The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-03-01
PUNISH KIDNAPPING.
I Senate Passed the Bill Making
the Crime a Capital 0ffense.
TAPLES' UNION LABOR BILL PASSED
House Committee VIII Recommend the
Submission of the Constitutional Con-
venton Question at Next Election.
AnstIn. rexas. Fehrunrr IS.

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fHE HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE to-
&day reported its appropriation bill for the
2six months ending August ~, 1901. 1t
carries items aggregating s1.50s,ST3 IN
8nmount, in which are deficiencies TO the
&amount of about S2Oo,o0o for the two
8years ending February 2S, 1901.
AafoNG OTHER MATTERS, the house TO.
K day finally passed Senator Harris hill.
providing that foreign corporations with
100000 of their capital stock paid III,
q without reference to the amount of said
scapital stock or to the amount thereof
subscribed, may obtain permit to do
4 business in the state.
fHE SENATE transacted considerable
( business today. Among the most i'm
portant of the bills it passed was one by
Waylnnd fixing the penalty for kidnap-
ing at death or not less than ten years
1 In the pententlary; one by Staples, pro
viding penalty for iischarglng employees
4 because of union affiliation with an
amendment: by Dlbrell, applying the pen
atty of walking delegates who interfere
with employees and attempt to induce
them to quit work, and Dayidsons de
4 Witb bill, authorizing married women to
act as executrix without the consent OF
their husbands.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on constitu-
\ tional amendments this evening decided
to report fayorahly a resolution provd-
ing for the submission at the next gen
eral election of the question whether or
not q constitutional convention shall be
held. as substitute for the resolution
providing for the holding of one in Sep.
TENDER.
SENATOR PAULUS today introduced a
bill in the upper house identical with
the McFall bill instructing the secretary
of state TO cancel the permit of the
Waters Pierce oil company TO do business
in Texas.
NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members
of the House of Representatives.
We. your committee appointed to visit
the maii university In the city OF Austin
and its medical branch in the city Of Gal
weston. To examine into the affairs OF each
and report to the house in writing, max
ng such recommendations as we might
deem proper, beg leave to state that we
have performed that duty and herewith
chDulll QUIZ report. IN view OF Inc IA,'i
tnat these institutions form the capstone of
the States educational system, the support
OF which Involves an ennual expenditure
of more than SaO00 600, we have deemed
The occasion oppoitune and proper to enter
into details, to the end that the
public may better understand the history
and character Of the University and the
work which Ii is designed to accomplish
as the head OF the free school system of
Texas, We present the subject under sub
divisions with recommendations as fol
lows:
The committee desired specially 10 com.
mend the systematic and thoroughly busi-
ness like manner in which the affairs Of
the university are. conducted. An exam
accounts of the university are entered
shows that they are neatly and accurately
The university has five sources of in
terest on land notes. 81 Interest from
land leases. a. Naturalization fees. 90
Appropriations from general revenue.
The area of student patronage has been
Increased until it includes nine States and
10 counties in Texas. The Increase dur
Ing. the last and present session ut the
issration has been more than 80 1-3 per
cent and, but for the storm Mt Galveston,
ttp increase there would in all probability
hive maintained an equal ratio.
The University of Texas has now the
largest attendance of any southern uni
vesity, and during the past session OF
1879 1900 the number of its academic stud
ems exceeded the combined numbers Of
Vanderbilt university aud the University
of Virginia. the two other leading uni
VeElties of the South. Our people are be
ginning to realize that il is not necessary
10 send their children from home to he
edtcated. The excellence Of the instruc-
tiol given In the University of Texas is
cvilenced by the fact that her graduates
in 'pen competition with the graduates OF
othr institutions are winning schOlarships
ard fellowships in the leading universities
of lmerica.
Oh account of the wide separation Of
the university from the great reference
libriries of the North and East 1t Is diff
cult for any student, with the ger ia,
|ciltes afforded In Texas, TO thnroughlv
inveitlgate any question. It would there
fore he the part of wisdom for the State
no build up at its chief seat of learning a
great library accessible to all its scholars
Tn, regents OF the university in their
ninth biennial report. In addition TO the
amont heretofore required for support and
maintenance, request the following
amounts for the purposes named:
l. TO pay for the heating plant for Uni.
verslt hail, S356l.
.. For three additional professors, s65n0
viz: Associate professor of English $500,
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