Hogg had won the election for Governor…
April 1891 CE
At the same time, voters had approved the constitutional amendment allowing for a Railroad Commission by a wide margin.
On April 3, 1891, the legislature overwhelmingly passes a bill to create the Railroad Commission.
Hogg appointes the three members, with U.S. Senator John H. Reagan, creator of the Interstate Commerce Act, as chairman.
Hogg also names his old friend, Captain Bill McDonald, to succeed Samuel A. McMurry as the captain of Texas Rangers Company B, Frontier Battalion, a position that he will retain until 1907.