The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-21
Pile might know the truth, and hold the prop
or parties responsible for II.

Pile might know the truth, and hold the prop
er parties responsible for Il.
lfyou will take the trouble to examine the
report of the superintendent as published in
the Galveston News for the two wears YOU will
find that from $1,000 90 to $4,000 90 Of the
appropriation made the first year for "gro-
ceries, provisions and miscellaneous" was
paid out for Improvements on the property,
the purchase of furniture and ofwo,d, etc, for
the next year. and that the amount actually
expended for groceries and provisions was but
little over S5,000.00, while the report of the
second year will show about one hundred and
fifty or possibly as much AS one hundred dol.
lars expended in improving the property and
then add the cost OF the wood etc, ,nv about
$3.50 OO) paid for out ofthe last ycm' nppro-
priation to be used this year, ahd theu add
from $4,000 to 100000 Of deficiency and
you Will run the amount considerably over
the 100000 spent the year before.
do not intend by this to reflect upon
or censure those who are managing healiars
OF the Institution now, or TO make the i'm
preston that they are not rs economical as
they should be, but to show that Governor
Roberts is not entitled to any credit for this
matter, and that the Legi,l ,ture Is, in my
judgment, censurable for not having made a
just and fair, not to say liberal, appropriation
for the support Of this institution, And,
will add, from my own personal observation
am confident that the State (instituton)
would have been greatly benefited if from
$500 TO $1,000 had been paid out in replacing
WORKOUT furniture, which has been In use for
years, repairing old buildings, and purchasing
additional provender for our horses and
cattle, instead Of their being neglected, as
was indispensably necessary under the
niggardly appropriation made, and the mem
bers Of the Legislature who voted to cut
down the appropriation under that of the
previous year ought to be hunted out and
held up to the soorn and contempt of the
people they represent, or rather misrepre-
sent II may be said that am meddling
with things that do not concern me, but /
am for fair play, and as long as | pay my
taxes and discharge the duties required
of me as a citizen, feel free to
speak of public measures and the acts of
our public servants, and am confident that
when the time comes to make full, fair
and complete exhibit of the financial affairs
of Governor Roberts administration (includ-
ing the present deficiency in the appropria-
ton for the Deaf and Dumb institution and
for the costs of Sht riffs, Clerks and Attorneys,
quarantine and conveying prisoners to the
penitentiary) that it will sum up the most
costly, If it does not prove the most extrava-
giant of any Democratic administration since
the war Then upon the other hand, if you
will examine his message to the Legislature
and the laws passed by that body TO meet
his peculiar views in which the Democratic
platform upon which he was elected was
ignored, and the liberal free school and land
policy Of the party trampled under foot, |
think you will conclude that he would be
much better representation of the old FEEDER
alists than he is Of the present Democracy.
unhesitatingly assert that there never was
u Democratic Governor Of Texas that has
shown AS great disposition to concentrate
the powers Of the State government in the
hands of the executive AS Governor Roberts.
Very respectfully,
Henry Il. MCCULLOCH.