Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-03

1905: but 1t mas Dee1l iiHpoSSlDle Tor
the Council up to the present time to
ascertain that fact. and the request
of the University is now held up in
the Council on that account.
| remind the Senate that the Uni
yersity of Maine, although a state in
lstitution, and to a certain extent en-
| titled as a matter of fairness and JUS
tice to special favOrs from the State
as | admit, is. nevertheless, not de-
/ partment of the State government in
the sense in which the insurance is
or the bank examiners department, or
the agricultural department. The
printing for those departments must
necessarily be done by the State The
University of Maine is one of the four
great higher institutions of learning i'm
the State; il receives a large income
from the general government; it re-
ceives tuition: it receives general and
special appropriations from the State.
| What it does receive from the State
should be confined to these general and
special definite appropriations and out
of those appropriations should be de-
frayed the expense of printing, Just as
much as for heating and lighting, or
for anything else.
Now. ] wish to submit to the Senate
another proposition. | say that the Legis
latUre and the people of this State have
not known the fact that the University of
| Maine was having its printing done at the
expense of the State. 1t is true that the
university is permitted by Section "a
Chapter 3. of the Revised Statutes. to
have 1900 reports printed at the expense
IF the State. That chapter is one which
is rarely referred to; lawyers do not have
to examine it once in 10 years in their
practice. That fact has been hidden in
til. statutes. and has been unknown to the
people and the Legislature. Two years
ago when the figures Were stated in the
House. showing how much the University
of Maine had received from the State, no
mention was made of the matter of State
printing in my opinion it was not known
r to the Legislature. AS 4 matter Of eX-
, pertinent inquired yesterday of the three
members of this body who represent the
Senate on the committee of education. |
asked those three senators whether any
of them knew the fact when the hearing
was held before the education commit
tee. and when this resolve unani-
mUuSly recommended; l asked them
|
University of Maine was having it's print
ing done at the expense of the State.
. thought l could guess fairly well what
the answer would be. No member of the
. committee knew the fact. That is not in
) the slightest degree reflection upon
those three senators. for what is true of
those three men is true OF this body.
doubt whether there We're two senators.
| g. - he panOl,ccnt
StctsOn, who knew the fact at tile OPEN
ing of this session. that the University
oil Maine was having its general printing
done at the expense of the State. 1t had
! beer supposed that the aid received by
the university from the State was con-
fined. us it should be confined to general
, and definite and specific appropriations
a Now. Mr.. President. if that law permit
ting the university to have its printing
a done in this way is to be changed is
should be changed with full notice.
think, and l ought to say now, that prob
ably when the law was enacted it was
| enacted with full notice. | do not wish
to be understood that it was Surrepti-
, tiously placed in the Inv without the
knowledge of the Legislature Of 1895 or
1872; that could hardly be- At any rate
| it that law We're to be changed now it
should be done on notice. ana | therefore
inform the Senate now that the bill which
l introduced this morning to amend Sec
TORS "A and % of Chapter Of the Re
vlSed Statutes as n partial report of the
| committee on State printing, contains Il
| recommendation of that committee that
the provision in behalf of the University
of Maine be stricken from the statutes
for the reasons which I state and for 9TH
er reasons which l need not state.
That proposition was unanimously re-
| ported from the committee If it is neces.
sary to increase the appropriation in be-
half of the University of Maine to cover
its printing bills, whatever they are. let
it be done. but let it be done in the form
of a definite and specific appropriation. so
that we shall know what the university
| costs the State.
If my amendment were to be adopted by
the Senate and the House it would re-
suit l suppose, in a saving to the State
during the years 1905 and 1906 of 5000 or
$4,000. and it would be necessary, | suppose,
for the university to get along and pay
its printing bills out of the $4,000 or $780,
900 which it receives from the general gov
eminent and the State, and the buttons it
gets from its students
is where l connect-if | do at all-this
special question before the Senate with
the general proposition which l first dis
cussed.
Ii the University of Maine should find
that it needed for It's ordinary tIisburse-
TGentS the $4,000 or $4,000 which it will,
receive as l have stated, and finds it diff
fcult on its present income to pay for the
printing unless the State rays for i'll
would suggest that if the tuition charge
We're increased by as much as S., and were
made So instead of $50. the tuition charge
of the university would not then cease to
be nominal charge; but the increase
would enable the university to pay for it's
| printing and the tuition charge would
come up a little nearer to the standard
OF the tuition charge of the other col
ltges of the State.
Now there are other important matters
yet to be discussed by the Senate this
| morning, and | do not wish 10 eXaggeratn