Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-12-22

Sum Vi Sl)OuO,OUO SuOulu Oo ulStTlOuteQ
each year, 80 that thcro should be no con-
stantly increasing fund. Senator Morrill,
has taken up tho bill at this session, death
having removed it's author, and it is again
before the Senate.
The most prominent advocate IF the
immediate distribution of tho money was
Senator Teller, and he has introduced ht
this session a bill which is supposed to
embody his views. This bill provides that
the Secretary Of the Interior, tho Secretary
of tho Smithsonian Institution and the
commissioner Of education shuI be board
Of pnblio education, and shall in each
gear report to the Secretary Of the Treas
ury the pumber of the children in the
States aud Territories between the ages of
g and Is years, the number of persons 10
years of ago and upward iu each State who
cannot read or write, and tho amount ex-
pended by each State or Territory during
the preceding year for the support Of com.
mou schools. Within sixty days after the re-
ccption Of tho report tho Secretary of the
Treasury is to apportion the sum of S10,-
100000 to the Suites aud Territories in
direct proportion to tho number Of iliterato
persons in each and tho money must be
applied to tho education of children be"
tween the ages of aud 18 years, without
distinction as to color or sex; but no State
is to receive moro than it cxpends annually
for the same purpose out Of its own fund
In States where separate schools are mains
taincd for white and colored children,
the money isto be divided between the two
races in direct proportion to the number of
children in each. No money is to be
given to States which discriminate against
any portion of the whole number of child
rem Oh account Of race or color. Tho bill
appropriates very largo SUN, oud is in
accordance with Mr.. Telcr's opinion that
tho aid to be given where iliteracy is
most prevalent ought to be given without
delay.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, has
introduced bill upon the same subject,
which is even more emphatically in ac
cordanco with tho view that this money
ought to be given now for the removal Of
illteracy. This bill provides that for ten
years to come there shall be annually OPP.
propriatcd to secure the benefits of common
school education to all the children living
in the United Suites tho following sums:
For tins GrstS year, SIS, ,,UU0, ,tOJF Tor the
second year, Sl4,000,000, and for the
third year $4,000, 900, and so on until
ten appropriations shall have been made,
when alappropriatons shall cease The total
would be Sl05,000,000 The opportion-
ment is to be made in direct proportion to the
number of illitcrato persons and the money
is to he used in aiding the development Of
the local common school system. Iustruc.
ton must be free to all. Onc-tcnth of any
Stato's portion may be used in educating
teachers for the common schools. No
State or Territory is to receive money unless
it spends out of its own fund, during the
first five years, for free common schools, at
least one third of the sum allotted to it,
and during the second five years q SUN
equal to tho whole of its allotment. Some
discretion iu such cases, however, is left to
the Secretary Of tho Interior, who repro
sents tho United States in the plan TO
aid in carrying out the provisions of the
bill, the President is to appoint commits
sioner of common schools in each Stuto,
who is to tako charge of tho execution of
the Act and co operate with the State au
thorities.
by comparing tho three bills it will be
seen that the expenditure in ten years pro,
vided by the Burnside bill is $4,000, 900;
by the Toller bill 500 100000, and by the
Blair bill Sl05, 100000 But at the end
Of ton years, under the Burnside plan,
there would be an interest bearing fund of
Sl5,000,000. Nearly all the money np~
propriated under these bills would be dis
tributed in the South and Southwest.
Col. y. K. Mcclure, editor of tho Phil-
adel phia Times. who is in Atlanta, writes
to his paper: "The chief lessons Of the
Atlanta Exposition are emincntly practical
md they arc so regarded by the Southern
people. They will give not only immediate
but lasting aud inculcu'atlc fruits of the
grandest character. The Cotton Exposi-
ton will silence the hum of many spindlcs
in the North and it vii! mako the South
much more the legitimate field for both
invention and capital than it has ever been
10 tho past. 1t will teach to The great
mass of tho Southern people what only the
theorists have known until now-that tho
greatest boon the South after the cotton gin
is the cotton spindle; and hazard nothing in
saying that in another decade Georgia will
spin all her cotton, have looms for most of
It and make tho music of the cotton factory
heard in every cotton centre Of the South.
Of all civilizations Of the nineteenth cen
tury, the Old South was tho only one that
would have paid more than two hundred
millions of dollars annually to hated
North to spin its cotton. With thousand
miles of transportation, tho cost of balins,