The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 247
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Establishment of the University.
books and papers in the office of the Secretary of State furnish but
imperfect information about the passage of that bill through the
Legislature. Amongst the papers there are two bills--a Senate bill
and a House bill-both in the same handwriting, apparently en-
grossed bills. They are duplicates, with a slight variation in the
seventh and twenty-third sections. The eighth section of both pro-
vides for a president of the University, as recommended in the
memorial. The twelfth section in both provides for the admission
of students, without designating the sex, and a slip of paper con-
tains an amendment by Senator Gooch providing for female as
well as male students. The Senate bill appears to have been intro-
duced on the first of February, and the House committee bill on
the seventh of February.
There is no House Journal in the office of the Secretary of State,
but that of the Senate is there. In the Senate Journal, it appears
that the Governor's message and teachers' memorial reached the
Senate on the 28th of January, 1881. On the 29th of January, on
motion of Senator Homan, the reading of the message was post-
poned and referred to the Committee on Education.
On January 31st, Senator Wynne offered a resolution "that the
Committee on Educational Affairs be requested to consider the
propriety of establishing a State University, and report their action
by bill or otherwise," which was adopted. The members of that
committee were Buchanan of Wood, chairman; Patton, Martin of
Navarro, Terrell, Tilson, Martin of Cooke, Houston, Stewart,
Stubbs, Burgess, Ross, and Gooch. On February 1, Senator Buch-
anan, by leave, introduced Senate bill No. 98, entitled "An act to
establish the University of Texas," which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Educational Affairs, and the same day he presented a
favorable report upon it as chairman. On February 8th (Tues-
day), "On motion of Senator Terrell, Senate bill No. 98 was
taken up and made special order for Thursday following, after
morning call]." Senator Gooch offered to amend by adding "from
day to day until disposed of," which was accepted by Senator Ter-
rell, and the motion was adopted. On February 10th (Thursday),
Senator Stubbs offered an amendment to the effect that the medical
department might be located at a different place from that of the
main branch of the University, which was lost by a vote of 9 for
and 12 against it, 5 not voting. On the 11th of February, Senator247
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