The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-28
PENITENTlARY INQUIRY.
Further Dissatisfied on With The En-
tire Lease System,
A TALK WITH CHAIRMAN HENDERSON.
Superintendent Rice Coming 10 Houston
to Meet the Governor Saturday TO
Insist on Retiring at Once.

liuntsvtne, Texas, March %. Chairman
Henderson returned yesterday from hts trip
10 the convict camps south Of Houston, He
visited all the state. contract and share
larms in that section and found the nrst
In pretty good condition As between tie
contract and share farms IL struck him
that the contract farms were the hest man
aged. Mr. shannon, who has been exam
ming the camps from Navasota north, hu-
tshcd his work today, it is undrrs God. but
! has as yet made no report of what he has
found
senator Savage loft for his home IN
Montague county this evening and MesSrS.
Henderson and Boyd VIII rvmaiu here un-
til IA uvduS to- complete the TRANSFERRING
81 the mass ot testimony the committee
has taken ON saturday the committee
VIII adjourn TO meet agalu az Rusk on
Aptl e. from which place 1t viii return to
| llnptSyilie to complete It's work 10 connec
/ tivu With the pvual institutions
In speaking OF VIVA, the committee has
learned to date with regard g. the peat
tcntiarics, Chairman Henderson said To
! I nc IcSt correspondent tint. evening that
everything went TO show that the executive
/ ofncvrs thereof have q correct appreciation
ot their duties and faithfully cudcaNor 10
discharge them So tar as nc could see,
! tNorc was no room for COMPLAINTS of the
| Internal maunEcm ut OF he huntsville and
| itusN prisons The further he went with
! the lnVcS igution. though the more he ne
! came convinced TINT the system under
/ which the pcnitcntaries are governed Is de
/ trvttve and out of ia e. What struck him
! mosi forcihly was the lnconpru.ty OF the
| plan for supervising The out side camps,
! desc camps nrr looked after by inspectors
/ appointed 10y the governor and Nlr, RENDER
son observed that la most cases the ser.
/ Ecnuts IN charge thereof were I'm doubt as
/ q whom they should account to the super
J htrnucnt, INC financial agent ut th" III
sperors 10 his mind this condition OF of-
fairs rs not calculated To- pruiucc good re
suits and n Us his opluiou that some bet
tor method of Keeping mp with the man
ncemcnl of the conNc's In the employ of
contractors aud ON share farms must be
| adopted
With regard 10 the lease system Mr.. Hen.
dwSon returns from his vlEit 80 the farms
morc han eyer IMPRESSED with the ucecs
suN OF doing away herewith and 70 firm
lHrNeNcr iu inc policy 90 state control II
was his observation. however, that There
TINT me convirts are much hettrr cared FOR
there now than formrrir lmt he di9 not
md hat any OF the farms he visited were
an'.hiuc Ike perfect from sanitary
standpoint or THAT satisfactory arrange
men Cor looking nftci and taking caro- of
th' sick were distinguishing feature OF
ther management such matters as Nir
Henderson has found to critic'sc to AZ O.
; t. may he remarked are the result, of The
system under which the pcnitonilnrics Art
run and no The results Of negligence o
Disregard ~ duty ON the part OF the off,
rcrs or 70 he palmer what seems obicc
tonahic IN Mr.. iicud'rSou'H sight in IN,
hccn conducted is due to legislative lnex
pcrcnce and can only hr prey nted NY in
, teiliEout legislative In crtcrcuc.
y =
superintendent Of pentcntjarcs Rice lcf
for Houston this evening ana win meet m
governor and the peni,cntary BOARD J.
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