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The San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
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Texas legislature in Austin advances bills on auto speed limits and penalties for fatal accidents (2-4 years prison), building associations, permanent criminal appeals court in Austin, easier constitutional amendments via petition, and short-term convict road work. Dated Feb. 1.
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Penalty for Killing Pedestrians From Two to Four Years in State Prison.
NEW MOVE MADE BY PROS.
Special to The Light.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 1.—Chauffeurs who run down and kill pedestrians must be prosecuted for felony and be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary from two to four years if the bill proposed by Thausen in the house today is enacted into law. The bill regulates the speed of autos at 10 miles per hour in cities and 20 miles per hour in the country. The measure provides when a person is killed by a machine running above the speed limit the chauffeur, if not prosecuted for assault or assault to murder, shall nevertheless be prosecuted for felony, the punishment to be two to four years in the penitentiary.
The automobile's owner is subject to damages.
The house today engrossed Ray's bill providing for the incorporation of building and loan associations and regulation of fees paid for permits by foreign corporations.
The senate today finally passed the bill making permanent the location of the court of criminal appeals at Austin, taking effect October 1. Senter opposed the measure. Ward favored it.
New Submission Move.
As an important result of the submission fight, Representative Curry introduced in the house this morning a joint resolution providing that the state legislature upon a majority vote only can submit to a vote an amendment to the state constitution when preceded by a petition signed by 20,000.
At present to submit such an amendment a two-thirds vote is necessary and neither the submissionists nor the antis have sufficient forces for winning the fight.
Two bills were introduced in the house today by Lively, Wilson and others defining short term convicts and providing for working them on public roads.
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Feb. 1.
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Legislative updates include a bill by Thausen imposing 2-4 years prison for chauffeurs killing pedestrians over speed limits (10 mph city, 20 mph country); Ray's bill for building and loan associations; senate passage of permanent court of criminal appeals location at Austin (opposed by Senter, favored by Ward); Curry's resolution for majority vote on constitutional amendments with 20,000 petition; Lively and Wilson's bills defining short-term convicts for public road work.