The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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TEXAS LEGISLATURE
ENOS BUSY SESSION
6ENATOR JOHNSON OK HALL
COUNTY ELECTED PRESIDENT
PRO TEM OF THE SENATE
IS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Lawmaker# Extend Thanks to Senator
Deac for Pair anil Courteous Treat-
ment—Work Done by the
Legislature.
Aiioiin. Tex. At 2 .10 Saturday aft
ernooti the third called session of the
thirty fifth legislature adjourned sine
die and panned into history. It had a
^ulet demise, different from its storms
of earlier days
A vote of thanks to Senator Dean
for his fair and courteous conduct as
presiding officer during the session
was a noteworthy feature of the sen
ate Saturday, a resolution being pre
sntited by Senator Hudspeth that the
senate extend a vote of thanks and de
vote a page in the permanent journal
to it; that a copy of the resolution he
Kant to Mrs. Dean and to the Hunts-
ville newspapers.
When the resolution was read a
clamor ensued that names of all the
senator* l - added as authors, which
was done
Mr. Hudspeth said: "If I had the
jiowj-t 1 would not. res erst n single de-
cision President Dean ha made 'lur-
ing the long and trying trial that
marked tin sessions over which he
presided. \Ii of lib rulinizs were bal
aneed They were In a< rordance with
(lie law and the rules of the senate,
"1 am not now, as in the past, In
flueneed by the party to which 1 be
long. 1 believe the time has come in
Texas when nu n will • ote for the man
and not for a partisan issue in the par
ty My adherence to the anti-prohibi
tlon faction will not contrrl my vote
In tin- future. My constituents will
approve of any man for office who is
honest, capable and fair.
"1 have therefore taken it upon my
stif to introduce this resolution. We
hare nominated big democrats for of
fie* in Texas in the past; we will do it
again when we shall have forgotten
partisan Issues I I at time is here ot
almost here Such a man as guided
tli< proceedings of this senate during
the past days of a (tying period la
bringing about this desired condition.
I again st ate it as my belief that the
partisanship that has long prevailed
in Texas has almost passed."
Senator l.attimore Inserted a state
tnent in the record to the effect that.
"In President Dean we had a just
judge, a fair man. a fearless man, In
the chair. We honor him more than
we can say."
Other senators echoed the remarks
made by these two.
Mr Dean responded, saying that he
wik more deeply sensible of the honor
conferred by the resolution than he
•*sh when chosen to preside o\er tile
senate during the recent trial "At
that time," he sau' "I told my wife
and daughter that 1 had no hope that I
would enjoy the same confidence and
friendship among my associates when
the trial wan over that i prided myself
upon at its beginning
It is a matter of inexpressible sat
istaction to me to f«>el now that I
have tiit- same friendship. It is more
than I Imped for that anyone could
reasonably hope for. 1 am glad to
be ieve that my motives were as high
ii" I claimed them to be."
it was resolved that the Hudspeth
resolution tie made an appendix to the
record of the impeachment trial.
Senator W. A Johnson of Memphis,
Hull counts. was elected president of
the senate Saturday.
Mr. Johnson was the first member
of the legislature to propose an lines
ligation of Governor James K Feign
son, having Introduced a resolution
lust March.
In the event Governor W. P. Hobby
should absent himself from the state
before the legislature meets again,
Mr Johnson would act as governor.
He nerves as president of the senate
and acting lieutenant governor until
the legislature again convenes, whetli
«r It he in special or regular session
Review of Legislature's Work.
With the close of the third called
nession of the thirty fifth legislature
Saturday It Is found that during the
thirty days just ended a number of
hills of statewide importance were
passed besides many local measures.
In addition, the session Impeached a
governor of the stale, a historical
•vent, and an occasion of much mo-
ment. Many consider it remarkable
that Hie session hail lime to dispose
as many hills as It did while con
*\during a matter of such importance
as Impeachment.
A list of the mora Important hills
which passed follows:
Hcnatti Hills Hy Mr Johnston of
Harris Creating the home guard of
Texas
Hy Mr Hall: A bill to regulate eml
grant agents la Texas snd to regulats
employment bureaus, to prev ent
exodus of Texas labor.
Hy Mr Hut hari.ri ol Hell IvstahlNh-
ing a -ehool for u wo delinquent
youths.
Hy Messr; Page and Caldwell: To
prevent Ho pre.td of the destructive
j [test known a the pink boll worm.
H> Mr. Hail" Creating an express
i.i'ti on piildii lands, so hs to permit
! Han on school lands by federal farm
loan banks.
Hy Mr. Hurley \ bill to aid fish
1 hatcheries ami lo aid in the propuga
I t ion of fish in Texas.
Hy Mr Hailey: Validatiui charters
and amendments to charters to cities
of over f*.una inhabitants,
Hy Mr. .McNealus Permitting whole
sale druggists in local option territory
to sell alcohol to retail druggists.
House Mills Hy Messrs. Fit;:patrlck
and Dutinam: I' tablishiug it mora
toriiuii in behalf of soldiers
H> Messrs Fit*:putri< k and Duniiain
Preventing the foreclosure of deeds of
trust and other chattel mortgages
against soldiers without due and am
pie process
Hy Mr. Nordhuus: To prevent the
diversion of electric current of water
in public carriers
Hy Mr. O'Hanion: Herniating the
sale ol poisons.
Hy Mr. Tillolsotr The repeal of the
laws creating t e West Texas A. and
M College ami tilt1 repeal of the law
creating tiie Northeast Texas Junior
Agricultural College.
Hy Mr. TiHotson Amending the
clause creating the Sill Hoss Normal
College, the Stephen F. AuMin Normal
College and the South Texas Normal
College so that the work on the con-
struction of these buildings will l '
suspended. Work not to begin until
Feb 1. 1919
Hy Mr. Pillow: The transfer of
I funds accruing to the state from oil
lands from the lish, game and o>.-tt«r
commission to the general fund.
Hy Mr. Tillotson Xtnending the
law appropriating $750,000 for Texas
National Guard expenses and reducing
that appropriation to $400,000.
By Mr. Cope: Providing that he
house may be called to consider im
peachment charges either by petition
of a majority of the mcmbeis or by
the speaker and thirty members sign
ing the call. If Impeachment charge'
are preferred and the governor fail;
or refuses to call the senate, then the
lieutenant governor may issue such
call; If he does not act within fifteen
days after the charges are preferred,
then the president pro tempore of the
senate may Issue the tall If lit re
fuses or falls to do so within twenty
days after preferment of charges the
senate may be convened on majority
vote of the member
At a session held in the speaker's
room Saturday the central committee
uf the house investigators elected W
M Fly of Gonzales county, chairman:
Dan Mc.Mlllin of Grayson county, vice
chairman, and Bruce A Bryant of Has
kell, secretary. The committee bad
been named earlier in the day by
Speaker F. O. Fuller. It voted to work
in co-operation with the senate Inves
tlgsting committee, which was also
named Saturday, and both committees
agreed that the full committees should
meet in Austin Thursday, November I
Senator Kd Westbrook of Hunt county
is acting chairman of the senate com-
mittee, and It, ton, adopted a plan o!
cooperating with the house men
Ii was agreed that th central com
mittee and possibly the senate commit
tee, each consisting of ten nietnbei-
should meet oefore November I and
arrange some of the preliminurie- so
as to start the subcommittees at actual
probing as soon after November I as
possible The central committee ma<
be called to meet in Dallas during Hi.
fair possibly about October i!u. That
will be up to Chairman Fly, Actual
investigation, therefore, is not to start
before November I,
Governor Hobby Signs Bills.
Austin, Tex,—Governor W P. Hobby
Tuesday signed a number of bills and
minor resolutions. Most of the bills
were local In effect, providing road
laws for Trinity, Coleman, Newton,
Llano, Titus. Med Hlver and Madison
counties, and school districts at Hen
\Vhee|er and Oakland Likewise the
hill providing that the new state of
flee building shnll house the general
land office, department of agriculture
and such other departments as the
governor may designate.
The last bill signed Is that Imposing
a closed season for all fur hearing ani
j mals between March 1 ami Nov 1
1 The bill also provides n cloned season
for «qulrrel hunting, January to July.
I inclusive, in the counties of Angelina*
Cherokee, Hardin, Liberty, Nacog
doches. Dallas, lloekwall, Tyler, Jeffer
son, Orange, Jasper and Newton, with
a limit of five squirrels daily during
the open season.
It further provides that wild turkeys
shall be hunted in the foregoing coun
ties only during March and April, ami
the limit is two turkeys for the season.
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COVERNOR ASKS TEXANS DRAET DELINQUENTS
TO SUBSCRIBE AS ABLE! WILL BE RCUNOEO UP
Purchase of Liberty Bonds Is Not
Donation, But a Sound Business
investment.
May Be Treated as Deserters and
Tried Before an Army Court
Martial.
ACTIVE WORK FOR TICK ONE WAY WE CAN AID
ERADICATION GOING ON OUR ALLIES IN THE WAR
The Slogan Is: "The South Entirely
Free From Cattle Fever Tick
in 1921."
Vasliington.—With active work for
tick eradication proceeding in 332,251
square miles of southern territory, the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture and State officials are decidedly
hopeful that their co-operative goal
"a South entirely tree from the cattle
fever tick in 19-1"—will bo attained.
Twenty thousand eight hundred and
eighty two dipping vats were in com
mission in August, and during that
month 522,541 different herds, comprls
ing 4,319,554 cattle, were being dipped
regularly every two weeks. A force of
1,901 Federal, State and county inspec-
tors were actively employed in the
work of getting rirl of the cattle pesl.
When the territory now being worked
is entirely freed of ticks there will re
main only a comparatively small quar-
antined territory in the entire South.
Mississippi led with 187,330 herds
and 1,373,952 cattle dlp"ed regularly in
6,583 vats. This work, it is believed,
shortly will clean out Hie tick from
45,176 square miles of territory and
free the entire State from quarantine
this year. Louisiana was second in
number of cattle dipped and Alabama
third, each dipping over 660,000 ani
mals. Arkansas was si close fourth
with tM8,000 animals dipped.
Texas, where dipping recently has
become active, is handling 295.592 cat-
tle, but leads all the States in area
handled, with over 65,000 square miles
being worked Florida, where eat tit-
are not so numerous, is second In area
covered, with 53,111 square miles. One
of the most, hopeful signs is that the
State legislatures of Georgia, Missis
sippl, Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas
have made dipping of cattle to eradi-
cate ticks compulsory.
World's Grain Crop Increased.
Washington.—The world's wheat
crop this year for the principal coun
tri"s which have reported, Including
the United States, is 1,665,489,000
bushels, an increase of 3.3 per cent
over 1916, according to reports from
the International Institute of Agrlcul
Hire at Koine, made public Monday by
the department of agriculture. The
world's barley crop in 464,Wil,uoo, m
Increase of ..'.4 per cent; tin rye crop
is 89,950,000 bushels, an increase of
10.7 per cent; the oats crop L995.304
000 bushel- an increase of 19.9 per
cent, and the corn crop 3,273,996,000
bushels, an Increase of 25 3 per cent.
Get man Women Form Mob.
London. A demonstration against
the German government on Saturday
*1 Essen, home of the Krupp Works,
In consequence of the decision of
Chancellor Mlchaelis not to state Ger-
many's peace terms, is reported. Wo-
men formed a majority of the demon-
strators, breaking windows of the
town hall and shouting demands for
more food, for peace ami for the re
turn of their men folks.
Recommend Easy Death for Incurables
Chicago Members of the American
Association of Progressive Medicine
In convention Wednesday have gone
on record as favoring a movement to
have state legislatures legalize the
idmlnlstration of an easy death to
those hopelessly Incurable The sub
let t was brought before tin- conven-
tion by Dr W. A. Guild of Des Moines
Seventh Illinois at Camp
Houston, Tex The supply company
>f the Seventh Illinois Infantry reach
I ed Camp Logan Sunday night, the
•teronil section bringing Colonel Daniel
, Morlarty, his staff, and three com
I panles of the same regiment reached
i the city Monday night, and the rest of
the organization on two trains arrived
1 Tuesday.
By Being Careful Not to Waste Sugar
Here at Home We Can Aid Those
Without It.
Washington. Mr. Hoover, I'nlted
states food administrator, issues tie
following statement:
"We have received a request fron
1 lie French government that we allow
Hi em to export Irom the United Slates
100,000 tons of sugar during the next
month, and probably more at a later
period,
"Our own situation is that we hav<
just sufficient sugar to maintain out
normal consumption until the first ot
January, when the new West Indian
crop becomes available to all.
"Our consumption is at the rate ol
90 pounds per person per year-—a littD
under four ounces per day per person
"The French peopie are on a ration !
of sugar equal to only 21 pounds pet
annum per person—or at the rate ol
less than one single ounce per day 1
per person a little more than th#
weight of a silver dollar each day.
"The English and liali rations art
also not oxer one ounce per day.
"The French people will be entirely
without sugar for over two months il
we refuse to part with enough front
our stocks to keep them supplied with
even this small allowance, as it is not
available from any other quarter
"Sugar even to a greater amount
than the French ration is a human ne-
cessity. If our people will reduce by j
one-third their purchases and con
sumption of candy and of sugar for i
other uses than preserving fruit, which
we <io not wish to interfere with, we
can save the French situation.
"In the interest or the i rencli pea-i
pie, rind of the loyally we ewe them to
divide our food In ; <ie maintenance of
our common cause i ask the American ,
people to df> this. It Is unthinkable
that we refuse their request.
(Signed) "Herbert Hoover"
TRIAL OF F. AND L P. A.
\ Points in Majority Report Brought
Out—Defendants Are Excused
Until April.
Vbllene, Tex Proposals to elect Z.
| L. Itlsley provisional president of the
I nited States in case conscription
j should be forced upon them, to "resist
conscription even unto death." and to
begin conscription in opposition to the
conscription of the I'nlted States gov
eminent, were contained in the "ma
jority report." submitted by the resolu
Hon committee to the second state
convention of the Farmers and Labor
era' Protective Association at Cisco
last May.
This admission was made Tuesday
by W. A. Hergfeldt, one of the fort)
one defendants on trial in federal (lis
trict court at Abilene on charges of
seditious conspiracy against the Unit
ed Statea government, all of the de
fondants having been members of the
Farmers and Laborers' Protective As
soclatioti.
Hergfeldt, on cross-examination, said
he hail visited various Farmers and
Laborers'Protective Association lodges
and addressed them, always stressing
the need for greater efficiency of the
iaboritiK classes, lie had written out
and memorized some of his talks, ad
vocatlng an Industrial democracy ol
machinery. He denied that lie had
ever said the government is controlled
by the tapltalist class He did not
think he had ever mentioned President
Wilson in any speech at a lodge, and
said if there were any reference, there
was no slur.
Judge George Whitfield Jack ex
cuseo all defendants and witnesses
until the April term
Austin. Tex The following proela
mutlon ha,-, been issued by Governor
Hobby:
Whereas, The Clilted States of
America are engaged in a war "to
make the world safe for democracy";
and
Wherea.-, The government ol the
United States now calls upon every
loyal citizen to lend direct aid to the
cause of this nation, through the pur
chase of one or more liberty bonds,
and
Whereas, Texas boys are giving
their lives, our allies Nre iving their
money and their lives freely, and the
whole civilized world is fighting now
that tight and not might shall rule,
and thai Cie world shall be made a
as place for honest men and women
and little children to live In; and
Whereas, The purchase of liberty
bonds Is not a donation, but a sound :
and advantageous business Invest '
ment, with the further beneficial re
nil of encouraging thrift and saving; j
and
Whereas, The purchase of such lib- 1
erty bonds will be In effect lending
money to the government to carry out !
the war, thin preventing a hkiier and I
burdensome tax rate now and in the
years lo come.
Now, therefore, i, William P. Hobby,
governor of Texas, do earnestly call
upon each and every citizen of the '
Stale of Texas to assume bis or her
share of the burden of this world war,
and mi to the full limit of his or her
ability to subscribe to the second is
sue of liberty loan bonis; thereby
speaking in the voice of democracy
the answer to the challenge ol kaiser-
Ism.
In witness whereof, I have sub
scribed my name hereto, and caused
the seal of state to be impressed here-
on in the city of Austin, Texas, this
day, Sept. 29, 1917.
W. P. Hobby, Governor of Texas,
ly the Governor: Churchill J Hart-
lett. Secretary of State.
Drive for Liberty Loan Start*
Washington The t:r0at liberty loan
drive started Monday throughout the
country with a rusl . Reports to the.
treasury from every section Indicate
treniendou, enthusiasm on the part of
tens of thousands of workers and a
fair first day's volume of subscriptions
toward the $3,000,000,000 minimum
which lias been set as the goal of the
four week's campaign. Flags were
flown, whistles were blown, acres of
billboards blossomed into red, white
and blue posters and thousands of
workers started the campaign with en-
thusiasm from New England to «'all
fornia. Everywhere from postoffices,
bank and store windows, every rail-
road station, street cars and scores of
other public places liberty posters
with varied slogans were pasted up
and workers began the task of finding
buyers.
Washington -Secretary McAdoo an
nounces the details of the second lib
erty loan, which was offered to the
public on Oct. 1. The chief features
a re:
"Amounts $3,000,000,000 or more, tie
excess not to evceed one hall ot the
amount of oversubscription.
"Term of bonds: Maturity, twenty-
live y 1 ars : redeemable a the option
of the secretary of the treasury in ten
years.
'Denominations of bond-' $.V> and
multiples of $50.
"Interest rate: Four per cent,
Austin. Tex The following ha*
been issued from the governor's of-
fice, addreased to all local and dis-
trict exemption boards
"The following telegram has been
received from the provost marshal
general and Is transmitted for your
instruction and guidance 'A reward
of $50, payable for the delivery at the
nearest army camp or post, for a de-
serter This reward is In full satis-
faction of all expenses Incurred In said
dellverv. A person who fails to report
to his l«<-al board of military service
at the Hmn specified in IiIb order to
report is a deserter. A person who
falls to report for military service to
the adjutant general of tiie state by
the date specified in the order of the
adjutant general to said person is a
d«sert r It Is highly desirable from
every standpoint thai an effort now b«
made to round up all persona who are
delinquent in reporting for military
service, it is thought that if the fact
of reward Is given the widest publi-
cation, we shnll have a great force of
police officers, and even of individ-
uals, interested In bringing such de-
linquents under military control. If,
after such persons are brought to a
military authority, it appears to the
military authority that their delin-
quency Is not willful, they will he for-
warded to a mobilization camp and
their local board will be given credit.
If it appears that delinquency was
willful, they will be prosecuted before
court martial as deserters. In either
case the reward is payable.
" 'Crowder.'"
TEXAS PECAN CROP IS
MUCH BELOW NORMAL
on Nov. 15
pay-
and
able semi annually
May 15.
"Terms of payment Two per cent
upon application, IK per cent Nov 15,
40 per cent Dec, 14 and 40 per cent
Jan. 15, 1918
The privilege of converting bonds
of this issue Into bonds of any succeed-
ing issue bearinK a higher Interest
rate than 4 iter cent during the period
of the war is extended through an ar-
I rangement under which bonds will be
printed with only four coupons Instead
of fifty (to be exchanged, at the end of
I two years for the bonds containing the
1 full nurnht of coupons!. Deliveries
will be prompt.
In this manner the Issue of ii.teritn
1 certificates will b avoided.
Secretary McAdoo.' announcement
reads. In part, as follows
"Yv'lth the approval of the president
I have determined to offer on Oct 1.
IH17, three billion or more dollars of
i'nlted States of America 4 per cent
convertible gold bonds, due on Nov.
15, 1942, and subject to redemption at
the option of the I'nlted States at par
and accrued interest on and after
Nov 16. 1927. The bonds will hear In-
terest from Nov. lf>, 1917, and the In
| terest will be payable on May 15 and
i Nov 15 each year,
Prices for the Nuts, It Is Predicted,
Will Be Higher This Season
Than Ever.
Houston, Tex. Within a very few
weeks the pecan crop of Texas will
begin to move, and the growers are
beginning to feel a little nervous as
to prices. It seems as if there was
home combination that is bringing
pressure to bear lo reduce the.prices.
Market?rs of pecans should be very
careful not to rush the market. With
ail foods selling at top prices, there Is
no use, no reason why pecans should
be thrown on the market at cutthroat
prices.
Up to the present time pecans have
been nibbled and minced between
meals, been eaten only to pass time.
The time has now arrived when nuts
of all kind should be used as part of
a meal, and as such they take the
place with meats, eggs, milk, cheese,
etc.
Pecans contain 12 1 per cent protein,
70.7 per cent fat. Round steak, 19.8
per cent protein, 13 i per cent fat
I heese, 27.7 per cent protein 36.8 per
cent fat. From the above the nutra-
tive value of pecans is easily seen
According to the best, estimates the
I'nlted States imported nearly $20.-
000,000 worth of nuts in 1914. The im-
portation o; nuts has decreased since
then, the Texas pecan crop is inceh
below norm; I, and prices will be much
liiuhcr than they are quoted at this
II me.
Forest run pecans should bring 12'a
to 15 cents, high grades IS to 22
cents, fancies 30 10 40 cents.
It would seem that, under these con-
ditions ll.t- price should he a matter
that could bo determined by the pro-
ducer if hf. will just use go:nl business
met bods.
Money From Land Sales
Austin, T"\ During September
$6,1,766.31 was paid into the state
treasury from land sales and leases,
of which amount $33,271.93 was placed
to the credit of available funds and
$30,494.31 to permanent funds. The
money was distributed among the fol-
lowing funds Public schools, pur
j chase first payments, $1 1,186.36, per
1 tnanent. public school, open accounts,
$ 10,903 19, available. $19,307.96, per-
manent public schools, rentals. $82.75
available, university, open accounts,
$1,688.20, available, game, fish and
oyster account, $20,722.79, available.
Bartlett Files Resignation.
Austin, Tex. Churchill Hartlett.sec
retary of state under James F Fergu-
son's administration of Texaa, filed his
resignation from that office \\ ednes
day Mr. Bartlett believes the new
governor should be allowed to choose
his own official family and that as an
appointee of the previous admintatra
Hon il would bo In bad taste for him
to hold to the office to whlcb Mr. Fer-
gusou appointed him.
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