Wednesday, April 13, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7
Tribes get second chance
at retaining state funding
United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas’ two In
dian tribes have persuaded
Attorney General Jim Mattox to
reconsider a recent opinion cut
ting the tribes’ state funding.
Mattox ruled March 22 that
the Alabama-Coushatta reserva
tion near Livingston was no lon
ger considered a reservation
under federal law and therefore
might not be eligible to receive
state funds. The opinion also
could affect the Tigua reserva
tion in El Paso.
Monday Mattox said he
would reconsider whether the
tribes are entitled to funding.
His opinion could affect $1 mil
lion in funding already ear
marked for the tribes by the Sen
ate Finance Committee this
year.
“It’s my understanding
they’re going to maintain the
status quo until this issue is re
solved,” said Don Miller, an
attorney from the Native Amer
ican Rights Fund.
Miller is representing the Ala
bama-Coushatta tribe located on
a 4,351-acre reservation in east
Texas. The Tigua reservation
near El Paso encompasses 38
acres.
Elna Christopher, a spokes
woman for Mattox, confirmed
the attorney general’s office
would review the opinion. “We’ll
be looking at it again, including
the information they supplied
us with,” she said.
The funding problem was ex
posed last week by Comptroller
Bob Bullock, who said he would
continue the state’s 50-year
practice of making payments to
the Texas Indian Commission
for the tribes until Mattox clar
ified his opinion.
Alabama-Coushatta Chief
Robert Fulton Battise said
through an interpreter that
Mattox had agreed to review his
decision with the concerns and
input from the tribe in mind.
Restoration plan endorsed
United Press International
AUSTIN — A long-term pre
servation plan to restore and im
prove the fire-ravaged Texas
Capitol building has been en
dorsed by the Texas Society of
Architects.
A portion of the plan,
approved Monday, would call
for a fulltime architect to over
see work on Texas’ “premier
state building.”
Interest in renovating and re
storing the massive pink granite
building has grown since a Feb.
6 lire nearly destroyed the his
toric structure that is the symbol
of Texas’ state government.
The Legislature has approp
riated $7 million to repair the
damages to the east wing. The
pre-dawn fire, which threatened
to engulf the whole building, be
gan in the lieutenant governor’s
private apartment, killing one
overnight guest.
Architect Allen McCree of
Austin said the language in a bill
sponsored by Rep. Hugo Ber-
langa, D-Corpus Christi, “leaves
no doubt in anybody’s mind”
that the 95-year-old building is
to be restored to its original
form.
The House Cultural and His
torical Resources Committee
Monday night referred to a sub
committee three bills, including
a Senate-passed measure, that
deal with restoration of the
Capitol and preserving the view
of the building.
Berlanga’s bill would create
the Capitol Preservation Board,
composed of the governor,
lieutenant governor and Speak
er of the House, to develop a
long-term preservation plan to
maintain and restore the build
ing, its contents and its grounds.
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