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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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could be secured of the departments of operative dentistry, prosthetic dentistry, oral surgery and pathology, bacteriology, materia medica and therapeutics, porcelain art, orthodontia and histology, comparative anatomy and anesthesia and physical diagnosis, and that this amount would provide also for the salaries of the superintendent of the Infirmary, the dean, and the office force. In addition to this it would be necessary to put in an equipment which would cost upward of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), aside from the ordinary painting, repairs, etc., of the Chemical Building. It is estimated that there will be an attendance of seventy-five students for the next year, and a probable income of between eleven and twelve thousand • dollars. On motion of Dr. Montgomery, it was voted that the recommendations of President James with reference to the College of Dentistry be adopted, and that appropriations of twenty thousand ($20,000) for equipment and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for salaries for the coming year be made, these appropriations to be chargeable against the appropriation made for the College of Medicine. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrbtin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; no, Mrs. Busey; absent, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker.

MATTERS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY. President James presented the following matters for consideration:

APPROPRIATION FOR S U M M E R SESSION, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.

(1) A request that an appropriation of one thousand dollars ($1,000) be made to defray the expenses of the summer session of the College of Medicine. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved, the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Miss Watson; no, Mr. Trevett; absent, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker.

STATEMENT CONCERNING OUTCOME OF LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN.

(2) A statement in regard to the outcome of the recent legislative campaign. This statement was received to be printed in the minutes: I have received from the Governor's secretary an unofficial statement that the following items contained in the omnibus bill have all been approved by the Governor in his approval of the omnibus bill: (a) An appropriation for the payment of the interest on the endowment fund Of the University, sixty-four thousand dollars ($64,000), more or less, for the biennium, (b) A special appropriation for additional investigations to be conducted by the "Water Survey, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars ($21,500) per annum. (c) An appropriation for mechanics' and miners' institutes, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum. (d) Appropriations for the State Laboratory of Natural History, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum. The bill has also been passed which provides for turning over to the University the federal funds which are appropriated by the Federal Government for the support of the land grant colleges. , This is, with a single exception a very satisfactory closing of the legislative campaign made on behalf of the University during the present session. A sum of four and a half millions of dollars, supposed to be practically the entire proceeds of the mill tax, was appropriated to the University in two items. The attempt which was made to place upon the proceeds of the mill t a x the payment of interest on the endowment fund, the additional appropriation for the Water Survey, and the appropriations for the Geological Survey, the State Entomologist's office, the State Laboratory of Natural History, and the mechanics' and miners' institutes, was unsuccessful, so that under these heads a considerable sum of money was appropriated for doing work either under the direction of or closely associated with the University, for the direct benefit of the State at large. The only drawback to complete success in the plans approved by the trustees was the change in the method of doing University business involved in leaving the funds appropriated from the proceeds of the mill tax in the State treasury until used, instead of transferring these funds when they become due and payable to the University treasurer and making payments through him. This change in the method of payment involves a' considerable temporary loss in the 2 per cent interest which the University treasurer has contracted to pay on daily balances in his hands, and the further loss in some instances of the 2 per cent discount usually allowed for cash, since it is probable that the delays incident to payment through the State Treasurer's office will cost the University this particular advantage.