The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Bills BOOST BOARD
Of COM ROL FIGURES
The Institutional Towns Would
Draw Half Million More in
Appropriations

Institutional towns will attempt to
secure nearly half a million dollars in
appropriations for state institutions
than has been asked for by the board
of control.
The board of control has asked for
$917, $50 for the twelve institutions in
its charge for the next two years, ex-
elusive of the state university and the
state normal schools. For the normal
schools the board of control asked
$246, 400. and for the state university
S453, 600.
The friends of the state university
and the normal schools will make a de-
termined fight in the legislature to Sc
cure appropriations in line with the.
recommendations of the board of re-
gents and the state normal board.
The contest will be further involved
by the various board of control bills al
ready introduced in both branches of
the legislature. 1t is expected that at.
least three other bills having for their
purpose the divorcing of the education
al institutions from the board of con-
troll, and the management of the edu-.
cational institutions by separate boards
will further conplicate the situation.
1t is possible that the finance corr
mittee in the senate and the apprOpria-
tions committee of the house.. acting
with the educational committees of
both houses. may agree on a substitute
| measure for all board Of control bills.
There is hope for the passage of this
bill.
Hennepin Delegation Busy
The Hennepin county delegation ip
the legislature has agreed on a plan of
campaign which it hopes will not only
result in the removal of it's pet insti-
tuition from the board of control, but
which will give it appropriations suffi-
cient in size to permit of the building
Of new main" building, such as the
board of regents and the faculty and
alumni of the institution demand.
For a new main building and it's
equipment, the board of control esti--
| mated an appropriation of $250, 1000. To
this will be added some s68,000 obtain
ed in insurance on the old building
burned last summer. The Hehnep1n.
county delegation wants an appropria-
! ton of approximately 100000 for It's
| main building, and will ask the legis-
| lature for a round million dollars for
! the various needs of the institution.
The balance of the sum, when the
current expenses are paid and the new
building completed, should the larger
|
voted to the purchase of additional
ground for school campus. The land
lies south of Church street and extends
| went across Washington avenue, along
| the Mississippi river bank. With the
4 necessary money the state can acquire
| the land by condemnation proceedings,
1 it is said. -
Just to help the matter along the
| Hennepin delegation has issued hand
somely engraved Invitations to mem
bers of the legislature to attend bar
/ quet to be given under the auspices of
/ the Hennepin county Republican exec
utive ecommittee at the Hotel Nfcollet,
Minneapolis, on Washington's birth
| day, Feb. %. Gen. Clark. c. Carr, u.
| S. A., commanding the Department of
the Dakotas, will be the orator of the
occasion. Responses to the invitations
are being received by Senator E. E..
/ Smith and Representative w. w.
/ Bardwell, heads of the delegations.
NormaIs Clash With Board
i To appreciate the feeling in normal
school circles only a comparison of the
i amounts asked for by the normal
1 board and the state board of control for
i the five schools need be shown.
I The normal school board asked for
the Winona school sS5,400. The board
i of control cut the estimate to $60,500.
{. The cut In the case of the Mankato
school was from $685. to $30,500; in
the st. Cloud school from $102, ,45O to
I $4,000; in the Moorhead school from
| S96,200 to $4,000, and in the Duluth
school from s100,78 to s63,500, a net
reduction in the appropriations for the
normal schools of $223,735.
Normal school interests insist that
the board of control pruning knife has
been indiscriminate in its cutting, and
that there is no recourse but to fight In
! the legislature for what they contend
are their rights
The Perley board of control bill in
the house and the Peterson bill In the
senate are identical. They provide for
a complete separation of the state uni.
versity and the normal schools from
the board of control. The Morley bill
in the house provides for the separa-
ton of the educational institutions>and
| the Owatonna state school from the
board of control, and the Buck bill
would take the Faribault institution
and the Owatonna school, along with
the state educational institutions, from
the board of control. e. K. Ware, of
Northfield, has a bill in preparation,
which he will shortly introduce in the
house, providing for the removal of the
4 state university and the Faribault
schools from the board. leaving the
state normal schools to fight their own
neapolis, may decide to introduce a
bill, already drawn which would re-
move only the university from the su-
pervision and control Of the board OF
controE
Situation Is Mixed
The situation bids fair to become
thoroughly mixed and movement is
being agitated for a committee bill
which will have the support of the
finance and educational committees
and will provide for the divorce of the
purely educational institutions from
the board of control. It is proposed to
safeguard their financial operations by
explicitly prohibiting any excess of ex-
4 penditure above the amount of the ap-
i preparation for each specific purpose
though the law of 1877, enacted for
this purpose, was observed only in the
breach.
The measure provided that any ex-
penditure that would result in a deficit
in any fund was void on its face and
that the board authorizing it was gull
ty of malfeasance and its members
subject to removal by the governor. II
was never observed.
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