Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 187, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 17, 1890 Page: 1 of 8
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for a Chest of Gold
Special to the Gazette
San Antonio Tex April 1G M
Pigott is the name ofa little fat rubi-
cund carriage maker who has a small
shop on Soledad street He sold his
property yesterday and in the papers of
transfer inserted a proriso allowing him-
self thirty days in which to di for a
buried treasure under the floor of the
house He has been digging night and
day8inc assisted by a large gang of
brawny workmen He olaims as do
also a large number of other old citizsns
that almost a half century ago a German
named Burkhardt removed to San An-
tonio from 3STew BraunSels bringing with
him a big chest of gold coin which re-
quired the combined strength of four
men to carry from the wagon to the
house Burkhardt buried all this gold
under the floor of the little adobe build-
ing which Pigott sold yesterday and soon
afterward died The treasure has since
then lain burledknown only to a select
few of the old citizens
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Special to the Gazette
Baird Tex April 16 The gentle
April rain that began its descent night
before last still continues falling and up
to this writing the total depth of the rain-
fall for two days and nights past amounts
to about one inch and still it comes
down eently eo that all sinks into the
ground which is thoroughly saturating
it and saving us from a feared drought
The case of the State vs Buster Har-
ris was given to the jury yesterday after-
noon and they are still undeoided The
publio anxiously awaits the result
District court is engaged on civil busi-
ness today
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One Dick Duncan Sentenced for Mur-
der Brinqs the Case Before the Uni-
ted States District Court
Tlie Illegality of Texas Criminal laws It Is
Allesed Dates Back to Legislative
Action In 187C
Special to the Gazette
San Antonio Tex April 1G One of
the most curious legal proceedings which
has ever come to light in this part of the
country and which if prosecuted to its
ultimatum will be no less startling than
sensational in its results has bean com-
menced in the United States district
court in this city The proceeding has
for its object the complete nullity of
the entire criminal code of Texas
as established and practiced Bince
1S7G Even the most casual and
unconcerned can readily see what a state
of anarchy would bo forced upon the
people of Texas if the Federal court sus-
tains the allegations contained in the re-
markable petition which was Qled for
hearing today The issue of the validity
of the penal code of criminal proceedure
is raised in the application for habeas
corpus to secure the release from custody
of Dick Duncan who it will bo re-
called was convicted by the state dis-
trict court of Maveriok county sitting at
Eagle Pass a few months ago of the
murder of the Williamson family whose
horribly mutilated bodies were found
floating in the Rio Grande
indicted on several counts
and on his first trial was
murder and the
THE DEATH SENTENCE WAS PRONOUNCED
upon him by Judge Kelso He has been
in jail in this city since sentence was
passed for safe keeping ponding the de-
cision of the court of appeals upon his
case This application for a tvrit of
habeas corpus is a new route by which ho
expects to secure not only his own re-
lease and immunity but to also establish
pat the state of Texas is absolutely
without a statute under which any crim-
inal act can bo corrected i or punished
The application wns first made to Circuit
Judge Pardee at New Orleans on the 10th
inst and Judge PaVdee ordered
that a hearing on it be had at the
spring term of the United States
district court for Western I Texas which
opens here on Mayo Sofne of the best
legal talent not only of Texas is en-
gaged on the side of Duncan but the
distiuguished Gen RogeV A Pryor of
New York has been retained to assist in
pleadinir for the alleged niurderor and
it is understood that the petition is the
handiwork mainly of Gen Prvor and
Mr T J McMinn of this city The
case will eventually be carried to the
United States supreme court The ap-
plication is a frightfully voluminous doc-
ument and after reciting that the appli-
cant is a bone fide citizen of the United
States who is unjustly deprived of his
liberty proceeds substantially as fol-
lows
That the Texas constitution of 187G
provided that when the legislature codi-
fied the laws of the state they were to be
released from the operatiou of certain
restrictions upon the enactment of bills
but that the faot that they were re
leased from the operations of these por
Duncan was
of murder
convicted of
of the constitution served to em
phasize the operations of other sections
that among these latter was the section
requiring the legislature in passing a Dill
to read it on three several days
The applicant then goes on to state
that the codifiers were regularly ap-
pointed under the constitution and sub-
mitted to the legislature a bill entitled
Senate bill No 20 the present penal
codje fiU code of criminal procedure
mat said bill was referred to a commit
tee and duly considered by the senate
but that wnen it reached the house it was
not referred to a committee as
CONTEMPLATED BV THE CONSTITUTION
but section 1 of the bill of the Penal
Code was referred to a committee of
fifteen and that section 2 embracing
the code of criminal procedure was re-
ferred to another committee of fifteen
Further that sections 3 and 4 were not
referred to any committee nor was the
bill in its entirety referred to a commit-
tee And again the applicant sets up
that this bill was not read on three several
days in either branch of the legislature
as required by the constitution although
the time of its taking effect was post-
poned ninety days Again the applica-
tion alleges that the bill was not consid-
ered on three several days by either
branoh of the legislature in lieu of three
several readings The next allegation is
that no journal of either house was kept
as required by the constitution and he is
driven for information to certain printed
bookswhich are incapable of verification
by any record and he insists that he is
eutitled to that record because if It had
been kept he could Indisputably establish
what he now alleges to be tree namely
that the two branches of the legislature
never came to an identical legislative in-
tent on the final passage of said
bill He then says that the
bill was never enrolled but
that the enrollment was done away
with by virtue of a oertain joint resolu-
tion adopted in each house bqt whioh
was not signed by the presiding officer of
either house nor by the governor and
whichNEVER
NEVER HAD THE POWER OF ULW
It is next set up that the amendments
to the bill were never enrolled and that
again on April 26 1879 tho legislature
passed an act providing for the print-
ing binding and distribution of the
codes but afterward Inserted an amend-
ment providing for a codifier thus alter-
ing the purpose of the bill and intro-
duced a subjeot different fronrlliat ex-
pressed in the title of the bill and di-
verted the appropriation for print-
ing binding ar d distributing
He next asserts that the ap-
pointment of a codifier with the powers
enumerated therein delegating legisla-
tive powers to one J N Lyle wa3 abor
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FORT OUp TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 17 1890
TEXAS LAWS
A Proceeding to Nullify the En-
tire Criminal Code of Texas
tive and that all that Lyle did and per-
formed was wholly unconstitutional and
void Again the applicant asserts that
Lyle did not even do what was assigned
but transgressed the limits of his ap-
pointment and when he incorporated
the amendments he did not put them in
as passed by tho legislature The legis-
lature in the special session of 1879 au-
thorized Lyle to codify the laws passed
in both special session and regular ses-
sion but that the governors proclama-
tion never contemplated such an enact-
ment and the legislation to such an ef-
fect was illegal and void
The application next presents a
contrast between the present laws
and the laws in force previously and
from this deduces that he is illegally re-
strained Several instances of the codi-
fiers work are quoted and discussed
anions which is this By the printed
bill as on file in the secretary of states
office and a written amendment at-
tached thereto the codifier wns author-
ized to insert these words in article 729
code of criminal procedure The judge
may not before a verdict convey to the
jury his opinion of the code That the
codifier in the exercise of his legislative
functions changed the word code to
case and made ohauges in many other
instauces
PEACTICAIXY NUMJFYTNG THE LAWS
From the foregoing allegations Duncan
olaims first that he has not been legal-
ly couviotod of any crime second that
there was no legal grand jury and hence
no valid indictment could bo presented
third that all the requirements necessary
to tho validity of a bill are wanting in
the penal code and the code of criminal
proceedure and that as a codification
the entire thing is a rank absurdity He
claims that the constitutional require-
ments enumerated in his application are
mandatory and cannot bo ignored by
any body
Duncans application was presented to
Judge Don A Pardee the Federal cir-
cuit judge at Now Orleans on April 10
and the hearing was set for May 5 in this
city Notice of the gran tine of the hear-
ing has been served upon the attorney
general of the state and upon the
distriot attorney The Federal ques-
tion is held to arise because
a decision by a court of the state of
Texas upon the issue presented would tend
to disturbthe present system of Texas law
and cast acloud upon the title to office of
the judge himself It is held that the
state court would in some measure be sit-
ting on its own case
Duncans attorneys have been engaged
upon the case for many months and tho
application for Duncans release is the
result of the investigation into the legis-
lation of the slate solous in 1S79
FIRM AT INDIANAPOLIS
The Boss Carpenters Keluse to Confer with the
Union and tha Men are In Dead Earnest
Enconracement from Various Sources
Indianapolis Ind April 1G The
carpenters strike is on in earnest to-
day Yesterday inauguration day
there were reasons for believing that an
agreement would be speedily reached by
which the men would return to work
but today employer and employe are
working in directly opposite directions
and conditions are fair for a long bitter
fight The situation is changed by a
meeting of contractors held last
night at whioh resolutions
were passed offering 27
cents per hour as the standard price for
tho best workmen from now until No-
vember 1 next and nine hours work
and tho same wages until the first of
April with eight hours work No at-
tention whatever was paid by the con-
tractors to the journeymens request that
a committee bo appointed to confer with
the unions committee After signing
an agreement the contractors unani-
mously decided not to take any further
notice of the strike and not hold another
meeting until April 29 The journeymen
will not consider tho proposition of
the bosses They say they will not
accept anything less than the demand
of January 20 The determination to
fight it out on this line if it takes all
summer is strong The men have en-
couragement in their stand from all or-
ganized building trades in Indianapolis
and from the National federation of
labor There Is already a fund of 10
000 on hand to support the movement
and it was announoed this morning that
the federation of trades would furnish
any amount of flnanoial backing needed
The organized bricklayers of the city are
ready to quit work any time if it is found
that such move is necessary to strengthen
the carpenters cause Unless the bosses
show a disposition to meet tho men fairly
it is probable that the bricklayers will go
out in a few days
Court of Appeals Austin Term
Special to the Gazette
Austin Tex April 1G In the court
of appeals today the following cases
were affirmed Bryant vs Masoho from
Dallas Poole Son vs Sykes et al
from Cooke Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway vs Dcran from Dallas Moore
vs Loomio from Dallas Corwin vs
State from Lipscomb
Reversed and remanded Conville et
al vs Hartsell from Lamar Casey
Swasey vs Douglas from Wilbarger
Fort Worth and Denver City Railway
vs Tomlinson from Wilbarger Tomp-
kins Machinery Company vs Schmidt
from Dallas Garretson vs Depoyster
from Dallas Western Eleotrio Company
vs Clower from Dallas
Reversed and rendered Champion
Machine Company vs Erway Bros
from Dallas
Dismissed Nix vs the State from
Greer Finsley vs the South Bend Wagon
Company from Dallas on motion of
appellee
Certificate for affirmance dismissed
Exparte Jnneman vs the State from
Galveston application for writ of habeas
corpus presented
The conrt adjourned until the I9th
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They Were Showing Off
Special to the Gazette
Paris Tex April 16 This after-
noon while Dudo Doshong and Pat Hack
ett were showing off their abilities as
fencers with sticks as weapons Hackett
made a thrust at Deshong that cut a
gash about four inches long on his head
The wound was ugly and painful but
not serious
THE TARIFF
Majority and Minority Eeports
are Made to the House
KiIgores View of exGovernor Hub
bards Candidacy in the Tbird
District Pretty Texas Girls
Feeling That the Appolntmont of Jndge Sa
blns Successor Should Go to a Resi-
dent of the District
Kilgore nnd Hubbard
Special to the Gazette
Washington April 16 The an-
nouncement of exGovernor Hubbards
intention to run for congress in the Third
distriot does not alarm Mr Kilgore The
withdrawal of McCord Irom the race was
not looked for thus early although his
candidaoy was at no time formidable
Governor Hubbard labors under the dis-
advantage of having been away from
Texas for several years and ho must
therefore bogin anew to obtain support-
ers other tlmu those he has always held
Col Kilgore will be a hard man to boat
and tho impression prevails he will suc-
ceed himself
many applicants
There are candidates galore for the
vacant Federal judgship by the death of
Judge Sabin and they are all herein
person to look after their interests
Most of them arrived today and are
active in securing supporters There
are six candidates hero from outside and
four living within tho judioial district
Of the latter
and Burnett
The others
Sherman Ogden
are Birge Burkhart
three big B s
are Bryant of
of Snn Antonio and
Hainan of Cameron county
eeneral feelimr that the
the frauds which have
There is a
appointment
should go to a resident of tho district
and in this event it look3 as if tho ohoice
would be between Bryant and Ogden
Both are well supported and either
would make an acceptable judge
TEXAS MISSES
A bevy of pretty Texas girls attending
college at Staunton Va are hero do-
ing the sights of Washington They are
chaperoned by Mrs Carrie Cox of Gran
bury Among them ore the Hisses
Langston of Wills Point the Misses
Smith of Toyah Miss Old of Uvade
Miss Forde of Houston Miss Cameron of
Greenville Misses Middleton uud Gatlin
of Abilene Miss Piveler of Cisco Miss
Davis of Dublin Miss Davis of Atlanta
Miss Bass of Sherman and 3Iisses Pigues
and St Clair of Longview
Majority and minority on Tariff
Washington pril 16 Reports of the
majority and minority of the ways and
means committee on the tariff bill were
presented to the house this afternoon
The majority report begins with the
statement of the financial situation and
estimates a showing that the surplus at
the end of the present fiscal year will be
592000000 and deducting the sum re-
quired to make payments on the sinking
fund the net surplus of receipts over
expenditures will be S4367SS83
The estimated surplus of the
next fisoal year will be
435G9522 which with the amount of
cash now on hand and available reach-
ing 590000000 will justify a re-
duction of revenue in the sum contem-
plated by the bill reported 5G09C6
936 and probably more from customs
and say 10327878 from internal rev-
enue or a total of 71264414 The
committee admits that free trade or rev
onue duties will temporarily diminish
prices but argue that it would be at the
expense of domestic products which
would be displayed and then prices
would again advance and the country be
left at the meroy of foreign syndicates
and manufacturers The committee
responding as it believes to the senti-
ment of the country and recommenda-
tions of the president submit what they
consider to bo a just and equitable re-
vision of tariff whioh while preserving
the manner of protection which is re-
quired for the industrial independence
will secure a reduction of revenue both
from customs and internal revenue
sources We have not looked alone to
the reduction of revenue but have kept
steadily In view the interests of our
producing olasses and have been ever
mindful of that whioh is due to our po-
litical conditions our labor and char-
acter of our citizenship We have real-
ized that a reduotion of duties below the
difference between the cost of labor and
production of competing countries and
our own would reauit either m the
abandonment of much of our manufac-
turing here or the depression
of our labor Either result would
bring disaster the extent of whioh no
one can measure Wo have recom-
mended noduty above the point of dif-
ference between the normal cost of pro-
duction here including labor and the
cost of like production in countries which
seek our markets nor have we hesitated
to give this measure of duty even
though it Involved an increase over the
present rates and showed an advance of
per centages and an ad valorem eqiva
lent We have not sought to make un-
iform rate of duty upon all imported ar-
ticles This would have been manifestly
unjust
In the case of wool the report cites
figures in evidence of alarming deoline in
production and says that an advance of
duties has been recommended which it
is believed will afford amplo protection
to woolgrowing farmers While the
sonate bill fixed duty on thirdclass wool
at 4c the committee places it at 3 c
Acting upon the belief that with restric-
tions definitions and classifications and
addition of port charges recommended by
the bill the difference will be fully com-
pensated The committee believes that
the United States ahould produce an of
the wool it consumes and that with
proper defensive legislation it will do so
The annual consumption is 600000000
pounds and with the protection afforded
by the bill the farmers of the United
States will at early day be able to supply
this demand by the addition of 100 per
cent or 100000000 sheep to the pres-
ent number The bfll aeeks to
stop
been an
X1Y NO 1S7
shameless
by Imp
the loom u
racticed in the past
to avoid legal
wools ready for
ew America and forms
ties The report gives
an increase of duty on wool and the con
struction given to the woroted oluuse of
the existing law as reasons for increasing
duties on woolen goods to protect manu-
facturers The existing law gives it is
said protection of 35 to 45Der oeut The
bill gives a range of 30 to 50 per-
cent Mills bill gave a uniform
rate of 40 per cent more than was
required on low grades and less than
was needed for fine grades The ad-
vance in these fine grades will it is be-
lieved diminish importations and there-
by reduce an increase of revenues and
transfer to the countrv the manufacture
of from 15000000 to 20000000 of
woolen goods now made abroad The
average rate of the woolen goods sched-
ule proposed including specifio duty of
wool used and manufacturers duty is
9178 per cent The average rate
at present is 6715 per cent
but if the worsted decision
had been made at the beginning of the
year it would have been Increased 10 per-
cent and 15 per cent more would have
been added if worsted yarns had paid the
duty of woolen yarns at the sarao price
so that if these manifest errors in tho
constructions of the raw had been earlier
corrected the average rate of last year
would have been nearly SO per cent
Of lumber tho report says that any re
duotion of light duties would have dis-
couraged tho proper care of our tim er
lands and have injured to the benefit of
Canada without diminishing the market
prices
the MINORITY REPORT
is signed by all the Democratic members
of the committee It gays the minority
oontends for tho principle of just and
equal taxation upon all according to
their ability to bear tho burden Whilo
tho majority has in this bill thorou ghly
committed itself to the policy of un jus t
and unequal taxation of many for tho
benefit of the few we see no excuse as
the majority can possibly be to promote
and encourage American industries and
advance the interests of American labor-
ers and those who impute to us any other
purpose or design either to misunder-
stand or misrepresent our position but
we believe that both these objects can be
accomplished by reducing the burdens of
taxation and not by increasing them
and that the benefits thus secured will
be far more permanent and far
more satisfactory to those di-
rectly ooncerned than any sup-
posed advantage that can result from
a different policy The majority after
months of patient and laborious investi-
gation has been able to satisfy a part
only of demands made upon it The
only remedy is to remove as far as possi-
ble tho artificial burdens and re-
strictions and give to all our
industries an equal chance in
the field of competition at home and
nbroad According to statements made
before the committee the proteoted in-
dustries of the country have never been
at any time in our history in such de-
pressed condition as they are now After
nearly thirty years of continuous protec-
tion b > government taxation for their
support a great many of them are re-
ported to be on the very verge of bank-
ruptcy and ruin while very few of them
according to testimony are yielding
fair profit upon amounts invested
A great many of the parties engaged
in these industries have declared In the
course of our investigation that slightest
reduotion in rates of duty now imposed
upon competing foreign products
would compel them to close up
their works and discharge their
employes and others havo gone so
far as to assert they will be foroed to go
out of business if the rates of taxation
are not increased At the same
time tho laborers in those in-
dustries are complaining of insufficient
wages repeated suspensions of work and
a general condition of uncertainty and
insecurity in their relations to those who
giyo them employment Laborers fully
realizing the facts tbat this system has
wholly failed to inortikoe their earnings
or improve their condition in any way
have been compelled to oreanize trades
unions and resort to other meth-
ods of combination and coop-
eration for selfprotection and these
various organizations now afford suf-
ficient means at their command for the
preservation of even the existing rates of
wages When capital and labor unite in
declaring that our proteoted industries
are not prosperous under that system
although it was designed and has been
maintained for their special benefit the
conclusion is inevitable that there is
vice In it somewhere that ought to
be removed for there is no
reason to doubt that in a country like
this every productive industry would be
reasonably prosperous if a wise and just
revenue and financial policy prevails
The report states that the remedy pro-
posed by the majority is the imposition
of more taxes upon every article of for-
eign origin which tho people of this
country desire to buy and for which
they are ready and anxious to exchange
cotton which they cannot spin corn
and wheat which they cannot consume
oil and coal which they cannot burn and
many other products of our farms our
forests and our mines These surplus
products must find a market somewhere
outside of the United States The im-
ports last year were 74511651 paid for
mainly In our surplus agricultural pro-
ducts It would be imDossible for the
people of the United State3 to send
out of the country that sum in cash and
every one knows they did not do it It
is argued that our money should be spent
at home In fact it is spent there in
the production preparation and trans-
portation of articles we send abroad to
pay for importations and If they were
not sent abroad the money could not be
expended here because there would be
no market Under our unwise system of
taxation there is no market which will
pay our industries and to attempt to
remedy the evil by increasing the cost of
production is simply to begin at the
wrong end and wiU greatly aggravate
the system
Continuing the report says The bill
levies a tax on woolens of 15500000
per annum according to la3t years im-
portations but really to a much greater
extent while taxes on tobacco to the
amount of 8866994 are abolished
The minority cannot acree to do this at
the price of an increase of the necessa-
ries The only substantial reasoinurged
for the repeal of the tobacco taxis relief
from governmental supervision hut the
mere reduction of the tax froml eight
cents to four cents does not dispense mtfe
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