The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-01-25

Ioada, he thinks. are having SIMILAR eye.
Hence aud entertaining slfnilm Intentions.
What will be done about
TuE UNIVERSITY
remains 10 be disclosed, " Ia known thal
the available fund il utterly inadequate 10
support even the actually now needed
The main branch al thiss
point will be put Ia OPERATION Ia tue iall, II
no untoward event prevent when the west
wing on College Hi shall have been com
pleted. If the 1884 900 bends, Issued IN
1857, shall be recognized as valid, then the
accrued interest, s1S 600, will be quite
enough TO run the institution for one year,
with w least u half dozen proiessorshlps.
As the university Is nothing more nor less
than "public free school" fhigher grade,
accessible 10 rich and poor ankle, there
is no reason why sufficiently liberal
appropriation should not be nude at once,
and let us have start in new direction
that will save to this state $500, GOO an.
nually now sent out Oft to educate abroad
our Texas youths. Let those OF us now
living realize unto our children at least the
blessings and benefits denied to ourselves
in years gone by. u.
MOB.
AUSTIN, Jan. II, 1SSS.-[Special Cores
pondence. Mr.. Speaker, the honorable
the senate" cried out the door-keeper oil
the house of representatives, OF yesterday
AZ las o'clock. admit the senate" re-
sponded Speaker Gibson, as he raped
the members to standing, the usual mode
| of receiving the senators when they enter
the house tor joint session. A few mo-
ments later, at live minutes past twelve,
entered, and walking down the aisle, pro-
ceeded TO the desk, Governor Roberts, Gov
ernor Ireland elect, Judge A. s, Walker
and the respective escorts, and all were
| seated on either side OF Presiding President
Storey and Speaker Gibson. Hereupon the
latter, as soon as the applause OF welcome
had ceased, said "Gentlemen OF the senate
and house of representatives, l have the
honor ofintroducing to you Hon, Oran M.
Roberts governor of Texas" Upon
his rising to address the large audi
ence of members and visiting ladies
I and gentlemen, he delivered in clear voice
and most impressive manner his valedicto-
! nv, the which | transmitted TO you last
night by telegraph. At the conclusion of
these appropriate remarks by the grand old
man, whom Texas has so mighty and 50
often honored, Judge Walker arose along
with Judge Ireland, and then and there adj
minstered to the latter the prescribed oath
of office, which being over, Mr.. Gibson in
| troduced the new governor, who, in a calm,
distinct, yet unimpassioned voice, read
from the printed copy hisinausural address,
and which was likewise transmitted to you.
1t is not lengthy, yet it covers most of the
leading subjects of interest that will come
up before the legislature for action during
| the present session.
Conspicuous by its ahsence,ls any allusion
to the new capitol building; the proposed
course as to the university, exc pt in gen.
eral and not satisfactory expressions.
On the railroad question, some of the
friends Of these corporations appear to be
entirely satisfied with the new executives
utterances, when he says: These railways
are our institutions; their value and utility
to the country are not to be gu, STONED, land
whatever is done it is to be hoped will be
done in the spirit of Justice and equity to
prove adequate 10 our wants without Grip
ping or injuring the companies One
prominent official remarked that these ex-
presslons would add much TO the conf
interested in them all over the
country, in anu out OF the state.
But it is difficult to see what else he could
have said, after his previous statement E at
1.-THE constitutional requirement is that The
legislature shall pass laws to regulate and
control these railway institutions, and the
people demand the iultillment of this duty,
thus far only paltally performed" In
other words, the legislature must give us
some railroad legislation; it is their plain
duty" His su sequent in
dication that in the pursuance OF it the
roads must not be injured" is not at all in
avoidance of his thus explicitly expressed |
intent to legislate on this question, and the |
members may at { nee count upon his coop |
Grafton on proper bills. But, alas, they are as |
III UGH in the dark as eyer as TO needed data |
and facts. Colonel Chenow. th. the talented |
and looked-to leader IN this great question,
and of which he has made most exhaust |
ing study, said TO me last night, THE more |
l look into this subject, the more | am at
sea; it is so broad and varied and comUli-
Gated, the deeper wade into ali the several
questions requisite to be answered, the
more | discover | don't know" II he,
with all his learning IRON the laws of Hi
nois, the parent OF the Others, of Missouri,
of Georgia, and OF the other staIeS, finds
himself thus baiiled, Tin the spirit Of equity
and justice" and with his enlarged infor-
nation and conscientious reflection, after
two or more years OF research and inquiry,
how are other members TO do what
wen he hesitates at, lest he strike a blow
hat shall violate that spirit ofequity and
Justice" unless they proceed upon the
plane that fools rush in where angels fear
10 read"
In The matter of the Public School fund,
he lands, the revenues, etc., the governor
ioub less is in full accord with the senti-
viz: that they must be handled with that
plrit of devotion to duty which great
rust implies, and that the interests O. the
'chool children of Texas shall be guarded
With the intensest care. / wish
,ould have heard him add, Tin all
he branches of learning that the
athers intended they sh uld have
he benefit of" and this would have em-
u iced distinctly that o,Aer Ice public
,chool, whose original dates back to the he
'oss of San Jacinto, the university, which
orty-six years ago, the very first constitu-
ion of Texas declared "a public necessity"
md which each subsequent constitution
las solemnly affirmed, including the one
We nov live under; and whose establish
nebt, outside of the question of economy,
will tend more than aught else 10 unity the
sntiments Of ali sections Of this great state,
md TO ensure its permanent existence as
me grand, noble and indivisible common
wealth.
On the questions of the course to ne pur-
ned as 10 our public lands, and Of
he insane and other charita-
he citizens generally will echo the senti-
nents OF Governor Ireland. But there is
me feature in his inaugural, could Sun
erely wished TO have had eliminated, or
modified; refer 10 bis criticism OF the ad-
OF his predecessor in the state
'ond purchase business. II does not seem
n good temper or taste. IL is true that he
ast summer announced his views 40 TO th
ack OF financial wisdom in the states buy
ng the bones at 1.40; but what appears to
ave especially riled him, was the subse-
uent purchase Of some 500, OO0 more at the
anne figure for $4,000 Of the school funds,
hen his opposition TO such policy Was
nown. Perhaps the peDitentiary lease
usiness was likewise felt as q source OF
rievance 10 him. Yet il would seem far
etter 90 have merely outlined his views
ID intentions as TO what be himself viii {
ave 10 do and wall only be hel1 responsible
r. | understand that many OF Governor
oberts friends have ielt hurt At what they :
gard as an unnecessary CRITICS o, and
.f,a al rnau ref have "a he incurred on the z