The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-04-09

three teachers and tho city supcrintsnd-
ent; In 1850, there were 3S5 pupils ana SIX
toachcrs; during the years Of l0o0 and le91,
the ourullmsns footed up 40 pupils and
eight teachers In 1892, u was sweiied TO
SIS. over whom II teachers presided; and
In the present year the enrolment hns In
creassd to $50 pupils, while u takes lS
''rattans" TO iuculcats knowledge and
preserve order.
While discussine school matters gem
orally, Profsssoe Hamilton. who 10 also
member of the state board Of educatto0
and an indofatigable worker In the In
forests Of the state university, which 70 70
b. established at NiseoulA, some time
during the present decade, informed .
STANDARD reporter that the state board
would meet In this city about May 10,
for the purpose Of selecting Q site
upon which to locate the university. Tho
professor, however, does not entertain tho
belief that the necessary buildings will b
erected or even commenced Tor two %
three years TO come. II even thsn, for the
very unsatisfactory reason that u is doutSt-
full il any OF the appropriations made by
the recent legislature for the state educa-
tional institutions will ever bs available.
On this particular point tlss professor de-
livered himself ~ follows; "Ths lcaisia-
ture passed appropriations In excess OF
the constitutional Limitation 10 the amount
Of 100000. All Of the revenues OF the
state which will como into the treasury
during the next two years wcrc appropri'
ated aud 500, 200 more. Tho state coustt'
tuition llmits tho contracting OF indebted
ncss to the sum OF 100000 without q
spccial voto Of the people, and Attorney
General Haskell holds that all appropria'
ton bills which became laws after the
limit had been reached. will lapsc NJ
though they had never been made. Ths
governor. acting upon this advice. aligned
tho bills appropriating money 10 run tbs
different state departments and state In
stitutions, already In operation, and such
bills 40 were not necessary Tor the running
Of the state government we're put on q
the last. Among those latter are the billa
approp Rating money for tho state educa
tionai Institutions. They were al
signed at tho saus time
and arc, consequently, ell In the
same condition. II the attorney Rensrari
opinion II tho correct one, there will be M
funds available for tho state university q
any Of the educational Institutions Tor tvs
Year,, or until the next mssttng OF tls'
legislature. except those derived froq ~
federal government and the lands donates
by the federal government 10 these tnsti
tutious. The appropriations Tor the ssat'
sducatiousl iustitutious were to b avail
able on the Arst day of May of the prssen
year. II 10 likely that sosne time dnrinl
that month tho state board OF education
will make o test case b. calling fss . par
Of the appropriation for the agriculture
college. This Institution will be opens.
immediately. In order to sscuse the ~
erai grant. Al present all the state boat
e sdsasaatou can do u 10 accept ~
which - aeuatcla for the various Inst
tutionav ~ WI re the lands offered ~
donatIca 80 nd sufficient, to take ai
option @ enough adjoining to make v
the dsasleucy, such option 10 run unt
after ths meeting Of the NEXT IsGislaturS
These ase unwslcon,s facts for the friend
Of the vasious state schools, but Il 10 bes
that tho people should understand sh
true state es things. Unless these apprs
priatioaa stand. the penitsnt,ary ~ Bal
inss, the reform school. the normal schoo
the schooi Of mines, and the state IN
versity % Nissoula cannot b opensd "a
at least tee years."