The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-11
CONTROL BOARD.
POWERS MAY
Be RESTRICTED
CARNATIONS or ovERsTEPPINe
Of AUTHORITY ARE MADE IN
SENATE, WHERE CONsERvA-
TON IS SLOGAN.
ny HERsERT FELkELl

Tallahassee, May 9.-For the first
time since the board of control was
created by the Buchanan bin that con-
.olidated all the small educational
Colleges into a great university for
men at Gainesville and a state college
Cor women at Tallahassee. the an
inspirations asked by the board of
control will be cut by the legislature
If amendments adopted by the senate
are concurred in by the house and the
bin as amended is approved by the
governor
The item providing for the expenses
of the board of control was cut eight to
six thousand dollars. Also the appro-
nriations asked for q central heating
nlant, laundry and athletic field for
tbs state College fors Women were
reduced, and another successful amend
ment provided that any part of money
appropriated for a specific purpose
and left over shall revert back to the
state treasury and not be used by the
hoard Of control for purposes other
than for what it is appropriated.
with the exception of the cut in the
EXPENSES Of the board of control, all
Of the reductions are aimed at the
state College for Women here, none
of the items asked for the University
Of Florida, the State School for the
Deaf and the Blind or the Normal and
Industrial College for Negroes being
disturbed.
II was stated on the floor that APP
propriations in the past have been
used where the board saw fit. and al
though the report showed where these
moneys went the board always asked
for a lump sum when the legislature
met Senator Johnson said it was
the business of the legislature. and the
legislature only. to appropriate. One
Instance cited was the using by the
college authorities here of an appro-
priation for pipe organ to buy a farm
near the college campus. The organ
never has been purchased, it is said,
although the legislature set aside a
sum for that purpose.
Objections also were made on the
floor Of the senate to the creation
since the 1917 legislature of the addi-
tional position now held by Mr.. Bryan
Mack, secretary of the board of con-
troll. Senator MacWilliams said that
formerly j. G. KelIum had been au-
ditor of the college here and secretary
of the board of control at a Larry of
three thousand dollars a year, but
since the last regular session of the
legislature the board of control had
taken five hundred dollars off the sal
airy Of Mr.. Kel1um and created a new
misunderstanding of the board OF
control-Mr. Kellum and Mr.. Mack re-
ceiving $1,000 a year each. If he was
not stating the facts correctly, he asked
to be corrected.
Before the bill reached the senate
the committee reduced the total APP
preparations asked for all of the in
stituions from approximately nine hun
bred thousand dollars to something
over six hundred thousand dollars, it
was stated. None of the cuts made
after the bill "a placed before the
senate was heavy.
Several amendments offered by SEN
stor Lowry, who was the author Of
the measure. were adopted. One of
these provided for playground and
athletic field for the girls school here
and the other for a state dairy special
ist to travel the entire state, five thou
sand dollars being appropriated for the
first and forty-four hundred dollars
for the latter
In reference to the athletic field, Sem
ator Lowry said it was now necessary
for the girls to conduct their track
meets in the stretes because the cam
pus had become so criss-crossed with
roads, etc. AS for the laundry, he said
there were six hundred girls there
now who sent their clothes out to be
washed by two or three negro women
in various parts of the city. -he Tai
ahasseean made an able effort to
Keep the bill intact and succeeded re-
narkably we'll considering the appar-
ent attitude of the senate.
As to the expenses for the board of
control, Senator Lowry said that out of
hat item had to come the salary OF
the secretary, travelling expenses OF
the board and its secretary. station
cry etc. When Senator Malone re-
m the opposition that everybody.s
expenses were nearly double what
they were formerly. Senator Johnson