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iitive coniinittoo to such an I'xoiit that they would he I'utih' in all casos i)rol)altl.v. 

 Now, to avoid iniuiiiiiziiij; the iutiu^MUi' of the association your conunittoe has 

 sufTjiestt'd that y<iu consider tho proiiricty of I'ostrictinj,' thcso instructions to tlic 

 ixi'cutivc connnittcc. asking it to concentrate its efforts on some particulai- 

 nieasui'e. That is the question now. whether it should he the policy of the asso- 

 ciation to restrict its instructions to the executive connnittee so as to enable 

 the committee to concentrate its efforts on some line of legislation, and that we 

 understand to he the effect of President Atherton's resolutions that it is tin- 

 sense of the association that the efforts of the committee he concentrated. 



W. (). Thomp.so.n. of Ohio. I do not luiderstand that the executive connnittee 

 is asking us to concentrate on the Mondell hill or any other hill, hut they are 

 asking us whether or not this association should not say to them. "We desire 

 you to concentrate your efforts upon some specific thing in the Impc of success." 

 The question before the association, if I understantl it. is now really on the gen- 

 eral policy, whether we shall aim for one thing or go out for everything in 

 sight ; and the judgment of the executive connnittee seems to be that if we go 

 (/ut for everything in sight we will come back with nothing; whereas if we go 

 for one thing we may get it, or we may not. Now, there may be a ditt'erence of 

 opinion on what we should go for, but the imi»ortant issue is that we should 

 concentrate our efforts upon some jtarticnlar thing. 



E. Davexport. of Illinois. M.v view is that we should not bind this committee 

 down too closely. If we instruct the connnitt«'e to do one thing, it may be found 

 to be something that can not be done. There are three or four pieces of legis- 

 lation that we want to see adopted as soon as possible, and it seems to me that 

 if we surround our committee with ironclad instructions each year, those in- 

 structions may stand in the way of a<'hieving some other thing that might be 

 brought al>out. If a particular bill is now in favorable form for passage, at 

 the coming session of Congress, and we think that is most likely to pass, and 

 we instruct our connnittee to work for that, it may very well be that that bill 

 can not pass, and that some other bill may pass. Therefore I am in "favor of 

 intrusting our executive committee with a consideralile degree of discretion, 

 allowing them to use their own judgment as to where to put the i)ressure and 

 the work when the time comes. 



G. T. Winston, of North Carolina. I thought there were some specific recom- 

 mendations made by the executive committee in regard to the Adams bill, and then 

 in regard to the ^londell bill. If it is only the general recommendation that we 

 should concentrate our efforts, I do not desire to ask for a division of the vote on 

 the question. If. however, we are to vote for the Mondell bill, I would like more 

 information as to the present condition of that bill, for I am frank to say that I 

 am not satisfied with that bill as I last saw it, and I do not think that the asso- 

 ciation would be satisfied with that bill if it fully understood. It seems to me 

 that the time has come for this association to assert itself in protecting the inter- 

 ests of the colleges and the kind of education which this association, as I under- 

 stand it, was formed to protect and promote. I think there is danger that the 

 great interests and the great ideals of education represented by this associa- 

 tion are going to be interfered with and checked and obstructed by other in- 

 fluences and by other interests and by other ideals of education. If a bill for 

 the establishment of mining schools in connection with laud-grant colleges is to 

 be so framed that institutions which have no mining departments are able to 

 secure the benefits of the appropriations, and so divert them from their proper 

 channels, why can not the same thing be done with any other school — a forestry 

 school for instance? And, then, why not go back and deal with appropriations 

 and institutions already existing? I see no reason why this should not be done. 

 It is the principle that I oppose. 



