Legislative Documents Submitted To The. General Assembly Of The State Of Iowa - Softcover

Iowa. General Assembly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461598736 ISBN 13: 9780461598735

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

Legislative Documents Submitted To The. General Assembly Of The State Of Iowa. This volume compiles a tense record of a 1870s inquiry by the Iowa General Assembly into the Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames, focusing on fund handling, governance, and faculty dismissals. Part 3 of 4 presents testimony from senators, faculty, and students, including G. M. Maxwell, General Geddes, Milliken Stalker, President Welch, and professors Foote, Jones, Mathews, and the treasurer Rankin. The proceedings explore financial governance, including endowment interest funds used for salaries, heating, buildings, and a newly described Contingent Fund, as well as questions of legal authority and legislative reporting. The accounts detail Rankin’s defalcation, bank entries, and book-entry explanations, and discuss how funds were allocated to a model farm, laboratory improvements, and campus operations. The hearings address why certain chairs were vacated, questions of due process, governance harmony, and the role of the Board versus the faculty in discipline and curriculum. The excerpt foregrounds campus life, auditing procedures, public opinion in Ames, and ongoing disputes awaiting further examination.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461598736
• ISBN 13: 9780461598735
• Binding: Paperback