San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-05
GOV. HOGG TALKS.
TO LARGE CROWD AT Nc
GREG0R.
Defends His Administration, And
Pours Hot Shot Into His
Defamers.
Special to the San Antonio LIGHT.

MCGREGOR, Tex, Oct. D. Cover
nor Hogg spoke here today, and
as was predicted in your Austin
special Of yesterday the governor
gave the papers fits. After general
discussion of the condition of the
state, its past present and future,
and the farming interests in rela-
ton to Commerce, the Governor
said, "the INSCRIPTIONS, loud
mOuthed MISUNDERSTANDING enc
mics of Texas and of the Democra-
tic state administration are
proclaiming in a whining
voice and flaming head
lines, that the state is bankrupt,
and extravaganza is the cause.
The declaration in both respects
is absolutely false, and those who
make it, do so knowingly and will
fully. While standing here before
the thoughtful, intelligent repres-
entatives of the wealth-prOducing
classes of Texas, | am ready to
answer any questions, touching
public or private affairs with
which | have ever been connected.
AS no questions are asked, then
| will proceed voluntarily to show
you gentleman who are not loaded
down with malice and false-hood
about the state administra-
ton, that in alb respects
your state government is in good
condition. The governor then re-
viewed the situation at length, set
ting forth the same ideas as adj
vanced by your Austin correspon-
dent in his interview Of Wednes-
day.
The governor concluded his
lengthy speech by stating that
"thc increased expenses of my adj
ministratiOn over former ones con-
sisted of refunding amounts i'm
properly paid for lands, $500,
amount paid for publishing con-
stitutiOnal amendments, $4,000;
cOdifying the laws, 81 800; eulO-
giving the Asylums, University,
quarantine stations and education
al institutions $4,000; settling
deficiency of former years, $4,000;
bounty for scalps of wild animals
in the west, $4,000; payment of
state bonds of long standing, S2lS,-
600; medical branch of the Univer-
sity at Galveston, S4, 900; support
of Confederate Home, assumed by
the state, $6l 900; salaries of new
district judges and district attor-
news, $4,000; court of Commission
of appeals, $4,000, and railroad
commission, $S9,7OO, making in the
aggregate $S56,SOO. Added to this
for the next two years begin
ing March lst last, were the
additional items of $4,000
for the Greer county cases,
81 800 to refund land sales 5000
for the new civil and criminal
courts $1,000 for two districts,
S25 900 for improvements of the a.
and NJ. college, $4,000 to pay dis
trict and county attorneys for
bringing suits on land notes, I'M
der former administration. About
$4,000 extra time of legislative
session and $4,000 to defray the
expenses of the educational de-
partment which heretofore has
been paid out of the free school
funds, making in the ag-
gregato $I,lO7O65. This amount
for which the people have
received full value added to the
taxes saved to them of 81, l2S,266,
aggregating the grand total of
1925, 1881, would not indicate any
loose management of public affairs,
on the contrary, it demonstrates
the ability of my much abused adj
ministration to collect the revenue
well, as to husband it's resources
economically and to support the
increasing demands of the public
service OF the great growing state
out of reduced taxes. ). A. u.