Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-27
Capital
By
Tie PoE6eal
Analyst

Sen. Ben G. Oneal Is the first an
nOunced 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 followers, and q race next
year will take this group odt Of pres
ent offices only II 1t wins. II they
lose, they still have TIE senate seat
N. ~. But house members have to
make q choice, since all are to be
elected next year.
Rep. Victor G.. Gilbert Is to be a
candidate for attorney general u
James v. 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 senators
whose terms will expire next yea:
Beck. Berkeley, Cunningham, Cain
er. Hardin, Hornsby, Martin, Parrish.
Patton, Pollard, Small, Stevenson,
Thomson. Williamson.
1t Is yet too early for decision to
have been reached In most cases
by the incumbents whether they
are to ask reelection to this office
or not, or 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
hro.ruh+ forxxror - vru-
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
Erpropriating money to It. its bud
get has been back before every
Biennial session, and now the univer-
s-.1v receives as q matter OF course
nearly E4,000,000 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. 000. 900 to $2.510,000 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 It 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 ir
| the various cell blocks.
Glistening like an oriental tower
the drab old red mortar land offic'
building that 0. Henry labored il
for years. has been renovated unit
1t appears as one Of the most at
tractive buildings of the state cam
pus group. II Is used as a museum
by the Daughters of the Republic o.
Texas. the United Daughters Of hi
Confederacy.
Soon a white stone highway build
ing will be added to the group. max
ing four structures on the capito
grounds, with the old Travis county
courthouse. to be renovated and i'm
proved, remaining temporarily as
fifth.
The State of Texas now official,
has one college that Is not operating
w. That Is a nautical college, Great.
ed through the persistent effort o.
Sen. w. n. Cousins of Beaumont.
Sen. Cousins says the state viii
be furnished a u. S. government
ship: and arrangements are to bs
made for an Institutional staff, u
| 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 project,
are In the curse OF building in Tex.
as: but no official of Texas has
yet raised the question whether thI
limitation OF cotton acreage, thu'
forcing other land into other crops
will discourage or hold back any o.
these undertakings -. Most of then
are designed for vegetables and othe'
crops than cotton. The cotton Law
itself will tend to intensified
cultivation Of the land that Is work.
ed; SO that 1t Is not probable tn.
irrigation developments already
planned will be crippled because d
the cotton law in itself; though
bringing on Of new ones may be re-
farInd nu a.