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LEGISLATURE
cosns HIGH
Current Session Probably
To Spend $265,000;
Said Record
By RAYMOND BROOKS
AUSTIN, Mar. 9.—The legislature
Inherited $40,000 unpaid debts of
the past session, members have dis
covered.
This session so far has spent
$183,000 in expenses of its session
and of the previous session, and
has appropriated $80,000 more,
making its probable total cost $265,
000, according to records of the
4 house and senate.
This is said to be the costliest ses
si** within recent years, and prob
the most expensive in the his
tya^of the state.
^■■festigations and extensive tran
scripts of testimony, legislative trips
to inspect the prison system; the
tax survey commission, and other
similar work, and extensive repairs
to the house and senate chambers
have accounted for much of the
cost being borne by this session.
Thursday there remained but
$2,000 for the original $185,000
“mileage and per diem” appropri
ation, and the legislature was ready
to start in on the $80,000 appropri
ated last week to supplement this.
"With another week of the session
to go, testimony continuing in the
land office investigation, and with
the mileage costs of each member
to be paid for his return home, and
the balance of the $30 each for tel
egrams and telephones of members
of the house to be disbursed, it ap
peared likely there will be little of
the remaining $82,000 unspent at
the end of the session.
Ladies « Employment
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earn good income, or who because
of failure or death, has been called
upon to support herself, we have
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GEORGE DOES IT
Photo shows George Halde
man upon his arrival at Camp
Columbia, after the completion
of first non-stop flight from
Canada to Cuba, which he ac
complished with his mechanic,
James Hayden, in 12 hours and
55 minutes.
In Legislature
(By The Associated Press)
Saturday:
Both houses passed educational
emergency appropriation bill con
taining revised sums carried in
measure vetoed by governor.
Senate killed house bill propos
ing sterilization of insane and oth
er persons similarly afflicted.
Senate voted down bill which
would have made highway commis
sion elective instead of appointive.
35 WOMEN GET LOOT
LEEDS, Eng.—John L. Hearn
confessed embezzling $87,000 and
named 35 women to whom he had
given most of the money.
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Cotton 11
PAYS THE BILLS
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During the past five years nearly fifty
millions of dollars has been paid for cotton
to Valley planters.
Think of it ... . nearly $50,000,000.00.
Nearly TWICE as much as any two other
crops combined produced in the same pe
riod. Get your share of future millions.
Plant more cotton.
There is no denying the fact that Cotton is
the most profitable crop raised in the Val
ley. It is safer and surer. Prices are more
stable. There is a ready market for all
that can be grown. No waiting for your
money. Cotton in your field is like money
Sin the bank. Your banker will loan money
on cotton more readily than on any other
crop.
Prepare your land now for spring planting.
Be sure that your soil is stirred to a depth
oi several inches and left soft and smooth.
If the ground is even slightly dry, it will
pay you to irrigate thoroughly before
planting. Plenty of moisture in the
ground before planting is your best crop
insurance.
But when you plant. • • . plant good seed.
Such varieties as Mebane, Acala, Lone Star
and Bennett, in our opinion, are best suited
^ | to the Valley and from the money stand
point are far ahead of “Half and Half”
cottons. When you plant Standard Certi
fied Seed you play safe. Short staple cot
ton is nearly always unprofitable. Play
safe!
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SENATE WORKS
LATE SATURDAY
Many Important Measures
To Die With Close Of
41st Legislature
AUSTIN, March 9.—(/Pi—After
Lieutenant Governor Miller had
warned that this probably was the
last day a senate bill could be
passed with any hope that the
house woul dreach it, the senate
maintained a quorum until late in
the afternoon.
Most of the measures were local
bills or brought no appreciable
contest.
The house bill permitting the
sterilization of persons who had in
herite depilepsy, idiocy and insan
ity was killed and the Parr senate
bill, calling for an elective highway
commission, failed of engrossment.
These measures elicited some dis
cussion. The highway commission
bill seemed dead at the start be
cause of the lateness of the session
and the governor’s promise to
veto it.
Sign Death of 150 Bills
The vote on engrossment was
eight for, 13 against, and three
pairs.
Parr o Benevides, author of the
measure: Martin of Hillsboro, Mil
ler pf Weatherford, and Hornsby
of Austin, spoke for the bill, while
Love, Dallas, and Small of Well
ington opposed it.
Holbrook, Galveston: Berkeley,
Alpine, and Deberry, Bogata, led
the fight against the sterilization
bill, which resulted in it’s being
killed by a 13 to 7 vote, with one
pair.
Sometimes working on a bare
quorum the senate kept on until
nearly 6 o'clock when a motion for
adjournment until Monday was
made.
When Lieut. Gov. Miller called
for the “ayes” in favor of “kissing
the rest of the senate bills good
bye,” some 150 in number, the re
sponse was almost unanimous.
Senator Miller made a last at
tempt to salvage his motor bus bill
but the senate refused by one vote
to reconsider the vote by which the
measure was killed.
Reach Land Bill Accord
The house bill to put motor
trucks under the railroad commis
sion was passed, 19 to 5. The house
i later refused to concur in senate
: amendments and a free conference
; committee was appointed.
I Wirtz of Seguin said that differ
| ences between the two houses on
. university land leases had been ad
1 justed in the free conference com
I mittee of which he was a member. I
He said the house bill, placing
1 the leases in the hands of two
members of the Texas university
i board of regents and the land com
■ missioner, was taken as a basis but
I that the free conference commit
tee would recommend that a major
ity of this board of three might act.
The senate bill had given all au
thority to two members of the j
board of regents while the house
had added the land commissioner
and required unanimous consent
before any action could be taken.
Oppose Nomination
Williamson of San Antonio,
chairman of the senate committee
on governor’s nominations, said he
would ask the governor to with
draw the name of D. R. Wortsman
of Dallas as an appointee to the
state optometry board.
Williamson said the attorney
general had held that r.o vacancy
would exist until November 15. A
strong figh was waged against
i Wortsman, especially by members
of the State Optometrist associa
tion.
A bill by Senator Love of Dallas
requiring the chronological pay
ment of taxes, killed early in the
session, was reconsidered and
passed.
The proposal of Hyer of Fort
Worth that convicts be given dou
ble credit for overtime work was
approved by the senate, which also
passed the small bill ratifying the
Canadian river pact between Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico,
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WRONG BABY IS KEPT BY'
MOTHER FOR TWELVE DAYS
LIVERPOOL—The wrong child
was handed to Mrs. Elsie Gowen
by mistake at a Liverpool hos
pital, but she did not find out the
error for 12 days. Three months
ago she sent her son Leslie, aged
2, who was suffering from measles,
to the hospital. When he recovered
she took the child away. Her other
son, aged 3, however, refused to
play with him, and finally she went
to the hospital to ask if a mistake
had been made. While waiting in
the nursery she heard a cry of
“Mammie!” and her own child
rushed to her. Officials who con
trol the hospital decline to discuss
the error.
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Solons Concentrate
On Highway Bonds
As Session Closes j
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By R. W. BARRY
Associated Press Staff Writer
AUSTIN. March 9.—«There
are many interesting angles left to
this legislature, now one day past
its regular 60-day period and soon
to go home for a breathing spell
of a few weeks before coming back
to gather up the loose ends.
The campaign to pass the high
way bond issue amendment on to
the people for their consideration
transcends everything else just
now, unless it is Governor Moody’s
attitude toward the Wirtz bill,
which would empower state demo
cratic executive committee to mete
out punishment to recalcitrants
who would not stand hitched to the
party’s presidential nominee. Spec
ulation on either is enough to keep
prognosticators busy for a spell.
Bond Issue Friends Stick
Regardless of the outcome, it may
be said that proponents of the bond
issue plan of building highways are
about the most persistent group of
gladiators that ever have come
down the pike. They have over
come the two-thirds majority ob
stacle—or at least they are about
to brush it aside—while the game
minority with its back to the wall
fails to surrender and will defend
to the last.
The maneuvering of both sides
has been dexterous. Trading on
pending legislation of considerable
import has been resorted to all will
admit. It has been a game of give
and take In many respects.
There are some who believe that
the Wirtz bill was used as a lever
to pry a number of the opponents
of the bond issue over to the other
side of the house. It has been re
ported that some of those inter
ested in chastising the democrats
who would not vote for Governor
Smith agreed to lay aside their
personal convictions on the merits
of the bond issue proposition and
to vote to submit to the people in
exchange for certain affirmative
votes on that measure from bond
issue advocates.
Fight Confronts Bill
Whatever has happened the bond
issue proponents are on the
threshold of victory and may go
over the top Monday when the res
olution proposing submission of the
constitutional amendment comes up
again.
W’ith 98 of the needed 100 votes
registered on the electric board,
there were an additional three af
firmative votes paired. Only the
votes of those present can be com
puted in compiling a_two-third?
majority and pairs must not be
considered. One of those paired
was Speaker W. S. Barron, conva
lescing from an operation.
In spite of the bright prospects
proponents are hampered by th#
nearness of adjournment and what
the senate may do or may not do.
Some house members for the bond
issue have served notice on their
senate that unless the upper hous*
passes the house bill cutting auto
mobile license fees 50 per cent they
will retaliate by refusing to sub
mit the bond issue. The senate
committee amended the bill to re
d’P2S. .the present regisration fees
only 20 per cent.
May Lose Votes
Opponents of the bond issue, in
cluding Representatives Anderson
of San Antonio and Tillotson of
Sealy, contend that the needed 100
votes will never materialize.
Dwindling attendance in the
house during the last day's of the
session might operate to the disad
vantage of the resolution there, as
well.
Senators anxious to have the
bond issue submitted. Friday night
subordinated their convictions on
the pending bill to make It oblig
atory for the highway commission
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The death from poisoning 6f
Pauline Pruitt, 17-year-old Ok
lahoma A. and M. student,
caused a faculty investigation
of student affairs at the Still
water school.
to obtain permission of the county
commissioners court to route a
highway away from a town of more
than 200 inhabitants, because some
house members who voted for the
bond issue told them if they voted
against the measure that they
would retaliate by opposing the
constitutional amendment.
Senators against the bill backed
up suddenly and it was passed with
little opposition.
The penitentiary concentration
bill will reach a show’-down in the
house early next week. The senate
has concurred in the free confer
ence committee report. The com
mittee virtually agreed to the Hol
brook bill, backed by Governor
Moody, but a minority report was
filed by Representative King and
Senators McFarlane and Deberry.
Representative Young, co-author of
the house bill, almost diametrically
opposite to the senate measure, will
seek to have the house adopt the
minority report. He said today that
while the vote will be close, he be
lieves the house will stand pat on
its original vote in passing out his
bill. If the house should reject the
majority report, then penitentiary
legislation will be compelled to
await a special session.
If the highway bond issue is not
submitted it will be dead for two
years since a proposed constitution
al amendment cannot be submitted
at a special session.
Pennsylvanians In
Valley Make Plans
For Future Meets
HARLINGEN, March 9.—More
than 120 former Pennsylvanians
from all parts of the Valley elected
Rev. N. Sheffer of Harlingen as
their president at a get-together
banquet here Friday night, and de
cided to hold banquets at least
twice a year in the future.
Rev. Sheffer presided at the ban
quet, which was held in the Wo
man's Chamber of Commerce build
ing in Harlingen. G. Lorimer
Brown, Harlingen man, was elected
secretary, and arrangements made
to hold the next banquet in June, if
possible.
Among the speakers were George
Shirk of Brownsville, Rev. Sheffer,
Mr. Browm, Nat Wetzel of Ray
mondville, Stuart Criss of Harlin
gen, and several others.
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UNTIL MONDAY
House Hopes to Finish With
Highway Bonds Within
Remaining 4 Days
AUSTIN, March 9.—m—Pros
pects of no quorum ahead, the
house adjourned tonight until
Monday, when it hopes to solve
such problems as the prison cen
tralization plan and $175,000,000
highway bond issue in the four
days to remain before the forty
first regular session ends.
An attempt to hold a Sunday ses
sion to tackle the huge mass of
legislation yet undisposed of, failed
when bond of Terrell, who made
the motion, withdrew it after be
ing subjected to criticism by
Forbes of Weatherford, minister
member.
“This is a veritable outrage,”
Forbes shouted.
Belief in some circles that the
100 members necessary to consti
tute a quorum would not be pres
ent was based on a query of act
ing Speaker Fred Minor as to what
members intended to remain over
for the fag end of the session.
Only 97 indicated they would an
swer roll call Monday. But there
was a belief somewhere that bond
issue proponents, unwilling to see
the plan die without being brought
to another vote, would muster suf
ficient strength to transact busi
ness..
At the behest of Purl of Dallas,
Speaker Minor was urged to re
quest absent members to return to
Austin in order that some bills
which seemed doomed might be
brought to a ballot.
Both Purl and Snelgrove of
Henderson said they would raise a
point of order if no quorum were
in the chamber Monday.
Two bills affecting weights and
measures were passed today. A
measure by Senator Witt of Waco
would make possession of false
weights or measures a misdemea
nor punishable by a fine of from
$10 to $100. The second. Rep
resentative Hines of Linden, cre
ated protest from Dallas and El
Paso representatives who demand
ed that their counties be exempted
from its provisions. The bill sets
out that authorized weights shall
be given only by public weighers
elected or appointed by the gover
nor.
Fort Worth and all port cities
were excluded from the bill, where
counties where mohair and wool is
marketed extensively.
PRISON TO ESCAPE WIFE
CHICAGO — Henry Redmond
“bawled out” a policeman, hoping
to get a respite in jail from the
nagging tongue of his wife. He was
given ten days. His wife was his
first visitor!
Lost Pep —
Growing Old?
Most of your ills and troubles are
caused by a sluggish, half-alive
liver. Your bowels are lined with
poisonous waste, causing aches,
pains, drowsiness, nervousness, and
a general bilious condition.
Take Dr. Tutt’s Pills for a few
days and see how quickly they will
act to bring back that refreshed,
vigorous feeling that makes life
worth the living.—Adv. i
AUSTIN FLIER HITS
ROOF; NOT INJURED
SAN MARCOS, March 9.—0P)—
Harry Schroeder, Austin aviator,
crashed onto the roof of a San Mar
cos residence late today, with no
resultant injuries.
One wing of his plane was crum
pled and the roof of the house dam
aged.
Schroeder was attempting to land
in a vacant lot after his motor had
ceased functioning.
DALLAS BAPTIST WINNERS
DALLAS, March 9.—(JP)—Gaston
Avenue Baptist church of Dallas
defeated th e First Baptist quintet
of Beaumont, 39 to 24, in the de
ciding game of the State Sunday
school basketball tournament here
today. The goal shooting of Faulk
and Andrews of the Dallas team,
was too much for the Beaumont
ers.
IT HE plane
Piloted by Colonel
Charles Lindbergh
in the inauguration of the
International Airmail was
exported to Mexico
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Billy Sunday To
Preach In Valley
Monday, March 18
(Special to The Herald)
CORPUS CHRISTI, March 9.—
Rev. Billy Sunday, noted baseball
evangelist, will deliver a sermon at
the Harlingen municipal auditorium
on the night of Monday, March 18.
Announcement of the Valley
meeting was made Saturday by Rev.
Sunday, who is filling a five-week
revival engagement here, his meet
ings to close April 7.
The decision to deliver one ser
mon in the Valley was reached aft
er the famous evangelist had re
ceived numerous requests from Val
ley residents with the assurance the
large municipal auditorium at Har
lingen could be secured.
Do You Owe Past Due Accounts?
Do you owe notes that have not been renewed?
Are you in any manner obligated so that you
should have an understanding with a business
or professional man who has trusted you?
If so, come in now and make some kind of satis
factory settlement. Pay the accounts up if you
can or else pay a part. At least renew your hon
est notes. There is not any disposition to be hard
with any who display honest efforts and earnest
intentions.
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