... William J. Kerr, President of the Brigham Young College at Logan [Utah], with Apostle Brigham Young and Bishop William B. Preston, two of the trustees of that College, met with the Presidency, to whom Elder Kerr stated that it would require $8,200 as an appropriation from the Church to eke out the income of that institution and carry the school to the end of the present year. Agreeable to former instructions he had endeavored to ascertain what reduction the teachers could stand in their salaries in order to keep the institution going, and he now reported that while the teachers were willing to do anything possible to keep the College open, if their salaries should be cut it would prevent most of them from attending Eastern Colleges during the summer vacation, as they contemplated doing, and the home institution would be correspondingly deprived of better service.
President Snow frankly replied that the Church could not afford to furnish the means asked for... He suggested that the people be appealed to on behalf of this College, and also on behalf of the Brigham Young Academy at Provo [Utah] and the Latter-day Saints' College at Salt Lake City.
Bishop Preston remarked that the people could only do so much, and that if they were called upon for special aid in these directions it would necessarily affect the tithing income, and the Church could not look for any increase of tithing for the current year.
President Snow stated that the Church employees, many of them, were only about half paid, and as far as he was concerned he would not cut the salaries of those teachers one farthing, he would prefer to increase them.
After further conversation, it was decided to make the necessary appropriation, and trust in the Lord. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
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