El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-12

county TO contribute toward securing
the school, and Felix Martinez replied
| that such an effort had been made, but
the attorney general of the state had
| rendered county judge A S J. EylaT
| the opinion that money could not be
| appropriated from the general tax rolls
/ for the purpose
KOhIberg Makes Motion.
Walter kOhlberS then presented the
! motion that the trustees should au-
thOrize the payment of the $4,000 and
! recommend to future budget fund trus-
/ tees to make appropriations to cover
/ the total amount of $4,000.
! A W. Reeves then read a statement
| of the budget fund, showing $6,5O2. 80
| on hand. OF this amount $500 for the
/ entertainment of the Daughters of the
! American Revolution has been allowed;
! 5000 has been appropriated for the
| Phoenix road race, S113.5O for expenses
attached to the entertainment of sec
( rotary Of war Lindley NJ Garrison.
! leaving a balance of S5,53S.S5, and
/ about $500 still cOllectable on the first
and second calls.
V. r. Stiles explained that in about
/ six weeks $1,000 or $500 will be re-
I qu1red for the advertising booklet but
| by that time money will be coming in
| from the third call of the budget fund,
| and it is proposed to make the $4,000
payment from that.
Potter Cautions Against Haste.
H 5. Potter said: 1T appears to me
we are rushing this thing through in
hurry. There are none of the officers
Martinez asked: rs it a good thing?"
Potter: Yes, the school of mines is
! good thing"
Martinez: Then let it go ahead"
Potter: We are taking an obliga-
ton that will last for eight years"
Stiles; That is Just the thing we are
not doing"
Potter: I am in favor of the school
of mines, but not in favor of railroad
ing this through like this. Why such
a hurry"
Stiles: 1T is difficult to set men to
meetings. You want to postpone it.
but we do not know when we can Sc
cure as many men to attend a meeting
again"
Martinez: TT will take four or five
months to settle tAe legal phases of the
situation"
O'Keeffe: 1T doesn't look so good to
me now. Are We to get this property
or are we merely taking an option on
Martinez: You are to get it"
J. ). Ormsbee then said: The only
objection Mr. Potter seems TO have is
Tor such small number of the truS-
tees 10 pass this suppose that we
pass 1t tonight and then submit the
proposition in writing to the other
trustees"
However this motion was lost sight
OF and v R Stiles said: Il want you
to understand YOU are merely authoriz-
ing the board of directors to go ahead
with it. We will watch out for your in
terests- We are not TO take snap judg-
ment on this, we are to go into it deep
~"
KOhIberg's Motion Carries.
kohlberg's motion was then present.
ed. seconded by 5. C McCurdy and
adopted without a dissenting vote.
The budget fund trustees then ap-
propriated the S113.5O to pay expenses
incident to the entertainments of sec
rotary of war Garrison and his party.
Lester Chosen Delegate.
Frlor 10 the meeting OF the trustees,
the directors met In the office Of sec
rotary A W Reeves. There, Francis
E Lester, Of Mesilla Park, n. NJ, was
appointed to represent the FL PasO
chamber Of commerce at the good roads
convention in Detroit, Mich.
The resignation Of c. S. Sherwood
was accepted.
Booklet Bid Accepted.
1t was also announced that the bud
get fund advertising committee had
accepted the recommendation OF the
advertising committee of the directors
to accept the bid of the Ell Paso Print
ing company for the new booklet
Because no definite date can be Sc
cured with the New York Giants and
Chicago White Sox, the board of di-
rectors decided to drop the PROPOSE
ton, and it will now be taken Up by
arrange for game to be played here
between the two teams.
It having come to the notice of
the directors that some merchants
approached by representatives of char
liable organizations haG oeclined TO
contribute, but referred them to the
budget fund The directors said that
the budget fund is not for charitable /
purposes and no merchant or other
contributor has any right to refer to
that fund for payment of his charitable |
requests,