The Senate Committee

Senators Galbraitb, Nagle and Blackwell, the senate committee on the Uuiversity, paid that institution an official visit oq Monday. They visited the mechanical laboratory, library and hospitals in the mornifcg. At the mechanical laboratory they were favorably impressed and saw the necessity of the appropriation for new machinery to carry on the work. At the hospitals they made a thorough nvestigation and were firmly convinced that the present buildings nlTord insufiScient hospital accomodations. In the afternoon the dental department was visited firat. The rooms were crowded with operators and patients, not halL the students having room to work in. The dental department wants an addition to its present quarters, and the committee saw the necessity. At the hygienic laboratory Dr. Vaughan showed them the points of interes-t, andexhibited germs ofnearly ever disease known to science. The chemical laboratory through wbich they next passed, was crowded, and ss forty of the 6tudents of this department are now woiking on the fourth floor of the maia building, the neoïssity of an appropriation for enlarging the building wa8 apparent to the committee. The next point visited was the anatomical laboratory. At this point Senator Nagle drew the line and wanted to qui!; but was induced to take a seat in Dr. Herdman's office while the rest of the party inspected the dissecting rooms. In the lower room 28 ladies were busy at work and in the upper room 116 students were engaged in " carving " for the benefit ot science. After visiting the museum, the committee adjournsd to the president' office for consultation. The committee wers unanimously of the opinión that the entire legislatura should visit the institution before they vote on the approprialions, is they would then be more able to decide on the needs of the Univeraity, and an effort will be made to have the legislature spend a day here before a vote is taken on the bill.