Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-28
An EDUCATIONAL CRISIS
General Assembly to Decide This
Week on Appropriations
For Iowa Institutions
BOARD or CONTROL QUESTION
Quiet Effort to Effect Its Enlargement
Succeeded by Movement Directed To-
ward Securing the New Board Desis-
mated as the state Board of Educa.
ticn" - Details of the Plan.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 2S.--The coming
week bids fair to be momentous in the
affairs of the great educational insti-
tutions of Iowa. The general assem-
bly, is due to decide how much shall be
given these institutions for their sup
port and development along the lines
so we'll started few years ago,
whether it shall be million dollars
for the biennial period or half as much
or even less. The higher figure would
not be too much. according to the view
of the college men-and they can show
conclusively how every dollar can be
well spent. But even more important,
at least in the minds of many persons,
is the plan to place the three colleges
and two schools for delinquents under
one board. The committee bill pre-
pared to effect this great change has
just been printed and goes on the sem
ate calendar without reference or rec
Clnmendation. While it provides for an
entire new board it is also known that
a quiet effort has been made to effect
the enlargement of the board of con-
troll by adding two members and plac-
ing the educational institutions under
it. But the movement is now directed
toward securing a new hoard. In the
committee bill this board is designated
ais state board of education" but the
name is immaterial. With the per-
fected bill on the desks of the members
they will today begin careful con-
sderation of the details. The salient
features of the plan are summarized
below:
State board of education, five men,
bers not more than three of the same
political party, no two at the time OF
appointment residing in the same con-
s,ressiopal district, not more than two
shall have been students of the state
educational institutions. not rlere than
Ane shall have been q student OF any
one of said institutions, and no one OF
the students shall be made chairman.
Appointments shall be for six-year
terms after the board is started, APP
pointments by the governor subject to
approval by the senate, the chairman
10 receive $4,000 a year and devote his
entire time. the others $40 day for
time put in not to exceed ninety days
Il year.
Members shall be subject to removal
by the governor, and shall be under
bonds, shall not be eligible to any other
lucrative office in the state, nor to any
office in a state educational institution
for one year after his term expires. and
the board shall be subject to examirla-
ton by the statutory committee on re-
trenchment and reform.
The board shall be provided with Of
fees at the seat of government. and
with supplies, shall have secretary at
81 500 a year and may hire a steno-
erapher and other employees, and make
an itemized statement of accounts to
the legislature.
The board shall have full power to
manage, control and govern the State
University, State College. State Normal
School, the College for the Blind and
the School for the Deaf.
The board, or a committee thereof,
shall visit and inspect. at least once
every three months, the institutions
named. and investigate the financial
condition and management of such in
stitutions, may call witnesses under
oath to testify regarding any matters,
and If abuses or wrongs are inyesti-
gated shall report to the governor the
charges, evidence and conclusions.
Reports shall be made biennially to
the governor for the general assembly,
including the reports OF executive Off
GERS, etc.
A complete system OF accounts shall
be kept with each and every institu-
ton. and the boards shall require the
same at all the institutions. and report
estimates to the legislature.
Building operations shall be con-
Quoted by the board and in all cases
where the estimates go over $1,000
there shall he contracts let on COMPETE