Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-15


traordinary purposes than will be dc.
rived from the general revenue souroea
II will be our duty to use the specisi
funds In the treasury, or the several
hundred thousand dollars that
nave been there for years. moi
one cent of revenue has been derived
thereirom. II is withdrawn from the
people, and we are taxing them TO sub.
serve the very purpose for which this
money has been collected. III we use
" at a reasonable interest, the intereAt
goes to the support Of our own instl-
tutions, and not to foreign bankers.
Bonds for this purpose can be placed
In the treasury, payable at the pleas
ure of the state. IL we borrow from
abroad, the bonds must run many
years, or we could not borrow at All
and when we want the bonds back we
have to pay a heavy premium. am
unalterably opposed to this method.
and recommend that we borrow these
special funds, If we need the money.
sHERIFFs' AND CLERKS FEES.
have no doubt Of the pfopriety of
having all such fees and costs paid in
the counties where they are created.
NO good reason can be shown for
sending sheriff or clerk to the treas &.
ury of the state to get fees that have
been earned In the counties, simply
because the case is called felony case
The judge is often overworked. He
feels that II is not exactly part of the
duty of a judge to be examining bills
OF costs. No one in the county feels
particularly interested, and hence
often eXorbitant bills are presented
aud paid at the treasury. These cost
bills should he passed upon by the
commissioners courts, or the Judge, II
thought better, and then paid by the
counties where created The tax.
payer, the court and all concerned
would then have a chance to detect
errors or over-charges, and commits
slons and other expenses attending
this collection at the capital would be
avoided. The reasons here urged in
the cases named apply equally TO the
wages of attached witnesses. The
money comes out OF the people at all
event. There seems to be a strange
inconsistency in allowing the counties
TO collect and use all moneys arising
from forfeited bail bonds and recog.
nizances, and then to require the
treasury of the state to pay the costs
| incurred in the main branch of the
same case.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Both the Sam Houston and Prairie
| View normal schools are In a very
tlourishing and satisfactory condition,
These schools are maintained by the
state. IL is submitted whether il
is not enough for the state to furnish
the buildings Libraries, appearances and
teachers for these schools, as in the
free schools. 1t would seem quite
enough;-requiring students who are
Ia all cases grown men and women to
| provide their own board. The state
does not even take the orphan child
and undertake its entire care and rails.
ing or board, and there appears nc
good reason for paying the board Of
young men and women who are re
ceiving professional training free.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE.
This school has been greatly i'm
proved in ell its departments. The
mechanical department is on much
larger and better scale than formerly,
and so is the agricultural. The prop
eTty is in the charge of Gen. w. p
HaIdeman, and the faculty has moth
| ing to do with the outside manage
ment as formerly.
The last legislature made no appro
priation to support the college, and thu
students are paying their way. 1t
military department is under the man
| agement of Lieut.. Mallory of tn,
| United States army. The farm hal
been enlarged and stocked with 4
suitable number Of cows and mules,
The only stock on the premises
when the college came into the hand
of the present management, OF the DO
vine species, was one bull, and the in
crease derived 10 the institution wa
not perceptible.
The constitution makes the college
part of the university, and whateve
funds that will be needed TO carry !
on, it seems should be appropriated
out of the available university fund.
THE UNIVERSITY.
This institution has been in opera
ton nearly two years, aud the
present executive has left its manage
ment entirely with the board of re
gents. In The appointment of new
members Of the board, he has beel
controlled by:
/. A desire to conform to the law
which required the regents TO be takeI
from different parts OF the state.
.. A desire TO have the board non
partisan, if possible; and
3. Fitness for the position,
And these considerations in the in
verse order here named.
Section of the act Of 1881, the ten
ure of office OF the regents extends on
class to eight years. BY reference T.
section 80, article l6 Of the constitu
ton, it will be seen that the tenure o
all officers, whose terms are no
fixed by the constitution, csnno
be extended over two years; and /
therefore, suggest an amendment e
the law, SO that it may conform to tn
constitution.
/ call your attention TO the nature 0
the appropriation of the available
fund under which the university ha
been carried ON. 1t seems indefinite
and is found in the 18th section of TN
act of 1881, page 81. 1t appears TO b.
in direct violation Of section 8, articl,
S, of the constitution, which declare: