Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-25

port OF the main station at College
Station.
| 3. On page is the following
item: Proposed new branches of the
agricultural educational department,
embracing forestry, poultry. husban-
ldry, crop marketing, farm manage
Iment, Horticulture, landscape garden
ling. and agricultural engineering"
$4,000 for the fiscal year ending Au-
lgust 81, 1915. This item is objected
to and disapproved. Many of the pur-
Iposes for which it is proposed are
provided for by the appropriation for
1.-THE experiment sub-stations and for
the agricultural department.
4. On pages and are the fol-
lowing items: Agricultural build
ling, s150,000 for the year ending Au-
lgust 81, 1915; hospital and equip
ment," $4,000 for the fiscal year end
ling August 81. 1914; cottages" &c.,
900 for each OF the fiscal years ending
August 81, 1914, and August 81, 1915;
veterinary building" 100000 for the
fiscal year ending August 81, 1915;
I"building for animal husbandry de-
partment to include: Animal judging
pavilion. $4,000 for the year ending
August 81, 1914; horse and cattle
barn, $4,000 for the year ending Au-
gust 81, 1914; sheep barn, $1,000 for
the year ending August 81. 1914; hog
cholera building, $4,000 for the year
ending August 81, 1914; incinerator,
$4,000 for the year ending August 81,
1914; roads. bridges and sidewalks,
! $40, 900 for the fiscal year ending Au-
| gust 81, 1914, and $4,000 for the fiscal
year ending August 81, 1915: water
works and apparatus and air COM
pressor, $4,000 for the year ending
August 81, 1914, and $4,000 for the
year ending August 81, 1915. All of
the foregoing items for buildings and
Improvements are objected to and dis
approved. Section 13 of article of
the constitution of Texas makes the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
a branch and part of the University
OF Texas. Section IA of article of
the constitution contains the follow
ing prohibition against the legislature
appropriating money out of the gen.
eral revenue, raised by taxation, for |
the erection OF buildings for the Uni |
versity. The prohibition reads as fol- |
lows: &
Provided that no tax shall be lev |
led and no money appropriated out OF
the general revenue, either for this |
purpose or for the establishment and |
erection of buildings of the Univer |
sity OF Texas"
The Agricultural and Mechanical /
College of Texas being a branch OF !
the University of Texas, it is believed !
by many that it is subject to the pro- |
viso in section IA OF article Z of the |
constitution, which prohibits the levy |
ing of tax and the appropriation OF |
money out of the general revenue for |
the erection OF buildings for that in. !
stitution. In view of the fact that !
during the last two years over $780,. |
600 has been expended for buildings |
at the Agricultural and Mechanical |
College, and the further fact that the !
public improvements provided for in |
the bill can not be approved without !
levying burdensome rate of taxation, |
deem it unwise to give my approval
to said appropriations until the ques- |
ton now existing as to whether the |
legislature can lawfully appropriate
money for the erection Of buildings at
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col. !
lege be determined by the courts.
8. On page is the following item:
THE proceeds of the pure feed con-
troll department, not to exceed S25, 900,
are hereby appropriated for the year
ending August 81, 1914, for the pur-
pose of providing a hydraulic labora.
tory" This item is objected to and
for the reason that the
itetm of $4,000 which 1t provides for
the erection OF hydraulic laboratory
should be unpledged and subject to
the use of the board of directors of
the college for such purposes as to
them may seem most important.
6. For the same reason the item
on page reading as follows, is OBJ.
jected to and disapproved: "The pro-
ceeds of the pure feed control depart
ment, for the year beginning Septem-
Der 1. 1918, and ending August 81,
1916, subject to the preceding item,
are hereby appropriated for the pur-
pose of building a mechanical and en-.
cheering building, the same to cost
not to exceed s75,000.'
The terms of article 2672 of the re-
vised civil statutes OF 1911 are quoted
1t this point. Said article reads as
follows:
Article 1872. The revenues accru-
ing from the analysis, fees and sale
If labels as provided for shall be ex-
pended by the board of directors Of
he college for the maintenance OF
he chemical department, and for such
,ther purposes as they may deter
nine"
1t is seen from the foregoing article
snues derived from the sale Of labels
inder the feed control act are al