The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23
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the nsmes OF some of these imPsacti.
4. cable bidders which the commissioner
om tied 10 give; viii nsme-some of
I them Gen. Joseph Dates bid to do
{ the work un the San Bernard, comply
: ing With the provisions of the statute,
and prOposing 10 donate one-thlrd the
certificates TO BrsZoriR county for the
benefit OF common schools. \. Un-
derwood made 4 bld substantially the
same. J. Y. Sutton bid to do
mite one.half the land TO any
purposes the commissioners might iii
rect, and To do the work complying with
the law. Jesse W. Park bid to do Il c
work as required, for the appropriG-
ton, and in addition build a good
school house at Brazoria and one st
Columbia. All these bidders are old
sct;lcrf, well kaOwn. Let the people
Judge OF their impracticability as com
pared with the successful, plain and
practical bidders. The objection Civ
en- is good. 1.-The commissioners did
not feel at liberty to get land from the
State for school or any other purposes
on such preteXt." No. indeed. This
is eminent patriotism. Yet to plain
person it would look like getting the
land from the contractor, and not from
the State, especially as the State
awarded eight sections TO the mile,
neither more nor less; SO, making the
award Of favoritism and doing awayeu
urely with everything like troublesome
competition. o. wise solons of the !
Fourteenth! Great Executive! Exalted I
Senator! Does not your wisdom and |
patriotism involve n debt OF gratitude |
that the people may never forget |
Well may the professor hide his III |
minished head for having said to TIE |
Governor, when urging, THAT the I
work under said art be suspended, |
and await further legislation :" that he /
was surprised that, with such dele !
cation, and such a Governor, such an (
act should ever have become "A law. (
If any denuuciation then hr made, let it 4
not fail on u party who has only com /
piled with has sworn duty with all the I
authoritative proof before him, viz /
the report of the State engineer, the /
appointee Ot the Governor, certifying /
under this high and only authority /
required by the statute, that the CON /
tractor has done the work thoroughly, |
and fully complied with his contract. |
by the statute, no report of the COM
missioners is provided for or other |
evidence than the report of the State !
engineer. appointed by the Governor. |
Read the statute, learn the mandatory
duty of the executive officer of the
Land Office in the premises, and let |
your wrath and denunciation fall /
where it is more richly merited-on the
authors, the executive who approved |
aud put the thleving act into effect.
Governor Coke paid no regard to cit
liens protest. Surely Governor Hub
bard has no more legal control over
an executive officer elected by the peo-
pie coequal IN his sphere than citi- |
Zen's protest had over Governor Coke,
who was the foundation cause of all |!
the trouble. All this muddle from |
beginning to end is like the old saw,
the more it is stirred the higher,
stronger, more powerful the perfume.
The first contractors for the Bernard
were, us the commissioner asserts,
''plain and practical" for one sold
ont to the other for $1,000, and he and
associates sold out to j. II. Gibson
their Bernard contract for $4,000 net.
BEAZORIA