens of cities and
towns to form corporations to take stock
in other corporations organized for manu-
facturing and other enterprises. Adopted.
Mr. Tips offered an amendment to au-
thorize charters of wholesale and retail
mercantile companies and to restrict these
charters to companies of o\-"r *20,000.
Mr. Lawhon thought the amendment
would result in monopolizing the retail
business id' towns and country in the hands
of one or two big corporations.
Mr. Tips replied that a retail business
could not be chartered, but the amend-
ment would authorize the chartering of a
company doing both wholesale and retail
business.
Mr. Smith objected that an amendment
authorizing the chartering of retailers had
been defeated and the Tips amendment was
not in order. The point was debated.
The president decided the amendment In
order and it was a question for the senate
to decide upon the amendment.
Mr. Lasker offered a substitute providing
that wholesale companies may also sell at
retail from their wholesale ostabii.-hments.
.Mr. Tips accepted the substitute.
Mr. Presler offered a substitute, but, not
being acceptable, it was withdrawn, and
both Mr. Tips and Mr. Lasker withdrew
their propositions.
Tips then offered a substitute nearly
identical with his first one.
Mr. Atlec opposed any provision that
would incorporate retailers, as wholesalers
would have the advantage o\er private re-
tailers. The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Colquitt offered an amendment to
prohibit foreign corporations from doing
business in Texas that do not show that
50 per cent of authorized capital has be.-a
subscribed and 10 per cent <»f -ame paid.
The provision was not intended to apply
to foreign companies already authorized.
Mr. Presler objected that the proposition
was not germane to the bill. Its applica-
tion was properly to the law regulating
foreign corporations. The amendment was
adopted.
Mr. Rogers moved to indefinitely post-
none the bill. Being the author of the
bill, it is presumed he found the amend-
ments had so changed as to invalidate it.
'J'he motion was rejected.
Air. Dibrell offered an amendment to per-
mit the charter of mutual fire insurance
companies without capital stock. Adopted.
A motion to reconsider the vote defeat-
ing Mr. Tips' amendment was carried.
Mr. Lasker resisted the argument that it
would tend to monopolize the retail busi-
ness. The amendment was ihen adopted.
Mr. Steele opposed the bill a having been
amended to death and having prohibited
small dealers to incorporate.
The bill passed to engrossment and finally
under suspension of the rules.
The president signed the following house
bills:
To authorize city and county authorities
ro erect bridges within the corporate lim-
its of cit es.
To amend the local option stock law.
To fix the terms of court in the Twenty-*
•fourth and Thirty-sixth judicial districts.
To impose an occupation tax upon in-
surance agents.
To provide for refunding from t'he state
tr-aswry money paid for lande, the title to
which the state withholds.
To fix -the terms ; <I,.-1rlet courts in
Caldwell und Hays c ninths.
To grant Sherman a city charter.
i.Mr. Goss called up the b.li ;o validat ■
•locations of lands under confederate scrip,
and ihe bill passed.
The bill t'o create a naval brigade on
•thlird reading was called up and passed.
The president appointed iMes-»rs. Tip®,
(Simpson, Steele, Presler and Boren senate
conference on 'the general appropriation
bill.
Motion to reconsider the naval brigade
bill was tabled.
Mr. Gage called up senate bill amending
the law oil partitions uf estates so as ta
parmit wards, non-residents of the state,
by ibhelr guardians, to collect anl receive
shares of estates distributed in Texas.
Passed to engrossment and finally under
suspension of ruler--.
Mr. Presler called up senate bill to vali-
date records of Co rich o county under guise
of a general b it and it passed, under sus-
pension of rules.
Mr. Lewis called up senate bill fixing the
terms and venue of the Bexar d-stric-t
courts. The bill wipes out the dividing line
between the two districts. The bill passed.
Adjourned till 3 p. in.
A FITERNOCJ X SESSIO X.
Mr. Simpson offered a resolution request-
ing the adjutant general to have a salute
of twenty-one guns fired in honor of the
occasion being San Jacinto anniversary.
Adjourned till 10 o'clock 'Monday morning.
THE
USE.
provi bug- for making
•S issued by the city
r.s permanent and pro-
• '•.:n tio.u in other coiin-
which i.ln y are issued,
house.
i of the above, the mo-
ot. s was sprung again
lieth lime and defeated,
rule ,10. which pro-
lobby of all visitors,
coining- Governor Rieh-
itsurei liny of Wyoming
:ing the e iv) io Texas,
m the privdeges of t'he
finally pas
1 undvr
t'he
Morrison
sine die on Apri
next We,in. !av.
Mr. Dr.
chapter 4,
procedure.
in mlsdei
grossed.
i.Mr. S lu l>bs' hi
teachers' certlfic
boards of . \ami
vidlng for tln ir i
ties from that 1
was laid b.
Pending <
tion .to excov.. abs.a)
for about tie- iw ei,ti
A motion to .-ospe
vide- for el' arlng rh
waadopt ' l.
A res .bit;
aids and St;
(who a i e now v : 1: in
and ex lending them
hou-M was adopted.
The Stubbs bi.l wa
suspension of labs.
!a* regular ■ rd• •: was suspended to take
up and pass M;. M- Lcinore's bill to grant
a p ii-hi to lie; ) ' Men bant, a veteran of
Ihe wai of Texas independence.
Mr. .\li'K:nne\ . b' i, providing for t'he
publication and d;Miiiuit'.on of tiie revised
Civil i-t 11Ute.-i. the pel:;,! Code aild COde Of
ci:io |..i| procedure and appropriating $20,0(11 J
for su.'h purpose, was laid before rhe
'hous'\ The al> pri> of rue codes is fixed
•by the p,|i at p-.' volume, exclusive of
postage.
W !n!" tin- vote was being take
pa-sag" of the above old Mr.
arose and asked for the issuance of a writ
for Mi i' mil. c , wl.o, .he understood, had
ma b his escape from tne hall. The writ
.was issued and tin cote -proceeded under
great li- Oder and frequent yells from tho
gentleman from Weoi, for the enforcement
of rule II, requiring that members keep
tiieii scats during a roll call. He was ably
second. I by the ^eniieniao 'rom Ka/.s and,
after the two of them had had all the fun
they wanted delaying the pending; business,
the bill was pass >d.
Hill Mi. M"orc .,f M irris, providing
that sheriffs may take bond in criminal
ca.-es in term time and during vacation,
was laid before fiie house and ordered en-
grossed.
"Mr. Tunny's bill, providing for changing
and fixing the time of holding court in the
Torty-fir-: judicial -li.-tnct. was passed.
ic.-olution reciting that the house had
ben ii'c;ud to dine at the Drlskill and
providing tor the acceptance of the invita-
tion was i tiled out of order.
The W iliams warehouse bill was taken
uo under susp"nslon of the rules. Amend-
ment by Mr. Williams striking out all after
tiie word n tcipl in line :>0, page 1. section
'I, down to and including the word act o!i
pag" 1 in * was adopted.
Mr. Her tram opposed tin1 bill and In the
popular way paid his respects to corpora-
tions
M'\ Morrison logically - ontended tlut the
bill is a go<o one. one which will operate
in the interest of agriculturists.
Mr. P.rigance wanted to postpone action
on the bill until rc-xt Thursday on the
ground that he and other members did not
umienuand its provisions.
air. Spillanc though 1 the admission of Mr.
Brigance carried, with it a won ierful display
of Inactivity, when the bill had been
printed four weeks and could be digested
in live minutes. He explained the provis-
ions of the bill and disclaimed that it was
in any wise the subtreastiry bill upon
which the populists dote.
Mr. Cosier opposed the bill, and the trend
ol his remarks, which were scattering,
suggested that he opposed it because he
favors government ownership.
Mr. Dashiell moved that the house be* at
ease for an hour, none of the members to
be permitted to leave the hall, with a view
to reaching an agreement or compromise
ancnt ihe fee bill controversy.
Mr. Davis made an elongated harangue,
in which lie protested against letting some
of tin members nu out and gel "eye open-
ers," While others we>« not p- rmitft-d to
dmse down a cheroot to smoke.
Mr. Briganco wanted to postpone eon-
sideration of the fee bill until next Tues-
day or Thursday.
At this juncture Sergeant at Anns Dough-
tie undertook to put a 17-year-old boy who
was sidling papers out. of the house and a
Ilsiiciiff en.-tied. This stampeded the house,
and ii took half an hour to restore order.
The members Hocked about the combatants
and in the melee with the sergeant at
arms the boy's face was scratched until
the claret came. In this connection it may
be statel that Mr. Doughtie finds more
trouble in getting along with visitors to
the house than any other half dozen ser-
geants at arms Texas ever saw. The boy
sells the San Antonio Express, and by res-
Traces of Inebriation Decorum and Dig-
nity Not Always Manifest.
Austin, Tex., April 20.—At 2.-"J0 this morn-
ing, the house having resolved itself into a
howling mob over the Greer stock law
election bill, further consideration thereof
was postponed until next. Tuesday upon
motion of Its author.
For another hour or so more scenes of
the wildest disorder prevailed. Traces of
inebriation were apparent in more than
one quarter, and decorum and dignity had
become unknown quantities.
From 3.30 until 9.110 the following bills
were passed:
The Jennings bill, making the keeping of
an assignation house a felony, and the
visiting of such a place a misdemeanor.
Mr. Me Bride's bill to provide for survival
of causes of action for personal injuries
other than those resulting in death.
Mr. Wester's bill to provide for the or-
ganization and control of school districts
lying partly within two or more counties
and school communities composed of per-
sons living within two or more counties.
Messrs. Bramlette's and Henderson's bills
lengthening the term of court in Fannin
and Lamar counties by one week.
Substitute senate bill to authorize the in-
corporation of companies for the purpose
of constructing union depots, and to au-
thorize railway companies to own stock
and bonds of such depot companies, and
to reguhiic the tssuanct of bonds by such
union depot companies.
Senate concurrent resolution to adjourn
olution of the house
session, had a pet'f
in the discharge o
tions. Mr. Doughtb
house, stated that the
ulopted early In the
i right on the fioor
his business obllga-
in explanation to the
boy had refused to
get out of a chair which he himself
wanted, and that he pulled him out. when
the bov struck him. Just what authority
he had to pre-empt an, parti, ilar chair
on the fioor of the house for his particu-
lar use did not appear.
An investigation was demanded by Mr.
MAKE HAY
While the sun shines*
M onfly i a getting
Trade is ro-
vi v tag. B a pi talis
"coming "out or its hole," and labor is put*
t ing ou its "best looks. The country has
beon "down on it« lack." but is now on the
rebound. Batch wome of this present pros-
perity and "lay your pipe*" lor the "good
times coming.'' Look to it, Mr. Merchant.
Lot the big family of NEWS read-
ers know bow innnv good things you
have and how cheap you sell them.
Huc.inesB
will come
an Bure as
the
how cheap you sell them.
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