The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-18
LETTER FROM HON. JOHN HEN.
RY BROWN.
Important to School Teaehers-the
State Police Bill.

merous teachers Of schools iR3zd-
ing Mr.. Martin, Mr., Mathis and
several ladies, asking infoaunalSon
as to when and how teachers of
free schools would be paid, lwish- ,
through your paper, to reply 'e 1
them all. The House, sometime /
since, passed bill appropriating
four hundred Thousand dollars to |
pay the arrears due all the teach
ors in the State. 1t hung fire in
the Senate till to, day, when it pass
ed that body. | presume it will be
approved by the Governor in two
or three days. l will send you
tomorrow copy of the section of
the act which provides the mode
and manner Of making the pay
ments to teachers, and ask you to
publish it. | advise teachers to fix
up their accounts in strict accord
anco with the law, and instead of
paying commissions to parties in
Austin to collect them, lot those in
Dallas county send me their claims
unless they have friends here who
will do it, with authority to collect
them, and | will do 30 without
cost.
Those in Collin can send their
accounts to Col. Chambers, and
those in Tarrant to Maj. Van zandt
or Senator Evans. We Will all take
pleasure in collecting and trans
hitting their money without cost.
hope those teachers, both male
and female, who have written me,
will receive this ~ an answer to all
of them, and excuse an answer to
each separately. ah3~
Since my last letter to you, much
business has been transacted some
of it of great and general impor-
lance.
The Senate, on Saturday, by q
vote of IA to 6, passed the House
bill abolishing in toto the State po-
lice. No one knows whether it
will be vetoed or not--opinions diff
fer. If vetoed, its passage through
the Senate, if all are present, is ex-
ccedingly doubtful. But of one
thing there is no doubt, and that is
that ICE wilJ neper appropriate one
dollar to pay policemen for one
days service after the day Of the
veto. Many in the House, perhaps
u majority, will not vote a cent to
pay the arrears due them now.
Tho very name of estate police
man stinks in the nostrils of honest
citizens throughout the State. To a
largo extent the title is synon.
ymous with petty, vulgar oppres-
sion, robbery and assassination. |
am willing to vote for any meas.
ure to strengthen the arm of the
local civil authorities, but for a
mercenary State Police, never.
The Senate has passed. a general
school bill, designed to supersede the
present miserable system, with its
swarm Of pensionod locusts in the
form ofsuporvisors and inspectors
| have not examined tho bill as %.
mended and finally passed, but un.
dorstand it is a great Improvement
on the ordinary law now in force
under which the most contemplate
puppies, non resident and unknown,
havo been thrust upon the pco.
pie, as School Supervisors. Think
of the outrage and degradation
our own district has suffered in
this respect, in the person of a crca.
ture regarded by our people as un-
worthy ofassociation among gen
lemen. hh
While wishing to DO q calm
thoughtful and prudent represon-
tative of the people who sent me,
here-laboring all tho while to
repress those feelings of indigna-
ton natural TO all true men when
wrongcd, and to extract out of the
chances the most good for my fol
low-citizens, l am free to confess
that whenever think of the foul
and loathsome vagabonds who have
been thrust upon us as school