The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-03
BOHEMIAN AND M|SSOULA,
The Senate ravors Them for tho
Agricultural College and
State University.
Tho House Kills tho niii 10 Create
tho Ones OF State
Examiner.
The uuiI IN Create Tetsn fean,y Itsrem'
mswaed Tho Establishing Law
Issrup, H,~uded.

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The friends ~ Ilogcman and MissonlS u
tIie siies for thu agricultural college al
state university received swo nccessians !
Vhe sunstg yesterday, senator Goddard. q
yellowstone, ana senator Thompson, 81
Park, with their strength they were Oh
abIsd 10 prt both measures through com
mittee ~ the whole, and they will come VI
to-day on their finRl passage. They VII
,,nss, Whether tho house will dispose .
them or not IN another matter. The senalt
spent tho whole afternoon ana u nish
session On These bills.
Tho matter came up In committee Of III
whole during the morning on the bill locat
Ing tho state university at Missoula. whicl
WAS tho special order.
Senator Gibson led tho tleht against II
~ he has heretofore. Ito said no was NOR
strongly opposed 10 locating any OF tn
state institutions now than he was tw'
months ngo. II the question were sub
mitted TO the people, he believed they woul'
favor grouping oil tho institutions togetho
rs tho University OF Montana, instead o
having them separate. The proceeds Of thu
sale Of the seventy-two sections OF land SO
inside for the university would not maintain
IL, The university should be n university
In fact AZ well M in name. If it were pu
with the agricultural college and the scloo
OF mines, it would be on a creditable OASIS
The Cascade senator then cited the examples
of other states, which had put their agricul'
turai and mechanical colleges with theii
universities. 1t would be impossible, lie
continued, to make tho university worthy
Of the name unless all the institutions were
consolidated The state could AFFORD 70
wait two years. but it could not afford to
make q mistake.
Senator Matts said that if it was desired
to include the agricultural college and
school of mines. Missoula had no objec-
tions. Grants had been made specltcaUy
for each institution. and whether they were
In one place or not, they would have 10 be
run as Independent affairs. be came from
a university where the agricultural college
was run in conjunction with the other de-
partments. The agricultural part had be-
come such a laughing stock that 1t was
practically buried; no one cared to enter IL.
The consequence WAS the money Whlch
should 90 to the agricultural college was
spent on the university. He only asked
that the initiatory steps be taken.
Senator Hedges gave as his opinion that
the location of any institution at this ses-
sion was little short of madness. de then
launched off into a discourse on the i'm
p~ortance of having universities which
would be something else than a big sound
ing title.
Senator Mats got warm toward the close
of the discussion, and said that SO far as
the time taken up by the bill was concerned,
the opponents had occupied three-fourths
Of it. He wanted them to come out with
their true arguments and not cry lack of
time.
The bill was laid aside to allow time to
get dinner, with the understanding that it
was to come up after the agricultural bill
was disposed OF.
The agricultural college bill got through
committee of the whole senate at the night
session. Senator Gibson attempted to have
it amended by adding the state university,
so as to have the two institutions together.
This was voted down, as was a motion to
refer the bill to the committee on educa-
ton. Senator Hedges then took up the
cudgel and succeeded in amending the bill
considerably. Most of the amendments
we're verbal, and for the purpose of perfect
ing the bill. Senator Hoffman, the author
of the measure, made no objection to any
of the amendments after the section locat-
ing the college at BoZeman was passed. He
gave as his reason that he wanted to save
tllQ6s rludllS IN lNSL SeCblOu Was IcdCu6u,
the most important change being that which
required the people of Gallatin county to
give the land for the location of the college.
This is to be not less than 80 nor more than
800 acres. When the bill was finished
Senator Gibson made a fight against re-
porting it favorably. He regarded the bill
az a farce. It was crude and badly pre-
pared and was in the interest of a locality.
and not of the state at large. Senator
Hoffman said the bill was not such a bad
one. If there were any defects in it they
could be remedied two years hence. The
bill was ordered to be reported favorably,
after a motion by Senator Hedges to have
the committee allowed further time to per-
feet it had been voted down.
Then followed the state university bill.
The backbone of the opposition was evil
IDENTIFY broken by this time, and the only
delay in getting the bill through was cansed
by Senator Hedges, who wanted changes
made here and there. None of them wer,
made. On motion of Senator Thompson
however, a proviso was inserted requiring
the citizens or property owners of Mlssoul,
to subscribe forty acres as a site for tn,
university. The bill was reported favor
ably. 1t and the agricultural college bill
will now come up on their third reading
and final passage.
WQen tle DlllS come up on Unal paSSag
the vote will stand about like this: Yeas
9-Recker, Buford, Goddard, Hennessy
Hoffman. Mats, Redd. Thompson an,
Thornton; nays, 6-Baylies, Cardwell, Glib
son, Hedges, Parberry and Power.
The matter of the distribution of tn
coded part of the crow reservation came u
again in committee of the whole senat
last night. Senator Thompson and Senate
Goddard of Yellowstone each had al
amendment and the object of each was t
draw the dividing line SO as to place tn
Nye City mines in his own county. Sena
tor Goddard's amendment was adopted
and the bill reported tavorably.
Other business transacted by the senat
was the reading and reference of hous
bills. Among them WAS the bill amendin
the charter OF the city eff Helena.
The bill providing for the establishment
of the Office of state examiner was knocke
out in the house yesterday. 1t was prepare
and introduced by MIR. Beach in accordanc
with the constitution which makes the crea
ton of the Office mandatory. 1t therefor
appears that the house of representative
is a bigger body of men than the constitu
tional convention. The bill was introduce
early in the session and was placed in til
hands of the committee on state boards an
officers. Two reports were sent in, til
minority report signed by Newcomer an
Moran being unfavorable to the bill. I'll
discussion came up In the house at thrt