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House Bill (503 commonly known as the five" million dollar cducationa
bond bill has gone into the scrap heap and we think wisely so, when all
nhnses of it are considered.
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Governor Fields had a very 'well defined plan which would have raised
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money for the educational institutions had it been pnssed by the legislature,
'His method was to plnce a luxury tax on .manufactured tobacco and soft
'.drinks and an income tax. It is true that the latter might not have been
popular had it become a law but the scale was not so high as the federal
and such a tax could have been imposed without hurting anyone, and espec
ially so when it would have been used for the adwheement of the higher
educational interests of the state As to the former, it would be a vol
untary tax. We who use tobacco and drink the soft drinks would pay
These two plans would have brought in sufficient
of our own volition.
revenue to these 'institutions for them to have started on a real construct
ive program covering a period of years.
by a group of business men who
The Governor's plans were up-swere in the class that would have been affected by the income tax and others
We arc of the opinion that the chief objection
"who had tobacco interests.
came from the big tobacco manufacturing interests who were powerful
enough to pull the wool over the eyes of some of our best business men
These men came to Frankfort and closeted themselves together with certain
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senators and representatives whom they knew to be Readers, in the restroom
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of the senate and there raised such a howl about the Governor's plans that
it was thought that they could not be passed through the legislature.
order to lead those who were interested in funding the state debt, rebuilding
the. penal and charitable institutions and advancing the educational institu
tions away from plans already suggested, they brought up the wonderful
thought that they would sponsor a $14,000,000.00 bond issue to be as
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follows:
5,000,000.00 for the penal and charitable institutions; $4,000,
000.00 to fund the state debt and $5,000,000.00 for the university and would
use their influence in securing the passage of acts providing the submission
They
to the people at the next regular election these three bond issues.
agreed to go even further and to work for their passage next November
These acts were drawn up and introduced and when they came before the
house of representatives it was only after the hardest fight that they were
passed, and the university bill was so dressed up with a lot of
clothes that its own dearest friends could scarcely recognize it. It had been
changed to permit the university to get the huge sum of $3,000,000.00 over
a period of five years, to give the school of the blind at Louisville $150
000.00; the school of the deaf at Danville $150,000.00; the colored normal at
Frankfort $100,000.0 and to create a colored normal in the city of Louisville
granting it $400,000.0; to create a white normal in the sixth congressional
district allowing it $400,000.00; another in the eleventh congressional district
which would reap $400,000.00 and still another in the Big Sandy Valley with:
',tn allowance of $400,000.00.
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It was obvious from the beginning that the men from western Kentucky
.! , realized that all ,that great section west of Louisville had been forgotten
,; and men especially interested in the present four normal schools asked
V7 since it has been so hard to secure appropriations sufficient to barely exist.
what in the world would they get if four new normals should be established
We were not willing to sit idly by and see the university get into
losing fight and one that would in our judgment result in more harm than
good to it. It was for this and the reasons just stated that .we had the bill
amended in the senate cutting out the creation of the four new normals and
asking that the university be given $4,600,000.00 and permitting the rest to
go to. the schQol of the blind, the school of the deaf and the colored normal
and industrial institute; all of which are going schools but who need funds
very badly for the purpose of making improvements and extensions. We
were willing to go to the people of the whofe state and ask their support
of such a measure but we could not have conscientiously asked them to sup
port it as it first passed the house. It is said that when thi measure was
sent back to the house for concurrence in this amendment that it carried
.when voted upon by a viva vocie vote but that when the roll was called
upon final passage of the bill with the amendment it lost on the roll call
to the tune of 36 to 40.
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We observed a sigh of relief coming from many of those who are really
interested in the university when the result of this vote was announced
and we surmised that they felt that they had rather lose a good fight on the
tfloor of the house than to be forced to go before the people with a flimsy
proposition which had defeat written across its face in raised letters.
We .Were pleased to see the attitude of President McVey when he was
told of the fate of this measure. He seems to share the same opinion as
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was 'held by the friends of the institution who were leading the fight for
what they thought to be an honest measure. Perhaps he could have had
(more interest in this bond bill had he been consulted concerning its provi
sions. It is hardly probable that the head of any grea.t business or institu
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tion would get whole heartedly behind any movement dealing with the
finances of' his business when such movement had originated wholly outside
of the business and without consulting anyone closely connected with the
business, and still that is what happened regarding this educational bond

measure standing on its own merits and
just in order lo camouflage one or two so
of others.
We wanted the university's measure
be glad to support a measure thnt would
the colored people of our state.
We publish the Leader's editorial in
of thought:

not for tieing up many of them proved of great value to the formers.
House Bill No. 619 Introduced by Mr. W. B. Bclnnp, Oldham County.
that they will pass on the merit
To provide for a- progressive tax on transfers of direct and collectable
to go alone and would certainly inheritance. Passed house 78-and senate 30-This measure is expected
tend to advance the interest of to add about $100,000.00 each year to the revenues of the university.
Senate Bills
full that you may get its line
In discussing senate bills relating to the university, wo repeat some
companion hills that have ilready been mentioned under the heading of house
bills.
THE NEGRO AND THE BOND ISSUES
Sennte Bill No. - Introduced by Senator Wnllaco Brown, Nelson County
Tha. defeat of the proposed $5,000,000 cducationnl bond issue will be To remove nil stnte
U.s. from
traced to vhrious causes, all of which may have contributed to its failure to tax in the same proportion real estate and distribute funds from ad valorem
now prevailing from real estate.,
Was never
pass the House of Representatives.
reported out of committee on Revenue and Taxation. Had it passed it probOne very positive reason why it was lost in the House was the defeat ably would have decreased
the university's revenues.
of the amendments which made provision for additional aid to higher cduca
Senate Bill No. 26 Introduced by Senator J. W. Howard, Morgan
tion of the Negro.
County.
To authorize the purchase of 103 acres of land adjacent to
the
Representative Ryan, of Louisville, did not hesitate to say that he had Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington,
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from C. B. Patrick fpr $128,750.
his support of the bill when the amendment to appropriate part This bill was never reported from the
withdrawn
committee to which it was referred
of the proposed $5,000,000 issue for the purpose of Negro education was but provisions were made in the budget to
make first and second payments
killed.
on this land.
Mr. Ryan's position on this subject will be heartily approved by the
Sennte Bill No. 140 Senator C. M. C. Porter, Bullitt County. To
average
citizen, regardless of political affiliations.
The authorize the incorporation of agricultural extension associations in the
Negro cannot be expected to vote time after time for the expenditure of counties to cooperate with the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculpublic funds for public purposes unless ho is given reasonable assurance ture. Died in the orders of the day of the senate. This is a ccompanlon
thnt he will be permitted to share, to a reasonable degree, in tlie ndvnn bill of House Bill No. 381.
tages and conveniences which such expenditures are intended to create or
Senate Bill No. 174 Introduced by Senator E. C. Walker, Franklin
To create Purchasing Agency for the Comonwenlth of Kentucky.
provide. The Negro in Kentucky constitutes about 12 per cent of the pop County.
ulntion and the race as a whole, directly and indirectly, helps uncomplain It reached the orders of the day and its companion house bill number 227
was substituted for it and passed.
mgly to bear its part of the cost of government.
Senate Bill No. 208 Introduced by Senator E. D. Stephenson, Pike
With respect to educational facilities for th0 Negro, Kentucky has been
very derelict. Colonel P. II. Callahan, a leading Democrat, of Louisville, in County. Providing a new state budget system. Passed senate 24-and
house 76-While this bill affects all departments nnd institutions of the
a recent communication addressed to the editor of The
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call
we were able to secure certain amendments that are supposed to
ed attention to the fact that the largest appropriations made for the higher State,
education of the Negro in Kentucky have been $40,000, exclusive of $15,000 eliminate all objectionable features to the university.
Senate Bill No. 214 Introduced by Senator John L. Thurmond, Christian
to the State Normal Schools at Frankfort and Paducah.
Continuing in his County. To provide
for submission to the voters next Nevember the question
discussion of this subject, Colonel Callahan said:
of the repeal of the inheritance tax. It was up for action but so strong was
"While sojourning in Asheville this summer, I went over
its opposition tliat the author of the bill requested it be recommitted to the
some statistics showing where North Carolina during the- past four
rules committee where it was resting at the close on March 17. This is a
years has spent upward of $4,000,000 on higher education for its
measure very similar to House Bill number 179 and if passed would have
Negro people, which prompted me to. make some little investigation
reduced the university's revenues about $100,000.00 annually.
in what is termed the Border States, and ound that Missouri has
Senate Bill No. 272 Introduced by Senator Arch L. Hamilton, Fayette
elevated its Normal School for Negroes to the rank of a university,
County.
To regulate selling agricultural seed and appropriating $10,000.00
spending the past year $500,000 on construction and some $300,000
to enforce the same. This a companion to house bill number 402. This
for maintenance while the State of Virginia has spent within the
measure was rejected by the senate 18 to 14. Carrying an appropriation as
last two years about the very same sum of money.
Tennessee
it did, it required 21 votes to pass same.
year alone spent $300,000 on its State Normal School at Nashlast
Senate Bill No. 301 Introduced by Senator Garth Ferguson, Ballard
ville, while West Virginia, covering a period of five years, has spent
County.
To empower the University of Kentucky to grant two and three
approximately $1,000,000, and all of these sums are for higher
year teachers' certificates. Passed senate 31-- 0 and the house 70-education for Negroes."
The exhibit made by Colonel "Callahan does Kentucky no credit, and
MADE BY
the apparent willingness of the legislature to permit defeat of the entire SPECIAL
1926 LEGISLATURE OF
educational bond issue of $5,000,000 because some of the members objected to
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alloting a share of it for better educational advantages for the Negro will
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
meet with widespread disappointment and condemnation
Special appropriations made by the legislature which has just adjourned
The Negro in Kentucky, under adverse circumstances and conditions
has made noteworthy progress. In no Stafe, north or south, are the rela for Kentucky's educational institutions for higher learning is as follows:
tions between the white and colored races more friendly than they are here Morehead State Normal School and Teachers College
Construction and equipment of two dormitories (1926-2- 7 $160,000
The .Negroes of our Commonwealth have accumulated large property inter
160,00
ests, established schools and churches, and promoted the cause of good citi Construction and equipment of two dormitories (1927-2zenship among their own people. Doubtless careful investigation will dis
$320,000.00
close that the per centage of criminals among the Negroes of Kentucky
Murray State Normal School and Teachers College
is relatively very much smaller than it is amqng the white race
Construction and equipment recitation room and training
In view of these facts, and considering what other Southern States
school (1926-27- )
100,000
are doing to better the status of their colored citizens, the legislature which Improvement
of buildings and
(1926-2725,000
just adjourned, it is submitted, in its attitude on his subject was moved by Construction and equipment grounds room )
recitation
and training
a degree of narrowness and
difficult to understand, even
school (1927-28- )
100,000
trom this legislature.
improvement of buildings and grounds (1927-225,000
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Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and
Teachers College .
Elsewhere on this page we discuss House Bills 585 and 587 which relate Construction and equipment of girls' dormitory (1926-27- )'
100,000
to the budget for the .biannual period of 1926-2- 7
60,000
and 1927-2- 8 and House Bill Construction and equipment of recitation room 1926-2603, the educational bond issue bill. Here we deal with other measures relat Construction and equipment of girls' dormitory (1927-28- )
100,000
Construction and equipment of recitation room (1927-28- )
ing to the university's interest,
60,000
Let us first consider bills introduced in the House in the order of
introduction and their effect on the university whether passed or not, because
320,000.00
it was our privilege to secure the death of a few bills that would have been Western Kentucky State Normal School and
College
Teachers
detrimental to the institution.
nouse am wo. 3B introduced by Mr. Fred H. Coots, Henderson Construction and equipment of general class room and
library building (1926-27- )
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County.
100.000
To change the fiscal administration of the state by creating a
20,000
Budbet Commission, State Budget Office and Advisory Budget and Audit Construction and equipment of recitation rooms (1926-27- )
Committee.
This measure was never reported out of the Committee on Construction and installation of heating and power plants 40,000
Construction and equipment of general class room and
Revenue and Taxation because it was found to be undesirable for many de
library building (1927-28- )
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100.000
partments ana institutions of the state.
Construction and equipment or recitation rooms (1927-28- )
20,000
House Bill No. 66. Introduced by Mr. W. B. Belknap. Oldham Countv.
construction and installation of heating and power plants
To purchase from C. B. Patrick for $128,750 one hundred and three acres
(18557-240,000
of land adjoining the Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington, for use
of the Station. This bill brought forth much objection due to the price to be
320,00000
paid for this land and was not passed but provisions were made in the two
budget bills whereby the first and second payments could be made on this
Total Special Appropriations for Normal Schools
$1,210,000 on
tract of land.
University of Kentucky
House Bill No. 90 Introduced by Mr. Grove'r C. Johnson. Hardin Countv Construction and equipment of girls'
dormitory (1926-27- )
75,000
To prohibit the teaching of the theory of evolution in all schools supported First payment on purchase
of 103 acres of land as
in whole or in part by the state. This bill was reported unfavorably bv the
addition to the Experiment Station, now under option 25.000
Committee on Kentucky Statutes and automatically killed by the rules of Construction and equipment of girls' dormitory (1927-28)
75.000
House.
the
Second payment on purchase of 103 acres of land as
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House Bill No. 162. Introduced by Mr. C. H. Berryman. Lexineton. To
addition to the Experiment Station, now under option 10,375
authorize a more complete endowment of the Agricultural Experiment Sta
uon. rasseu nouse
ana the sennt 30.0. Th nmnivo r,i,Q
Total Special Appropriation for University of Kentucky
1BK.37K no
to a bill passed by congress which gives to the Station more than
$20,000.00 Other special appropriations requested but not given were as follows:
eacn year.
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Construction of a recitation building to house the Departments
nouse Bin wo. 179. Introduced by Mr. J. O. Evans. Clark Countv,
ot Mathematics, English, and History and Political Science
measure.
101...
Senator C. M. C. Porter who is an alumnus of the university voted An act to repeal the inheritance tax law and for the submission of this
$250,000
against this measure as did Representatives M. B. Daniel and W. O. Keller amendment to the voters at the 1926 election. It was not reported out of Construction of building to house the Departments of Bacteriology,
Hygiene, Geology and Zoology for 1927-2- 8
tne committee on Revenue and Taxation. This measure would,
.who are also ulumni, but we do not have any censure for these young
250,000
: for we know something of their real interest in the advancement of the men passed, reduced the university's revenue about $100,000.00 annually.had it For expenditures for costs of enforcing Pure Seed act,
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renewal 1920-2nouse mil No. 222 Introduced by Mr. James J. Patterson. Trice
versity and have some knowledge of their ideas concerning this bond bill
10,000
county. 10 auu to tne list of causes whereby teachers certificates may be For 1927-2- 8
10,000
It certainly was, not a test of one's loyalty to his alma mater.
Rebuilding of Poultry Plant (1920-27- )
10,000- Some of our daily papers who were interested in the passage of this revoked, any teacher who shall teach directly or indirectly any doctrine
25,000
bill have written editorially since its defeat on March the 17th and have ad or tlieory as to the origin of man not accepted as a scientific fact. This construction oi New ueet Cattle Barn (1927-28- )
For construction of new buildings, barns and stables
16000
vanced various reasons for its defeat. We were present for about forty measure was not reported out of the Committeo on Kentucky Statutes.
House Hill No. 227 Introduced by Mr. J. C. Hutcherson. Barren
uuyiH uiu Bcaajon jusi cioaeu anu spent suverui nignis conversing witn County.
Total amount requested but not granted
$571 ooo
To establish a central purchasing agency for the State and a State
senators and representatives and from this experience we believe "that we
Appropriations for maintenance are the same as they were 'two years ago,
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are in a pretty good position to know that what has been said in this article Purchasing Commission. Passed hous0
and senate
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tis more neuriy correct mun can oe saiu oy someone who lias not even been may work a very grave hardship on the university and normal schools. As To support Public Service Laboratories (1926-27- )
$20,000 asked for
on the
We do not' wish to incur the disfavor of any of these fine tlie bill was first introduced the university was excepted but
received
$18,000
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t'.! 'ill.... il uiu un guuui jrieiiuH oi ii university anu. we appreciate Having attempted amendments failed Mr. Coots of Henderson Countvafter several
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offered an To support Public Service Laboratories (1927-28- )
uuiui's, uiuy
$20,000 asked for
them as our boosters but when we seen an editorial such as appeared in amenament which brought the university under the provisions of this act
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Received
$18,000
liouse BUI No. 309 Introduced by Mr. Grover C. Johnson. Hardin Coun.
'jL the Lexington Leader under date of Friday, March 19, 1926, we are just
ty. To prohibit the teaching of sectarian, infidel or immoral books in public
bit amused. It would have us believe that the cause for the defeat of
We are glad to see that the normal schools averaced $302,500.00 each in
nouse
ana diea in tlie orders of the day in the senate. special appropriations
the educational bond bill in Jhe house was due to the fact that that part Bcnoujs.
and wish that they could have secured even more. We
nouse uw No. 384 Introduced by Mr. W. B. Belnat). Oldham finuntv.
relating to the establishment of a colored normal in Louisville was elimi
know something of their needs and realize that none of their plants are as
uumunze ugncuuurai extension associations, in all counties. It was left well equipped
nated. It is true that Senator Ryan did not vote on it and tliat his son,
as they should be. It is their task to make better teachers for
Representative Charles Ryan, voted against it; they both come from a large n tlie oraers ot the day on the 17th of March. This bill would have been our rural and high schools and if they are to accomplish the best
results
of material assistance in agricultural extension work had it passed but some
coloretl district in Louisville and would naturally like to see their constituthey should have plants equal to those of other states.
ents favored In every way that they can. Their action may have been ujection urose trom the Farm Bureau because some of its members thought.
special appropriation of $185,375.00 given to the University of
The
that it would interfere with their work. This however was not the intont nf
Kentucky is a mere pittance as compared to the amounts appropriated by all
prompted by the fact that the- bill was amended to eliminate the colored the measure
but on the other hand it anticipated workinir with the Bureau
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in Louisville, but is this sufficient reason for believing that this one thing
i our sister states tor their universities. These states have given amounts
wherever possible.
mining into millions of dollars and are building real universities for their
cofsed its defeat? We are very much interested in the advancement of
House Bill No.
by Mr. C. II. Berryman. Lexinirton.
To
oung men and women.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars of tho
colored educational institutions and believe that it would be a fine idea to egulato 'selling agricultural
seed and providing $10,000.00 to enforce this
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cuiun-uuriuui ui mo city oi ivouisvuie, uut we are for every act. Killed by the rules of the house. This measure if passed
would have
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