A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ppointed to the Federal bench inthat district. In the Eastern District, Judge C. B. Sabin, whohad succeeded Amos Morrill, died in the fall of 1890, and wassucceeded by D. E. Bryant. In 1892, Judge McCormick waselevated from the district judgeship to be one of the judges ofthe United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans, andJohn B. Rector was appointed judge of the Northern , additional j)laces for holding court in that district wereestablished at P^ort Worth, Abilene, and San Angelo. TheFederal judiciar
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ppointed to the Federal bench inthat district. In the Eastern District, Judge C. B. Sabin, whohad succeeded Amos Morrill, died in the fall of 1890, and wassucceeded by D. E. Bryant. In 1892, Judge McCormick waselevated from the district judgeship to be one of the judges ofthe United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans, andJohn B. Rector was appointed judge of the Northern , additional j)laces for holding court in that district wereestablished at P^ort Worth, Abilene, and San Angelo. TheFederal judiciary in Texas has in recent years been al)lv andacceptably represented, and the several judges have been highlyrespected by both the bar and the people at large. In Novem-ber, 1876, there were elected to Congress from the six districts,in the order named, the following gentlemen : John H. Reagan,I). B. Culberson, J. W. Throckmorton, R. O. Mills, John Han-cock, and Gustav Schleicher. SECOND PERIOD OF STATEHOOD. ^9j Period VIII. Second Period of Statehood 1874 to 1S97. The Fifteenth Legislature provided for a revision of all thelaws of the State, and Governor Coke appointed to that task West, B. H. Bassett, J. W. Ferris, George Clark, and SamuelA. Willson. They completed the work, and it was adopted in1879, being known as the Revised Statutes of i8jg. In the year 1876 the Greenback Party made its firstappearance, and it continued to agitate the politics of theSouthern and Western States for several years,reaching its greatest strength in Texas from 1880to 1884. It advocated the issue by the governmentof unlimited quantities of paper money, based uponnothing but the faith and credit of the nation. The State Democratic Convention met at Austinon July 17, 1878. The candidates before it fornomination for governor were R. B. Hubbard, Throckmorton, W. W. Lang, and Thomas Neither of these gentlemen could get therecjuisite two-thirds vote, and, after several daysstruggle
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