Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-07-01
Many People Going Wild About Higher
Governor Ferguson VS.. The University Of Texas

corning them all may be brought and made known to all
and that end may be put to their continued retera
ton"
The students of the University, in meeting
bed strongly petOned the Legislature to make full thor
Ough investigation of all matters pertaining to the Unver-
sity.
While these requests from the University pending
before the Senate Governor Ferguson stated the Senate
that he did consider further investigation necessary
The response of the Senate to all of the above appeals
contained in Senate Resolution No. &C. known the Dayton
Resolution, follows:
Whereas The testimony taken by the Board of Regents
of the University of Texas having been published and copy
of having been sent to each Senator and members of
the Senate having had an opportunity to read and consider
the same. that il is the of the Senate:
FrsThat the Board of Regents ent into the charges
thoroughly properly called to their attention by
the Governor and the evidence sufficiently developed
that there not sufficient occasion for the reOpenng and
the recOnsidering of the conclusions of said board
Second the investigation disclosed careless
practices not amounting to moral tupude that had
the management of the University during its thirty
three of existence and these careless methods have all
been rectfied and considering that the University thirty
three old and has to be large institution of
which the State proud and upon which the State and the
people to be congratulated that there little found
its subject to criticism found and the
Governor having stated he did consider further nves-
tigation necessary; therefore, be it
Resolved That the judgment of the Board of Regents
matters considered by them, including charges against nd
vdua and all other matters considered by said board at said
hearing and of right ought to be regarded by each Sen
atOr adjudicata.
"Be II Further Resolved That the investigation herewith
provided for any matters connected with the Unver-
y he and the is hereby fully satisfied by the adop-
ton of this ent to the original resolution and that
the committee provided for in the original resolution cOnne
its Investigations to the questions pertaining to the fitness
of the proposed members of the Board Regents and those
matters affecting that question:
In the face of these facts the Governor since the ad-
jOurnment of the Legislature has again demanded of the
Board of Regents the dismissal of the me rs of the fac
uty who had been previously investigated and exhonorated
by the board and has also demanded of the board the dis
missa of the president Dr. NnsO and reported in the
press has time and again upon the stump different parts
of the State publicly denounced the members of the faculty
and also the student body guilty of doyay coun-
try anaChsc in teaching and dishonest their prac-
tees These charges have been published in the press the
State and have also the other States of the Union
bringing dsrepue to the University and disgrace to our
people
This is the second of series of articles which will ap-
pear in this in which propose discuss the cOnro-
vey which has arisen between Ferguson the
University of Texas.
UNIVERSITY CITIZENS COMMITTEE
JOSEPH d SAVERS Chairman w. secs.sry
MRS CHALmERs W HUTCHINSON MRS PERCY v. PENNYBACKEB
MRS CLARA DklsCOLL SEWER MRS REBECCA
w W TuRNEY
MRS OLGA KoHLBERG NAT NJ WASHER PARK
J. A KEMP MRS J. TERRELL