Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-05-20

eratiOn OF hOuee Blll NO. bbl, Oy Dir.
Buckmsn OF Duval, a bill to be entitled
an act 90 abolish the present State
schools and TO establish n female col.
lege and a university, together with .
substitute offered by the special COM
mittee on State institutions, was taken
up.
The following 10 a synopsis OF the
bill:
Appoints board OF control, removable
at the will OF the Governor. This board
IL TO meet at Tallahassee; 10 TO assist
to locate the university; 10 10 locate
the female college; the deaf, dumb
and blind institute q colored normal
school, the latter at Tallahassee. OF
the two colleges, one 10 TO be east, the
other west Of the Suwannee.
The board OF control 10 to meet at
Tallahassee 80 often as may be mecca
sAry 10 TO elect a chairman; 60 have
q secretary and to have and employ
all necessary clerks and servants; to
visit and inspect all the institutions,
and each and every department, and
Co provide for the proper keeping OF
accounts, registers and records thereof
TO appoint all the managers, faculty.
teachers, servants and employees; TO
remove the same, fix their cOmpensa-
ton, and provide for their payment
provide for the course OF instructions,
and alter the same. To audit and ap-
prove all the accounts and expendi-
ture, supervise the employment and
removal OF all teachers and instruc-
tors; select and purchase ell property,
furniture, hItures, and pATaphernAlia
necessary from time to time To
build, construct, change, enlarge, re-
pair and maintain Any and all the build
ings now in existence or that may
hereafter be necessary, and TO care for
and maintain the same; 90 audit all
accounts in regular session, to buy and
sell land, perform every other matter
and thing requisite and necessary for
the maintenance OF the institutions.
The board OF control IL authorized
and empowered to provide n system /
and course Of written examinations for !
ell the public high schools in this State, |
and no pupil in any high school shall |
be- advanced to any grade or permitted |
10 enter any Of the higher institutions
except by a certificate OF admission |
from the hoard " control. I
The university and female college
shall both contain normal departments |
No students below twelfth grade will |
be admitted 90 the university. and !
none below tenth grade to the female .
college.
The hill is exceedingly lengthy. Its .
reading occupied n foil hour. Al the 7
close Of the reading q slight discussion /
arose ~ 90 whether the regents ball .
and Mr. RSWls substitute had been .
Withdrawn. The chair ruled that all
the bills were Yet before the House.
Mr.. BryAn OF Washington moved to I
indefinitely postpone Mr.. BuckmAn's /
bill.
Mr BockmAu spoke in favor OF the .
bill lie said the resources Of the State
could not supply the wants Of the col. I
leges that o.. Sse,ssl had been appro-
priAted since 1901 one.third bad been .
used, and this year the total amount
asked for was t7uO,Ooo lie charged
lax basiness methods said that thsre
are In these institutions l.eO pupils.
and that u costs more 10 educate
these pupils than all the other schools
IN the State Of FLORIDA, aud that Of this
numbcr mOFr than o. per cent should