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SULPHUR AND
MOLASSES TIME
GOVERNOR'S MEM
10 TOE LEGISLATURE
■GOV. COLQUITT POINTS OUT
THAT THERE ARE NO PLAT-
FORM LAWS YET.
SAYS MAY PARDON CONVICTS
The Prison System Must Be Relieved,
He Says—Declares House Retards
Early Closing of Saloons—Speaks
of Educational System.
Austin, Tex.—Following is the text
of the Good Friday message which
‘Governor Colquitt sent to the legis-
lature:
Governor’s Office, Austin, Tex.,
.March 21, 1913.—To the Senate and
House of Representatives: After a
most vigorous campaign covering a
great portion of the spring and sum-
mer of 1912, in which the candidates
lor the democratic nomination for gov-
ernor presented their views on vari-
ous questions of public interest, the
•democratic state convention met at
San Antonio and promulgated a plat-
form of principles calling upon the
legislature to enact their recommenda-
tions or demands into statutes.
No Platform Demands Yet.
The legislature met on the 14th of
last January, organized and began its
labor, but up to this Good Friday in
March not a single hill intended to
carry out any one of the platform de-
mands has reached the governor’s of-
fice. This is true in face of the fact
that joint resolutions for the amend-
ment of the constitution and bills were
•carefully drawn to carry out the com-
prehensive platform demands for the
betterment and- improvement of our
educational system and educational in-
stitutions, and were all early intro-
duced in both branches of the, legisla-
ture. -
One of the crying, needs of our
farmers is a warehouse system which
will provide them with convenient and
safe means for storing the products
of their labor, thus enabling them to
secure a warehouse receipt which will
be good collateral in the banks of the
world, and upon which they can bor-
row money to meet their pressing ob-
gations and pot., ho forced to sacrifice
their products upon a declining mar-
ket in order to meet their current ob-
ligations.
House Is to Blame.
The platform demands the enact-
ment of a law for the closing of all
saloons in Texas from 9:30 o’clock p.
m, of each day until 6 o’clock a. m.
•the following Monday morning. A bill
was prepared in this office carrying
•out this platform promise. It was
passed practically by a unanimous
vote in the senate and has been in
the house of representatives unacted
upon since the 5th day of February.
Perhaps no single question in the last
campaign was more thoroughly and
viciously debated than .this one. The
platform demands the passage of a
law in conformity with the views ad-
vocated last year by myself and those
who supported my candidacy. It was
possible to have closed every saloon
in Texas at 9:30 p. m. and keep them
•closed until 6 a. m. forty days ago, and
failure to do so rests upon the mem-
bers of the house of representatives.
Further Liquor Regulation.
The platform further calls for the
enactment of a law which will give
To the people of counties or subdi-
visions thereof, where prohibition may
have been defeated, the right to adopt
upon themselves a law which would
prohibit the sale of intoxicating li-
quors except in unbroken packages.
This is a good measure and ought to
meet with no opposition.
The platform calls for a general re-
vision of the election law, and es-
pecially calls upon the legislature at
least to amend that section of the
^election law which now prohibits cor-
porations from contributing to polit-
ical party campaign funds, or to the
•campaign funds of individual candi-
dates. A bill has been prepared which
Complies with this platform demand,
;and if enacted will prohibit any cor-
poration formed under the laws of
this state or one formed'under the
laws. of. any other state and securing a
permit to do business in this state,
and all persons receiving a license
from the state to do business in Tex-
as, from contributing to the campaign
funds of any political party or polit-
ical organization or to the campaign
expenses of any individual candidate
^or any office.
Should Stop Paid Orators.
The platform further demands that
a bill shall be passed prohibiting the
acceptance of money for the making
of political speeches in all campaigns
in this state. This is a reform which
no man not accepting such employ-
ment ought to oppose, as the enact-
ment of such a statute would largely
tend to reduce the need for use of
money and would reduce its corrupt-
ing effects upon the politics of our
state. Men would not voluntarily de-
vote their time and energy and apply
their vilification to a man without
good reason if you take away from
them the chance to earn money witb
their slanderous tongues.
Penitentiary Needs Aid.
The Thirty-first legislature passed a
law for the control and government of
our prison system. That law entail-
ed upon the management of the sys-
tem an extra burden of expense ar-
bitrarily fixed of more than $300,000
for the first two years of its adminis-
tration; it required the expenditure
of a large sum of money for the im-
provement and repair of the prison
system, and as far as it has been in
the power of the administration of
prison affairs, the requirements of
this law have been met. In addition
to those legal requirements, misfor-
tune overtook the system. The loss
on account of the freezing of the
cane crop in one year and the drouth
in the other, and the heavy losses by
fire, have resulted in a heavy indebt-
edness. These misfortunes could not
be foreseen. At the beginning of the
first term of this administration there
were a little more than 3,400 convicts
in the prison system. At this time
theer are practically 4,000. The credit
of the system is low by reason of the
heavy indebtedness. The expense was
required by the legislature and ade-
quate funds were not supplied to
meet it.
I am advised by the managers of
the State railroad, which has been op-
erated during the last two years at a
loss of $50,000, that its condition is
such that it is unsafe to run a train
over the track. The ties are rotten
and the bridges insecure. All of these
things cry out and beg for attention
at the hands of the legislature, but
these appeals up to this time seem to
have fallen upon deaf legislative ears.
Will Pardon Convicts.
I want to say with blunt frankness,
but in all kindness, that unless the
legislature does something to relieve
the situation I shall feel impelled as
a matter of necessity to pardon
enough convicts out of the peniten-
tiary to reduce it to a self-supporting
basis.
Training School Deficient.
The institution for the training ot
juveniles at GatesviliWtmght to have
consideration at the hands of this leg-
islature^before it adjourns. From my
point of view that institution has
never been a creditable one to the
state. The la^^needs changing, the
negroes and j^»s should have Sepa-
rate provision®^!e for them and the
children in that institution under the
age of responsibility, or 12 years old,
ought to be separated from the older
ones who are there serving terms for
the violation of some criminal statute.
Wife Abandonment Law.
The platform calls for the passag
of a law with adequate! penalties, mak-
ing it an offense to abandon a wife
and children under 16 years of age,
or to neglect or refuse to support
them. Bills have been introduced on
this subject, but the legislature seems
so much engrossed with the passage
of measures pushed by organized lob-
bies, consolidation bills and other
measures for the relief of corporations
and special interests, creating new
offices and additional unnecessary ex-
penses for the state government, that
it has not had time to afford ade-
quate protection, by proper statute, to
the abandoned wives and children in
Texas.
Urges Educational Laws.
The bills concerning education, sucn
as that which will permit school trus-
tees in all districts in the state to ex-
tend the benefits of public education
to persons over 17 years of age; that
which provides for the compulsory at-
tendance of idle children and which
will meet conditions prevailing in
cities and towns; the constitutional
amendments providing for a broader
basis of education; the bills further
regulating the liquor traffic, prohibit-
ing the contribution of money to cam-
paign funds, or to aid individual can-
didates, by foreign or domestic cor-
porations and by all persons receiving
a license to do business in the state of
Texas; for the relief of the peniten-
tiary system; providing for judicial
reform, as demanded in the platform;
the bill to prohibit the acceptance of
money for making political speeches
and prescribing penalties for the cir-
culation of campaign slanders; the bill
amending the insurance law; the pass-
age of a “blue sky law,” which will
prohibit the robbery of the people of
large sums of money; the bill which
will authorize the issuance of bonds
by railway companies for the improve-
ment and betterment of their proper-
ties; the bill for a better system of
good roads; appropriations to provide
for the insane, and the appropriation
bill are all more or less advanced, and
are in such a condition that they can
all be passed between now and the
date fixed for final adjournment if the
legislature will devote its time and
energy to this work.
Let us meet the responsibilities and
discharge the duties of this hour and
let political issues of the future take
care of themselves. Let’s not put off
the work we should do today until to-
morrow. Respectfully,
O. B. Colquitt,
Governor of Texas.
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STORM SWEEPS FROM TEXAS 10 NEW YORK
Many People Killed and Property
Damage Runs Into Millions by
Winds of Great Violence.
Nearly a hundred persons are Are-
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Corporations Chartered.
Austin, Tex.—Chartered Wednesday
to do business in Texas:
Central Real Estate Company, Dal-
las; capital stock, $250,000.
S. L. Adams & Co., Beaumont; pur-
^___________t pose, merchandise; capital stock, $10,-
ported killed and hundreds were jin- j 000.
jured, some mortally, by a storm j of j Smith Grocery Gompany, Rockdale,
tornado intensity which raged oj^er j Milam County; capital stock, $10,000.
Central, Western, Southern and p?lrts j Anderson Gin and Water Company,
of Eastern States Friday. Property j Anderson, Grimes County; capital
damage will run well into the millions, j stock, $10,000.
Definite advices have been received j Greer - Henry Company, Aransas
accounting for at least seventy-five | Pass; purpose, merchandise; capital
persons dead, with reports from points j stock, $10,000.
temporarily cut. off from wire cjom- j Family Steam Laundry Company,
munication by the storm adding! to ! Sherman; capital stock, $5,000.
the list. | -—
Reports from Alabama show the ! Family With $80,000 in Money,
loss of life was heaviest in tha-t state, j New Orleans, La.—Antonio Musica
the number of dead there being al- j hair dealer and importer, taken from
ready definitely placed at twenty- j a steamship bound for Panama at New
seven, with additional fatalities re- j Orleans Thursday with his three sons,
ported but not confirmed. , Lower j George, Arthur and Philip, on the
Peachtree was practically wiped out. [ charge of defrauding' banks in this
Two dead in Indiana, three in Ten- j country and in Europe of approxi-
nessee, two in Ohio, two in New York, j maiely $1,000,000 through the manip-
one in Michigan, two>N in Louisiana, j ulation of invoices, will not fight ex-
five in Mississippi and q^e in Texas, i tradition to New York, where -iyar-
Accompanying the deg
estimates of the injured
than two hundred, with
ing in at brief intervals.
Coming up out of the southwest
early Friday morning just as sprang
was ushered in, the storm swept wNth
startling suddenness diagonally acrj°ss
the country from Northern Texas! to
Western Pennsylvania and New Ydrk>
bisecting the Mississippi valley ‘and
moving northeastward across the (ykio
into the Great Lakes region. j
Shifting winds of great violence! ac*
companied by snow, sleet and *kail
characterized the storm, easily jthe
most destructive of the year and rare-
ly equaled in the extent of its sw)peP
and damage. Buildings toppled befPre
the blow in nearly a dozen states aind
death lay all along in its wake.
The property loss was heavy ^all
along the storm’s track. Besides
molishing or unroofing buildings
felling trees, the high winds, rai
hail and sleet did serious damage j
early crops, according to reports frPm
some of the affected sections. !
Estimates of the property loss from
Indiana and Michigan alone aggregate
$2,000,000, about evenly divided fle~
tween the two states. Early repdju'ts
of losses ranging from $25,000 to $50i0>-
000 or more from sections of the stopm
region indicated that the total wo^ld
’’each large figures. ;
ns,
ms hav^ beery issued for their\y;
®-Yt. Musiea’s two daughters, Grace
aT?u Louise, were also taken into cus-
tody and are being held as “material
witnesses,” under bond of $2,$00 each.
Thirty thousand dollars was taken
from the corsage of one of the girls.
Eighty thousand dollars in all was
taken from the family.
Huntington Wilson Resigned Office.
Washington. — Huntington Wilson,
assistant secretary of state, resigned
that office Thursday and insisted upon
immediate acceptance of the resigna-
tion because of his radical difference
of opinion with the administration re-
garding its Chinese policies. Presi-
dent Wilson immediately accepted the
resignation.
Million Plants Given to Farmers.
Beaumont, Tex.—The chamber oi
commerce of Beaumont is distributing
tomato and pepper plants to the truck
growers in that section. It is thought
that nearly a million of the plants
will be handed out to the truckers,
who are not required to pay for them
unless the crop is successful this sea-
son.
Women and Children Flee. 1
Douglas, Ariz.—American womfn
and children from the mining settle-
ment at Cananea, Sonora, were rushed
to the border Thursday in automo-
biles. Several hundred Yaquis, Ipd
by General Obregon, chief of the In-
surgent state troops, are reported
marching on the town, garrisoned py
350 federals.
“Package Cars” to Troop Camps.
Houston, Tex.—The Galveston, Hous-
ton and Henderson road and the S*in
Antonio and Aransas Pass road alre
sending package cars to Texas Cip
every day to accommodate the larip
number of merchants who desire f°
«ecure the patronage of the trooperp-
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Storms Visit South England. j
London.—The south of England hsp
been visited by a storm of hurrican\e
force in the last two or three dayf-
All seaside places on the south coai?t
have suffered greatly. The wind bldw
at eighty miles an hour, throwing iIp
tremendous tides, which flooded tb)e
various properties. j
$12,000 Is Not Enough for Helen.
New York.—On the showing of'Jo-
siah Dewitt that his 15-year-old niece
and ward, Helen Dewitt, can not get
along comfortably on the $12,000 a
year which has been allowed for her
expenses out of her $50,000 income,
Surrogate Fowler Wednesday in-
creased the allowance to $20,000 a
year.
Admiral Eaton’s Widow Arrested.
Plymouth, Mass.—Mrs. Jennie May
Eaton was locked up in the county
jail Thursday pending a hearing on
the charge that she murdered her
husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles
Eaton, by poisoning him. She was
brought to Plymouth from Hingham,
where she had been arraigned earlier
in the day following her arrest.
Declares Huerta Is Unpopular.
San Antonio, Tex. — Anticipating
that the biggest battle of the present
Mexican revolution will soon be
fought in the vicinity of Nuevo La-
redo, war correspondents of large
Eastern newspapers are hastening to
that city with all speed.
Standard Oil Case Advanced. j
Washington.—The supreme couift
Monday advanced for hearing on Oc-
tober 14 the Standard Oil case, in-
volving the constitutionality of tlfe
act requiring pipe line companies (°
file tariffs with the interstate com-
merce commission as common c<
riere
Two Cars of Strawberries.
Alvin, Tex.—Two carloads of straw-
berries were shipped from Alvin Mon-
day for the Northern markets. These
were the first full cars of the season,
and were sold on the track for a good
cash price.
Storm in East Gulf.
Mobile, Ala.—A terrific storm in the
gulf Monday left destruction in its
wake among all classes of shipping.
Many vessels were beached
GOnON CROP NEXT 10
PRODUCTION IN UNITED STATES
DURING THE YEAR 1912 WAS
14,295,500 BALES.
REPORT OF THE CENSUS BUREAU
Texas Produces 5,120,262 Bales, Com-
pared With 4,447,647 in 1911—Fig-
ures by States, With
Comparisons.
Washington.—The second largest
cotton crop ever grown, amounting to
14,295,500 500-pound bales, including
linters, was produced by the farmers
of the United States during 1912, the
census bureau announced this week in
its preliminary report of the total pro-
duction of cotton as returned by gin-
ners and delinters.
The number of running bales, count-
ing round as half bales and including
linters, was 14,076,430.
The crop compares with 16,250,276
equivalent 500-pound bales in 1911,
12,005,688 in 1910, 13,587,306 in 1908,
13,595,498 in 1904. Comparisons of
running bales are: 16,109,349 in 1911,
11,965,962 in 1910, 13,432,131 in 1908,
13,305,265 in 1906, ahd 13,679,310 in
1904.
Round Bales.
Round bales included in the produc-
tion figures are 91,528 for 1912, 101,-
554 for 1911, 112,887 for 1910, 242,305
for 1908, 268,219 for 1906, and 296,151
for 1904.
Sea island cotton produced during
1912 amounted to 73,641 bales, com-
pared with 119,293 bales in 1911, 90,-
368 in 1910, 112,539 in 1905, 104,317 in
1904, 104,953 in 1902.
Linter bales included in the total
amounted to 605,704, compared with
556,276 for 1911, 397,628 for 1910, 313,-
478 for 1909, and 346,126 for 1908.
The average gross weight of the
bales for the crop, counting round as
half bales and including linters, was
507.8 pounds for 1912, compared with
504.4 for 1911, 501.7 for 1910, 496.6 for
1909, and 505.8 for 1908.
Ginneries operated for the 1912 crop
numbered 25,267, compared with 26,-
349 for 1911.
Production ok, states ia equivalent
500-pound balp, including linters,
with comparisons of other years and
the department of agriculture’s De-
cember'estimates, which does not in-
clude linters, follow:
Figures by States.
Alabama—Total production 1,380,756
bales, compared with 1,757,207 in 1911,
1,223,285 in 1910, 1,049,776 in 1909 and
1,374,140 in 1908. Department of ag-
riculture estimated 1,330,000 bales, ex-
clusive of linters.
Arkansas—Total production 825,169
bales, compared with 972,296 in 1911,
847,874 in 1910, 734,084 in 1909 and
1,058,980 in 1908. Department of agri-
culture estimated 854,000 bales, excl-u
sive of linters.
Florida Total production 53,874
bales, compared with 85,081 in 1911,
60,049 in 1910, 54,947 in 1909 and 63,-
221 in 1908. Department Of agricul-
ture estimated 68,000 bales, exclusive
of linters.
Georgia—Total production 1,849,303
bales, compared with 2,845,799 in
1911, 1,820,610 in 1910, 1^53,276 in
1909 and 1,980,977 in 1908. Depart-
ment of agriculture estimated 1,701,-
000 bales, exclusive of linters.
Louisiana—Total production 393,314
bales, compared with 403,482 in 1911,
255,733 in 1910, 264,676 in 1909, 48b,-
350 in 1908 and 694,066 in 1907. De-
partment of agriculture estimated
435,000 'bales, exclusive of linters.
Mississippi—Total production 1,092,-
552 bales, compared with 1,252,322 in
1911, 1,306,668 in 1910, 1,120,676 in
1909 and 1,704,972 in 1908. Depart-
ment of agriculture estimated 1,109,-
000 bales, exclusive of linters.
Missouri—Total production 58,319.
bales, compared with 101,189 in 1911,
62,159 in 1910, 47,070 in 1909 and 64,-
532 in 1908. Department of agricul-
ture estimated 59,000 bales, exclusive
of linters.
North Carolina—Total production
891,880 bales, compared with 1,104,781
in 1911, 726,850 in 1910, 615,562 in 1909
and 663,167 in 1908. Department of
agriculture estimated 878,000 bales,
exclusive of linters.
Oklahoma—Total production 1,074,-
149 bales, compared with 1,062,096 in
1911, 958,955' in 1910, 566,069 in 1909
and 706,815 in 1908. Department of
agriculture estimated 1,039,000 bales,
exclusive of linters.
South Carolina—Total production
1,215,973 bales, compared with 1,684,-
086 in 1911, 1,191,929 in 1910, 1,125,-
049 in 1909 and 1,195,235 in 1908. De-
partment of agriculture estimated 1,-
184,p00 bales, exclusive of linters.
Tennessee—Total production 299,-
538 bales, compared with 479,145 in
Mil, 349,476 in 1910, 259,719 in 1909
and 359,859 in 1908. Department of
agriculture estimated 280,000 . bales,
exclusive of linters.
Crop of Texas.
Texas—Total production 5,120,262
bales, compared with 4,447,647 in 1911.
PREPARING TO STOP BOMBARD-
MENT OF SCUTARI BY ALLIES.
Allegation. That Albanian City Is Be-
ing Cannonaded Instead of Fort-
ress Creates Bitter Feeling.
London.—Austria, possibly with the
assistance of Italy, is contemplating
isolated action to stop the bombard-
ment of Scutari, which, it is now al-
leged, is being directed against the
town instead of the fortress, and
finally enforcing the powers’ decision
chat Albania shall be an autonomous
state and that Scutari shall remain
part of it.
Of course Montenegro and Servia
will first be given the opportunity of.
withdrawing from the task of sub-
duing the town, which even after its
capture, if that occurs, must, accord-
ing to the powers, be given up by the
allies.
Part of the Austrian fleet has al-
ready left for the Montenegrin and
Albanian coasts, and while it is of-
ficially announced that the objects of
the warships is to carfy out maneu-
vers, it is apparent that their pres-
ence is designed to impress Montene-
gro and Servia with the determina-
tion of Austria to prevent the further
cannonading of the civilian section of
Scutari and to obtain satisfaction for
the alleged forcible conversion of
Catholics and interference with the
Austrian steamer Skodra.
The Austrian official account says
that the Montenegrins are trying to
destroy the town of Scutari, and that
shells, instead of being aimed at the
fortress, are directed against the
town, where the citizens are in a
state of panic, some of them taking
refuge in the cathedral. N
The Austrian government brought
the Balkan situation close to a crisis
Thursday by making several peremp-
tory demands on Montenegro.
The Austrian minister at Cettinje
was instructed to inform the Montd^
negrin government that it must com-
ply with the following:
Free exit from Scutari of all non-
combatants.
Explanations of the death of a Cath-
olic priest named Palie, who was said
to have been slaughtered because he
opposed violent conversions of prison-
ers.
Violent cotfverawwis raum-ees^-Hn-
stantly. "
Full satisfaction must be given for
the violence shown by Montenegrins
and Servians at San Giovanni di Me-
dua toward the crew of an Austrian
merchant vessel.
Three Austria battleships and three
smaller warships left Pola, the chief
Austrian naval station, Thursday for
an unknown destination. It was sup-
posed they were to support Austria’s
demands.
Montenegro Refuses Demands. ^
London.—King Nicholas of Monte-
negro Saturday replied to peremptory
demands made by Austria in connec-
tion with the Montenegrin bombard-
ment of Scutari. Although the note
is conqiliatory in tone, the king re-
fuses most of Austria’s demands. He
says he has ordered that the bom-
bardment be directed only against the
forts and that the rest of the city
shall not be shelled.
Adds Lighterage Charge.
New Orleans.—Manufacturers
cypress lumber of Louisiana are much
disturbed over a recent action of the
Southern Pacific in adding a lighter-
age charge of $1 per thousand feet to
lumber shipped to New York via the
Morgan lines from New Orleans.
Heretofore the lighterage beyond
the pier of the Atlantic steamship
lines of the Southern Pacific was ab-
sorbed in the rate. Effective March
11, according to information received,
rates to New York are made only to
the steamship pier.
It is said that in the majority of in-
stances this will amount to $1 per
thousand board feet, but in some it
may go as high as $1.25. The average
charge for lighterage will be 3 i-3c
per hundred pounds.
Warehouse and Contents Burn.
North Zulch, Tex.—The warehouse
and contents of Bryant & Rogers, five
miles south of North Zulch, were com-
pletely destroyed by fire Thursday.
The building contained 300 bushels of
corn, in addition to cotton seed, hay,
etc.
Natural Gas in Scurry County.
Snyder, Tex.—Recently three wells
have been bored near Hermleigh, in
Scurry County, which showed a strong
pressure of natural gas.
Vote on Sine Die Adjournment.
Austin, Tex.—The? senate Thursday
adopted the house concurrent resolu-
tion providing for sine die adjourn-
ment on Tuesday, April 1.
Collector of Customs at Eagle Pass.
Washington.—President Wilson Fri-
day appointed A. ‘H. Evans collector
of customs at Eagle Pass, Texas. Tha
post has been vacant for several
months.
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