Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

other sources, with the amou3t now to the
credit of the general fund, may be found ample
Tor all the ordinary disbursements of the present
year. and to that end invite your most rigid scru-
Tiny OF all bills appropriating money.
EDUCATION.
Inc report of the ate superintendent shows
that the total am cunt of money expended for the
support Of the common schools of the state during
the past year, was s2152 7s3 49, sew nty-four per
cent. OF VIII CHI was for teachers wages that $685.
zo6 pupils attended these schools, and received
instruction from 9.875 teachers in s. 626 school
houses. The estimated vs'ue of these school
houses is $4,319, 445 81; of the sites upon which
they are located 1913 $685. and of the apparatus
they contain, 1857 0i2 30-an egate investment
Tor common school purposes of S. 214 $780, The
total number of children over four and under
twenty years of age, is reported at 4S4,353, with
less than 5000 of them in school districts main
tain1lg schools less than five months in the year.
The expenditures for the four normal schools
were S72 7o8O7, of which $57, 49S were paid to in
structors. The attendance during the year aggre-
gated IL 03 different pupils
Inc catalogue of the state university shows 481
diferent students in attendance during the year.
me BOARD OF regents report $40 $685. 10 paid out
during the year for current expenses, of which
81 L2O6 " were received by instructors
s'atistcs are presented for your consider
alton, not by way of criticism or complaint, but
with the hope that they will attract to the subject
OF education the attention which it's Importance,
demands. believe our schools are improving
from year to year. particularly the rural districf
schools, where the of our people receive their
education, and that this improvement is due, in
IL
gent labors of state and county superintendents
and the enthusiastic cooperation of the profession.
al teachers who have graduated from our normal
SCHOOLS and state unv rsity, and the excellent coll
eges and other institutions of learning not in any
way aided by the state It is, therefore serious
misrepresentation to assume, as fear many do that
the only justification and reason for expanding the
large sums OF money necessary TO equip and main
tain our normal schools and univ ersity are to be-
found in the direct and prim ry results of their
labors in furnishing the opportunity and means of
education to the pupils in attendance These.
results, though in and of themselves by no IL cans
up1mportant, are among the least of the benefits
conferred by these institutions Their full frution
Is not seen without including the public schools
proper, and the good therein accomplished
The ordinary income of the university is derived
from the interest upon the university and agricu-
Iural college funds, amounting last year to $780,
oa4 70, and the proceeds of the one-terth of milf
tax provided for in section 800 of the revised stat
be adequate for ali the present necessities of the
institution, and if the present ratio of assessment
Is to continue. there is perhaps no necessity for
any change in the law; but if should lie increased
as 1t ought to be to represent moreneary the actual
value of taxable property, there would seem to be
manifest propriety in CHANGING the form of the ap-
preparation from an indefinite to fixed sum,
such sum, be it more less, the legitimate
needs OF the university may require.
ESTIMATES.
The secretary of state estimates the expenditures
for the calendar year 1880, will be 1858 305 81 and
the receipts under existing laws. follows:
Iaxes..... .................. .$207 1855 81
Railway companies. ................... $685. 05U 90
insurance companies. ................. As, 900 90
MISCELLANEOUS sources. ............... 20, 60U 90