The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-03

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plated by the board; second, because OF it,
proximity to the hospital, by which needed
ground is taken from the hospital"
1t is presumed that the city of Calves
ton will select another and more suit
able site, and it will then be incumbent
upon the regents to advertise for bids anC
give out the contract for erecting the
building. Ia the meanwhile, it is the duty
of the regents to say that the erection Of
a bare building is but the beginning Of
the expense that will have to be incurred
by the state in organizing aud maintain
ing a medical department of the Uni
Versity at Galveston. The regents do mo-
wish to be misunderstood. They recog-
nize that the state and the University are
both fully committed to the establishment
of the medical branch at Galveston, and
that the Twentieth legislature,in directing
that $4,000 should be appropriated and
set apart to be used in the construction OF
buIldings," indicated the desire that the
work shodld begin at once. But they deem
the cost of this addition to the Uni
versity and the necessity of making a
much larger appropriation than $4,000
to be used as an available fund, and of
providing a much larger income than the
University now receives, to be drawn on
In paying current expenses. in order
to put in operation the medical depart
ment at Galveston with present available
fund of $4,000 and yearly income of
$25, 900. 1t ia absolutely impossible to get
this amount of money from the available
resources of the University. As has been
shown these amount to only 44,9l9.39,
every dollar of which is needed for the
departments already established. By the
vote of the people in locating the medical
school at Galveston, and by the action of
the Twentieth Legislature in directing that
$4,000 be spent in its buildings, the state
has assumed the responsibility of its COM
pletion and its maintenance. 1t is to the
Twenty first Legislature, then, that the
regents confidently look for means to carry
out the work that has been put upon them.
1t is with no disposition to prevent or re-
tard the establishment of the medical
school at Galveston that these facts are
stated. The day when this could be done,
has, in the opinion of the regents, gone
by. As has been said, the state and the
University are now both committed to the
speedy and efficient organization of this
department, and it is with the honest in
tention of doing this in the most effectual
manner that these facts are stated and
emphasized.
AS is we'll known, this branch of the
University is under the control and subject
to the direction of an independent board
of directors. It is understood that this
board will present to your excelency the
needs and requirements of their college in
their biennial report. The regents will,
not undertake to set them forth
here, but they respectfully call attention
10 the fact that, in order to provide for
,he support and maintenance of this
branch, the directors have an income from
IN independent fund amounting to nearly |
$4,000, and also, by special oonstitu- |
'ional provision, the college can be cup |
pOrtei from the general revenue. Not |
this fact successive legisla-
.ures have appropriated, out OF the in
ZONE of the University, $4,000 per year
for the support of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college.
the claim of this brauch upon a share
yether by constitutional and statutory
a. they are, is nquestioned,
But, in consideration of the pressure that
IS just now on the University to provide
FOR the medical branch at g WESTON, to
ill the absolutely necessary chairs in the
! ,ademic department., and to finish the
main building at Austin, it is respectfully
submitted that it would be wiser to ap-
only small amount from the
University fund and the balance from the
general revenue for the needs of the agri-
cultural and mechanical branch, over and
above the income from Its special endow-
ment, for the next two years. At the end
Of that time, if there has been no change
in the present legal rela ions of the two
and if the financial condition
Of the University has Improved, the egri-
cultural and mechanical branch can take
its proper and equitable share of the
total University income.
To recapitulate: The necessity of in
creasing the available fund of the Uni
verslty IS shown from the necessity of
completing the main building; from the
need of additional equiment aud expan-
sion OF 'esent chars in the academic
depart H' rom tne need or additional
chairs ~ 4" academic department; from
the need "a additional chair in the law
departul ..r, from the need OF equipping
aud organizing the medical departments;
from the need of al appropriation for
the agricultural and mechanic Il branch
The fact that the present income
($44, 9l9.3Y) is totally insufficient to make
these necessary additions aud expansions,
and the fact that the University can set
up but slight cllims to be an institution
OF the "frst class" rs required by the
of the state, until these ad-
aitions and expansions are m 4de, will be
by any one familiar with the
buildings, faculties, apparatus, museums,
libraries and end bwments now possessed
by institutions in this country that rank
as fest class.
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