Freeman.

Graham.

Humphrey.

jority):

Alexander.

Barbee.

Barrett.

Beaird.

Henderson.

Bird.

Blackburn.

Kimbell.

Absent.

Pitts.

Rudd.

Shelburne.

Smith.

Vaughan, Gua'lupe.

Holland of Harris. Ward.
Moore, Fort Bend.

Mr. Henderson demanded a poll of the vote.

The list of those voting "yea" was called and found correct.

The list of those voting "nay" was called and found correct.

Mr. Garrison, who was present when the roll was called on the resolution, asked that his name be passed, and failing to vote before the result was announced, asked that his vote be recorded when the vote was being verified.

The Speaker held that his vote could not be recorded, since a poll of the vote had been demanded, the roll called, and found correct as announced.

SENATE MESSAGE.

Senate Chamber,
Austin, Texas, May 7, 1897.
Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the
House:

I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House that the Senate has passed the following bills:

House bill No. 567, a bill to be entitled "An act to amend sections 9, 11, 18, 19, 21, 32, and 44, of an act to incorporate the City of Denison, and to fix the boundaries thereof, etc., passed March, 1891, to provide for the elec tion of aldermen and other officers of said city, by the people, and for fixing their compensation; providing for the filling of vacancies in said offices; prescribing the duties of the city secre tary, and for fixing his compensation; to vest in the city council, only, the power to contract debts for the city, and to appropriate money to pay the same, and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act."

By a two-thirds vote: yeas 25,

nays none.

Senate bill No. 286, a bill to be entitled "An act to provide for the redistricting of the counties of this State into public free school districts."

By the following two-thirds vote: and maintenance of a home for said yeas 22, nays none.

Respectfully,

WILL LAMBERT, Secretary.

SENATE BILL ON FIRST READ

ING.

Senate bill No. 286, reported above, was read first time and referred to the Committee on Education.

BILLS SIGNED BY THE SPEAKER.

The Speaker signed in the presence of the House, after giving due notice thereof, and their captions had been read severally, the following bills:

House bill No. 180, entitled "An act to amend article 5043 of the Revised Statutes of 1895, so as to exempt Maverick county from the provisions of title 102, chapter 6, relating to the inspection of hides and animals."

soldiers and sailors,"

Was lost, and which motion to reconsider was spread on the Journal on April 23.

The Speaker laid the same before the House, and the motion to reconsider prevailed.

Question: Shall the resolution pass? Mr. Hill of Travis, in speaking to the resolution, said:

In 1861 the flower of young Texas chivalry entered the Confederate army. Young men left their plows, their grazing herds, the State departments, their stores, the court room, the doctor's shop and all other vocations, at the call of their native or adopted State and their beloved South. They followed Lee in Virginia, Johnson in Tennessee and Tom Green in Texas and Louisiana, and spilled their blood House bill No. 591, entitled "An and left their limbs and bodies on evact to restore and confer upon ery important battlefield, from Val the county court of Lampasas coun- Verde, in New Mexico, to Gettysburg, ty the civil and criminal jurisdiction | Pa. heretofore belonging to said court under the Constitution and general statutes of Texas; to define the jurisdiction of said court; to conform the jurisdiction of the district court of said county to such change; to fix the time of holding court, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act."

House bill No. 575, entitled "An act to establish a more efficient road system for Marion county, and to provide for the appointment of county superintendent of public roads."

Senate bill No. 351, entitled "An act to amend articles 641 and 642, chapter 2, title XXI, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, relating to the creation of corporations."

Substitute Senate bill No. 63, entitled "An act to repeal articles 4218d and 42181, chapter 12a, title 87, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, and to add to said chapter articles 4218ff and 4218fff, and to amend articles 4218e, 4218f and 4218s of said chapter and title, relating to the sale and lease of public free school and asylum lands."

HOUSE AND SENATE JOINT RES-
OLUTIONS.

Mr. Wall called up the motion to reconsider the vote by which

The Texas Confederate soldier, fully sustaining the character of Texan chivalry established by Travis and his comrades at the Alamo, and by Houston, Lamar and Burleson and the Texas army at San Jacinto. As soldiers, they won the plaudits of the world and the admiration of their brave opponents in arms. When the war closed in darkness and gloom and the loved flag was furled forever, they returned to their desolate homes as grand specimens of true manhood in defeat as they had been in victory. They set about repairing their dilapidated farms. Without a dollar they planted their crops and caused their ruined farms to again teem with plenty; they aided in banishing the carpetbagger and restoring local self-government to Texas.

The Confederate army has furnished Coke, Roberts, Ireland, Hubbard and Ross as governors; Mills, Reagan and Coke as United States Senators; Dave Culberson, Throckmorton, Jones, Sayers, Lanham and many others as Representatives in Congress; and Roberts and many of the brightest minds that ever adorned the bench, to the judiciary of Texas.

The Confederate soldiery, who had been organized, disciplined and used to resist wrong for four years, brought House joint resolution No. 34, to all their trained energy to the develamend section 51, of article 3, of the opment of the State and to the supConstitution of the State of Texas, so port of the Democratic party in its as to authorize the granting of aid to darkest hour, and are continuing to disabled and dependent Confederate do so. Texas has rearded them in the soldiers and sailors and their widows, past and is rewarding them now. and to grant aid to the establishment | Gaines and Brown are on your Su

your Land

preme bench; Hunt, Henderson and under the present law, and those now Davidson on the Court of Criminal Ap- in that institution, be furloughed at peals; the last member of the Confed- the discretion of the superintendent erate cabinet - that grand old com- and board of directors, and when so moner, J. H. Reagan-and Storey, on furloughed to draw monthly from the your Railroad Commission; Baker, appropriation for the Confederate Commissioner; Wooten, Home the sum of $10, and that said president of your board of University amount be forwarded to them by the regents; R. M. Swearingen, your State | superintendent, and that said soldier health officer; George B. Zimpelman, shall be required to report regularly the German soldier boy, who as sheriff of Travis county made it possible to inaugurate Coke, your first Democratic governor after the war, without bloodshed, is now Austin's honored postmaster; and Ed Cunningham, the penniless major at the close of the war, has established at Sugar Land the largest sugar interest in Texas, if not in the South.

At the close of the war there were 294 miles of railroad in Texas; in 1896 there were 9437 miles of direct line, or, including sidings, 10,752 miles. In 1866 there were 123 organized counties; in 1897 there are 224. In 1866 the taxable values of Texas were $120,749,125; in 1897 there are $850,309,246 worth of property on which taxes are paid. The population of Texas in 1870 was 818,579; in 1890 it was 2,235,523. The land in cultivation in 1870 was 2,964,816 acres; in 1890 there were 20,746,215 acres under fence. In 1866, Texas was without a school fund; in 1897 she has a school fund of $4,387,000. The vote cast at the time of the election of Coke was 128,182; at the last general election 520,683 votes were cast, exclusive of ten counties, probably swelling the total vote to 545,000 or 546,000.

tance to

lake care of those whose

to the superintendent, under such rules and regulations as the superintendent and the board may establish.

The Confederate soldier whose wife was faithful to him through the war and all the succeeding years will weep long and often before he will abandon her to the cold charities of the world and himself accept the charities of a State that makes such a demand and demands such a sacrifice. We will admit that Confederate soldiers are like other men; many of us have adopted bad habits that have blighted our hopes, and all of us have our faults, but any aid must admit these truths an.. be bestowed in such manner and under such restrictions as will secure the best protection to all and the least restriction consitent with good discipline and the honor of all.

Therefore, in the name of our common humanity, in the name of the State of Texas, whose honor they defended, in the name of as grand a military record as marks the pages of human history, we plead for the necessary aid for these hoary-headed Confederate soldiers.

(On motion of Mr. Beaird, Mr. Hill of Travis was requested to furnish his remarks for publication in the Journal, and the Journal Clerk was instructed to have them printed in the procedings of to-day.)

After further consideration by the House.

Mr. Doyle moved the previous question, and the main question was or

dered.

The Confederate soldiers of Texas have been reduced to a few thousand in the past thirty-two years. Many of these hoary-headed veterans, maimed and diseased, are to-day demanding from the State that they served so faithfully forty years ago a small pitwounds and disease render them una- House joint resolution No. 34 was ble to take care of themselves. The passed by the following vote: true manhood that made them good Yeas-96. soldiers will always prevent them from asking aid when they can only secure it by proving themselves paupers. for those of us who are able to meet Barrett. the burthens of life, we have nothing to ask of the State, only that those whose wounds and infirmities render them helpless shall be provided for by the State in whose service they were wounded, and that such provision be worthy of the men and the State they served. We ask that all who are entitled to enter the Confederate Home Browne.

Mr. Speaker.
Bailey.
As Barbee.

Beaird.
Bean.

Burney.
Carpenter.

Carswell.

Childs.

Collier.

Conoly.

Blackburn.
Blair.
Bounds.
Boyd.
Brewster.
Brigance.

Crawford.

Crowley.

Curry.
Dean.

Dies.

Dennis.
Dickinson.