| Show texas legislature in special session fitl A BiAlS UOK baic convenes at hopcha news of lie chiy AUSTIN texas oct 1 special for alie liesl time in the history of tins country alie state legislature has bateu convened in special session to anke notion towards forestalling a threatened breach ol 01 the law or rather tu erect an bulwark through additional laws or order to prevent a breach of the p nce of this extraordinary and unprecedented action the prospective lorbett fitzsimmons fight at dallas is alie ruling cause front alio day or alie announcement that the florida club had decided to pull the mill at dallas governor gulberson lias been emphatic in liis declarations that alie men hould not meet on texas soil if alie state executive with the military at his back could prevent it but realizing that legislation is better than bayonets and carbines he lias decided to afford the legislature an opportunity of removing the ambiguity which rounds the present laws against prize fighting and other infractions of good order and public peace by convening it in special session As the matter now stands ghica justice hurt of the court of criminal appeals lias ruled that the state cannot interfere with the fight while the mandamus ease now pending in the supreme court ia likely to be otherwise decided hence legislative action there would ba a conflict between the highest courts in the state and the governor would be legally powerless to carry not his intention of preventing the mill alie legislature convened at high noon today in order that there may be no ground for question as to the extra object for which tha members of the two houses have been summoned to austin governor culberson has put it in black and white in the following language and which ia made A pare of his proclamation to denounce prize lighting and kindred practices in clear and unambiguous terms and prohibit the same by appropriate prop penalties putting the law into immediate operation and making necessary provisions for cn emMit so that the proposed exhibitions of this character within the state mayba may ba the ed will of alie people upon thia subject respected and this aaront to the moral sense and enlightened progress of texas averted |
