New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-06-25

the College, and the city of Las Cru
ees is several miles from the cam
pus, His presence on that campu
was imperative and we were com
PEELED 70 build a house for him. |
/, is a modest, comfortable house. bull
, as cheaply as we could make it.
The faculty of the College ha
worked faithfully, during this crisis
most of the time for much less sal
airy in value than its members re
ceived in 1914. We have, withou
request, raised salaries from twent,
to thirty per cent. but the presen
salaries are worth only half the pur
chase value of 1914. The faculty hai
o been increased in numbers II
any extent, in spite of the increased
attendance, yet in the last two year
the number of actual teaching hour
has been three times as large as pre-
viously carried, during the past year
more teaching hours and more lab.
oratory work per man than any fac
ulty of like character in the United
States. No institution has had Z
more loyal or industrious faculty, We
no institution today has a good ia.
Guilty so poorly paid. OF late we hav>
been losing valued members because
we cannot afford to keep them and
the only wonder is that We have
kept some of them so long.
We bought $l3,O0O.OO worth of new
and unused engineering machinery
from the Government alter the war
for $4,000, an unprecedented bar
gain. This was carefully selected b,
the Dean of Engineering, and would
now cost ten times its cost to us
if it could be secured at all.
However, according to bills now
appearing unpaid, the Engineering
Department exceeded this appro-
priation of two thousand Dollars by
several hundred dollars, which amour;
to pay. This item and one later re-
ferred to have been presented To
very lately. and though they appear
ed in the deficit alleged by you.
they have never been authorized BY
us, and we are in no way RESPONSE
BILE for them. These bills and those
elsewhere referred to herein as I'M
authorized would have been present
ed to us on the l+th of the present
month, and the members OF the
Board could not have known about
them before.
There has not been one dollar
wasted or Incorporated, All per
sons handling money are carefully
bonded. The Regents have worked
without any recompense, at great loss
TO themselves, and not even all their
necessary expenses have been paid.
No work or improvement has been
done by any one outside the Col
lege without bids and bonds. and
some OF the work has been done
with even better material than III.
contract required. All payments on
contracts have been made on the
certificates OF a competent architect
employed by the Regents. All ex-
tras were paid for at contract prices.
on the same kind of certificates. The
same work could moi now be done
without an additional cost of approx
imately fifty per cent. on the price
paid. There has been no graft in
extras or small bills. The require
ment of bids and the award OF con-
tracts to the lowest responsible
bidder have caused some un-
favorable criticism, by those who ex-
pected political graft from this ms
titui on, but this criticism has not
swayed the Regents from their legal
duty.
The cost OF materials and living
expenses have doubled since the
Board took charge, but the genera!
legislative appropriations have been
no larger, and even less, than be-
fore. All property Of the College
is insured as required by law, but
both values and insurance rates have
increased, and IL costs much more
TO keep the amoun OF insurance I'M
peratively required.
In 1919, the State overpaid one
fund by mistake in the sum of so,i00.
which fact was not known to the
Board of Regents until recently, but
in 1920 this mount was arbitrarily
withheld by the State. without no.
tice when il had been taken into ac-
count in the College budget. This
was not the fault OF the Regents,
and they would not have used this
money had they known il and they
had no reason to expect this amcunt
to be deducted from the present liz
cal years appropriations. They bad
Il right IA Itly upon the reports MADE
o them b. State officers, and upon
the statements OF the competent
b~ookkeeDers at the College.
On August ~. 1919. the Board 81
Regents authorized certain improve
ments to be made in the e~nuinccrm.
buiidinp BY the Dean of Eng Etet
inc. in the sum Of $4,000, of which
SS.Oo0fg was to be diverted from the
budget OF the Engineering Depart,
ment and repaid from other funds
covered by the College Budget. SEQ
that the total expenditure author'1-
ed from the general college funds W1-
$4,000. The fund Of $4,000 90 be
diverted was moi turned over aud
without any authority from anyone
add ;onal bills for SS,4S4.R have late
~ appeared in :hc College Office, and
have been included in the defict AZ
legged by you. These items were
never ordered by the Board OF Re
gents and would not have been paid
by them. Hence the Board Is en-
titled to a credit OF Sl3.4s4.32. agains'
the deficit. so alleged on account Of
these two items. The item OF S.
OO0U has, therefore, been appropri-
ated by the Board only once instead
of twice "a indicated IN the alleged
On June 10Th, 1920, there was cash
hand. according TO the College
Books. of S22,7l00, which should
also be deducted from such alleged
No account has been taken thu
far OF outstanding bills OF the pre-
LID Md h. The nrD..na