Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-23
WASHINGTON. Nov. %

| The bureau of education is preparing a re-
port on art and industry in schools, colleges
and institutions of public training. 1t is re-
plete with practical knowledge which will
form basis for these studies in public
schools. The work has been in preparation
since 1874, and although some parts of il
have been published, the major portion OF
the contents is new and has been collected
and edited with considerable trouble and
care. Much delay has been experienced in
securing its publication, owing to insufficiency
| of appropriations, or its use in other branches
of the interior department, under which the
bureau of education is placed. The funda-
mental idea of the work is that universal
! teaching in all public schools of the elements
of industrial drawing is an essential part as
any general system of public education. The
work contains a report of the system fol-
lowed in English institutions and those of
other countries, relating to technical instruc-
tion and the history of the progress of indus
trial and fine arts. There are several orig
inal papers in the work dealing with the ad-
vance of this science, and its probable effect
as text book for school uses. The matter,
however, is not confined to art alone, but
takes in the instruction Of agricultural col
leges and traces the relations of such studies
to art culture. The report will be ready
within three months.
| Commissioner Sparks has recently made a
ruling which probably is destined to have
important influence in two or three days, upon
the course OF transactions in public lands.
He has decided in substance the commuta-
tiOn of a homestead is in effect and law the
turning of entry into pre-emption, ,and as such
is illegal when the claimant has previously
had the benefit of the pre-emption law, since
the passage of the homestead law. 1t has
become almost a universal practice for set
tiers to secure claims under both that and
the pre-emption law, in addition to which
they have usually taken the benefit of the
timber culture law, thus aggregating under
the three laws a maximum estate of 4S0 acres
to each settler. 1t has been customary to
take up pre-emption and "tree claim" at
once, and after the elapse of the shortes;
necessary interval. to mortgage the former
for enough to pay the government price of
it. When having secured the title the settler
was at liberty to move away and take the
benefit of the homestead law. The ruling OF
the commissioner is calculated to put an end
to this practice. 1t leaves settler still the
right to secure another pre-emption or home
stead in addition to the ''tree claim," and as
| far as the ruling itself goes,
| it leaves him the right to secure a
pre-emption claim in the usual way and then
secure a homestead by living on the land five
years. But the latter right General Sparks
does not concede. 1t has been stated that he
has made ruling to the effect that no per-
son is entitled to the benefits of both the pre-
emption and homestead laws. This is in
correct no such ruling having been made.
There is reason to believe, however, that
| uo,, 70 do,nond a f,r,rol rrl;nr On .ho s,h-
| ;a..t he viii ho,d that in noss;n, ,ha homo.
stead i. ,,ongres. intended opIv 70 o;ve
oho;oa 20 sot,Iers of limited ,noons hv aaord
;ro thom a metbod of ohto;ning ono bnndrod
and s;xtv acres of land w;rhou1 o,bar on,lav
| than tho navmert of the customarv fees in
nj 20 of nrrchas;no nnde- tho nre-emnt;on
Sroh rn,ino ho soYs would ho in onnour.
ranno w;,h ,ho v;ows which hova ;nsn;rad
,ha rovamert in Conc-ess m renes, tha mo.
an,n,;on Iow ou,r;abt ond shord ,ha ,;rihar
culture law be renesIed would have on efTec,
Of res,,;ct;,o rho ara obtainable bv a s;noIo
sa,,,ar ,o nna.omortor soct;nn Cor SnasLs
holds tho two 1aws-homestead and nre.em.
,;on s,and;no ,onothor and ;n,orn,a,ad =.
tbev have beretofore been' offer temntat;on
~ f-and ord nlooa nrom;,m mon !,
Tho annnai ranor, of Hon Josanb g Mil.
Low oomn,;.s;one- of ;ntarra, r.vanuo shnw.
tha rece;nts of the internal revenue from all
sourcas Tor rho fscal yaar ended Juna oo,h
| 1905 clio 1oI1o1 90 comnarad With SIo1
5o0 oao for 1894 s144 553 344 for Issa and
S11e 599 o7s fo, 1880 T, was est;m.,..d tho,
tho rec.;nts for Ia, year woula he sII5 600 :
900 and that tbev foil over 40 OOO 600 shor,
| of tho estimate The comm;ss;oner saws !,
rosrI,ed from saven months evtension liz.
cd for rho exnortation of Distilled sn;r;ts in a
bond on which tax was dne He adds that
,bere ia now about :. 600 600 gallons of dis.
,;l;ed snir;ts abroad which to find market
w;ll have m he reimnorted This with NOR
than IA. 600 gallons that had. ON lime 30th
Iost baen in hond for three wears or lonosr
nndsr seven months extens;on aforded am
nla margin for assuming the receints for the
cnrrent fscal vear would agoreoata s1I5 600
| OOo The total decrease for the vear was
80 l6s 9I9. The largest collections were
made in the State of illinois. amounting 10
Goa O75 s65 Kentucky second. sl4,s42 AK
New York third s13 s23 645. Ohio fonrtb
sla 565.5l6: PENNSYLVANIA fifth. s7.37I. 200
Missouri sixth. s6. .276. .l65: Indiana seventh
"a O3I s66 The smallest collection was
mada in Vermont amounting to 500 osO
The cost of collection for the nresent fscal
wear was 81 .455. .430. against 81. .O76. 9l4 fo,
the nresent fiscal wear. The total exnense
of the service during the mast vear was abou,
100 per cent of the amount collected
The commissioner saws the genera