The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-10

sons, who were represented by petition
or written complaint. charging the CONF
missioners with having deprived them
Of their rights to certain University
lands, located near Provo City, in Utah
county. Your committee, for want Of
time and means to communicate with
all the aggrieved persons with view
to bring them together to adjust their
differences and being also of the opin-
ion that if there were legal grounds
for complaints and legal action, it
would be matter beyond their juris-
diction to assume to adjust. We would,
therefore, simply state as the result
of our inquiry, your committee believe
the commissioners have acted in good
faith in the sales and disposition of
all lands placed under their control,
but through some persons interpreting
the law as they understood it. which
led to a delay in their making known
their wishes. which delay the commits
sioners regarded as an abandonment
of what slight improvements had been
made on the lands, they sold to other
parties, hence disputations arose and
charges of unfair dealing followed as
the result Of being too slow on one
side and little too hasty or prema-
ture in action on the other, and as the
law is a little open or indefinite under
which the difficulty arose, one of your
committee has presented a bill for an
act to amend the law so that any
trouble in this direction in the future
may be avoided. Your committee are
unitedly Of the opinion that the COM
mission have aimed. in the disposition
of the University lands, to deal honor
ably and justly by all, but when con-
tests arise as to who are entitled to
preference. under complicated condi-
tons, it becomes an impossibility to
give satisfaction to all parties.
JOSEPH STANFORD,
JOSEPH Monsoon,
DISSENTED.
Wines took exception to this report
and said that the commissioners, act
ing in an arbitrary manner, had done
great injustice to residents of Provo
BENCH who have been deprived of their
improvements. That the commission
ers had no rules laid down to govern
in case of contests and arbitrarily sold
to the highest bidder and to one syndi-
cate some 800 acres at an average
price of $3.50. He therefore recommends
that all contests be referred to a court
of competent jurisdiction.
PASSED.
On his recommendation H. B. 1858, to
refer all such contests to the courts
was passed by an unanimous vote.
On this subject the committee on
ways and means reported that it had
approved the accounts of the commits
sion and recommended that $2.531.S0 for
deficit and $500 for all future expen-
ses be appropriated.
LAID OVER.
H. B. ISL, school bill, and H B. 1874,
relating to the salary of county officers
were laid on the table.
UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT
G.. B. 1O6, to endow the university,
was sent over from the Council, pushed
to third reading and passed by an
unanimous vote.
ESTRAYS.
H. B. 95, relating to estrays. was re-
turned from the Council and sent to
the committee on enrolment.
DENTISTRY.
c. B. Z, relating to the practice of
dentistry, was taken up and passed by
an unanimous vote.
TO THE GOVERNOR.
The enrolment committee reported
having sent to the Governor the medi-
cal bill and the memorial asking Con-
gress to settle the laws relating to
school lands.
EDUCATIONAL UNION.
H. B. 4S, by Nebeker, to unite the
Logan, was taken up.
Hubbard opened the debate on the
bill. He said:
the resources of the territory are in
adequate to the conducting of our high
er educational institutions separately;
this has been demonstrated from the
time of the establishment of the Agri-
cultural college, AS this point is con-
ceded by all, and as the proposed ap
rNf.0 1-iaf ion &c a. will Vir
kill both institutions, is it not better to
roetify the mistake now and by uniting
the two institutions place them upon
d plane where all departments can be
successfully operated without addi-
tional appropriation?
1t would, indeed, be a sad mistake at
the present period of our history to
strike deadly blow at our educational
institutions and force them to suspend,
or even to retrogade. Progression has
been, and may it always be, the motto
of Utah The leading educators of the
day with one voice advise the con-
centration of effort in higher education,
not only on the plea Of economy, but
efficiency.
The normal department must be
maintained, for upon it's success de-
ponds largely the advancement of our
entire public school system. Its efforts
and labors in the past have been highly
satisfactory, and let each man realize
that a suspension of it means direct
blow at every district school in Utah.
Union must be effected.
Allen followed. His course of argu-
ment was that union of the two insti-
tutions means the ascendancy of the
literary part of the institution and the
deterioration of the agricultural part of
it, The normal school will make good
farmers but with the two united the
pupils will be weaned from their al
Ilegiance to the soil. He said he was
not speaking for the university, but
was in favor of the agricultural col
lege. Logan, he thought, is no place
for a university, as it does not afford
the facilities for higher education that
should be afforded.
WINS said he commended the patriot
ism of Allen to the agricultural cSl-
lIege, but not his disregard of the uni
versity. He would like to see the two
institutions stay as they are, but as
the territory cannot afford to keep
them up separately he was in favor
of bringing them both to Salt Lake,
where there are better facilities for
both. He did not consider Logan a
suitable place for the combined institu-
ton.
Monson made a strong plea, for Lo-
gan. He said that there could be no
logical question on the proposition FOR
union, as both institutions are now
being starved. because Of The small
appropriations 1t will be found that
they cannot keep open for the amounts
that have been given them. The same
condition will confront every legisla-
ture and if the two institutions are
not united it will be found impossible
to keep them up He thought Logan
the proper place for the territorial edu-
| cationai institution and asked that the
bill be passed.
Stanford said he was in favor of the