The State Very Poor

Secretary Wade has returned f rom his visit to Lansing, where he appeared before the ways and means committee of the house and argued the cause of the University. He says it is hard to say when the comraittee will act upou the bilí. "We found the committeenien not entirely animated by a spirit of hostility toward the University," he said. "There are two sides to the matter. They look at it in this way. There are requests now beforo the committee for $4,000,000 in appropriations. That some of the bilis must be ent is quite evident. The amounts asked are twice what the legislature has been called upon for in the past few years. The Normal school appropriation was cut below its usual amount aud they were refused an appropriation of $30,000 for the establishment of a manual training school. The rnining school appropriation was also cut, and as we are not only asking for our regular amount but a good deal more, you can easily seé how they feel towards us. "The real state of the case is that the state treasury is empty. The Winans' adminístration received federal monies amounting to $400,000 and by putting this in the general fund the rate of taxes was lowered. Each succeeding adminstration has been forced to keep somevvhere near the rate of that administration, with the result that the treasury is almost always depleted Our second installment for this year came in yesterday overdue and the flrst was paid only three weeks before, long overdue. The reason is that the auditor general can not get the nioney f rom the treasury. Wheu I was in Lausing and in the auditor general's office, he showed me requisitions for over $100,000 and there was only $33,000 in the state coffers to meet it. You can see some reason for the legislature's cry for economy even toward anftinstitution like this."