Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-27
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Sen. Ben @. Oneal Is the first an
ncunced candidate for congress out
OF the several in the legislature who
will make the race next year.
Sen. Oneal and one-half the sem
ators are holdovers, and q race next
! year will take this group odt Of pres
ent offices only II 1t wins. II they
lose, they still have the senate seat
i. But house members have to
make . choice. since all are to be
elected next year.
Rep. Victor G. Gilbert Is to be q
candidate for attorney general "
James ". Alfred does not seek re-
election to that post. Lieut.. Gov
Edgar Witt and Sens. Clint C..
Small and Walter c. Woodward are
prospective candidates for governor.
Following r among senator's
whose terms wiz expire next yea:
Beck. Berkeley, Cunningham. Gain
er, Hardin, Hornsby, Martin, Parrish,
Patton, Pollard, Small, Stevenson,
Thomson. Williamson.
It Is yet too early for decision to
have been reached In NEST eases
by the incumbents whether they
are to ask reelection to this office
or not, OF election to some other
office.
"A plan to begin ~diverting gaso-
line and license fee revenues from
the roadbuilding fund to the general
operation OF the state government
| will encounter stiff opposition, II
| brought forward now.
Lawmakers will recall that the
University of Texas was designed TO
be self-supporting from its land en-
d1wment: but that from the day
! the legislature began the policy of
supropriating money to 1t. its bud
get has been back before every
hicnnial session. and now the univer-
s-sv receives as a matter Of course
nearly $4.000,000 from the general
revenue. Schools have their own tax,
equivalent to the total cost of gov
eminent, yet when the policy OF
making rural aid appropriations was
formed. the custom Of appropriating
from 81, 900, 900 to $2,500.0 900 a year
out Of general revenue became a
standing one.
Once put the license fees to sup
porting the institutions or any other
service except highway building, and
the growing demands OF the state
| would never let them get back again
to the purpose for which they were
levied.
Believe II or not. prisoners In the
Texas penitentiary have the bene-
fit and pleasures OF radio. From
a single receiving set, operated by
q prisoner, horns are hooked up In
the various ceN blocks.
Glistening like an oriental tower,
the drab old red mortar land office
building that o. Henry labored In
for years. has been renovated until
1t appears as one Of the most at
tractive buildings of the state cam
pus group. 1t is used as a museum
by the Daughters of the Republic OF
Texas. the United Daughters OF he
Confederacy.
Soon a white stone highway build
ing will be added to the group. max
ing four structures on the capitol
grounds. with the old Travis county
courthouse, to be renovated and i'm
proved, remaining temporarily as q
fifth.
The State OF Texas now officially
has one college that Is not operating
... That Is a nautical college, Great
ed through the persistent effort OF
Sen. w. r. Cousins OF Beaumont.
Sen. Cousins says the state viii
be furnished a u. S. government
ship: and arrangements are TO be
made for an Institutional staff, N
which men of Texas. the state with
the longest coastine OF any, may
train some Of its people for mari
time posts.
Several large irrigation projects
are In the course Of building in Tex
as; but no official of Texas has
yet raised the question whether the
limitation or cotton acreage, thus
forcing other land into other crops
will discourage Or hold back any OF
these undertakings 49,. Most Of them
are designed for vegetables and othe'
crops than cotton. The cotton law
itself will tend to more intensified
cultivation of the land that Is work
ed: so that It Is not probable the
irrigation developments already
planned will be crippled because OF
the cotton law in itself; though
bringing on OF new ones may be re-
tarded by it.