The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-09
NO SETTLEMENT YET
BOARD OF CONTROL HAS NOT AC-
CEPTED NORMAL BOARDS
ULTIMATUM
WILL PROBABLY REFUSE
Not Willing to COncede Appointment
of Resident Directors
rs Purchasing
Agents.

No reply has yet been made by the
board of control to the ultimatum of
the normal board, which was the outcome
or the meeting of that body on Saturday.
However, the attitude of the board of
control on some of the points in ques-
ton has already been determined by
previous action. One of the most con-
spicuous of these is the matter of ap-
pointing the resident directors as pur-
chasing agents, and the proposition on
the part of the normal board that those
gentlemen shall serve without compen-
Sation does not remove the objection
to their appointment which the board
of control has already advanced. The
reason which the board of control gave
some weeks ago for refusing to comply
with the wishes of lie normal board in
that matter, was that the appointment
of the resident directors as purchasing
agents of the normal schools would b.
contrary to the spirit of the board of con-
troll law, which, obviously, was to separ-
ate the educational and financial affairs
of the schools. That objection exists as
much now as at the time of the former
negotiations, and it is plain that, unless
the board of control is willing to reverse
it's judgment, it will still refuse to ap-
point the resident directors as purchas-
ing agents, either with or without COM
pensation
The normal board in its ultimatum re-
fused to have any of the attaches of
the normal Schools from the presidents
down to the janitors,'' or in other words
any of its appointees, act as purchasing
agents for the schools. and declared that
if the board of control would not appoint
the resident directors it must secure the
services of outsiders in that capacity.
The board of control did not formerly
take the attitude that it could compel
the presidents of the normal schools to
act as purchasing agents, but suggested
that for many reasons, that plan would
be most practicable and satisfactory, and
therefore asked tie presidents to per-
form those duties The presidents did not
object, but the normal board refused for
them and declined to permit them to
! serve
Superintendent Olson, Of the state de-
partment of public instruction. who is
by virtue of that office, also secretary
of the normal board, spent a greater
portion of yesterday in conference with
the board of control, but at a late hour
the members of the board announced
that no settlement had yet been arrived
at, and that no statement as to the
present status of affairs would be made
until today, or perhaps later.
1t is understood that while there has
been no radical disagreement among the
members of the board of control as to
the terms upon which a settlement with
the normal board should be effected, they
are not perfectly unanimous in their
ideas, and that one of them at least
would prefer to have the matter go to
the courts for determination at the out
set. Some of the members of the normal
board also are DESTROYS that the question
should be taken into court, but there
is some doubt now as to the proper course
of procedure. It was thought that either
board could apply for a writ of mandamus
against the other, and that in that way
an immediate adjudication could be Sc
cured, but it now appears that the SUI
preme court of this state has held that
one branch of the state government may
not mandamus another.