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First Session of Texas Legislature Debates Oil Tax and Redistricting
Austin notes on the Twenty-seventh legislature second called session. The Senate defeated a three copy per member subscription to a daily paper and advanced a $5,500,000 appropriation with related expenses bills. Multiple redistricting measures passed or failed, and several bills on oil taxes, bonds, and local charters were discussed or killed. President McKinley spoke at Buffalo. other items report crime, rail and industrial news from New York to San Francisco.
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Austin
Senate
W. B. O'Quinn
J. P. Pool
Clyde Smith
O’quinn
Robbins
T. M. Harpole
T. N. Jones
John M. Duncan
Tyler
Smith County
J. S. Hoge
E. P. Wilmot
Walter Tips
Tex
Sabine Street
City of
Jefferson County
Gulf Coast
Galveston
Galveston County
Board of Health
Oak Cliff
Athena
Moody
Childress
Southwestern Insane Asylum
First National Bank of Austin
House Finance Committee
Secretary of State
House
Senate Committee On Mines and Mining