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-   Legislature Refuses Proposal That Would Reduce University Maintenance
g   _ _ by $105,000; Also Defeats Bill to Create a University Junior
  , _ » College at Paintsville
  The bills introduced in the session affecting cause it points to further efforts to take activi- _
I _   the University were not large in number, but one ties from the Experiment Station and place them
Q   of them threatened a disastrous cut in the annual in the political field. _
U t   · A in maintenance tax. As a consequence a marked The bill introduced by Hon. J. W. Preston of
f I · U I reduction int University activities would have en- Prestonsburg proposed the establishment of a j
I?   I   sued if the bill had passed. The proposal was Junior College at Paintsville under the direction I
i   _   U made that the 30 cent state tax on real estate of the University. At the time the suggestion ,
      ' ; should be reduced to 20 cents. The effect of this was made the proposal was received as compli-
    U   act would have cut state revenues $1,500,000 and mentary by the University and with no other
. i T U   the University income $105,000 annually, with thought than that of rendering a service. Oppo-
'   I I proportional reductions in the support of other sition developed on a number of grounds; first,
 .   U institutions. The bill passed the house and after that the proposal was a departure from the edu- ‘
  I U a varied career in the senate was reconsidered cational development in this state because junior ·
_ Q _ and recommitted to the rules committee. college work was left to the denominational col-  U
. A new procedure was developed in this session ieges· it W3s 3isO argued th3-t it i0resh3~d0Wed 3- `
I C m tha matter Of appropriatjtma In the past the series of junior colleges under the University de-
  legislature has taken the results of the work of veicping 3- eempetitieri iihheeessery ehd ¤hWise, »
. t   I the budget commission and passed the bill in the 3hd iiheiiy th3t the revenues ef the stete Were ih· `
j I’ form that it came from tha cOmmitt€g_ The sufficient to maintain additional institutions. In
‘ § house and senate committees reviewed the re- View of these eehsideretiehs arid the 0PD0siti0h  
j U quests quite properly, but reduced the allowance developed the UhiVersitY withdrew frem the Orig-
I · gf tha Umvarstty by $75,00()_ prior tt, that tha inal proposal. The bill passed the senate and was  I
t budget commission had cut the requests for build- het 3-eted iibeh by the hetise rules eeihihittee ih I
V _ I ings in two. In the final passage of the appropri- the closing heiirs of the Session-
U . ation bill the University received its regular Three other bills dealing with the profits of the
  I maintenance and the long standing appropria- college book store, the filing of the deeds and l
  tions passed by previous legislatures mainly for contracts for lands with the Secretary of State »
  y U the support of the Experiment Stations and ag- and a bill requiring the state librarian to give _
it   I` H ricultural extension. The new appropriations the University law school five sets of all law re-
` I it l   were as follows: ports, were passed. .
I   I · For equipment of new buildings, $75,000. The great problem before the session was the I
I   j I Building for agricultural engineering, $75,000. matter of revenue. About the middle of the ses- .
_ I   I A service building, $25,000. sion an income tax law was introduced. While I  I
I   V Complete purchase of land, $50,000. many members felt that such taxation was de-
— I * Barns at Lexington and Princeton, $29,500. sirable, the bill was held in committee.
I I ji To meet the Capper-Ketchain Act, $37,500. Perhaps some years of education must follow  `
· U U For a number of years the Experiment Station before Kentucky eeh deVei0P 3i better reVehiie -
I · · I has administered a seed law without appropria- system- M3hY problems 3re Pressing hard iipeh I
 f I tion. Early in the session a bill was introduced the state ehd their sehitieh ih Pr3etie3-hy eVei`Y
 ;   · placing the inspection work in the office of the case is 3- ii¤3-hei3i one-
* commissioner of Agriculture and the laboratory The resolution authorizing a joint committee ;
» I work in the Experiment Station. This legislation to study the tax system was presented and passed  I
  ` involved a division of authority and introduced a the house but was not voted upon by the senate. ·
I .I . new principle in such acts. The bill was pushed So the question must come up again in the next .
  T 1 ~ vigorously by its proponent and passed both legislature to be threshed and pounded, it is hop-
g   I . houses and at this writing rests in the hands of ed, into a workable system that will give the state UV 
I . the governor. The bill was fought vigorously be- more revenues for its government. ,
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