The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-18
Charges Filed Against Agri-
cultural College Regents
AN EMPHATIC DENIAL ENTERED.
Judge Kinnaird. Of Spokane, Thought
TO Have Committed Suicide.
The Everett ssnedter Eunnins and
Monte cristo Cenesntrstor Ready
Murder Near Cottonwood. Idaho
Stevens County Land Opened.

PrLIxaS. Feb. f-.-Ispecial. Charges
against the regents and faculty OF the
state agricultural college have been flied
with Gov. McGraw By residents of Pull
man. who. while not signing the charges,
assure the governor that they will. If he
chooses 10 investigate. offer proof and as
sumo the responsibility of subssantia.ing
the accusations Gov McGraw has. il il
reported. appointed Boyd ]. TalIman, of
Seattle, special commissioner TO inyesti-
gate the charges. and he Is expected to
visit Pullman and take testimony.
The regents are charged first with coll
leeting from the state much more per
diem than they are entitled TO. This the
regents DENY emphatically. It is also
charged that exec sslve mileage has been
collected: in the case of fngrsham IL is al
legged that he used mileage books of the
Sunset Publishing Company, of which he
is president, but charged the state full
fare. The regents deny that excessive
mileage has been collected. and the regents
justify fngraham in using mileage books
lis is further charged that excessive hotel
bills have been paid by the state
for the regents; this the latter
deny. 1t is further charged that the
regents paid tips to porters" and other
hotel extras and collected from the state
for the same, and that Regent S.earns
had pair Of overails'' in
his hotel bill. which the state
paid. The regents deny that improper
extras" were paid by the state, and Mr..
stearns insists that he himself paid for the
overalls. Ii Is further alleged that the
regents made the state pay hack bills.
This the regents do not deny, and this
expense they justify. The regents justify
charging per diem for Sunday, on the
ground that they worked and Travelled on
Sunday. Tha excessive amounts of per
diem alleged to have been collected are:
Conner. ............... ssf fBiandford.. ...... $50
Tannstt.. 31fngraham. ............ u
eteafhe. .-.....-..z... 03i
Ii is alleged that for board bills the
regents have collected an excess from the
state as follows:
Caaner .s......... sl3 7sBlandford .... s2s 50
Tauuatt- .......... So oYfugraham. Is %
s'earns--..-.-....- Is w
Ii is further alleged that In violation of
law Prof. Saunders WINS paid $3.50 by the
regents for preparing the plans and detail
drawings for the mechanical engineering
building and his own department build
Ing. The regents deny that the payment
was IN violation of hw sis further al
legged that Prof Read was appointed an
assistant IN horticulture on June 10, but
salary was allowed from May l. This is
declared to be "a crooked transaction. Mr..
Read is paid a salary from the Morrill,
fund for the purpose of giving instruction
In music. This is contrary TO the Morrill,
act The regents explain and justify
their action. 1t is further alleged that the
farm and station work has been entirely
neglected during the summer, the regents
having put the teams at work on exca-
waiting for the college buildings, the result
being that "the farm and station are in
depiorable condition" II is further al
legged that the frequent meetings are un-
necessary and lead to needless expense:
this the regents deny. 1t is further al
legged that two teachers are doing five-
sixihs OF the entire teaching of the in
stitntion. Bryan's Latin class has three
pupils, Piper's botany class 4, Walters
algebra 4, his trigonometry 3. and so OF
Bryan's Latin class of three pupils. oceu-
pying fifty minutes a day, being the only
one he teaches. There are only ten pupils
in the college proper. tlly-one in the pre-
paratory department. II is further al
legged that the mechanical building will be
an eyesore and unfit for Its purposes, and
its erection is waste of money. Itis
further alleged that the chair of ,ypewri.-
ing and stenography is a needless xpense.
IL is further alleged that the disburse-
menss for college accountant, presidents
salary. engineer and fireman. carpenters
and janitors. repairs for building aud sup
plies and music from federal funds are in
violation of the Morrill, Law, while yeterin-
airy science is not taught at all, though the
statute requires il. Fraud is also charged
IN tn. letting oil contracts for the mechani-
cal building. The regents make reply to
ali the charges In detail. Those allega-
tions that are true detail no violation of
Law. Some are gross misrepresentation,
as, for instance. where bills are taken from
hotel accounts. as though those accounts
were paid by the state. The language OF the
charges - tiippant throughout aud fre-
qaentlv shows malice. as where Prof
Saunders is spoken Of as The ret of the
faculty"