The age-herald., 1902-01-28
Oxnard Subsidies Alter Creating Some
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ceives from public sources Hess by ten or twenty thousand dollars'' a year than is received by similar colleges in each of the adjoining states, and 1t concludes:
 ''The question, as we understand 1t, Is: Shall the technical college of Alabama be relegated to a state of still greater inferiority? Shall the solid progress of the institution be now baked. shall it's powers for good now be crippled? We trust not, and against this unfortunate result we enter our most earnest pro- test, feeling assured. we beg to say, that any action upon your part will be taken only after the fullest inquiry and the most careful deiberation."
 Hon Robert F. Ligon, clerk of the Ala bama Supreme court, is president of the Auburn Alumni Society; Hon. T. D. Sam ford of Opelika is vice-president, and Mir. w O. Scroggs of Auburn is secretary.
 The university side of this contention. especially for the university is set forth in many different ways; but the memo rial of the Huntsville Chamber of Com merce to the Alabama delegation in Con gress is sufficient for the purpose of quotation. It was framed by Hon. Rob- ert D. Spraggins, an alumnus of the uni- versity, and as adopted Is signed by Hon. R. E. Pettus, president. and MT H. D. Lane, secretary. After reciting the facts of the presentation of the various bills, the preamble to the memorial proceeds:
 Whereas. Certain of the bills for this purpose would assign the fund appropri- ated to the agricultural and mechanical colleges of the respective states, regard less of whether a school of mines is a part of the instruction given at said col lege, and to the exclusion of the state university, even where school of mines has been long a feature of the academic departm ent; and
 Whereas, Such action would be mani festly unjust and unfair to the state uni versailles. and especially so to the Univer- sity of Alabama, which for fifteen years has given a thorough course of mining engineering and metallurgy, and largely at Its expense done the geological work of the state; and
 Whereas. The University of Alabama, aside from any question of merit or con- sideration for faithful and valuable serv- ice to the best interests of the state for fifty years, has advantages that can not possibly be attained or shared by the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, or any other institution of learning in the state, in the matter of To- where both coal and iron abound and where mines are being worked and fur naces are in operation, which is of the first importance, by reason of the fact that the headquarters of the geological survey of the state is fixed by law at the university and all the secimens and collections illustrative of the resources of the state are in the university museum as a result of it's effort, pluck and capaci- ty and can not be duplicated; therefore, be it
 Resolved, By the Chamber of Com" merce of Huntsville, Ala, that our Rep resentative in Congress be and they ara hereby urged to use all proper means to secure legislation that will place the proper means to secure legislation that will place the proposed school of mines under the control of the authorities of the University of Alabama"
 The chairman of the House committee on mines and mining has written to Con gressman Bankhead. who is taking great interest in the proposed legislation, that the committee will hear arguments on the Grosvenor bill GIT. R. S73O on February 4 This bill Is practically identical with the Tillman Senate bill, the substance of which the Age-Herald has already print ed and discussed.
 The people of the South have in these happier days entirely forgotten that there was Governor of Louisiana named War moth. who was a notorious figure in the Souths greatest political suffering. and so his appearance before the House ways and means committee in opposition to tariff concessions to Cuba comes in the nature of a surprise that stirs unhappy memories of bayonet rule, robbery and outrage.
 Warmoth was one of the few gentlemen of the South who went to the devil for political fieshpots. He is University of Virginia, one of the famous class of ''deb- bils' of 1S61 amongst whom were several Alabamians, including Col. Joseph Hodg- son, sometime editor of the Mobile Reg ister and later editor of the Birmingham State Episcopal Bishop Thomas U. Dud- ley of Kentucky was of the same class. When MT. Dudley was made bishop, twenty and odd years ago. Hodgson wrote an editorial on their old university class that attracted attention throughout the country. The story of 1t opened with the query. addressed to the new bishop.
 "Ah. Tom, my boy! do you remember the 'debbils of the University of Virgin ia?'
 Following this was the story of the entire class including Wa-moth. N
 Where Warmoth lives and how he spends his days is not known, nor is 1t 2 a matter of any consequence. He might have died any time these thirty years and the country been no poorer.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER >%<<<-<<<><<<-> is doing all in his power to injure the pa- per, both by word and deed. We want to inform the gentleman that a little over a year from now when he goes before the people asking for their support the work he Is now so industriously doing against the Herald-Journal will, like chickens, come home to roost.
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