, 1905-01-26
FAILURE OF EFFORT TO INDEFIN,
ITELY POSTPONED MEASURE
TO REPEAL THE LANDER
COLLEGE LAW.
Motion Made by Mr.. McGrath of FIRE.
mont County, but Defeated by De-
cisive Vote in House Committee
of the Whole After Spirited Debate
Senate Adjourns Out of Respect
for Memory Of Scottish Poet.


SPECIAL to The Republican.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 26.-The house
in committee of the whole yesterday
afternoon recommended for passage
the Atherly bill providing for the re
peal of the Lander agricultural college
bill, n the matter will be disposed
of as oon as the bill can be engrossed
and reported back to the house. The
scenes attending the action of the
committee of the whole yesterday aft
ernoon were quite lively, but the vote
on the motion of Mr.. McGrath of Ere
mont county to indefinitely postpone
the Atherly bill was decisive, being SO
to II against indefinite p~ostponement.
After conclusion of The joint session,
presided over by Mr.. Iredaie, when
Senator Clark addressed the members,
the house went into committee of the
whole, and Mr.. McGrath moved that
house bill No. %, the Atherly measure
to repeal the Lander agricultural col
lege law, be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Atherly was recognized by the
chairman and explained the bill. He
said the matter has been before the
legislature at every session for some
years, upsetting business and menac-
ing the state university, and he be-
lieved the time had come to rid the
statute books of a law that could not
be enforced.
Mr.. Sleeper of Big Horn county
threatened the withdrawal of the gov
eminent fund from the agricultural
college unless it was moved to Lander.
Mr.. King of Laramie was recognized
and asked that Hon. T. F. Burke Of
Cheyenne, a member of the board of
trustees of the University of Wyoming,
be given permission to address the
members of the committee and explain
the measure before the Legislature.
Mr.. Black of Uinta opposed the grant
member of the house, and permission
was not granted.
Mr.. Sammon of Uinta county made
a long speech. He said he would not
seek to shirk his duty to his constitu-
cnts. He believed the agricultural col
Iege had been located at Lander by
the vote of the people, and he favored
that point for that reason. He de-
clared, however, that to separate the
university and agricultural college at
this time would be ruinous to both.
and he hoped that the matter would
be allowed to stand as it is until such
time as each could be maintained sep
arately.
Mr.. Clark of Laramie county stoutly
denied that the government appropria-
ton would be taken away if the col
lege was not moved to Lander. He
said there was certainly nothing in
that contention. The government gave
its money to aid in the work the agri.
cultural college was doing, and that it
cared not so much where the money
was used as how.
Mr.. Black said he would not dare
face his constituents and not favor the
postponement of the bill. He would
admit that Laramie is the place best
suited for the agricultural college, but
the people had ruled otherwise and he
was for the people.
Mr.. Hoge of Albany county made a
few remarks againt postponement Of
the bill. He said it had been demon
strated beyond the shadow of a doubt
that agricultural pursuits had proven
successful on the Laramie plain, and
the work of the agricultural college
had beer as successful as that of any
agricultural college in the country.
Mr.. Watt of Laramie county also
favored Laramie as the permanent 10.
cation of the agricultural college.
The roll call on the motion to in
definitely postpone the Atherly bill re-
suited II for and SO against, Mr.. Cros-
son being absent. Those who voted
for the postponement of the bill were
Messrs. Baldwin, Black, Bell, Buck
nam, Gildroy, Hinckley, Jackson, Kirk
patrick, McGrath. Morton, Sleeper,
Snively, Smith, Uhler, Wood and
Young of Johnson.
Mr.. Atherly then moved that the bill
be engrossed, and when reported back
to the house it be placed on its final
passage.