Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Second Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature Page: 50
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50 SEATE JURNAL
herewith, providing that this law
shall take precedence over conflicting
charter provisions, validating all ac-
tions by cities and towns and their
officials in authorizing and deliver-
ing securities to accomplish the ob-
ject of this Act, and declaring an
emergency."
Read first time and referred to
the Committee on State Affairs.
S. C. R. No. 10.
Senator Woodul sent up the fol-
lowing resolution:
Be it Resolved, by the Senate of
the State of Texas, the House of Rep-
resentatives concurring, That Hon.
Lee Wallace, Judge of the Thirty-
eighth Judicial District of Texas, be,
and he is hereby granted permission
to be absent from the State of Texas
at such intervals and for such time
as he sees fit and desires while his
courts are in vacation, during 1934
and 1935.
On motion of Senator Woodul, the
Senate granted consent to consider
the resolution at this time without
reference to a committee.
The resolution was adopted.
Messages From the Governor.
Executive Department,
Austin, Texas, Feb. 7, 1934.
To the Forty-third Legislature in
Second Called Session:
It has been called to my attention
that the Speaker of the House of
Representatives has ruled that nei-
ther my call for the current special
session nor the message heretofore
submitted to you contains language
to justify the levy and collection of
taxes sufficient to retire the interest
and sinking fund for the Relief
Bonds mentioned in the call and in
my message.
I was under the impression at the
time, and I am now of the same im-
pression, that my call and message
were sufficiently broad to provide for
taxation to provide the interest and
sinking fund to retire said bonds.
I call attention to the fact that my
message says to pass such law or
laws as may be necessary "to issue
and sell" the remaining bonds "pro-
posed and permitted" under the con-
stitutional amendment of the State
adopted by the voters of Texas at an
election duly held on the 26th day
of August 1933 for the purpose of
effecting relief to the unemployed
and indigent persons of the State.By reference to this constitutional
amendment it will appear authority
is given to levy taxes on all sources
of revenue accruing to the General
Fund other than a tax on real estate.
In other words, my message author-
izes the Legislature to do anything
as proposed and permitted under
the constitutional amendment.
But to avoid any unnecessary dis-
cussion, I hereby submit for your
consideration the question of rais-
ing by taxation revenues with which
to pay the interest and sinking fund
necessary to retire the bonds author-
ized under said constitutional amend-
ment adopted on the 26th day of
August, 1933, by the people at an
election duly held.
Respectfully submitted,
MIRIAM A. FERGUSON,
Governor.
Executive Department,
Austin, Texas, Feb. 7, 1934.
To the Forty-third Legislature in
Second Called Session:
At a former called session of the
Legislature under authority of the
constitutional amendment it was pro-
vided that the Texas Relief Commis-
sion should be composed of the
Chairman of the Industrial Accident
Board, the Chairman of the Texas
Civil Judicial Council, three mem-
bers to be appointed by the Lieuten-
ant Governor and three by the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, and one to be appointed by
the Governor; and it was further
provided that the Governor should
not have any vote unless in case
of a tie. Ever since the passage
of said law, peace and harmony
have not taken place in the proceed-
ings of the Texas Relief Commission.
Certain members of the Commission
have not lost a single moment since
their appointment to embarrass the
present administration and to oppose
the efforts of my office and appoint-
ees to successfully carry on the re-
lief work in Texas.
Under the Federal authorities I
am required to make application for
all Federal funds and to see that
same are properly distributed and to
be responsible for the proper appli-
cation of said funds for relief pur-
poses. I am loaded with all sorts of
obligations but divested of nearly all
authority. I am perfectly willing to
endure this attempted embarrass-
ment which has been placed upon me
by political partisans, yet such a pro-50
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