The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-16
SENATOR AsT|N A FAITH
Full PUBLIC SERVANT
Worked Perseveringly for A. & M.
College and Accomplished Much.
Ably Seconded by Judge
RoWell.

To the Editor OF The Bryan Eagle:
have just returned from Austin,
where ] spent the last week of the
legislature looking after the interests
of A. & NJ. college While the general
result of the late session is known
there is specific information that !
think the pepole Of Brazos county
ought TO know, and that is in refer
ence OF Senator J. r. Astin, of this
district.
During the trying days leading up
to final adjournment Senator Astin
was in his seat early in the morning
and late at night. He was faithfully
ION the job" and watched carefully
the interests of A. & NJ. college. It
was through his efforts that the bill
providing for experts in soils and ter
racing, which provided that the de-
partment of agriculture should be in
charge, was amended so as to bring
this department to the college; it was
through his efforts that the constitu-
tional amendment providing for a six
year term for the members of the
board of directors of the college and
other state institutions was passed in
the senate; he secured the adoption
in the senate of the constitutional
amendment providing for the separa-
ton of A. & VI. college and the uni
versity, and he worked hard to help
us get it through the house. but 1t
failed; he secured the passage in the
senate of The new fertilizer law. which
10 so much needed by the department
OF the state chemist at the college:
when it was discovered that the new
codification of the civil and criminal
laws of the state omitted the statute
Of the fourth called session of the
Thirty-first legislature, by which omis- !
sion the college would have lost the
revenue from the state feed inspec- .
ton law, he threw himself in front of /
The final acceptance of the codification /
and prevented its passage until the
error was corrected. Senator Astin
stands well with his associates in the
senate. His personality attracts to
him friends from both factions his
extreme courtesy to others at all
ines has won him friends for every
ause he espoused. His activity in be-
ialf of his constituency makes MIN
man for this district, and |
want to say that the people of this
ectiOn of the state have done Wen 10
onor him with the position. Active.
nergetic and reliable; diligent in that
g remains at his seat throughout all
he time Of The meeting of the body {
D which he belongs. he deserves COM \
lendation.
The appropriation bill was lost An
fort was made to get it up Thursday
nd had Chairman Cox, of the COM
littee, had sufficient support he I
ould have done so. He tried by voge v
take it up Thursday and the mo- b
on was lost by six votes. There were a
lite a number of members absent at g
lie time, and if there could have been
ut six or seven there to stand with V
hartman Cox the story might have b
zen different. G.
The main spokesman on the floor of "
e house for the college was Judge "
d. Rowell, of Jefferson, a former il
ember of the board of directors, who al
ade every effort to help the institu- h
IN. Judge Rowell took up every B
easure that Senator Astin carried ca
rough the senate and made an effort is
get it through the house, and in in
Ost instances was successful. When 81
e error in the codifcation act was m
scovered by which the feed revenue W
IS about to be lost to the college. III
dye Rowell joined Senator Astin in. III
5 efforts that corrected the mistake.
JAMES HAYS QUARLES.
College Station, Texas, March IS.