to

Read first time and referred to Committee on State Penitentiaries.

By Senator Perkins:

and treatment of ali prisoners sentenced to the penitentiary; to provide that prisoners and ex-prisoners shall be permitted to testify as qualified witnesses in certain cases; Senate bill No. 8, A bill to be enabolish the leasing and hiring of titled "An Act to require any person, State prisoners; to provide rules and firm or corporation engaged in the regulations for the conduct and gov- business of transmitting for hire, ernment of such prison system; pro- messages or dispatches by telegraph viding for a board of prison com- between points within the State of missioners, and providing for their Texas; and any person, firm or corappointment and for the powers, du- poration engaged in the business of ties and authority of said board; pro- operating for hire a system of televiding for the terms of service of phones between points within the the members of said board; provid- State of Texas, and any person, firm ing that title to all real estate and or corporation which may hereafter other property owned by the prison engage in the business of operating system shall vest in said prison sys- for hire a system of telegraph or tem; providing for the appointment telephone, whether with or without of an auditor for said prison system wires, to furnish to the recipient of and prescribing his duties; prescrib- each message or dispatch, in writing penalties for the violations of ing on the copy thereof delivered to this act; declaring the wealth earned such recipient the word 'Filed,' and by the prison system, over and above the hour and minute such message the cost of operation and mainteor dispatch was received for transnance, to be the rightful property of mission; and to furnish to the rethe wives and children of said pris- cipients of long-distance telephone oners, if there be such wives and calls a statement, when such recipchildren, with certain exceptions, or, ients are first notified of such calls, under certain circumstances, of the of the hour and minute such person, prisoners themselves; providing for firm or corporation was first requestthe classification of all prisoners in ed, notified or ordered to provide units of labor value; defining the the means for conversation by longword children for the purposes of distance telephones; and providing this Act; providing for the appoint-penalties for violations of the terms ment of a guardian for the children and provisions contained in the body of such prisoners where no guardian of the Act by any of the persons, has been appointed; declaring that firms or corporations who are afState prisoners are wealth-earning fected by or who may hereafter beunits held in trust by the State for come subject to its terms and prothe benefit of himself, or herself, or of his or her dependents; providing for the apportionment of the net proceeds of the prison system among the prisoners according to the value of the service performed and for the disposition of said apportionment; providing for a prisoners' labor fund and for the disposition of said fund; providing for a good conduct fund to be appropriated out of the general revenue of the State and the disposition of same, and making an appropriation therefor; providing for computation of time for good conduct; repealing chapters Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Title No. 79 of the Revised Statutes of 1895, and of Chapter No. 10 of the Acts of the Fourth Called Session of the Thirtyfirst Legislature; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 'his Act and declaring an emergency"

visions."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Internal Improvements.

By Senator Mayfield:

of

Senate bill No. 9, A bill to be entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance five district schools for the education of white students in the Agricultural, Mechanical and Domestic Arts and Sciences, to be located in the five districts as provided for in this Act, and to make an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Agricultural Affairs.

By Senator Johnson:

Senate bill No. 10, A bill to be entitled "An Act to create the Seventh

Supreme Judicial District of the to store or keep any feed for such State of Texas, to provide for the animal in said mines; providing that appointment of the Judges thereof, no work animal shall be permitted for the transfer of certain cases on to remain in any mine longer than appeal or writ of error thereto, and ten consecutive hours; fixing penalto repeal all laws in conflict here- ties for the violation of this Act, and with, and declaring an emergency." declaring an emergency." Read first time and referred Committee on Judicial Districts.

to

Read first time and referred to Committee on Mining and Irrigation.

By Senators McNealus, Cofer and Mayfield:

Senate bill No. 15, A bill to be entitled "An Act to regulate the employment of children in mills, factories, workshops, mercantile, me

By Senator Sturgeon: Senate bill No. 11, A bill to be entitled "An Act to provide for completing the work of revising, digesting, annotating, indexing, printing and publishing the civil and criminal laws of the State of Texas, making chanical or manufacturing establishan appropriation, and declaring an

ments, stores, business offices, telegraph offices, restaurants, hotels,

emergency." Read first time and referred to apartment houses, mines, quarries, Committee on Judiciary No. 2.

Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor.

distilleries, breweries and any establishment using machinery, and in By Senator Weinert: the distribution or transmission of Senate bill No. 12, A bill to be en- merchandise or messages, and to protitled “An Act to provide for the sus-vide penalties for the violating of pension of sentence in certain cases the same." of conviction of felony, for first offenses, upon recommendation of the jury, and for the submission of the issue to the jury by the court; to provide the duration of suspension of sentence, and for pronouncing sentence after suspension thereof in case of final conviction of the defendant of any other felony, and for cumulating punishment in such cases, and providing for an emergency."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary No. 2.

By Senator Cofer:

Senate bill No. 13, A bill to be entitled "An Act to prevent the drinking of intoxicating liquors on premises owned, controlled or occupied by clubs, lodges or other associations of persons in counties, subdivisions of counties, cities and towns where the sale of intoxicating liquors has been or where the same may hereafter be legally prohibited under the laws of this State, and declaring an emergency."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary No. 2.

By Senator Vaughan:

Senate bill No. 16, A bill to be entitled "An Act to provide for the submission of specific issues of fact by the court to the jury on the trial of civil suits, upon motion in writing by any party to such suit whenever the trial court shall be of the opinion that the jury should be instructed to render a verdict for or against any party or to any particular effect; and providing that a finding of the jury upon any such issue of fact shall be binding upon the trial court and upon other courts to which appeal or writ of error may be prosecuted, unless there be no evidence to support such finding."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary No. 1.

By Senator Bryan:

Senate bill No. 17, A bill to be entitled "An Act to create a more efficient road system for Nolan county, Texas, and making county commissioners ex officio road commissioners By Senator Terrell of Wise: of their respective precincts, and preSenate bill No. 14, A bill to be en- scribing their powers and duties as titled "An Act to prohibit any per- such, and providing for the comson, association of persons, corpora- pensation of such road commissiontion or receiver, owning, operating ers, and providing for the purchase or managing any mine in this State, of material for the construction and from feeding or permitting to be fed maintenance of roads and bridges, any work animal in said mines, or and providing for the compensation

titled "An Act in regard to appellate procedure in civil and criminal cases, which a judgment appealed from may prescribing the circumstances under be reversed, set aside or a new trial granted by the appellate courts of this State; repealing all laws and Committee on Mining and Irrigation. parts of laws in conflict with this

By Senators Johnson, Perkins and Penitentiary, of a factory for the Hudspeth:

parts of laws in conflict herewith, improvements, fixtures or articles and declaring an emergency."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Towns and City Corporations.

By Senator Cofer.

Senate bill No. 25, A bill to be entitled “An Act to amend Chapter 170 of the Acts of the Thirty-first Legislature, page 293, approved April 17, 1909, and amending Section 9, page 296, to said Act, so as to require the applicants for a retail liquor dealer's license or malt liquor dealer's license to make application on oath to Comptroller of Public Accounts of this State, embracing in said application and statement that the applicant or applicants have not contributed any money or other valuable thing, directly or indirectly, to any campaign fund in any election; and to amend Section 15, page 304, of said Acts, so as to prescribe the condition of the bond to be given in order to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors or medicated bitters, prescribing conditions of said bonds, and declaring an emergency."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary No. 2.

By Senator Watson:

Senate bill No. 26, A bill to be entitled “An Act to provide additional compensation to all judges of the district courts, district attorneys of the State of Texas, and to the judge of the Criminal District Court of Harris and Galveston counties, by allowing compensation for actual and necessary expenses when engaged in the discharge of their official duties in counties other than the county of their residence, and declaring an emergency."

have been fully paid for at a just and reasonable valuation, before such contractor shall receive his pay for performing any services under the terms of his contract, and giving a first lien to material-men, artisans, mechanics and laborers, against such buildings, improvements, fixtures or articles for which they have furnished material, or upon which they have performed labor, and fixing the time and prescribing the method of filing liens, and repealing all laws in conflict herewith."

Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor.

By Senator Mayfield:

the

Senate bill No. 28, A bill to be entitled "An Act to require the rendition for taxation, and the payment of taxes upon notes, bonds and bills by the owners thereof, and to prohibit any contract requiring maker or payor of any such obligation to pay the taxes thereon, and providing a penalty therefor; and to prohibit the rendition of any judgment upon any obligation when it is alleged and proven that the tax thereon has not been paid; and to provide for enjoining any sale of property under a deed of trust or mortgage, or the setting aside of any such sale, if not enjoined, when the contract provides that the maker shall pay the tax thereon, or when the tax has not been paid on such obligation; and to provide that notes and obligations secured y liens upon real estate shall, for the purposes of taxation, be treated as a part of the real estate, and that if the owner of such obligation fails to pay the tax thereon that the person in whose name the title of the land is vested shall pay such tax and the amount of taxes paid for the owner of the obligation by the owner of the land shall be credited on the debt as of Senate bill No. 27, A bill to be en- date of the payment; and to repeal titled "An Act to protect material- all laws and pars of laws in conmen, artisans, mechanics and labor-flict with the provisions of this Act. ers for material furnished, or labor Read first time and referred to Comperformed on any buildings, improve- mittee on Judiciary No. 1. ments, fixtures or articles on which they have furnished any material or performed any labor, and requiring any owner or original contractor on such buildings, improvements, fixtures or articles whatsoever, to see that all material furnished and labor performed on any such buildings,

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judicial Districts.

By Senator Collins:

By Senator Joluson'

Senate bill No. 29, A bill to be entitled "An Act for the relief of rail. way corporations and belt and suburban railway companies having charters granted or amended since the first day of January, 1909, and