| Show agricultural COLLEGE the bill passes both houses and tache county gets it on tuesday the bill to provide for the establishment of an agricultural college came up in the house as special order and was slightly amended when it came to the question of location mr howell moved that it be at any place in cache county mr creer wanted the question of location loft to the judgment of tho trustees to be hereafter appointed mr howell supported his motion and made a strong speech in favor of his county his constituents were mostly engaged in agriculture he thought it would be a fitting tribute to the people of cache that the college should be located there cache was entitled to it weber had the promise of the reform school salt lake was amply provided for in the matter of public buildings and utah county had tho asylum cache had received nothing yet mr creer entered his in a vigorous manner utah county badall the advantages cache had and even more the question of location was an important one and the general good demanded that it be placed in utah county mr jones also spoke in favor of his action of the county he disliked delegating the question of location to the board mr hatch was of a different opinion he really thought the Hous ewas getting sectional if he had had his way he would have located the reform school at fort cameron but those who desired that failed to work hard enough they did not buzz one another enough and therefore got left mr thurman you struck it there was more discussion by richards and moyle by a vote of 12 to 7 the motion of mr howell prevailed mr clark wanted the bill amended so as to appropriate instead of mr helm wanted it reduced to 15 mr richards insisted that was little enough mr dark was not opposed to the amount so far as any locality is concerned but he would like to ask the gentlemen who were in favor of large appropriations where the money was to come from mr richards replied we are going to borrow it or raise the taxes mr thurman did not like to hear the remarks that salt lake had her public buildings that ogden had her reform school provo the university and cache the agricultural college from the depths of his heart he wished tho asylum was somewhere else mr creer hear hear mr moyle to creer at payson for instance mr thurman proposed to vote for he was willing to be as liberal as it was possible to be in the appropriations to all such public enterprises mr made a strong speech in favor of the establishment college portraying the good that must come out of it the bill then passed by 20 ayes three members being absent the bill passed the council under suspension of the rules it now awaits the governors signature |
