Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-03-14
viii Apportion Funds According to
Letter of the Law

Sundays Statesman headed "DR.
BRYAN WILL PROTECT FUND"
This article as written would indi-
cate that the distinguished gentle
man had decided to annex the man
agement of the State Auditors office
with that of the Commissioner of
Education, and l desire this space
for the purpose of informing the tax
payers of Idaho, and also DR.. Bryan.
that l do not need his services in run
ming this office, and will not until
after January 9Th, 1919. l intend
to apportion the money according to
law, and the desire of the last Legis-
lature, as expressed in House Bill No.
316, and approved recently by the
Attorney General of the State. In
fact the several articles which have
appeared recently in the Statesman,
which have attempted to show that
the State Board of Education was
going to take heroic measures to
save the Morrill, Fund, and also the
Soldiers Home Federal Aid Fund,
although this latter fund is entirely
outside Of their jurisdiction were
simply articles inspired by the Board
of Education, or the heads of the
educational institutions, for the pur-
pose Of misleading the public as 10
the real merits Of the case. The
last legislature, for the first time in
the history Of Idaho, very wisely and
almost unanimously, decided to lin
1t the expenditures of all State insti-
tutions, instead of the old way of
giving these various institutions GER
tain money, and then allowing them
to spend their interest money, and
their local receipts on top of that.
This decision met with a great oppo-
-sition from the Educational Lobby,
which for years has infested the State
Capitol every time the Legislature
meets. This condition is not alone
in Idaho, but in every state in the
Union, and causes the taxpayers
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
unnecessary appropriations every two
years, and should be stopped. The
last Legislature, In writing House
Bill No. 316, decided that all local
receipts should be placed to the cred
it Of the institution, thereby reduc.
ing the Legislative appropriation by
that amount. After House Bill No.
BIG left tie executive offices, the Ed
ucational Lobby was enabled to in
sert the following false statement in
the Bill:
Except Federal Aid Received
from the Government of the
United States, which under the
law, granting said aid, must be
retained by the institution re-
ceiving the same"
This is a joker of the worst type,
and was inserted by someone for the
purpose of allowing the officials at
the University of Moscow to handle
nearly Three Hundred Thousand Dol
lars every two years for which the
State of Idaho is responsible for its
proper expenditure but never knows
where 1t goes. The joker is false for
the reason that the Federal statute
reads that the State Board of Re
gents of the University, or it's sue
cessors in office, which in the State
of Idaho is the State Board of Edr-
cation, shall name the University
Treasurer. and asa the Idaho statutes
provide that all bills contracted must
be approved by the STATE Board Of
Examiners, and warrants shall be
signed by the State Auditor and paid
by the State Treasurer, there is nat
urally a confAt here between the
Federal law and the State law. This
can be overcome, however, by the
State Board of Education electing
John w. Eagleson, to act as Univer-
s1ty Treasurer; then all claims would
be paid according to the Idaho law.
This has been done in a number of
other states, although / am frank to
acknowledge, the group at Washing
ton, d. c., controlled by this hollow
ed atmosphere which surrounds all
Educational bodies, are not in favor
of State officials knowing where the
Federal money goes. 1t is time the
taxpayers of Idaho were informed of
the real financial conditions concern
Ing our State institutions, and par
ticularly the University at Moscow
Under the system of extravaganza,
which has been going on for twenty
years, 1t has reached the point where
1t would be almost as cheap for Ida
no to send her boys to Yale and Har-
ward and her girls to Vassar and
Smith. as 1t is to send them to Mos
cow.
AS promised the taxpayers OF
this state / would act as a real Audi
tor, intend to keep my word, al
though l realize that anyone who has
the courage to raise his voice against
our Sacred Educational System in
this State is liable to incur the en-
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