The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-29

number OF alternate sections to the schools
some arrangement should be MADE
between The roads and the STATE
so as the grazing lands could
De leased IN bodies, and at the same
pfiee-not one price for the state and two
prices for the railroad companies
Rep,-"Do you think the state would bs
willing to enter into partnership With
/ .hese corporations
Prot-"lt is matter of business in which
both parties would be benefited. besides
think II mistake TO consider the rail.
roads as inimlcal to the states interest.
Rep.-"Nou have not said what wopld he
a lair tax on the hundred dollars for school
purposes in the counties
frot-"Of course not-a light taxa lust
TAX IN one county would be onerons and
oppressive IN another-eyen ia an adjoining
county; | propose 10 leave the who.e mat
yer 10 the respective counties aud districts.
propose only that law shall be passed
permitting them to vote such tax at such
time as they may deem proper
Hep What is the permanent fund set
apart for the schools And what is the
available fund?n
Prof: The permanent fund has been
quoted so often aud set down at so MANY
inherent valueS-a value assigned by every
wrlter-that 1t is Impossible 10 give a clear
and definite value to it, | have AZ hand
and will give you what the secretary of the
state board OF education says in the Jour.
nal OF Education, October, 1881, on this
subject; Texas to-day points with pride
and grateful memory of her heroic fathers
ana wise statesmen, to her educational en-
dnwment, represented by:
-Four million three hundred and seventeen
thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars
~ permanent cash fund credited as follows:-
STATE university .,..,.... SI noo
Agricultural aud college. ...,....''' ol27ll
Institute for the blind ..... ,..... lOaSS
Institute for the deal aud dumb -. iIS62
fiity'ilve million five hundred and fourteen
th0usand one hundred and fifteen acres OF
land. donated as follows
10 common free schools .............. 50 600 OOO
To the counties In fecS-imblei for com.
mon Tree schools. Observation-Disclosures. & gSS 900
10 the state university e. .........,.. a2i 400
TO the institute for the blind ....... IO2 6IS
10 me institute tor tho deaf and
To the institute for orphans ........ l0Sgla
'Oi the soll,Ou university fund only n
part is available. In this sum is included
The Sl3,0O0 borrowed from the university
tund, but does not include the accrued in.
terest-S9S, O00-onthe same"
From the above it will be seen that the
available fund and the permanent
iuhd are Tor practical purposes non-availa-
bie. Acres, however many are not dollars,
neither are debts, however sacred, due the
university, available for immediate use"
hep, GU have written much about
tue university OF Texas. Do you think it
necessary part Of our public school sys-
temp
Prof Certainly do. 1t is the head Of
the whole system, and just as necessary as
the primary schools themselves. have
llkened our public school system to a grand
arch, resting upon two buttresses--the one
the primary schools, the other the uniyer.
sity. Indeed, we can have no sound, no
complete system Of public school instruc.
ton without the university"
Rep, Then you are in favor of its inn
mediate orranization2"
Irol.-"Well, by immediate organization
would not be understood as conveying
the idea that it should be done tomorrow,
or even next week, but at an early day.
Indeed 1t is announced by the chairman of
the regents. Colonel Ashbel Smith, that il
viii be opened for the reception of students
September, 1855"
Rep.-"But the available annual funds
fore the university amount to only about
SJN,OW, whereas it is urged that $4,000
Will be required; what would you do TO
supply this delicit?"
Prof-''The university is a part of the
public school system. Therefore there is
no trouble-let the Legislature make the ap-
preparation to supplement the available
fund.-
Rep, Would this be just to the common
schools ,"
Prot.-"The legislature thought it right
to appropriate the bonds of the university
for the support Of the agricultural college.
Legislature heretofore thuoght IL right to
appropriate, to borrow from the university
tund $4,000 torapurpose in no wise akin to
educational interests, and it seems but lust
that another legislature ought to see the
propriety at this crisis in the history of the
university to pay at least the accrued in
terest on the same, amounting to over $9S.-
900 now, and which will supplement for the
next five years the $4,000 available
fund, thus securing to the univer-
slty an annual revenue of $50.
600 Furthermore, / believe the
18th legislature will make provisions to
pay to the university the $l3iO0O Dor
rowed. The organization of the university,
and that upon liberal and broad basis
would save to the state in money about
100000 annually and keep at home our
sons and daughters, thus educating them
and bringing them up in our midst, instead
of sending them abroad to learn and i'm.
bibe customs and notions totally at vasi-
ance with our tastes.n
Rep.-"The HERALD returns thanks to
you through me for your courtesy
Prof.-"Gou are welcome, and IL any
benefit to the one million of Texas chill
dren demanding education in the next de.
cade shall grow out of this rather lengthy
sitting, shall be more than repaid shall
he VOur dphtor -