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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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MOVEMENT FOR A VETERINARY COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY (14) A statement that a bill was introduced in the Senate on February 27, by Senator Simon E. Lantz, directing the Trustees to establish a College of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the University with a budget of not less than $50,000 or more than $150,000 a year, the expense to be met from the general funds appropriated to the University. This bill passed the Senate and went to the House in spite of representations of its inadvisability made by the President of the University and others. When we learned that the bill was in the hands of the Appropriations Committee of the House, the matter was taken up with various people interested in the bill with the result that an agreement was reached to strike out that section of the bill which directed the Trustees to use any part of the proceeds of the mill tax for the maintenance of such a college and to substitute instead the following section: "Sec. 3. In pursuance of this authority and direction, the Trustees are further directed to prepare and submit to the next General Assembly a plan for such a college, based upon study of similar colleges elsewhere and consultation with the live stock and veterinary interests of this State, together with budget estimates of the appropriation necessary to carry out the intent of this Act." I have reason t6 believe that if the bill goes forward at all, it will do so in this shape, and in order to carry out this promise which I have made on behalf of the University, it will be necessary for the Board to appoint a committee or in some other way to study this whole matter.

On motion of Mr. Abbott, this statement was received for record.

RESOLUTIONS OF T H E I L L I N O I S G A S ASSOCIATION (15) A letter from Mr. Horace H. Clark, Secretary, Illinois Gas Association, enclosing the following resolutions from the report of its Bureau of Mines Committee: Resolutions WHEREAS, the United States Bureau of Mines, the Illinois State Geological Survey, and the University of Illinois have shown great willingness to carry out any work which seems to promise results for the Gas Industry as witnessed by their able reports relating thereto, be it RESOLVED, That the Illinois Gas Association, in the Convention assembled in the Sherman Hotel at Chicago, Illinois, March 20, 1919, does hereby give a sincere vote of thanks and appreciation to the United States Bureau of Mines, the Illinois State Geological Survey, and the University of Illinois for their most valuable work and assistance in connection with the problems of interest to the Gas Industry, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we ask these three agencies which operate under what is known as the Co-Operative Agreement to continue to help us in solving our problems, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of this Association send a copy of these Resolutions to the United States Bureau of Mines, the Illinois State Geological Survey, and the University of Illinois.

These resolutions were received for record.