Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-02-14
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE s
MADE INSPECTION
Found Some Buildings in Bad cordl
tion-speech of Hon. Louis ).
Workman, Of Fort Worth.

with the crisis that exists at this time
in the affairs of the institution.
The subcommittee of the house
committee on appropriations, consist
ing of Col. Louis j. Workman, OF Tar
rant, chairman; j. II. Woods, OF Ma
varro; Brown f. Lee, OF Tom Green,
and C. NJ. Cureton, of Bosque, began
the investigation Sunday, morning.
With them came also Hon. JEFF d. Cox,
of Rockwell, chairman Of the general
committee on appropriations, his at
tendance being an evidence of the
strong interest being taken in the at
fairs OF the college by the present
legislature.
Colonel Miner took the gentlemen
about the property of the institution.
They were not satisfied to sit in the
comforts of the apartments provided
for them and hear, second hand, the
arguments in favor of better facilities
for teaching the boys of this institu-
ton, but they went out in the cold,
drizzly rain. suffered the discomforts
of the bad footing on muddy streets,
and went from one department to an
other. Stenographer Harmon, OF the
house clerical force, took down the
comments of the members of the COM
mittee at every point. They went
through every department, saw the
cracked walls of old buildings. the
crowded condition of the various de-
partments of instruction, and learned
of the lack of equipment.
Monday morning the entire student
body was assembled in the chapel and
Colonel Workman made an address.
He said that when he was appointed
on the committee to visit the various
state institutions and ascertain their
needs he had an idea that he was
wanted as an expert in architectural
engineering. Since seeing the build
ings at other state institutions and
at A. & NJ. college he is convinced
that, instead of being an architectural
expert, he was sent out as an expert
on ancient ruins" He said;
81 have been convinced for many
years that this Institution, among the
rest under the guardianship of the
state, was inadequately provided for.
Since | have been here that impress.
sion has become a conviction. I,want
to say to you that in my humble ca
pacity as legislator, if by voice and
vote can relieve these conditions,
that | pledge you here and now the
best energies of my heart and mind.
They tell me that in my advocacy of
the state institutions of higher learn
ing and those institutions which have
to do with the teaching of industrial
arts I am departing from the policy
of conservatism. In answer to my
critics | say to them that conservatism
never founded a great institution; con-
servatism never constructed a rail-
road into the undeveloped portion of
the country in order that man might
bring about the development OF the
resources which nature had placed
there for him; conservatism never
opened the door of opportunity to men
that they might increase the wealth
of the state and the nation, and con-
servatism never won a great battle on
the field of blood and war and carnage.
1t is the dreamer who builds the en-
pire; it is the dreamer who builds In
new places. When they tell me that
| must not do anything to increase
the advalorem tax rate of this state
] say that 1t Is the duty of every pa
triotic citizen to do that which will
make his state grow and which will
increase the Importance and value to
the people of every state institution.
The things which are taught in this
college are the things which are abso-
lutely necessary to the development of
the state of Texas. They say this is an
agricultural state. True it is, but it
is also a factory state, or can be made
one. About the fourth industry in i'm
portance, or maybe the third, in this
state is the cattle industry. There are
nine million cattle in this state below
the quarantine line. 1t has been dem
onstrated that below the quarantine
line Is the finest breeding ground for
cattle in the United States. No sane
man will tell me that this state should
halt a moment in taking the proper
scientific means of stopping Charlton.
Texas fever and cholera in
hogs. Texas cattle have taken the
prizes at the Royal show in Kansas
City, at the International Livestock
exposition in Chicago, and at that
great Louisiana Purchase Exposition
in st. Louis which commemorated
Thomas Jefferson's acquisition of the
territory that was coded by France,
Texas cattle won the prizes that pro-
claimed them the best in the land.
want to see this great college build
department here devoted to veterinary
science that will be an honor to the
institution and an honor to this state.
teach veterinary science here to
your agricultural students, but it
ought to be so that you can confer the
degree of doctor of veterinary medi-
cine upon those who take that course.
Texas should equip the men who will
protect the livestock industry from the
ravages of disease, and | want to say
further that it is imperatively incum-
bent upon the state of Texas to de-
velop the hog industry OF the five
thousand hogs which were sold to the
packers in that magnificent city of
Fort Worth last year, three thousand
Of them came from the state of Okla
homa. My idea is that the state of
Texas should be exceedingly generous
in appropriations for this institution.
To my mind the legislature has fol-
lowed a mistaken policy in regard to
the University of Texas. the Agricul-
n