Still, the give-away campaign continued. The 1937 bill passed the House (by a smaller margin than in 1935), but failed in the Senate. Meanwhile, the school budget continued to decline. Although Manwaring felt like the church had "virtually closed the school," he travelled to Salt Lake city to make a personal appeal to save it. By then, church leaders had begun to heed the advice of David O. McKay, future President of the LDS Church, in educational matters. While Manwaring received no guarantees for the future, Ricks was granted a healthy budget for the coming year. And, eventually, McKay's support assured that the school would remain in church hands.