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Show COLLEGE BILL PASSES OVER DAY'SPROTEST Bills Approving Adoption of Dixie College as State Institution Passed in Both House and Senate Over-riding the protest of Wil-ford Wil-ford Day of Parowan, senator from Iron and Washington counties, coun-ties, the Dixie college bill, providing pro-viding for the state's acceptance of the institution and an appropriation ap-propriation of $12,000 for its continuance, was passed in the Utah senate Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 14 for, seven against, and one absent. Day, whose interest in the district dis-trict that elected him should have been pronounced, began a tirade against the adoption of the local institution even to the extent of over-talking his time limit from the chamber floor, according to advices received here Wednesday. On the other hand, W. O. Bentley, Jos. S. Snow and Dnvid Hirsehi have spent several weeks in Salt Lake', to a large extent at their own ex-jnse. ex-jnse. assisting in securing legislative leg-islative approval for the scTiooI'3 continuance. Contributions had been made for their assistance by local civic interests, but their time and a considerable expense was freely given. In the house, the Dixie College bill passed last Friday by a vote of 51 to 8, with one absent. The measure was, however, without with-out a definite appropriation, and was returned Wednesday for approval, ap-proval, and will go from there to the governor for his - signature. signa-ture. (Following is the story of the passage of the junior college ! bill, making Dixie a state institution, in-stitution, as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune Thursday ! morning. Senator Wilford Day, of Iron and Washington counties, coun-ties, who should have been wholeheartedly in favor of the movement, fell back on one of the counties he represented, to the contempt of southern Utah and the state as whole): The day's work in the senate Tuesday included passage of the truck tax bill, repeal of the filing fee, and passage of bills taking Dixie College into the state system and providing full state maintenance for all junior colleges. Junior colleges Tuesday definitely defi-nitely became a part of. the state school system. They will be maintained from the general fund, despite its impoverished condition. Senator Wilford Day of Iron county was, as he termed it on Tuesday on the floor of the Utah senate, "a mouse", until he exploded. But the explosion came too late. It gave his Republican colleague col-league and neighbor, O. C. Bowman Bow-man of Kanab, a few moments of nerves. But it had absolutely no effect on the junior college system steam roller which worked work-ed with clocklike precision in the senate and passed two ( bills back to the house with minor amendments. Supporters of junior colleges had the votes. They knew it. Dixie college was a part of their program. Maintenance by the state, without any assistance from the local communities, was another part of the program. They knew these were sure. They were willing to have their bills amended so. that uniform uni-form registration and tuition fees shall be charged at all four state junior colleges, or it may be all three. For the Branch agricultural ag-ricultural college will remain under un-der the board of trustees of the Utah state agricultural college, while Dixie, Snow and Weber will be operated by the 6tate board of education. But no other amendments (Continued on page 3) J COLLEGE (IVnt :nued from page 1) were permitted. Ami by Tuesday night the Miles 11!1 to establish Pixio college as a junior college, v.r.A tl'.e Frischknccht bill, to provide pro-vide that tho state should pro-all pro-all maintenance, outside ot mitiim fees and the like, were a'e!;' en tho way back to the Juitise Willi the approval oC a majority of the senators. ScrcT"'" Pay was absent from 'the te:-..ite eliamber when the Kriscl'.i.uecht bill went, to roll call t.a final passage. Voting airairi.'t ii were Senators Julian !. Bamberger, Malcolm A, Key-Mr Key-Mr a::d Mrs. Burton W. Mus-A Mus-A .'.-entees were Senators nay. p. J. Fir.r.ell, W. 11. Griffin, Jr.. and Dan 11. Shields. This left 16 ser.a'.ors in favor- of the hill. S;e;v.u roller operators saw their chance. They recalled that tlte Miles hill, making Dixie a stats institution, had been left on th calendar until the Frisch-kr-OLht measure should be acted en. They brought it up. Thera was little debate, those in chars? knowing where the votes were, and those against not desiring to be flattened out anymore any-more than was necessary. Roll call was again on in a matter of seconds. ' Senator Day returned during loll call, and began to explain I, vote, which every senator has the right to do. "O:iir.aiily," he said, a state senr.ter ought to feel happy to pet two junior colleges in his district. "I was approached in regard to this early in the session by ' inv !r!ctttls. neighbors and con-Eti'aier.'s con-Eti'aier.'s in Washington county. "I te'd them then that I would not. ur.der any condition, support sup-port a movement of that kind, namely to make Dixie a junior cohere. 1 told them I did not consider it consistent or reasonable, rea-sonable, for the state to have and to support two junior colleges col-leges in adjoining counties and just a few miles apart on a main traveled highway open all the year." "But I told them I would not he quiet, and advised them I would not exert myself against' their plan. "I cannot be a mouse forever. "I ccuid not conceive that this body vouid take any such action cn the bill as was indicated by the vote in the senate this morning, morn-ing, when the Miles bill was up for debate on second reading, I could not believe that they would put a college on the payroll pay-roll of the state in such a place, far down on the gorders of the state where it can help only one small county, and only part of that." H;re Senator Bowman, who was at the control's of the machine ma-chine for the time being, interrupted. inter-rupted. He tried to stop his Republican Republi-can colleague on a point of order. or-der. "The senator has had his opportunity to explain his position po-sition when the bill was being debated. I do not think that he should be allowed to talk this way now, unless the privilege is aiso given of answering his arguments. ar-guments. "It is selfish on his part, and unfair ." Kc-re the senator from Kane ran out of adjectives. President J. Francis Fowles, hi whose district, Weber county, another junior college is being added to the state general fund, was, however, less nervous about the results of Senator Day's tirade. ti-rade. Anyway, his answer was obvious. "The senator may explain his "vote," he observed. The senator went on explaining. explain-ing. He had been surprised at the vote of the morning and the attitude displayed by the senators. sena-tors. He could hardly credit that the supporters of the Dixie would go so far. "I owe it to this body," he asserted, "to say that I do not think it is good business for the state of Utah to expand at this time, especially when its action interferes with a junior college that has been in existence for j 35 years." The Miles bill had received 14 votas in its favor when the roll call had been completed. Senator '. Patterson reiterating what he ; had said in the morning, that 1 wanted to vote with the ma-,.ened" ma-,.ened" at least once, and that the , ghtilvay he could do so was fl Setting fQr the junior college r'&'a n the negative on the Te Senators Bamberger, NNreVs H. B. Maw, Mrs. i'.cv. ' arence Xeslen and ,V'"-s. S'c'm-s Fennell and f Griffin were still absent. Sena-I tors Neslen and Maw were the ! two who changed their votes! from "aye" on the Frischknccht ! hill to "nay" on the Miles bill. I During the debate it was brought out 'that the L. D. s. church will coritimieto contribute contrib-ute some support to Dixier col lego for the bionnium. This was explained in more detail during dur-ing the morning session. Senator Keyser voiced his opposition" op-position" lo the hill at that time, saying that the state was em-; barking on a course without any ! idea as to where the end would I; be. lie considered that the i i church was like a man who:i would give a poor neighbor aij Cadillac car, when the ncifrh-li bor could not afford to keep itjj up. ,j He asserted that the reason !j the church was " giving it ovrrij was because it found the col-1 i lege too expensive, and he ' doubted that the 'state could at- j ford it, either. ; Supporters of the bill were j impatient of debate, but were willing to accept the amendment amend-ment by Senator Shields, which makes ail junior college fees uniform. This carried by a rather ra-ther narrow vote. The negative ; vote in the morning included j Senators Griffin, Wallace and j Young, with Senators Maw, Neil- j son and Miller absent. j |