Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-11

OOlnt Oti5cT OAllIcIo dCCOunlo DC
sides sheriffs' fee claims are TO be
laid before the new grand jury
now at work in Travis county. That
Is from state officials who will be
In charge OF certain phases Of the
matters, though the kind Of Of
fetal claim and the amount OF
money involved have not been
made known.
The chief clerks Of practically
all departments in the state gov
eminent get $3.50 a year. Any
salary reduction bill, II there is 10
be one, should not make an Inn
p0rtant slash in compensation
until 1t gets above this bracket. II
VIII be remembered that all state
employees o are paying a ? per
cent discount III their warrants.
and probably Will pay 1t most of
the time during the next -
months.
Universities and colleges in Tex
as viii have 10 thresh out the
question in future whether they
have TO deposit their student fees
into the general revenue or the
state. The University Of Texas has
been depositing its fees into a
special account, from which the
money was appropriated back by
the legislature. This fund was
kept on a cash basis, and drew in
terest besides. because the uni
versity put the money on interest
until ready 10 spend it, then de-
posted items in the treasury. under
the procedure fixed by the legis-
lature, to meet warrants about to
be- issued. But other institutions
have kept the funds wholly In
bank, issuing direct checks upon
them.
Contention has been made in
some quarters that these fees
should 90 directly To the general
revenue, payable on appropria-
tons, and thus sharing the gen.
eral shrinkage OF the current dis
count.
II other institutions we're COM
PEELED now TO deposit their fees,
until a legislature has appropriated
them back. It would seriously Grip
pie their revenue expectations I'M
I'll adjusted by a new appropria-
ton bill.
w r. Long for a decade and a
hall auditor or the University OF
Texas, has rounded out one phase
OF his public service in a highly
creditable and honorable way. TO
move on TO an eve broader phase
OF work within the university.
The institutions spreading bust
ness operations, concerned with its
expanding physical properties ano
plant, and its increasing endOw-
ment. has called for A rroi AZ ex-
ecutive officers, including an in
veStment officer, a manager OF
some Of the active properties. ana
trained executive supervision OF
some OF the matters closely related
10 the university's income and rev.
enues.
The regents found r. Long the
right man to put In charge OF
some OF these highly important
functions, a man whose training
and record we're such as to assure
the able and efficient handling OF
the business.
DR.. j. w. Z. II. Beck OF Bowie
county Is a state senator. He also
Is a lieutenant colonel in the med
lea service Of the Texas National
Guard. He was in command. SO
Tar as health and sanitation were
concerned. OF the 1t coil war;
in east Texas. He set uD a hos
pital for the troops. but didn't
nave much need for Il. and he
looked after the health of 100
Texas men. spread out over 400
square miles Of east Texas oil
fields And he reverted back when
most or the troops had been moved
cut that not A single Ease Of tv-
phoid fever developed among the
entire group OF euardsmen on duty
there despite r~iver-bottom mos
uuitoes. omen water pools from oil
wells. and difficulties Of securing
prorer drinking water in the field
service Of the troops.
1t Is a record for the state 10 be
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