The University Appropriation

The Legislatura having completad its labora and adjourned, we are able to give our readers a detinite statement of tho appropriations made in aid of the University ; appropriations needed and weloome, though most of theni were made without the solioitation of the University authorities, but in aecordance with a conviction that the best interests of the State require that no retrograde steps be taken at the University. The appropriations may be tabularized ás follows : To pay Interest-bearing Warrant! $13,000 For the new Mining School . 21,000 For the College of Homeopathy . 12,000 For the Dental School . . . 6,000 For the Hospital .... 8,000 For the Water supply . . . 5, 000 Total for two years . . $ 65, 000 The appropriation to pay the interest-bearing warrants, drawn for the extensión of the laboratory, was made upon the free and unsolicited rocornmeudation of Governor Bagley, such recommendation being a choerful surprise to regents and faculty. The Mining Sohool appropriation grew out of a like voluntary recommendation. The bilí provides for three professors : one of mining engineering, one of metallurgy, and one of arohitecture and architectural design, and appropriates $8,000 a year, for two years, for the salaries of such professors and necessary assistants. The other $5,000 is for models and apparatus. This appropriation is very meager, yet once inaugurated this erainently useful and practical department of the University will not be perruitted to want either building or apparatus. The appropriation for a College of Homeopathy (a permanent one) is a happy settlement of the long-vexing question. The school is to be organized as an independent department of the University, and neither the new nor the old sclaool will be answerable for the heresies of the other. Each medical tub will stand upon its own bottom. We have always fought mixing big and little pills, and have always favored an independent school. The present medical faculty accept the situation gracefully, and see no dificulty in carrying out the design of the Legislature. The appropriation for a Dental School came in response to the urgent petitions or demands of the dentists of the State. A first class dental school will be the result. The Hospital appropriation ($3,500 for a building and $2,500 for equipment) is a godsend to the afflicted of the State, as well as an aid to the medical department. The hospital (sooalled) which has been in operatiou in one of the oíd dweiling houses for two or three years, has done a good work with very small ineans. A singlo item : one hundred and twenty-five patients have been operated upon for cataract of the eye, the operation being sucoessful with very few exceptions - so many blind men made to see, and so many unproductive persons made producers. This appropriation was coupled with a condition that Ann Arbor give f4,000 for the same purpose. The preliminaiy steps have already been taken to cornply with the conditions, a committee having been appointed at the Council meeting on Monday evening last, in response to a petition ropresenting a large share of the tax valuation of the city, and early action will be taken. We are confident that no large number of the tax-payers will dissent, and that the liberality and wisdom of the Legislature will be met by a speedy appropropriation of the required $4,000. The tax voted or loan authorized, home capitalists will advance the raoney, and the hospital may be completed in time for the next term. The $5,000 water appropriation was made in response to the request of the regents, who had tired of paying bilis for hauling river water, and despaired of our city building water works. The delay of our city, caused by petty jealou8ies and discords, loses the best prospective oustomer, and we fear postpones water works for a series of years. - It is perhaps not out of place to name a few of the persons to whom the University is indebted for the appropriations above discussed, and which promise a new era of prosperity for the TJniversity : Governor Bagley ; Senator White, who took a special interest in the school of mines ; Senator Thomas, of the Committee on University ; Senator Boies, of the Finance Committee. In the House, Representatives Taylor, Hulbert, Walker, and others, rendered efficiënt aid. The mining school bill was Mr. Hulbert's. While we congratúlate the general public on the fact that Mr. Pierrepont, the new Attorney-General, is a much better lawyer than his jjiedecessor, Mr. Williams, late of Oregon, who was so mildly eulogized by Senator Christiancy, we are yet sorry to say that we have not the most implicit belief in his independence, and have both suspicions and fears that ha will pander a little too much to the wishes of the President. He is essentially a place hunter, and will not be likely to condemn in very ' strong terms measures that his superior may set his h6art upon. He is got up more for dress parade and showy occasions than for solid work, and whether the law he may deal out will be sound or not will depend more upon the object in view than upon the text books or close study thereof or reasoning therefrom. Though thankful for most any change, a man of a different character would have given better promise of a return to the Unes marked out by the oonstitution. In their respective charges to the grand juries, Judges Brooks and Dick of North Carolina, have recently declared the criminal features of the Civil Rights act unconstitutional, as no law could say that men and women are eooially equal.