San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-04

THE UNIVERSITY.

! The Matter VIII NOW De brought 10
aFocus.
The project of IA university for this
city to start with an endowment of
100000 and a first class location of
not less than % acres OF ground, was
very largely discussed in San Antonio
some months ago, but of late so little
has been said that many people have
had an impression that the matter
had aborted. This Is in no sense
the case and as recorded in yester-
days LIGHT the presence of Bishop
Mallalieu in the city has direct re-
ference to closing this matter up.
II will be remembered that the Me-
thodist Episcopal church promised
$50, 600 for a university here when
ever $4,000 in cash was raised by
our people and a suitable site donated.
The $50, 900 cash was subscribed some
months ago, but the good bishop was
OH his rounds and the letter addressed
to him in the east kept following
him, like the big wheel the little
one in the wagon which so astonished
the aboriginees, without overtaking
him for two months. The letter has
reached him at last and the bishop
has reached this city and copclus-
ion will now be reached with regard
to the site. Some six sites have
been offered for this purpose, all
OF them slightly and command
ing good views of the city
and valley. There is the West
End site; the heights back of
the San Pedro Springs; the fine eleva-
ton to the northeast of the ''old
refugee west of rock quarry road; the
heights to the north of Government
hill; the crest OF the height overlook
ing the fair grounds and Riverside
park and one or two others not quite
so eligible. Among them all there
should be no difficulty in making a
selection, and as a matter of course the
value of the tract Will cut some figure
in the transaction. There is this in
the situation that is of more conse-
quence than all else; San Antonio has
not failed in her attempt to secure
this very desirable institution Of learn
ing. On this acquisition she is to be
congratulated. The whole environ
ment of this matter is such that it
presages to San Antonio the foremost
institution of liberal education in
Texas. a university in fact as well as
name with a prospective endowment
not alone of the $4,000 which starts
its operations but several times that
amount. The LIGHT cOngratulates
the city upon the outlook.
THE supreme court of Louisiana in
a recent decision refusing the attorney
general rehearing in a certain case,
takes occasion to read that law officer
a lecture on his proposition that the
opinion of the court does not establish
a "rule of practice" The court in
forms the attorney that the opinion OF
the majority of the court is authorita-
tive and, no matter what weight may
attach to the opinions of dissenting
justices, and that the court and not
the attorney is the judge of what
should or should not be accepted as
facts. concluding with this stInging
rebuke:
Nor can it be permitted to anyone
how respectable sOever his standing
may be, to so far forget his Official
standing with this tribunal, and what
is due to it, as to point out under the
pretense ofinteresti in its Jurisprudence
what particular opinions are worthy
of favor and what need to be indicated
by the court. Comment would ado
nothing to the force of these conclu
sions, and we will conclude by ex
pressing the view that was expressed
by the majority of that court, justice
has been done. RehearIng refused.
That attorney will hardly attemp
to teach his grandmother to mill
ducks second time in that court very
soon.