Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-01-16

Recommendation is made that the at
torney generals office be enlarged to
better take care of the increasing bust
ness. He urges the adoption of the rec
concentrations of the attorney general
on corporation and antitrust laws
The governor says the state militia is
far superior to a year ago and is grad
ually attaining perfection under the adj
jutant general. He recommends that
the rangers be given more power in
making arrests and that they be better
provided for than in the past few years.
The governor says the lack of neces-
sary funds has eliminated the agricul-
tural feature from the department Of
agriculture, insurance, statistics and
history and that the two last named
subjects do not get proper care. He i'll.
vites attention to this department.
The governor urges that better pro-
lection be provided for against infec-
tious diseases and that more stringent
laws be passed as to quarantine, vacci-
nation, ETC., and that the commissioners
court of every county should be empow-
cred so as to take steps to crush any
contagion.
In the state revenue agents report
the governor has found that nearly
double the number of liquor dealers
take out the federal tax to those of the
state. He asks that the law as to the
collection Of taxes from domestic corpo-
ration be amended to better secure pay
ment. He says the purchasing agent
for all the eleemosynary institutions has
saved money to the state and should be
continued.
The governor reviews the schools of
the state-the university, the agricul-
tural and mechanical college, Prairie
View state normal and industrial col
lege and the Sam Houston normal insti-
tute-and gives details as to the number
of teachers and pupils and expenses.
He makes no recommendation except as
to repairs for damage done the Prairie
View normal and industrial college,
which suffered by the great storm in
September.
The governor is strongly in favor Of
an industrial school for girls and rec
ommends that the properties for normal
schools either at Denton or San Marcus
be utilized for that purpose.
AS to the public schools the governor
says:
"The scholastic census upon which
the apportionment of the available
school fund is made, aggregates 729, 445
children, within the scholastic age, for
the year 1901-an excess of 1880 over
the year 1900. The number of teachers
employed in the public free schools for
the year 1899 was IA, 1893, Of whom 1914
were white male teachers, 6175 white
female teachers, 1926 colored male
teachers and 1915 colorcd female
teschers. 1t is estimated that the total
! number for 1900 Will be nearly 10000.
Title return as % rlfe r,rn1bei-o 81 chill
dren can not, however, berelied on asa
correct ascertainment Of those entitled
to the benefit of the free school fund.
sIn order to demonstrate, beyond all
question, the entire reliability of the
scholastic census and its utter unfitness
to be basis upon which to apportion
the fund, it will only be necessary to
compare through series of years, the
number of children as shown by the cen
sus with that of those actually enrolled
in the schools. For 1896 the excess of
the census return over the school enroll
ment was 1020Sl children; for 1897
1870, 90l; for 1898-149, 600; and for 1899
III, 8S7,"
The governor urges that some plan be
adopted to correct the evil of commu-
nifty obtaining pay for three times the