The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-12-13
GIVE UNIVERSITY
MORE THAN MILLION
BOARD CUTS THREE QUARTERS
OF MILLION FROM APPROPRI-
ATIONS ASKED FOR.

The University of Idaho will ee-
81, 100000 from the state for nainten
ance for the newt two years, according
to report from Boise. where the state
board of education has been preparing
the budget that will be presented te
the state legislature when it meets
early in January. The board cut $780,,
900 from the amount asked, which
was two million dollars, and the
amount taken from the budget was tc
| have been used for buildings and i'm
provements. The dispatch from Boise
telling of the action of the board, fol
lows:
e-Approximately three-quar-
ters of million dollars was stricken
from the University of Idaho budget
of the coming bienniaum today by
the state board of education The
legislature will be asked to appro-
pirate more than one and quarter
million dollars for the institution, but
the board decided to defer requests
for improvements to buildings which
would increase the total to two million
until general financial conditions are
better AS finally approved ny the
board, for submission to the depart
ment of finance and the chief execu-
tive, the university budget is as fol-
lows:
For maintenance, s1,OOO,OOO; for
capital additions, $239, 100
The maintenance includes salaries,
equipment, supplies and other items.
For the schools and colleges of the
university S676,000 is asked For ag-
ricultural and experiment sub-station,
$4,000. For the extension division,
&25O 000
The budget for the Idano Technical
institute will contain requests for
S265. 5.51935 for maintenance and
$285,OOO for capital additions, or a
total to be asked from taxatio Of
$55O,519.35.
Commenting on the University of
Idaho budget, DIR. E. A. Bryan, COM
missioner of education, said today:
"It was necessary for the board to
reduce the sums asked for by the in
stitution, not because the original re-
quests were unduly large or because
of the presence of unnecessary items,
but rather because of a general policy
of retrenchment has been deemed es-
sential until return of easier times.
Reductions were made here and there
as we found it possible to trim, but
The chief reductions were made in re-
quests for new and larger buildings"
Secretary Parsons Exi.iai,s
L. F. Parsons, executive secretary |
If the university, explains the matter
in a stement issued today for the |
press. His statement shows that,
With the amount appropriated, III to
,e asked for by the board, the univer-
,ity will have twice as large a fund |
IS in the present biennium. Mr..
Parsons statement follows:
Increase Is 100 Per Cent
''The total appropriation of a mil
ion and quarter dollars is asked by
he board of education for the Uni
-ersity of Idaho. 1t is approximately
90 per cent more than was received
rom the last legislature This amount
Loes not include the income from
ther sources. The university re-
elves interest on funds made pos I
ible by land grants, made to the
tate when it was admitted to the
nion. 1t also received direct ap-
ropriation of federal government
mounting to several thousands Of
ollars. under the Morrell act, Adams,
mith- Lever, Smith Hughes and other !
ederal measures. In addition it has
n income from the university expert
1ent fund"