Show SOME OF the eastern newspapers contain con-tain dispatches from Texas which indicate indi-cate that the reputation of the Lone Star State is not improving very rapidly in the matter of civilization One day last week the question arose in the Senate whether the unimportant office of commissioner of insurance statistics and history should be abolished or not and during the animated discussion which followed such pet names as 1 cur liar fraud and coward were freely applied the solons Pistols were displayed and two Senators issued verbal challenges to a duel What would have been pandemonium elsewhere prevailed for some time when the presiding officer asserted his authority and restored order When lawmakersindulge in such practices and create scenes of the character described there should be no wonder if the laws were not enforced in the State and the lawless elements ruled in Texas |