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THE HOUSTON POST: SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 8. 1919.
MAGNOLIA PARK
TO STAY OUTSIDE
:Y CITY OF HOUSTON
Bill Permitting Absorption
- Amended to Suburbs'
Not Over 2000
NILES OH ONLY AFFECTED
Two Peficiency Appropria-
tions Engrossed in House
Run to $917000
HARRY T. WARNER Correspondent
Houston Post Bureau.
AUSTIN Texas March 7. The Har-
ris county delegation decided to permit
Magnolia Park to remain outside the cor-
porate limits of the city of Houston for
another year' and give the time for issu
ing bonds and otherwise getting . ready
to come in.
When Malone's bill designed to enable
Fort Worth to take in Niles City and
Houston to attach Magnolia Park was
taken np in the house it was so amended
as to limit the city to be absorbed to
less than 2000 population; and as Mag-
nolia Park has more than that the" lim-
itation excludes it from annexation ex
cept by consent of the people of the
suburb. The Malone bill was then fin-
ally passed and will apply only to Nilcs
Uity.
The house killed the proposition for an
educational survey of the State. Jack
Johnson of Ellis declared that the propo-
sition had been indorsed by the demo-
cratic State convention but when he gave
the cost of it at $30000 he rang the
death knell for the economists cot action.
It was the first defeat of the session for
Johnson.
The house engrossed a deficiency ap
propriation of JlMT.tXX) and an emergency
appropriation bill calling for $670000
enabling the departments to run until
the called session in June.
Dudley's bill making the State school
ot mines at raso pan oi ine univer
sity of Texas was engrossed.
Insurance Bill Passed.
The senate passed finally the bill by
Hertxberg permitting the creation of cor-
porations for the purpose of acting as
commissioned and licensed agents of fire
accident casualty or fidelity insurance.
Gibson opposed on the ground that it
would permit a monopoly of the insurance
business in small towns and Witt on the
ground that the agent could find protec-
tion from responsibility in event he made
false representations. Faust replied that
no corporation would long employ per-
sons who made false statements.
Hertzberg's bill requiring every mort-
gager of a motor car to keep the
mortgagee informed as to the location
of the car was finally passed.
The bill by Buchanan of Scurry which
provides for suspension of sentence in
cases of conviction for delinquency was
finally passed after being amended by
Witt to provide that chains and ropes
shall never be used in conveying children
to the juvenile schools.
Hertzberg's bill providing that the en-
gine numbers of motor cars be registered
with the highway commission and that
cars with obliterated engine numbers
shall not be operated on the highways
was finally passed. .
Galvestoa Bill Eaarassai.
TBe resolution by Hall proposing an
amendment to the constitution ' so that
there will be a limit of $5000000 as the
amount of bonds which may be issued by
the county of Galveston was engrossed.
Galveston wants to issue more bonds to
provide for grade raiding.
The bill by Dorough providing for ex-
amination and license of mechanics em-
ployed in garages was killed by being in-
definitely postponed.
Two proposed amendments to the con-
stitution by Dean were .adopted. One of
these proposes to increase the tax limit
in towns of 0000 or less to 1 1-2 per cent
and the other exempts independent school
districts from the constitutional limit of
50 cents on special taxes: that is if the
proposition is adopted the independent
districts can fix any tax they please.
Warehouse BUI Wins.
Mc'Xealus' uniform warehouse bill
making receipts negotiable was finally
passed. It defines the obligation of the
warehouse men as well as defining their
rights.
The bill by BfU of Foard providing
$350000 for buildings for the Northwest
Texas insane asylum at Wichita Falls
was passed finally. The buildings are
complete but have not been equipped.
Parr's bill providing that county
commissioners may enter into contract
with abstract companies for abstracts of
land reported delinquent in the payment
of taxes was finally passed.
Attorney Bill Passed.
The house bill by Kittrell fixing the
salary of district attorneys in counties
above 100000 population at $6000 was
finally passed.
The bill by Suiter permitting Mrs.
Ethel Rich burg to sue the State for dam-
ages for the death of her husband killed
by rangers in the town of Eastland was
passed finally.
Dorough's bill providing for corpora-
tions to make blue prints mimeographs
etc. was finally passed. Carlock sought
to amend to include about 20 other pur-
poses including the right to purchase
contract and sell oil leases. Strickland
objected on (he ground that it woulj en-
danger the original bill.
Finally passed were Hopkins' bill ex-
tending the life of the State Council of
Defense for six months; - Hopkins' bill
providing that Biiits against corporations
shall not abate because of dissolution of
the corporations; Hopkins' bill providing
for limitation of 25 years in abstracts of
land that is holding the title good be-
hind that time amended by Dean by elim-
inating the definition of an abstract; Al-
derdice's bill providing that revaluation of
land in levee districts shal not decrease
values fixed for bond issues; Buchanan of
Bell bill providing that the prison com-
missioners may lease lands under their
control for oirirospeeting Bailey's bill
providing that land purchased from the
State by persons entering the war service
shall be retained by such persons de-
spite failure to comply with all the terms.
Vat Bill Goes Over. ..
A bill by Buchanan of Bell providing
that cattle must be inspected and ordered
dipped before it is necessary to drive
them to the dipping vat brought opposi-
tion from Bailey who said he was afraid
of it and wanted to study it further. It
was laid over until Monday.
Carlock's bill providing for the conser-
vation of gas by prohibiting wasteful
methods and investing the railroad com-
mission with administrative powers was
declared by Suiter to provide soft jobs
without any excuse and it was set for
Tuesday morning.
Alderdice's bill permitting garages and
filling stations to remain open during cer-
tain hours on Sunday waajjarflly passed.
McNealus called up bis bill prohibiting
common drinking cups and providing for
sanitary cups to be provided by common
carriers and it was killed.
The bill by Buchanan of Scarry pro-
Tiding for elections in locating or remov-
ing county seata; Dayton's bill making a
uarjl airsj-j sa'i vfi ssjsmvm sv hv B"
training school at Gainesville Herti-
berg'i bill providing that treatment at the
State pasteur institute shall be free; Os-
borne's house bill prohibiting execution
or foreclosure on the property of persons
in war service for 12 months after formal
discharge; Alderdice's resolution submit-
ting a constitutional amendment to au-
thorise special school taxes by counties
were finally passed. i
.xne senate adjourned until Aionaay
morning. . .
Sunday Bill Reported.
The senate committee Friday reported
favorably the bill by Dean which provides
that district and county' attorneys may
eniorce tne Bunaay taw tnrougn injunc-
tions; and the attorney general may be
forced to act when local authorities re-
fuse or decline to do so; placing the venue
in the courts of Travis county under cer-
tain conditions. In other words to de-
stroy home rule so far aa it appliea to
the jBunday law. Before the committee
were Reva. Mr. Talley Davis of Galves-
ton Old of Dallas Wrigttt of Austin
and Mrs. F. W. Vaugban of Houston.
The ministers all urged enactments of
the bill into law asserting that the Sun-
day law ia being violated in all of the
cities of the State. ' Mrs. Vaughan was in
opposition to the bill; pleaded that to en-
act such legislation is to bring about a
condition very bad morally and likely to
result in socialism and anarchy within a
few years. She represented in her views
the city government of Houston the
Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary
club and many of the women's clubs who
hsve given study to the proposition and
the Equal Suffrage association of that
city. The commitfee divided equally on
the report but Chairman Suiter cast the
deciding vote. Later the bill was report-
ed with recommendation that it be print-
ed only in the Journal which has brought
it to the floor of the senate before many
bills which have been on the calendar for
many days; but objection was made and
it must take the regular course of being
printed as a bill and then lie on the desks
of the senators for one day at least.
REORGANIZATION
OF RANGER FORCE
SEEMS ASSURED
(Continued from Page One.)
not ask that they be adopted. He
yielded the remainder of his time to Bled-
soe chairman of the committee which in-
vestigated the conduct of the ranger
force who offered as a substitute for the
Canales bill and the committee amend-
ments a bill drawn by him and receiving
the sanction of the members of the in-
vestigating force.
Canales for New Bill.
Canales contended for the adoption of
the committee bill. He declared that it
preserved only the framework of the
Canales original measure and that it in-
cluded all 'of the amendments which have
been adopted by the house. It will cut
the ranger force to 28 men it is true.
but it gives the governor authority and
power to increase this force during an
emercency and to maintain the increase
during such time of emergency no mat
ter bow long it may continue. The Bled
soe bill seeks to increase the number of
officers by providing for a lieutenant and
be opined that it was merely an endeavor
to make a soft place for some political
pet or the son of a pet. He asserted that
the Canales bill wipes out the special
ranger force by repealing all laws in con-
flict with the provisions thereof; and he
asserted that the statute creating the
special rangers was the greatest crime in
the statute book of Texas; he said it is a
shame and a disgrace intended only for
the creation of six-shooter rangers and
there was no reason for them. The loy
alty ranger force was attacked by Canales
and be declared that the Bledsoe bill does
not repeal the law providing for them.
He then took up the matter of the appro-
priations for the adjutant ceneral'a de
partment declaring that for many yeara
it bad been operated tor only about a-
000;. but in 1917 and 1918 the appropria-
tions had crown suddenly to $417000
and he was convinced though he could not
prove it that some one bad gotten a lot
of that money; he had been trying to
find out where it went in the comptrol-
ler's department but had not succeeded in
getting all of it traced; but he did know
that most of it bad been spent. His inti-
mation was that there bads been an enor
mous steal. He then gave to Bledsoe
full acknowledgment for having given
him every opportunity before the com
mittee.
Bledsoe Takes Floor.
Bledsoe took the floor in support of
his substitute. He declared neither the
Canales bill nor the committee substitute
sought to amend the existing law in any
detail and be would show why this had
not been done. Canales sought to in
terrupt which Bledsoe declined to per
mit and said: "Every time we get you in
a corner vou saueal and try to dodge."
to which canales retorted: " 4 bat is not
true." Slowly and in the same modulated
voice in which he had been speaking.
apparently without heat Bledsoe turned
to bim and said: it you again dispute
what I have said and intimate that it is
not true I will slap your face until your
ears ring for JO days.
The speaker interposed and Bledsoe
apologized to the house; but be declared
that he had sat in the house day after
day and heard this man make assertions
and charges wbicb had not been proved
true; and he did not propose not if it
cost him his 'seat to permit him to say
that any statements he made were un-
true; and he warned Canales that he was
now dealing with a man who would not
permit himself to be insulted. Canales
has not dealt fairly with the people of
Texas declared Hied soe. "He has at
tempted to put two laws into the statute
books conflicting laws with a knowledge
that they will cause confusion. He knows
that his proposed law does not and can
not appeal the existing laws; he know
that be is going to bring about confusion
and that ia his purpose. The committee
report merely does tbe same tbing xor
it is only the Canales bill slightly changed.
Every lawyer will at once understand
iust what Canales is . striving to do is
bringing about such confusion and bring
ing charges. Canales has asserted that
he has been the victim of discourtesies
before the committee; and then adroitly
sought to evade part of that by saying
that I aa chairman bad extended every
courtesy. Saya that he is undertaking
to protect the people from outrages and
yet he proposes in section 4 of his bill
to compel the rangers to place their pris-
oners in the county jail and then turn
them over to tbe civil authorities. The
penal code provides that as soon as any
Eeace officer makes an arrest he shall
ail his prisoner before a magistrate and
if the 'offense be bailable then bail may
be given; but Canales seeks to compel
the rangera to put all prisoners in the
county jail and not give them the right
tor a bearing." Canales says he does
not provide for a poker playing club in
Austin; that is intended in tne opinion
of Bledsoe as a deliberate insult to the
chief executive of the Stste.
"If in the county in which I came from
there was such a moral condition as ex-
ists in Cameron county I would bide my
Dead in sname it l said anything aoout
any county's morality before I had clean
ed up my own" be asserted. It is neces-
sary to bold a company of ranters in
Austin so that they may be dispatched
without loss ot time to any point in the
State where the sheriff or the district
judge may call them. The governor con
trols these men and be denied tbat they
constitute a poker playing club.
Loyalty Rangers.
Canales had attacked the loyalty ran
gers. Now as a matter of fact said
Bledsoe these men were appointed from
all over the State to keep down German
Eropaganda and German spies and they
ad performed a valuable service to tne
State without pay. It bad been the in
tention of tbe governor to name three
men in each county in the State not
aliens but loyal Americans and in addi-
tion they were the agents of the Cattle
Y
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How Many of
Your Neidikors
Drink
P0STUM
Yen bcwofaomcihrl
felheu drink it?
ft s because coffee
disagrees wrBi them.
Next time a wakeful
night crnervous-
ness.heaiMlufteror stomach shiribance
Think of Ibshim
Raisers association to protect the cattle
herds of the border country. It was the
first time he had heard them criticixed
as being among the undesirables.
During the years for which Canales
had quoted the figures the - National
Guard had been increased Bledsoe notes
and that ia where the money went though
Canales saya he hasn't been able to find
out Without any reference to tbe in-
troduction ot the Canales bill or to any-
thing else save that the emergency was
passed and the war was at an end this
expense had been cut down tbe loyalty
rangers had had their commissions can-
celled the special rangera were dismissed
down to the men still needed. These
commissions will not be reissued unless
I the bandits of Mexico invade this coun-
try; and if they do he would assure them
that they would be met at the border by
I a force of red-blooded Americana com-
. petent to handle them not a six-shooter
crowd of rowdies aa bad been repreaent-
! ed but the very best citixens of Texas
j Bledsoe argued against the bonding
I feature as being susceptible of enabling
i designing men to harass and cripple the
- ranger force and said the committee bad
given careful and thorough consideration
I to that feature.
Canales then changed hla attitude and
instead of further advocating tne com-
UlllLCV BUUIUIUK WDCU UIVU HID U111IIM
bill be took up the Roehmer bill which
had been killed on hia own motion during
January. He advocated that strongly
and declared it better than the Bledsoe
proposition in numerous ways. He found
support from Ford Roehmer Cntmpton
and Blackburn. Roehmer said hia bill
had been submitted to tbe adjutant gen-
eral and would be acceptable to him.
Tidwell supported the investigating
committee's report.
.Bledsoe closed in support of the bill
bearing his name. He said in all kind-
: ness to tne gentleman irom uameron
i that be believed Canales wanted Co ac-
ition of any sort; that he desired a con-
tinuance of the present lsw and a con-
j tinuance of conditions on the border ex-
actly as they now exist.
Tbe house then rejected the Roehmer
bill the committee's revision of the Ca-
nales bill and engrossed the bill offered
' by Bledsoe.
PEOPLE SUPREME
ON FISH AND GAME
x
Attorney General's Depart-
ment Rules Also Upon
Fees of Peace Officers
Houston Post Special.
AUSTIN Texas March 7. The at-
torney general's department Friday made
a ruling to the effect that the fish in
the watera of the State and the game in
its forests belong to the people of the
State in their sovereign capacity who
lurouga mcir reiireecuLti.ivcD uio
lature have sole control thereof and
may permit or prohibit their taking.
.The opinion holds that it is unlawful
fdV any person in the State of Texaa to
take or destroy tne nest or eggs oi any
wild bird or have such nest or eggs in
his or her possession except English
house sparrows. awks. crows buzzards.
blackbirds rice birds and owls citing
Articles 4022 revised statutes and Art-
icles No. 880-892 penal code and that
there is no existing law in this State
which authorizes the State game fish
and oyster commissioner to permit or
allow any person to take wild birds their
nests or eggs for scientific purposes.
Tbe department also held that the
sheriff in counties having a population
of less than 40000 inhabitants is entitled
to $3 for executing each warrant of ar-
rest or capias in felony oases and 15
cents for each mue aaruauy and nee
essarilv traveled in going to place of ar
rest and for conveying a prisoner or
prisoners to jail; if traveling by railroad
10 cents a mile for himself and 10 cents
a mile for each prisoner. When travel-
ing otherwise than by railroad the sheriff
is entitled to 15 cents a mile for himself
and 15 cents a mile for his prisoner
if more than one prisoner 10 cents a
mile for each additional prisoner. A jus-
tice of the peace for holding an examin-
ing trill in misdemeanor cases shall be
entitled to .the same fees allowed by
law for similar services in the trial of
misdemeanor cases before a justice of
tbe peace provided he shall never receive
more than $3 in any one case; citing
Articles 1130 and 1181 code of criminal
procedure and Chapter 161 acta of the
thirty-fifth legislature passed at its reg-
ular session j
Mexican Ammunition
Smugglers Arrested
-
Associated Press Report.
ST. LOUIS March 7. Warrants
charging conspiracy to violate the espion-
age act in preparing for shipment to La-
redo Texas 5000 rounds of ammunition
were issued Friday against Enrique Diaz
Reyes and Juan Diaz Cesaer arrested
here Monday. Federal authorities say
they confessed that they planned smug-
gling the ammunition into Mexico.
CORPORATIONS CHARTERED.
AU8TIN Texas March 7. Chartered:
Dalby Spring Oil company Bonham:
Capital stock $250000. Incorporators:
Virge Steger J. W. Farrier G. F. Steger
The Walthall company "San Antonio;
capital stock $75000. Purpose merchan-
dising wholesale and retail. Incorporat-
ors: Leon N. Walthall J. R. Merchant
T. L. Webb C. E. Roberts.
Colored Hotel Men's Progressive As-
sociation of Texas Fort -Worth; no cap-
ital stock. Incorporators: Charlie Hob-
eon F. J. Clark Moses Comans.
Amendments to charters were tiled by
Southern Pipe Line company Houston
changing same to Humble Pipe Line com-
pany; Hines Lumber and Coal company
El Paso increasing capital stock from
$20000 to $100000; Clara OM company.
Wichita Falls increasing capital stock
from $11000 to $25000.
Permit to do business in Texas was
granted the Mount Cooper Boiler and Iron
company Tulsa Ok.; capital atock $50-
000 Texas headquarters at Ranger.
Machine Gun Battalion ft
Seven Hundred Strong
Lost but One in France
NEW YORK. March 7. Major William
J. McDowell of San Francisco who
commanded the 335th machine gun bat-
talion (87th division Louisiana Missis'
sippi and Arkansas) on board the Mon-
golia reported upon his arrival that be-
returned with all but one of the 700 men
be took to France.
One soldier died of illness. The bat-
talion landed in France last September
and was .in a training camp for several
weeks but the armistice was signed be-
fore it bad an opportunity to reach the
front.
Lieutenant Jonas Leonard of Marshall.
Texas attached to the 00th division also
returned on the Mongolia! Leonard was
shot in the leg.
Tbe six officers and 115 men of the
meteorological detachment of the signal
corps on board tbe Mongolia lound of-
fers of positions with the weathec bu-
reau waiting for them upon their ar-
rival. The personnel of the detachment was
recruited from the weather bureaus and
various colleges of tbe country and
trained before going abroad at Waco
Texas and later at the University of
Texas.
Casualty List
Warren. 111. Prt. Jowph T. Wlrkler. K.
CtaicaBO. 111. Pvt. Frank E. NoTak. K.
Omaha ill. Prt. John W. Kanady DW.
Wlnnetka. 111. Set. Charlea Douglas Wear.
DD.
Chlram. 111. U. Arthur H. Mannaaaen II.
Cblcaeo. III. Nurec rrmUte O'Onnor. DD.
OtrlMbr. 111. Pt. Thoniaa M. Larkln. DD.
rhleano. 111. Rut. Robert Smith Cottle. DD.
Hnv. 111. Prt. Harold V. GoiKlard DD.
Worth. 111. Corn. Uaymonri Mam. DD.
Chicago. 111. list. Jamea Jobn O'Sbauibneaay
DA A.
Calrert. Txaa Mwh. Fount Mar. DW.
.Cameron. Teiaa Pt. I.. K. Tbompoan. DD.
CORKKCTION8.
Killed In action (prevloualy reported missing
In action):
Clilcao. 111. Prt Jam. KoTarak.
Returned to duty (prefiouly reported mlaalnf
In o'-tIodi:
Chl'-aro. 111. Pvt. Frank Lery.
Oltawa. 111. Prt. Tbomaa F. Riordan.
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