Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-17
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
Campaign Documents-The Agricultural
College Fund-An y. n. v. showing on.
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WASHINGTON, August s, 1870.


From our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, August s, 1870.
The Republican Congressional Executive
Committee have Il number of campaign
documents in press, that will be ready for
distribution i'm a short while. Unlike their
opponents, they expect to appeal To the
good sense of the country, and to that end
the true situation the attitude of the two
parties, what has and what has not been
done by Congress and the administration,
and what the history of the Democratic
marty suggests that it is capable of doing
and would do, if admitted to power, will
be pointedly delineated in documents now
in course of preparation by the Committee,
and sent TO the.people for their considera-
ton. The assaults of the Democracy will
probably be of a personal character Of
which the attack upon Gen. Howard, as
manager of the Frcedmcn's Bureau, is a
fair example.
Mr.. Arnell, who was Chairman of the
Howard Investigating Committee, is de-
tanned here now getting the testimony in
print. The report of the Co mmittoe is
q lite voluminOus, embracing 500 pages,
and will eXonorate Gen. Howard, as every
iair-minded man confidently expected it
would. The charges Were malicious, and
were doubtless made as a Democratic cleo
tioneering hobby, but a such, they are
likely t. kick back to the great discom-
THE AGRICU LTURAL COLLEGE FUND.
The unwarranted attempt of the Ten
nessee Legislature to take from the East
Tennessee University the Agricultural
College Fund, called forth n resolution of
inquiry concerning the matter, which was
introduced by Mr.. Maynard during the
latter part of the session of Congress Just
ended and referred to the Committee on
Education, of which Mr.. Arnell is also
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reported a bill, just previous to the close of
the session, which, when passed, will effec-
tually put stop to the work of removing
this fund about over the State, in answer
to the whims of every partisan Legislature
that may chance to be elected. The bill is
general in its bearing, and will apply to
other States a. well as Tennessee. The
time at which it was introduced made its
passage at the last session impossible, but
Mr.. Arnell confidently expects it will 90
through when Congress meets again. If
every Legislature that is elected can move
this fund whittier it pleases after it has
been once located, the people will never
know where to find it, and it will eventu-
ally be squandered and lost during some of
ty of the law is at once seen, aud it should
be enacted without unnecessary delay.
The fate of the sacred school fund held by
our State previous to the war, which was,
rs is the College Fund, largely the result
of Congressional munificence, amply warns
Us as to what may become of the College
Fund if it can he removed from one point to
another at the pleasure of the Legislature.
Whenthe recent Legislatures, who precipi
tated our State into rebellion in 1861, start
ed the school fund on wandering trip
South, the people lost sight of it, and when
the war closed the bulk of it had gone
where the wood-bine twineth.n Unfortu-
nately, that portion of the assets of the
State Bank, which was returned, was mis-
managed and some of it lost but the De-
mocratic cry over this is inspired more by
! a desire to attract attention from their own
| guilt, in having at first disturbed if, and
afterward lawlessly squandered the bulk of
/ it, than by any sense of honesty on their
part. If the Legislature can thus tamper
with vested rights, by taking this fund
from the East Tennessee University. The
fund itself is of no practical value as an
educational one, for no College would de
sire ii or accept it as an endowment, in
view of the probability that the next Leg.
stature might remove it to some Other
place. X.