Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-03-05

IHE AGRICULTURAL COALE0E.
However true or false may have
been the charges contained in the
minority report Of the committee
authorized by the council at it's
recent session 10 visit and investi-
gate the affairs Of the Agricultural
College, at Les Cruces, it evident
ly had the effect Of stirring up a
very bad odor. Since the Souri,
WEST SENTINEL published a syncp-
sis of the minority report last
week, as a matter of gossip, we
submit the following from the In
dependent Democrat, which, to-
gether with what has already been
disclosed, has a tendency to prove
that a we'll developed Ethiopian
has been concealed in the wood
pile on the college campus for
some time. If one-half the charg-
es made concerning this matter
are true, that institution has been
managed by the most reckless and
dishonest combinations Of men
ever associated together in this
Territory. These charges are
made without apology by the In
dependent Democrat, and we pub
llsh them without comment:
"On February %, 1892, a stock
company was organized TO print
and publish the weekly newspaper
known as the Rio Grande Repub-
lican, and to do the printing for
the Agricultural College. The
organizers and stockholders of the
company were regents of the col
lege, professors in the college, and
some of the leading republican
politicians OF Las Cruces. The
regents and professors took $1,000
worth of stock and the politicians
another $1,000. The regent stock
holders and the sums subscribed
by them were as follows: John
r. McFie, $3.50; Rynerson, $3.50;
Whitmore, $3.50; Numa Raymond,
$3.50. The stockholding profess
sors and the accounts taken by
them were: President Hadley $3.50;
A. j. Weichart, $3.50; Professor
Blount, $500.
The professors took stock in the
paper because it was intimated to
them that it would be to their adj
vantage to give support to the or
gan of the party to which they
owed their jobs, but tho stock re-
ally cost them nothing; it was
paid out of the college funds. In
March, 1892, a meeting of the re-
gents was held, and the salaries of
the stockholding members of the
faculty were raised to cover the
amount of their subscriptions.
President Hadley doubled his
money on the Investment the first
year, his salary being raised $500.
Prof. Blount's salary was raised
$500 and Weichart's $3.50.
The Regent-P rofessor-Politi
clan Stock Company then got the
job of printing bulletins, reports,
catalogues, and stationery for the
college, and the Rio Grande Re
publican, under the control and
management of the combine, from
March /, 1892, to December 1893,
received from the college S3,145.46
for printing.
The college, however, did not
receive the printing for which it
paid. The regents, as auditors for
the college. approved bills pre-
scented by the company of which
they were stockholders, and they
did not insist upon an agreement
between the work charged and
paid for and the work actually
done. In some cases the regents
paid the Rio Grande Republican,
which was actually managed by
Regent Whitmore. for stationery
supposed to have been supplied to
the professors, when as a matter
of fact, the professors had not re-
ceived a single envelope or sheet
of paper.
-Four thousand copies of certain
bulletins were supposed to have
been printed and were paid for,
but only $500 copies actually
were printed and delivered. More
over the work and material were
Of inferior quality and not to be
compared with the work and ma
terial in the bulletins furnished
by the Independent Democrat at
a discount of ten per cent from the
Republicans price in all cases.