The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-12
ATTACK ON THE UNIVERSITY.
HUNNICUTT SAYS HE WILL GO BE-
FORE THE LEGISLATIVE.


Claims the Agricultural College Is
Being DeSpoiIed of Federal Funds
That Are spent on University Pro-
feSSors' Salaries-Hunnicutt Lost
His Place in the Agricultural Col
IeEe Because students Fell on,
Government May Investigate.
Atlanta. Oct. 1l.-Unless present indica-
tlons arc misleading. the STATE University
is going to have more trouble at the APP
preaching session OF the Legislature than
IT has had in a long while.
For some time past there has been an
undercurrent of gossip about the affairs
OF the university among visitors at the
state capital The import of this gossip Is
that the opponents Of the university are
laying plans for campaign when the
Legislature meets that will compel that
historic old institution to rally its forces
TO win victory again.
one feature of the predicted trouble Is
Or. J. r. Hunnicutts statement that he
intends to go before the Legislature with
a demand that the letter of The law he
compiled with III the appropriation OF the
general government DR.. IIunnicutt was
formerly professor of agriculture at the
university, occupying that position until
the Agricultural College dwindled down to
where il had less than half a dozen stu
dents and there was consequently no fur
ther necessity for Or. Hunnicutts services
in the chair tie IS now editor OF the
Southern Cultivator, and as such consd-
ers IL his place 10 assume the champion
IL al .sIra will
therefore, he declares, make a demand
of the Legislature that the land script and
other federal funds now being used TO pay
salaries of professors at the university be
applied to support an agricultural school
strictly.
In discussing the matter to-day with the
Morning News correspondent, DIR. Hunni-
cut said he was advised that the authori-
ties at Washington had already taken
cognizance of the use that was being made
of the funds referred to, and, unless there
is a change, a committee of investigation
win be sent TO make report upon the
matter.
The federal authorities have threatened
several times TO send down such a commit
tee, DR. Hunnicutt says, and it is report
ed that some Inquiries of that character
are now being set on foot. The law re-
quires chat his federal fund be used for
the maintenance of a school devoted 20
agricultural ana mechanical ItHs anu II
is claimed the present use of the funds
Is in violation of this law. as the univer-
ity is not an agricultural or mechanical
school.
Among those who are acquainted with
the agitation now going on, there has been
talk TO the effect that the effort to bring
the feleral authorities into the university
fight is another demonstration by the enc
mics of he university as an institution or
the outcropping of personal disappoint-
ment. DR.. Hunnicutt, however, declares
that he does not come under this descrip-
ton, as he asserts his firm friendship for
the university. He believes only that it
should stand upon its own merits and the
money that rlghtfully belongs to the ag-
ricultural college should be applied, that
it, also. may stand upon its own merits.
An an indication of the demand for such
an institution, DR.. Hunnicutt said to-day
that he had just learned of an instance
where a graduate of the State University
had come 10 Atlanta to get credentials 90
secure admission into the State Agricul-
tural College of Mississippi, which is sup
ported by the same fund now being di-
verted from it's proper channels at the
State University.
This issue has been raised before i'm the
Legislature, and there have been some hot
debates over 1t. If, as DR.. Hunnicutt pre-
diets. the federal authorities propose to
take hand, it will make the university
an exceedingly live wire at the coming
session, which opens on Oct %.