In these committees, the university budget is trimmed again to make it conform to the amount of money. Then it goes before available for all state purposes, the two branches of the legislature to be threshed out in committee of the whole and in open session. After it has run the gauntlet of all these different agencies, the legislature places the stamp of its approval on the final product, lays it on the desk of the governor, and rushes off home. Oh, the desk of the governor, the university budget is buried in a great mass of bills, rushed through the legislature in the closing hours of the session, and the governor has but a limited time to consider all this great mass of business covering the entire scope of state activities. It is not within the power of any man to give mature consideration to all these complex matters dumped upon him at the close of the legislative session. It is criminally unfair to ask any man to undertake such a task. It is certainly unfair to the institutions. Could any sane man imagine a successful private business conducted on the lines of this state business? It is a matter for serious thought. This bungling is the fault of no man, of no institution, of no section. It is the legitimate offspring of a political party, a wrong system.

It is highly significant, and gratifying as well, that some of the men who blocked important legislation by a filibuster in the closing days of the last session are now coming forward to assure President Wilson of their hearty support in preparing for the war that seems inevitable. 