company. I am not indebted to any insurance company, foreign or do- I own no stock in any insurance mestic, nor am I attorney for any of them. I am not connected in any way, directly or indirectly, with any insurance companies, foreign or domestic, with the exception of being the holder of a paid up policy in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, as aforesaid. BAILEY of DeWitt. I have no connection whatever with any life insurance beyond the fact that I hold a policy in the Great Southern Insurance Company of Houston, Texas. I have not in mind the remotest idea of any further future connection with any such company, directly or indirectly. BAILEY of Harris. I have no interest, either direct or indirect, in any insurance company, either foreign or domestic, except as a policyholder. I am not attorney, stockholder or director in any character of insurance company. I owe none of them any money. I have a policy of insurance in the Germania Life Insurance Company of New York, one of the companies out of the State, and in the Federal Life of Chicago, a foreign company doing business in Texas, and in the Prudential Life Insurance Company of San Antonio, and the San Antonio Life Insurance Company, now merged, I understand, with the Southland of Dallas. BEE. I have no connection, direct or indirect, as attorney, agent, director or stockholder, with any life insurance company, and have never had. I have never borrowed money from any insurance company, foreign or domestic. BRELSFORD. I, I. E. Clark, hereby state that I am medical examiner for nearly every company that is doing business in Texas. I own stock in several Texas companies. Hold policy in New York Mutual Life of New York, Mutual Benefit of New Jersey, Bankers' Life. I do not owe any insurance company in the world as much as 1 cent. CLARK. I have a policy in the State Life Insurance Company of Indiana and the balance of the insurance I carry is in fraternal insurance companies. Senator, Twenty-sixth District. Complying with the provisions of the resolution just adopted, beg to say that I have no official connection with any life insurance comOwn no stock in such comDany. rany, am not indebted to, or the creditor of, any life insurance company. J. C. M'NEALUS. I am not agent for any insurance I am absolutely free from any oblicompany nor do I own stock in any. gation to any insurance companyAt present I am vice president and financially, morally or otherwise. attorney for the Southern Co-Operative Insurance Company of Fort Worth. It has never paid me a cent. I am willing to resign either or both positions at any time. This is a little co-operation society witnout any capital stock. O. S. LATTIMORE. Complying with the resolution passed this day by the Senate that each Senator, before voting on the so-called Gibson bill, House Bill No. 6, should state his connection as agent, representative or stockholder in or with any insurance company, I state the following: (1) I am not now, have not been heretofore, have no reason to believe that I will be in the future the agent or representative of any insurance company anywhere, nor do I own any stock in any company. (2) I am not now, never have been, and have no reason to believe that I will in the future be the agent or representative of any person in the interest or for the use and benefit of any insurance company nor of any stockholder in any such company. (3) I do not owe any insurance company any money nor does any insurance company Owe me any money. I have no direct or indirect interest in any insurance company, and do not represent one in any capacity. The only connection with one is that I have policies on my life aggregating $5,000. MORROW. In making my statement in response to the resolution addressed to all of the members of the Senate, 1 shall address myself also to a question of personal privilege. I am not attorney or agent for any insurance company, local or foreign, nor do I own one dollar of stock in any insurance company, local or foreign. I do not carry one dollar of life insurance with any Texas company. I once carried a policy for $3,000 with a Texas company, which I permitted to lapse because of my inability to carry it. I once carried policies aggregating $17,000 with the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., which I also permitted to lapse. I did carry $2,000 insurance with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, which policies I disposed of. I now carry the following life in (4) I hold three policies of in-surance: surance in the Aetna Life Insurance With the Bankers Life of Des Company, which I hope will not mature for a very long time. Moines, $7,000; with the National Life of Des Moines, $5,000; with the New York Life of New York, $3,000; with the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey, $2,500; with the Travelers In (5) I have no interest, past, present or future, direct or indirect, proximate or remote, certain or contingent, definite or indefinite, pres-surance Company of Hartford, $2,ent, prospective nor potential, in any insurance company, the officers, agents, or representatives thereof, and none in the pending bill other than what I conceive to be to the best interest of the people of Texas and to a conscientious discharge of a public duty. T. H. M'GREGOR. I have no connection-directly, remotely or anticipatory-with any life or other insurance company. I have not now, and never have had, so much as 1 cent's worth of life insurance in any company. I do not owe any insurance company so much as 1 cent of money, and never have owed any. I regret that no insurance company owes me any money. 000; with the Guarantee Life of Omaha, $2,000; with the Knights of Pythias, $2,000; with the Woodmen of the World, $1,000; with the Shriners of Galveston, $500; or a total of $25,000. I regret that the friends of the Gibson bill saw proper on yesterday to go into my private business affairs that have no relation even remotely to the pending measure, or my position thereupon. About October 1, 1911, before I had even entered the race for the Senate, and before I had even decided to run for the Senate, I owned a plantation of 1,000 acres at Brazoria, in Brazoria county, Texas, fronting two miles on the Brazos river at tide water, all under fence, finely improved, and one of the rich- Statement of my connection with On August 12, 1912, before I ever entered this Senate, I sold my plantation to A. B. Carr of Houston for $50,000, as is shown by my deed to him, of record at Angleton, Texas. He paid me in cash or its agreed equivalent, about $33.500, and assumed the loan of $15,000, and the accrued interest maturing soon thereafter, which interest Mr. Carr paid, and I have never been called upon to pay 1 cent of that loan, principal or interest, the payment of which is graranteed by Mr. Carr, and by that plantation. I have $5,000 in fraternal policies with the following societies: Woodmen of the World, Macabees, and Fraternal Aid Union; aisc $5,000 in the following old line companies: Mutuai Life of New York, Continental of St. Louis, Mo., and Amicable of Waco, Texas. I own a small block of stock in the Amicable of Waco. I am a member of the board of auditors for the Fraternal Aid Union of Denver, Colo. I owe no Texas insurance company any money, except the Amicable is carrying my last due premium at this time. LON A. SMITH. My stock and connection with life insurance companies, both within and without the State, is as follows: I have a paid-up participating polAny man on earth, here or else- icy for $1,000 in the Mutual Life Inwhere, who charges or even insinu-surance Company of New York, on ates that that business transaction, legitimate in every way, has ever corrupted or even influences me, directly or indirectly, personally or as a Senator of Texas, is a miserable, contemptible liar, and a dirty, cow ardly character assassin. NUGENT. I am not the agent or attorney of any insurance company, either fire or life, nor have I eve been, save that I may have had sules for and against such corporations in the courts. I own twenty shares of stock in the Great Southern Life Insurance Company of Houston, Texas. I have a policy in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. I have no further affiliation with, or relation to, any insurance companies, either fire or life. PAGE. which I have received a dividend of about $190. I have five shares of stock of the par value of $10 cach in the Amicable Life Insurance Company of Waco, on which I have received a small dividend of $5, as I remember the amount. I do not rep resent any company, as attorney, and have no other connection with any company in any way, either as borrower or representative. I have received quite a number of letters from the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in which they state, in substance, that it would be very beneficial to the policyholders of that company for the Gibson bill or some other bill-amending or repealing the Robertson insurance law-to be passed by the Legislature. They do not mention cheap money or the best interests of the people of our great State. In fact, that company and all other companies desiring the I have no interest in any insurance repeal or amendment of the Robertcon.pany. A. PARR. I have no special interest in any insurance company. I do not and have never represented any insurance company, directly or indirectly in any capacity, neither do I own any stock in any insurance company. nor have I ever borrowed or sought to borrow any money from any insurance company. A. C. ROBBINS, son law, expect to take more money out of Texas than they expect to invest in Texas. This can not be disputed. I shall, therefore, vote against the Gibson bill and against my best interest, if what the Mutual Life Insurance Company states is true, believing that I am vcting for the best interest of all people of Tex as. WILL D. SUITER. I am not the agent of any life insurance company. I am not a stockholder in any insurance company. I am not now and have never been an attorney for an insurance company. I am not an agent for any insurance company. I am endorser on two small notes held by a life insurance company, secured by a first mortgage lien upon farm land owned by farmers and exe. cuted by the owners of the land. In warding off the effect of the financial crisis of the panic of 1907, I assumed the payment of two notes, one of which was secured by a first mortgage lien held by a mortgage company of this State, and the second note becoming a second mortgage lien and held by an individual. The first mortgage lien note subsequently passed into the hands of a Texas life insurance company, which I am morally and legally obligated to pay, and am in a position to pay if other arrangements satisfactory to me are not made and closed upon that basis. I hold a policy in a foreign life insurance company which is non-participating, and is not paid up. or I have opposed the repeal amendment of the Robertson insurance law for many years: in fact, the panic of 1907, a period of distress and great worry to the citizenship of our State, caused, as I believe, by the combination of the New York money trust and the great insurance companies, was and is sufficient to sustain my position, which was announced many times long before my announcement even for the State Senate. Should I be in need of funds in the future for my own account, for clients or customers. I shall not hesitate to make application to any of the insurance companies, local or foreign, or to any of the mortgage companies. WILEY. I own $250 worth of stock in the San Jacinto Life Insurance Company of Beaumont. I have $6,000 in insurance in the New York Life on which I have about $300 borrowed from the company, and I have a $4,000 policy in the Great Southern Life of Houston and $1,000 in the San Jacinto Life of Beaumont. W. P. HOBBY, Lieutenant Governor.. Senator Bailey of DeWitt moved that Senators Hall and Henderson, absent on account of important business, be allowed to furnish a statement to the Journal Clerk and that same be printed in the Journal. The motion was adopted. House Bill No. 6. In accordance with the resolution adopted, The Chair laid before the Senate, on second reading, H. B. No. 6, A bill to be entitled "An Act to provide for reports by life insurance companies of their Texas reserve, their Texas securities and their Texas gross premium receipts; to provide for and enforce the payment of occupation taxes against life insurance companies; to provide penalties and remedies for failure to comply with the requirements of this Act; to repeal all laws in conflict with this Act, and especially Articles 4775 to 4786, inclusive, of the Revised Civil Statutes, and declaring an emergency." There being an adverse majority committee report and a favorable minority committee report, Senator Lattimore moved to adopt the majority (adverse) committee report, and Senator Brelsford moved to substitute the minority (favorable) committee report in lieu of the majority committee report. Recess. On motion of Senator Clark, the Senate, at 12:15 o'clock p. m., recessed until 1:30 o'clock p. m. today. After Recess. The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant Governor Hobby. Message From the House. Hall of the House of Representatives. Sir: I am directed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has passed the following bills: S. B. No. 14, A bill to be entitled "An Act to amend Section 1, Chapter 23, of the local and special laws passed by the Regular Session of the Thirty-fourth Legislature, creating the Happy Independent School District, in Swisher and Randall counties," with amendments. and means of conducting and supervising said work, and providing a method of making up tax rolls and for deposit and disbursement of said funds and regulation of traffic on said roads, and declaring an emergency," with engrossed rider. Respectfully, W. R. LONG, Chief Clerk, House of Representatives. House Bill No. 6. (Pending business.) Action recurred on the pending business, House Bill No. 6, the question being on the motion to substitute the minority committee report in lieu of the majority committee report. After the conclusion of the debate of three hours, Senator Lattimore moved the pretions, which motion being duly secvious question on the pending moonded, was ordered. The motion to substitute the favor H. B. No. 27, A bill to be entitled "An Act creating the Crowell Independent School District of Ford county, Texas, for school purposes; giving the board of trustees of the said district power and jurisdiction over said lands and territories and the inhabitants thereof, requiring such board of trustees to levy, assess and collect and pay to the treasurer annually, a proportionate part of the tax fund existing on the part of said territory and declaring an emergen-able (minority) committee report for cy." H. B. No. 22, A bill to be entitled the majority (adverse) committee re"An Act creating Greensborough port was lost by the following vote: County-line Independent School District, situated in Henderson and Van Zandt counties; defining its metes and bounds; vesting it with the rights, powers, duties and privileges of districts incorporated for school purposes only under the General Laws; providing for a board of trustees therefor, Harley. and declaring an emergency," with engrossed rider. H. B. No. 43, A bill to be entitled "An Act to amend Sections 2, 8, 9, 12 and 40 of Chapter 148, Local and Special Laws of the State of Texas, passed by the Regular Session of the Thirtythird Legislature, entitled 'An Act to authorize and empower Fayette county or any political subdivision of said county by a vote of two-thirds majority of the resident property taxpayers, qualified voters of such county or political subdivision thereof, voting thereon, to issue bonds to any amount not exceeding one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such county, or of such subdivision, and to levy and collect taxes to pay interest on such bonds, and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes, and prescribing ways Astin. Yeas-11. Harris. Clark. Brelsford. McCollum. Morrow. Parr. Nays-16. Nugent. Robbins. Smith. Suiter. Townsend. Westbrook. Pairs Recorded. who would vote "yea"; Senator HenSenator Bailey of Harris (present), derson (absent), who would vote “nay.” Senator McNealus (present), who would vote "nay"; Senator Hall (absent), who would vote "yea." Action recurred on the motion to adopt the majority (adverse) committee report, and the same was adopted by the following vote: |