El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-05

OF Ine state, another pet measure is a
bill to authorize corporations to get
into the fruit and notwithstanding
business; another has a measure to en-
courage the establishment Of manufac-
turing plants; another has a bill to es-
tablish a textile school to train up Tex
as boys for cotton manufacturing; an
otEer wants an industrial school for
girls to train them for practical duties,
to teach them how TO make a living;
another has a bill 10 provide for the
exploration of Texas for minerals, and
SO on A large number of the bills in
troduced have commercial or indus
trial ring to them. 1t is true some of
the measures introduced are said to
have dynamite in them. They are
construed as unfriendly to capital and
to the development of the state. But
most of such measures have been kill
ed, none of them has yet been passed.
The reflex of the agitation which has
been going on in Texas during the past
two or three years for industrial de-
velopment, particularly for the eStab-
1iShment of cotton mills, is seen in the
interest which is manifested in some
CT the measures which have been in
trOduced. Two of those measures have
a direct bearing on the cotton manu-
featuring industry. The first of these
StOllenwerck of Hill, providing that
an appropriation of $4,000 shall be
made for the purpose of establishing,
equipping and maintaining a textile
school in connection with the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college of Texas.
Mr.. Stollenwerck says the people of his
home (Hillsboro) are building two
cotton mills. They desire to have
some of the young men of their town
froi in ha orf ~ Co. k,, -
cotton; they sent two boys to Georgia
to take a course in the textile school,
but it was full and they could not gain
adnlittance. Mr. Stollenwerck there
fore, introduced the bill in order that
the youth of Texas may have an op-
portunity to get an education in this
practical work in which the people of
Texas are so greatly interested. The
last Legislature OF Mississippi passed
bill similar to that of Mr.. Stollenwerck
and a textile school has beeen estab-
iished in connection with the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college of Miss
issippi. Mr.. Stollenwerck has collected
considerable data bearing on the sub
ject and he hopes to secure favorable
action upon the bill.
Another measure, having for its pur-
pose the promotion of cotton mills and
ether manufacturing plants, is the joint
resolution of Representative Little of
BeXar county, providing for a consti-
tutiona1 amendment to exempt manu-
featuring plants from taxation for a
period OF ten years. Mr.. Little has
been studying this question for a long
time and is loaded with information
upon the subject. He believes that the
inducement offered N the way of ex-
emptiOn from taxation will prove very
and attractive to manufac-
turerS and to investors, and that the
state can offer this inducement without
any immediate loss and with the GER
tainty of great gains within a very few
years. Mr.. Little forcibly argues that
the state will not lose in revenues by
from taxation institutions
which do not now exist, and that the
aSseSsable values of property will GER
tainly be increased at the end of the
len-year exemption period when these
mills are not on the rolls. But he says
tho state government will begin to reap
z harvest even before the expiration
Of the exemption period, because the |
rection of manufacturing plants |
throughout the state will Immediately |
stimulate business in the various com |
and cause the erection of |
many homes stores. etc, and enhance |
he value of surrounding property. |
Nr. Little further believes that even
4 slight temporary loss in state rev.
,nue were involved in the proposition
he people would be more than COM
for it, because the Inaugural
ion of a number of manufacturing
,lants in the state would create a home
iemand for cotton and other Texas
PRODUCTS which will have tendency to
nhance the value of such products.
Occasionally a bill hobs up which ap- I
'arently might disturb conditions or
ave restrictive effect on some de- ]
elopment. Such measures have been
Oddly treated, and, as a rule, they are
illled in committee and the legislature
oes not seem inclined to waste time
n such of these measures as run the {
auntlet of the committees.
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