The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1906-03-08
KILLED DORMITORY
Item for New Dormitory at
the College is Lost in
the Senate.

rv at the Industrial Institute &
College within the next two
years. The fight to secure it Oc-
CURED in the Senate at jackson
last Thursday and while the
friends Of the College carried
the item when il was before that
body for consideration. yet the
opponents Of the measure united
against it and prevented the bill
from passing that body bg the
cons titutional Majority The
fight was spirited and lasted for
a l0ng time. Mem hers from the
house and prominent State Off
GERS including the Governor
crowded into the Senate wing O.
the capitol when the tide of
oratory was on and when it end
ed Hightower and Farley and the
low pressures as they are
pleased to call themselves had
won the day.
The College bill as i1trodnoed
carried an item of one hundred
thousand dollars for d new dor
mit8ry at that institution. 1t
was needed to take into the insti-
tuition the serenity odd girls
Quartered in the three houses
surrounding it and to relieve the
crowded condition in the present
buildings, as many as Que hun
dred and thirty girls being
crowded ia thirty six rooms on
the fourth floor or mansard roof
of the main building The ap-
preparation also c0ntem plated
that two hundred additional
students, frona whom applica-
tiOns had been received, would be
admitted to the institution.
The bill first came up in the
house aud the bill was approved
favorably by the appropriation
com mittee with0utthis d0rmitOry
item. it having been stricken
from the bill by the appropria
tion ,cOmmittee after a three
hours fight by q vote Of ten to
eight. The bill passed the house
as approved and an effort was
made to get the dor mitOry APP
preparation te-instated by the
upper branch of the legislature.
1t was approved by that body's
finance com mittee, but when the
matter came before the Senate
the fight was on
The battle against the dOrmi-
tory item was led by Senator
Farley, chairman Of the finance
com mittee, Senators Hightower,
Mounger, Boyd, and others,
while Senator Franklin, from
this county, and Messrs. Muir
ray f. Smith. Gordon, Moore,
Groom and a host Of others
fought for the bill. The final
vote to reinstate The amend
ment was taken and it was car
ried IN favor of the amendment
by a vote of 81 to Is. but the
same vote was recorded on the
final passage OF the bill and as it
carried an appropriation it re-
quired majority of all of the Sen
ators to pass the bill AID hence it
was defeated receiving only u
votes when % were necessary to
legally pass it,
The re consideration of the
bill on Friday developed the fact
that the friends of the measure
in the Senate had present and
pledged to it more than enough
votes to carry the bill with the
new dOrmitory item included but
after conference of the friends
of the institution both ia the Sen
ate and in the House it was de-
cided that in view of the finan-
cial condition of the State treas
ury at the present time that the
College would withdraw this item
and Senator Moore made this
statement when the bill came up
for final consideration. The bill
is q good one as it stands and all
of the Colleges needs except the
dormitory are amply provided
for.