Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-29
STATE BOARDS
HOLD SESSION
Four Commissions At Work
On knotty Problems of
Texas Government

AUSTIN, July 29.-(P)-It could
be said that Texas just now has a
commission" form of government.
For, as a result of action of the
legislature, the state has no less
than four comissions at work on
problems Of government.
Most important, no doubt, is the
commission of Is to study the peni-
Tertiary situation with a view to
picking a site for relocation and re-
organization. The nine members of
q prison board, all appointees of
Governor Moody, supplemented by
Tour senators and five members of
the house, will start its work n
earnest at a meeting to be held in
Houston next Thursday.
Other commissions are those To
settle boundary disputes between
Ie1aS and Oklahoma and Texas
and New Mexico, and one to make
an investigation of the fee system
10 determine the remuneration
county officers receive.
everybody Is interested in the
penltentiary problem" and it is
virtually certain to be the inspira-
uon for a fourth special session
OF the 41st legislature early next
year, when findings and recon-
mendations Of the commission will
pc considered and acted on.
Land Factions
Inere are distinctly two factions
IN the legislature, n convince
tnat concentration can be better ef-
!ected on some lands now owned pv
the state, and the other insistent
That a modern plant should be COR
structed on some centrally located
site. The two groups are almost
evenly dlvlded-So close in numbers
mat 1t has been difficult for the
legislature to reach an agreement
towards solution Of the penitentiarv
question.
All are agreed that something
should be done to concentrate the
men n property, since they are
now SCreWn from the Red river to
the Gulf of Mexico over II farms
Farming is the principal. and one
might say sole, occupation of tho
prisoners at this time. Gov. Mood1
ana others have conceived the idea
trat the men should be put to work
IN a centrally located and modern
plant with farming as a side issue
~ mas peen proposed that clothing
ueeo Dy inmates Of state institu-
tlonS De manufactured by the pris-
oners and probably the state,s
pruning and book binding done bv
them to some extent.
Governor Moody is anxious N
start GENERALIZATION towards reo,;zo
in 1891. e ems
Fee System Report
Inc lee system commission is not
10 be "sneezed at" to emplov lanN
guage OF the sports editor Sen-
ator Pink L. Parrish of II,hboct-
lnStigator of the investigation Is
TO ina out how much money co,,r1
y olIlcers r drawing down l.
chairman of the commission of five
ne tried to get a bill throuob 49,
IegIsiature setting the limit On in
Soile from whatever source os
county officers at $4,000 annuauv
puC ,loSt by a narrow margin. He
a., IN bringing to the can
lIoi a formidable lobby of co1ntv
oiIlcerS. Senator Parrish is oa-~
esq IN his belief that $4,000 a vea-
enough money for anv coi,ntn
oIIicer to receive. He said an -
veeStIgation would reveal SOS O00 and
$4,000 annual salaries are coronanu
1lnong some officehoIders Tha
Parrish report will be ready for tho
special session. Ao1 Cle
me two boundary Commissions
are at work and will also ~sl1oonst
solutions Of the controversies ~
.Oklahoma controversy has beae
ABOUT settled. Oklahoma wantS ~
retain some $4,000 acres throu "
lnto Texas by fixing the 1ooth
meridian as the boundary betweSn
rne Sooner State and the TeSaa
Sannandle. Texas is willing foS
oklahoma to keep the strin1 and tor
agreement between the states as
remuneration and certain richts ~
70 be reached and ratified bv ths
respective legislatures.