Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee of the Whole House in Investigation of Charges Against Hon. J.T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office.

The Texas House of Representatives' Committee of the Whole House in Investigation of Charges Against Hon. J.T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office, was initiated by an unnumbered Simple House Resolution during the Second Called Session of the 41st Legislature on June 6, 1929. The committee's existence was the result of events that began in 1928.

According to the entry on Robison in the Online Handbook of Texas, in November 1928 Governor Daniel J. Moody, members of the board of regents of the University of Texas, and the state attorney general, Claude Pollard, met with Robison and asked him to halt the sale of mineral leases on land belonging to the permanent university fund until the legislature could meet and instigate a system that would yield more money [due to the discovery of oil on the land]. Robison proceeded with the sale of leases that had already been publicly advertised, arguing that the law gave him no choice in the matter. When the legislature met in January, the governor's supporters empowered a special committee to investigate not only Robison's actions in this case, but each and every act of the commissioner of the General Land Office and all matters pertaining thereto.

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