. History of Texas : from 1685 to 1892, volume 2 . rgepractice at the bar. He was elected to the first legislature inconnection with annexation. In 1847 he was re-elected. In1849 he was elected for four years to the State senate. Inhis legislative career of eight years he was justly regarded asone of the best lawmakers in the State, and was author inwhole or in part of many of the elementary laws, enactedafter annexation, the principles of which yet remain on thestatute books. In 1853 he was elected as the successor ofGovernor Bell— and re-elected in 1855, Hardin E. Kunnels,beins elected Lieut
. History of Texas : from 1685 to 1892, volume 2 . rgepractice at the bar. He was elected to the first legislature inconnection with annexation. In 1847 he was re-elected. In1849 he was elected for four years to the State senate. Inhis legislative career of eight years he was justly regarded asone of the best lawmakers in the State, and was author inwhole or in part of many of the elementary laws, enactedafter annexation, the principles of which yet remain on thestatute books. In 1853 he was elected as the successor ofGovernor Bell— and re-elected in 1855, Hardin E. Kunnels,beins elected Lieutenant-Governor. That he made a wiseand conservative Governor was verified by public sentiment. During his administration of four years much of our earli-est railroad legislation was inaugurated. The matters inissue between the United States and Texas, in regard to thepublic debt of the late Republic, so far as the United Stateshad retained the $5,000,000 was concerned, was finally ad-justed. The United States, by a special act, proposed to(366). GOV. ELISHA M. PEASE HISTORY OF TEXAS. 367 Texas to pay off that portion of the debt to which the cus-tom hofise revenues had been pledged and for which thecreditors held the United States responsible, at a scale differ-ing and somewhat higher than Texas had adopted with refer-ence to the remainder of her revolutionary debt. It becameknown as the public debt bill, requiring the action of Texas,and was an issue in the elections of 1855. There was power-ful opposition to its acceptance, led by some of the ablest menin the State. When the legislature met in November of thatyear, the friends and opponents of this measure were soequally divided that the result remained long in doubt, but themeasure finally carried.* Among the debaters pro and con, inthe house, were Ben E. Tarver, John Sayles, Wm. B. Ochiltree,Ashbel Smith, Stephen S. Tompkins, James W. Throckmor-ton, Jacob Waelder, Charles S. West, Charles L. Cleveland,and other speakers o
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