Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-04-02
REGENTS MEET
AFTER REFUSAL
ON RESIGNATION
Talbot Issues Declaration He
Won't Quit; Chairman of
Board Calls Meetings for
Last Saturday.

Last Saturday.
Declaration by Regent George
F. Talbot that no reason exists
why he should resign as a re-
gent of the University of Ne
vada was followed by announce
ment of Chairman George
Brown of meeting of the
board of university regents to
have been held last Saturday.
Judge Brown said the board
would consider the report of the
legislative committee that inveSti-
gated university affairs, but he
did not make any statement about
the action likely to be taken on
the report.
The report of the committee of
investigation said, in part:
From the facts adduced the con-
.clusion is reached that Regents
Talbot and Pratt Immediately ten
der their resignation to the gov
ernor and that the governor i'm
mediately accept the same. That II
said resigntaions are not rendered
immediately by said regents, and
the legislature has time, impeach-
lment proceedings be instituted by
this Legislature to remove from Of
flee said Talbot and Pratt. That If
said designations are not imme-
-diately rendered and if inlpeach-
ment proceedings are not brought,
then we recommend that the ma
iority members Of the board i'm
mediately define a policy for the
conduct of the university. That
thereafter President Clark be guild
ed by the policy so defined by said
beard and utterly disregard and
ignore the minority members OF
the bord, Talbot and Pratt"
No Resignation
Pratt and Talbot did not resign
The legislature did not impeach
them.
The legislature adjourned without
taking any action whatever about
the regents of the university
If the committees recommended
ton that the majority members of
the board of regents adopt a pol
icy for the guidance of the PreSi-
dent Clark, and utterly disregard
and ignore the minority members
of the board, Talbot and Pratt" is
adopted by the majority remains
to be seen.
Constitution Cited
Under the provisions of the con-
stitution the votes of nineteen
members Of the Nevada assembly
are sufficient to impeach an Off
Ger, says the Carson City Daily
News 'Misdemeanor or malfeaS-
ance in office" are the state
grounds for Impeachment. An Of
ficer impeached by at least nine
teen votes of the assembly of Ne
vada and tried by the senate may
be convicted by the votes of nine
members of the Nevada senate.
Persons who followed the evidence
adduced at the hearings by the
university investigating committee
have declared that nothing pres
ented proved Regents Talbot and
Pratt guilty of impeachable Of
fenSeS, and in that way explain
the failure of the legislature to in
stitute Impeachment proceedings
recommended by the committee
"if the legislature has the time.
Pratt Is Silent
No formal statement has been
made by Regent Pratt since the
report was filed but in response
to a telegram sent him by the
Gazette, a Reno newspaper, asking
him what action he would take, he
says that as many people are
concerned in the university stu
alton I shall want to confer with
some of them before making a de-
cision."
Statement Related
Judge Talbot's statement, in
which he says that he will not
resign and in which ne severely
criticizes the method of the legiS-
lative committee says in part:
The constitution and not the
legislature crates the office of uni
versity regent, provides that re-
gents shall be elected by the peo-
pile and makes it the duty of the
board of regents to control the af-
fairs of the university
The statute provides for five
regents, one of whom is elected
every two years for term of ten
years.
The efforts of the legislature tc
itself elect or designate the re-
gents we're made in plain violation
of the judicially determined fact
that the word elected as used il
the constitution means elected b.
the qualified voters of the state,