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Show STATE SCHOOLS MUDDLE i DODGED BY LEGISLATURE it- - , : ' J - " - - ' came vituperative at the afternoon session, ses-sion, hurling cries of "Trickster!" Traitor!" and kindred calls at Mc-Crea Mc-Crea and the supporters of the McCrea report for the consolidation of the schools. The action of certain members of the House at times was disgraceful and anything but conducive to the general welfare of the State. Dignity was thrown to the winds and the more vituperative vi-tuperative members forfeited what small claim they had to the respect of the people by trying to howl down all debate on the question. More than an hour was spent In Jockeying Jock-eying for time. A report from the Senate Sen-ate that the Barber report had been adopted by a vote of 10 to S was read In tha House and Wilson moved that the report be also adopted by the House. The motion lost. When It became apparent that no work could be done by the House McCrea Mc-Crea moved that both reports be submitted sub-mitted to the Committee on fiducation and Art, and this was done. At the evening session the committee presented a unanimous report that S. B. No. 150 providing for a commission to investigate the duplication of courses and to report at the next Legislature, passed without debate by a unanimous vote, and the war was over. , J . aTie report of the Joint committee ap-K- pointed to consider the duplication of - studies at the University and the Agrl-" Agrl-" cultural college was presented yester-M. yester-M. day in the Senate, and called forth con- ' siderable bitterness of feeling. In com-r com-r mlttee- the conditions existing had been thresCed out, but no agreement ? was reached and it sent .back to the 4 ' ' Senate two reports. One report, signed f) by A. G. Barber, T. II. Merrill, li. S. Jo-f; Jo-f; eph, . George Austin, W. H. Maughan . favored the continuation of both schools as independent institutions, and r , recommended that the .entrance fees and tuition be raised, and the appro- priations be kept at the lowest possi- ble figure with the exception of the school of mines. The second report, signed by C. R. Hollingsworth. W. N. Williams, Samuel - C Park, Harden Bennlon and William 'V McCrea, proposed the consolidation of the University and college In all college work. This report proposed an amend-ment amend-ment to section 4, article 10 of the'Con- F stitution relating to the location and W '-ourses of studies to be pursued at K State institutions. After submitting both reports Sena- tor Hollingsworth moved amendments V- to the report signed by Senator Barber ;ind others, proposing a commission to . investigate the situation and report to i. the next Legislature. Senator Barber, t i he-champion of the Agricultural col-K; col-K; lege, fought for the adoption of his re-.J re-.J lort. He Insisted that the arauments for consolidation were exaggerated. He called attention to the discrepancy v between the claims of those favoring ' onsolldation and those opposed. The ; former reported $200,000, .the latter but $7000. ' Senator Rasband called attention to the reports of the two institutions showing that three-fourths of the t studies are duplicated and asserting that the State could not afford to sup- I'ort two such institutions. Senator Hollingsworth thought the bill for an amendment should be passed t, and then a commission appointed which 'x would report to the Secretary of State i July 1, 1906. This he argued would give V ample time to submit the question to '" the people. i Senator Bennion was also In favor of submitting the' question to the people, and was supported by Senator Wil- f. liams. j At the afternoon session, after a vote y- ' had been taken by which the report .5 .signed by Barber and osiers, with the I amendments proposed by Hollings- worth, was carried by 10 to 8, the reports re-ports were referred to the Committee i on Education and Art. . After hours of wrangling, charges and r counter-charges the House finally de-'- tided to pass S. B. No. 150, providing that a commission be appointed to ln-; ln-; vestigate the duplication of courses at I the University and the Agricultural col-r? col-r? lege and report to the next Legislature. Almost the entire afternoon was spent in discussion of the reports of the spe-t spe-t cial committee that was appointed to ' Investigate the duplication of courses. ' Two reports were presented. .Zighbu. Merrill and Roberts be- . |