The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
COL. DINK Bolts
Reaching Out With Both Feet for Lucit
Intervals.

yesterday afternoon said Col. Bolts,
81 had the pleasure of listening to Pres-
ident Winston's talk to the house COM
mittee and education, and heard him pre-
sent the most positive and incontroverti-
Bile reasons why certain improvements
were necessary in and abou' the state
university. What he said was pertinent
and timely and ought to have been heard
by the entire house. He showed con-
ciusively that the institution was not
sufficiently equipped TO make the best
of what they already have; that 1t fell
far short of university of the first
class. such as was contemplated by the
constitution; that the faculty, so far as
ability was concerned, compared favora-
bly, with any like number of instructors
in any college on the continent; that with
a. working force of teachers of more than
average capacity the university sadly
lacked room for the proper instruction of
students; that because of the lack OF
sufficient room, it was absolutely impos-
sible to carry out the designs of the facul-
tv in MANY directions; that the library
was miseraby defective. both in the size
of the room devoted to that purpose, but
more especially in the paucity of books
of reference. 1t was absolutely neces-
sary that female students should have
better and more convenient quarters, or
else that they should not be allowed to
enter the institution. DR.. Winston Ec3
facts and figures to substantiate all he
said, and, by the way, he drew some com
PARSONS which We're not altogether cred
table to Texas, yet, despite the fact that
he spoke from experience and was earn
est and conscientious in his suggestions
and recommendations, / actually heard
a member of the committee say after the
adjournment: 'Ae we going to let a
fellow like that come here and misrepre-
sent things, as ne has done? ! wont vote
dollar to the university And there
you are again, my fellow countrymen.
Ye gracious gods, stop, ponder and kind
ly suggest tip as to how man of pa
tience is to fifty comment on an exhibit
ton like that.
"Say, have you people given any consid-
| Grafton to the fellow servants bill? 1t
| strikes me forcibly that if its provisions
are good thing for employees of railroads
| that the law should apply to every occu-
patton where death or injury is likely to
occur. Men meet death, or are more or
| less injured in countless number of oc-
equations, where justice would indicate
the liability of employers under such a
law as is suggested in this fellow SER
vice statute. If absolute justice is pro
posed, / can not understand why the rail.
| road corporations are singled out as the
only people against whom such a statute
would be operative. If man loses his
hand in threshing machine, if he is Grip
pied for life in manufacturing estab-
| lishment, or blown sky-high and manned
| in n quarry blast he has no redress
against the man or the corporation who
employed him, but if he is injured while
in the employ of a railroad company, ther
this law explicitly says he can recover
damages, and there is positively no es
cape for the corporation. Now, that may
be all right, but it dazes me. The law
| if passed at all, should be general. II
should include every hazardous occupa
ton, and in this shape might not bt
wholly Objectionable. But I'll bet you
a cold bottle that there isn't a man il
either house of sufficient moral courage
to even introduce such measure.
'"That's meritoriOus bill of Senator
Bailey's, providing for the establishment
of an industrial institute and college fol
the education of white girls in, the art
and sciences. Now the man who is op
posed to appropriation of money for stat
educational institutions, and the fellow
whose highest conception of art is tn
\ ability to rope q steer, amt going L
stand anything of this character.
81 see that Br'er Walters has evolved {
Joint resolution to limit the membership
of the house to ninety-three. That's on
of the propositions that's full of blow
holes If Br'er Walters had placed tn
limit at 256 and given pretty near every
body show to break into the house, n
4 would be dizzy watching the rapidity witt
j which the bill would pass the hopper. Blu