STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. SMITH, of Tippecanoe, introduced a bill [H. R. 570] relieving the city of Terre Haute from any farther liability in the matter of keeping up the repairs on the State Normal School building, and moved a suspension of the constitutional rules to put it on its passage. He explained that, by a previous contract, the city of Terre Haute had agreed with the State to furnish certain grounds and pay $50 000 of the cost of the building, and to pay half the expenses of the repairs, on condition that the city should be allowed to use the building for High School purposes Recently an argument has been made by which Terre Haute was to give up her vested rights, and now it was proposed that the State should recede from the exactions made on her part.
Mr. WILLIAMS said that the bill proposed to break a solemn compact made by the city of Terre Haute, which promises for all time to pay half the expense of repairs on the building. That city made certain obligations, in consideration of which the State Normal School was to be located there, and now it is desired to break them. There is no hardship in it - it is right and should be lived up to.
The motion to suspend the rules was withdrawn.
