The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-13
HIS VETO.
The Governor Rsps the Normal Schools.
but Approves the Appropriation Of
100000 for st. Paul and
Minneapolis.

Tuesday last, Governor Hubbard com.
pleted his lsbors in signing and vetoing
the bills passed by the last legislature.
Out of 854 bills sent him, he approved
6l4-twenty- seven failing to receive his
signature. The bill extending the time
of the completion Of the Mankato, Aus.
tin & st. Cloud railroad two years, re-
ceived his honor's favor, as did also the
Cannon Valley bill, requiring this COM
pany to construct its line into Mankato
before the land grant under the original
charter would be granted. But Cover
nor Hubbard's action toward the Man
kato Normal School appropriation was a
surprise to everyone, and positive in
suit to the educational interests ofSouth-
ern Minnesota. For the, to the State,
paltry sum of $40, 900 he has refused to
place the Normal School located in this
city in a position u keep pace with the
increasing demand made upon it, and
this in direct contradiction to the unani-
nous recommendation of the Normal
committee who visited the school dur
ing the session, and also against the
unanimous passage of the bill by both
branches of the legislature. He did al
low, however, $4,000 addition to the
regular annual appropriation for the
improvement Of the St. Cloud Normal,
and it was just that he should. But this
claim was no more urgent than that APP
propriated to US, If indeed it could be
said to equal our claim. The Governor
said, in justification Of his veto of the
Normal appropriations:
"If the resources of the treasury would
admit of it, ] would be glad to approve
these items, but with a probable def
cheney of $l74 900, measured by the APP
preparation made, the necessity of re-
stricting its obligation is manifest"
Leaving that portion of the sppropri-
alton out of the question calling for $50,
600 for the erection of Normal Home
al Winona, which We never did believe
should receive the favor Of the execu-
tive, the Governor could have saved
the State $50, 600 10y vetoing the 100000
appropriated for the improvement OF
the fair grounds between st. Paul and
Minneapolis, and at the same time ap.
proved of the 1000 to make the i'm
provements in our Normal school build
ing which are imperatively demanded.
We would like to ask Governor Hub
bard how he can consistently cripple a
State educational institution las he GER
tainiy has done in this case) by with
drawing a $4,000 appropriation, and
giving his support to e measure calling
for twice and half times as much, that
could as well be dispensed with until
the receipts Of the State would warrant
such an expenditure. Does he believe
that q single teacher is capable OF doing
full justice to class containing eighty or
one hundred pupilsP There is hardly
. recitation conducted in this school that
has less lumber than that first men,
toned, while there are several contain
ing hundred or more. And the build
ing has not the capacity to divide the
classes and double the instructors. 1t
has been shown that with . larger at
tendance than the Winona school We
are obliged to get along in q building
with only about one-half the capacity.
The winter term just closed here had an
attendance of nearly six hundred pupils,
and with an increase the next two years
equal to that recorded the past two, the
attendance would reach nearly or quite
eight hundred. The action of the Gov
ernor, however, has made this pleasing
probability an utter impossibility by re-
fusing to meet the demand, and for this
action, little az he may care about it, he
has wrought up the indignation of our
people here and the patrons Of the
school outside to a very high pitch.
1t is freely asserted by many that the
Governor is under the influence of the
money interests Of the twin cities, but
while we do not join in attributing any.
thing Of the kind to him, we must con-
Tess that his approval of the hundred
thousand dollar appropriation and the
veto of the forty thousand dollar one,
gives a coloring Of reason for these re-
marks.