The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-04-10

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Senator Georges able reply to the
constitutional arguments against the
bill, made by Butler Of South Caro-
lima, Maxey and Coke Of Texas, Vest
of Missouri, Harrison of Indiana and
others:
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Lands have also been granted to
all the new States to aid in the cree
ton of colleges and universities
wherein the necessary implication was
that these institutions should teach
the higher branches Of human knowl-
edge. So, sir, we have good and valid
and unquestioned precedents for SO
much OF this bill as came under the
censure of the Senator from Missouri
The agricultural college land act
went further than this Till. That
arranged for schools for all time to
come. This temporary measure,
lasting at furthest only ten years, A
precedent will also be found in that
act for the provisions in this bill re-
curing reports from the State au-
th0rities.
But, Mr.. President, in the things
complained of by the Senator from
Missouri, this bill undertakes to give
no commands, no directions even, to
the States. 1t does not assume or
even claim power or jurisdiction to
interfere with education in the States.
The bill merely proposes to make a
gift to the States out of the common
Treasury. 1t compels no State to
accept The gift, ana ii there be any
States, ike Texas, and l suppose I
may add South Carolina, which have
no use for the gift, which are amply
able to educate their children, they
need not accept it. So II any State,
like l suppose Missouri to be, which
does not like the conditions on which
the gilt is made, that State may also
reject the gift. The bill, even in the
shape Of generous beuefactor, pro-
poses to enter no State without its
free consent.
The bill merely offers a gift on
conditions subsequent to be perform
ed by the State. Every grant Of land
heretofore made for education has
been on a condition that it should be
applied to the purposes named in the |
act of CONGRESS. Land uiven for
common schools and universities can
be applied to no other purposes. Til
is true there was no provision for a .
forfeiture in these grants. but the |
grants demanded and secured a
HIGHER and better guaranty Of faithful
application of the Aul-the ulighted |
honor and aith of the States. What |
a State can not do without dishonor,
without breach Of faith, it can not
do at all.
The power to make a Gift includes
within it the power to prescribe con-
ditions and trusts on which it is made.
This is universal principle so far as
there is absolute ownership in the
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