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Show ESPEAT SEEKS TO :Clffi' ' auvochtes cp ra GF BIG STATE COLILEdiES Friends of the Logan Institution, the Agricultural- College of Utah, are today marshalling their forces for a final stand in the House of Representatives to preserve the identity of their Institution. Insti-tution. Undaunted by their defeat In the Senate yesterday, they are now more than confident of winning out in "the House. It is not generally believed, however, that the required vote can be received In the House as it is thought that at least twenty-one of the members are opposed to the constitutional amendments amend-ments passed In the Senate. The required re-quired two-thirds will be lacking, it is asserted. At the end of a long day of arguments, argu-ments, during which one of the bitterest bitter-est fights- ever seen . in the 8enate chamber was waged, the legislative body, with just enough votes, passed the Park bill with the Hollingsworth amendments calling for two constitutional constitu-tional amendments to be placed before the people at the next election on the consolidation of the University of Utah and the Agricultural College of Utah. The amendments as published in THE TELEGRAM yesterday are for the consolidation con-solidation of the University and college under one name and one board of control, con-trol, but with their identity otherwise remaining the same as at present. No Votes to Spare. Samuel C. Park was the champion of the consolidation idea and the strongest advocate of the bill for the presenting of the constitutional amendments to the people to pass on. Senator Herschel Bullen of Logan was the champion of the losing side. He fought hard and long to preserve the identity and individuality indi-viduality of the college. Despite his strenuous efforts he went down to defeat, de-feat, the bill receiving the mere two-thirds two-thirds vote sufficient for passage. In a dramatic manner Senator Park closed the debate. Around the strong bulwark of argument which he had erected he fastened the final cleats that carried the bill through. The rollcall showed the following result: For consolidation Senators Brinker-hoff, Brinker-hoff, Calllster, Clegg, Gardner, Hollings-wortn, Hollings-wortn, Lawrence, Miler, Park, Kasband, Benner X. Smith, Williams, President Love. 12. Against consolidation Senators Bullen, Bul-len, Hnlanlski, Johnson, Seely, John Y. Smith, Walton 6. Big Crowd There. The Senate chamber was (crowded with the friends, instructors and students stu-dents of both institutions. All day long they thronged the place, anxious as to the outcome of the fight, although, as indicated by THE TELEGRAM, there was no doubt as to the passage of the measure. Senator Park in his argument in the morning session went into the proposed pro-posed amendments in detail. He declared de-clared that the clause providing for high schools would do away with the necessity of the college; maintaining a preparatory school. He asserted that there are students of agriculture at the school and seventy-one in the college col-lege department being educated at an expense of $85,000 a year. . Park further fur-ther asserted that the college" was merely mere-ly a high school for the residents of Cache county. "State Scandal," He Says. .The students could receive the same work at the University with practically no additional expense to the institution. institu-tion. "This duplication of work is vicious and unbusinesslike," said Mr. Park, "and the people of the State should not be burdened by this additional expense. Let the institutions be consolidated; let the agricultural college of the University Univer-sity be located at Logan, but let there be no duplication. "The incessant war between the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college and the University is a State scandal. Both institutions are working at cross purposes. They, spend $2800 a year in advertising and fighting each other. This must stop, and must stop immediately, and the only way to stop it is to place both tinder one board of control." Following Senator Park, other speeches in favor of the amendment were made bv C. R. ' Hollingsworth, Thomas C. Calllster and Frederick Ras-band. Ras-band. Senator Bullen then took the floor in defense of the college. He attacked the high school clause as a "rider." "I don 't believe," he said, "that the high schools will ever benefit much from this. The trouble is that Salt. -Lake wants this college, wants to shut the doors of the Logan school and be alone the center of the State's educational svstem. ' ' ' In conclusion Senator Bullen took oc-! oc-! rasion to score the majority of the commission com-mission which investigated the problem and reported to the Governor their findings find-ings in favor of consolidation. It was in reference to the methods employed by the majority in securing letters from various' college presidents, giving their views on consolidation, which were in- corporated in the majority report. Hulas of Justice Broken. I "It was the most unprofessional I act," he snid, "ever practiced by men in public, life in this State. It whs a i violation of all rules of courtesy and ! iustiee. Besides, one of the letters was 1 garbled to suit the tastes of the major- jl,"I want vou to undertsand that the University is the invader and the Agricultural" Ag-ricultural" college the defender, defend ing its right, to exist by all that is just and right." Senator Park closed the debate with these words: . "Have not the people a right to say whether they wish to sustain two institutions! insti-tutions! Have not the people who give the monev a right to say how it shall be spentt The arrogant friends of the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college have the temerity to sav they have not. I submit to anv fair minded judge that they have, and that the interests of the great State of Utah shall not be blocked because of petty politics of this little institution." |