Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-21
Both Senate and House Hold
Saueuses
AND DECIDE TO SEND HIM BACK
To His Seat in the Upper House Of toe
American Congress,
Speaker Cochran Makes a Ruling Thai Will
Have Far-Roaehins EROOl-Ihe House
Raselnds lis Action In Regard 10
Taxing Daily Papers.

Austin, Tex, Jan. %. Especial THE |
forthcoming report of the board of uni
yersity regents sets ont under the head
Of The Present Needs of the Uniyer-
sity"
l. An appropriation Of $4,000 for the
next two years to supplement the avuila-
Die fund. This win enable it to provide
three new professors. an additional pro
lessor In law, In which case the law
course will be enlarged and extended
TO three yea professor Of Roman
languages ~ rutessor n LVtnuy.
ma An !, sr q o. of $1,000 i for the
appropriate ~ ~ purpose by the
, Twcnty-secoL ~. H. The library
now contains 4, '6 IN.
). An approprES II IT. y for
marine biological 81 Va 20 quarun-
tine station at Calves ~ Don TO be
removed 10 another sit hd the pro
pOsll is 10 adopt and equip-dYyith boats
tables aud appliances.
chuse an assay furnace, distilling aud
! drying apparatus for the school of chem
| istry, and 10 purchase additional trauslts,
! levels, tables aud testing machine Tor
the school of applied mathematics.
! An appropriation of $3.50 for add
/ ditiOnal heating apparatus.
/ Legislation is requested as follows:
j. Granting iirst-grade teuchers GER
tiNcatcs TO certain graduates OF tue uni
/ yersity.
?. Providing for the re-investments Of
the proceeds OF state bonds held by the
university fund, on which interest has
censpd because they are past due
3 Dividing the upappropriated public
domain equally between the common
schools aud the university. The senate
Of the last legislature passed such u
bill, and IL failed 10y few votes In the
house.
The total amount of the appropriations
asked for Is S4T,3I5. The appropria-
tiOns made 10y the Twenty legis-
lature aggregated $4,000.
In addition to this an appropria-
ton of $50, 200 for the next two years
IL asked for the medical department at
Galveston, The report advocates the
raising of the standard required by law
for the practice of medicine In the state
and concludes
1T has long been matter of humili
atug remark among our self-respectini
physicians that under the present law
Texas is an easy asylum for every grade
aud species of quackey, lncompetencl
and ignorance In the medical profession
Every year the mountebanSs and hum
bugs of other states, driven out 10y NOR,
salutary restrictions, come among NJ
10 prey on our people, debAuch spubh
! intelligence aud corrupt the honesty I'M,
= dignity OF the medical fraternity In az
Z ditun TO this, our Young men are bein
= led of 90 putronize the inferior medica
+ schools of other portions of the llniuI
! becausc they are unwilling TO conIh
. with the proper requirements OF rcputu
BILE and efficient culture NJ establishe
4 by our own university. Under the pres
= ent law they may attend one session o
. four or five months at some thud-rat
g college, and then procure tempOrar
Y certificate TO practice medicine rood Ia
: one year. They eau afterwards ntten
/, for one more short session Of supcriicl;
- study aud then enter upon full prncuc
n as duly authenticated regular physician
II and often they procure certificates npo
only one sessions study. ms Is
shnme to our civilization and posity
repronch TO our intelligence and publ
spirit as a people. More than that;
- Is a ruinOus injustice 10 the medical d.
II partment of the state university, an
n one that should be speedily and effect
n ally removed by IA revision OF our law
ar SO as TO bring the standard of publ
If proficiency In medicine up to the lev
ii now prescribed In the course OF instru
D. ton established la the medical scho
fe NJ, Galveston. This can be done witho
II. hardship or injustice TO any one now
IL active practice, and viii rebound to Il
ls manifest protection at once OF our pc
Of pie AT large and of their highest ms
w buttons of medical education