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State or Territory required by section
8 of this act, and also a statement of |
the number of school districts in such !
State or Territory, and whether any
portion of such State or Territory has
not been divided into districts or
other territorial subdivisions for
school purposes, and if so what por-
ton and the reason why such portions
have not been so sub-divided, the
number of children of school age in
each district and the relative number
of white and colored children in each
district and of the number of public,
common and industrial schools in
each district, the number of teachers
employed, the rate of wages paid, the
total number of children in each State
or Territory and the number of child
rem taught in each State or Territory
and in what branches instructed, the
average daily attendance and the rel
alive number of white and colored
children and the number of months
in each year schools have been main
tanned in each district. And if any
State or Territory shall misapply or
allow to be misapplied or in any man
ner appropriate or use other than
for the purposes and in the manner
herein required, the funds or any part
thereof, received under the provisions
of this act, or shall fail to comply
with the provisions herein prescribed,
or to report as herein provided,
through it's proper officers the dispo-'
sitions thereof and the other matters
herein prescribed to be so reported.
such State or Territory shall forfeit
its right to any subsequent appor-
tionment by virtue hereof, until the
full amount so misapplied, lost or
misappropriated shall have been re-
placed by such State or Territory and
applied as herein required and until
such report shall have been made.
Provided that if the public schools in
any State admit pupils not within the
ages herein specified, it shall not be
deemed failure to comply with the
conditions herein. If it shall appear
to the Secretary of the Interior that
the funds received under this act for
the preceding year by the State or
Territory have been faithfully applied
to the purpose contemplated by this
act and that the conditions thereof
have been observed, then and not be-
fore, the Secretary of the Interior
shall distribute the next years appro-
priation as is hereinbefore provided.
| And it shall be the duty of the Secre-
tary of the Interior to investigate all
complaints lodged with him of any
Interpretations by or in any State
or Territory,of any money received
by such State or Territory under the
provisions of this act, or of any dis
elimination in the use of such money,
and the said complaint and all COM
munications received concerning the
same and the evidence taken upon
such investigation shall be preserved
by the Secretary of the Interior, and
shall be open to public inspection and
annually reported to Congress.
Sec. 10. That on or before the first
day of September of each year, the
Secretary of the Interior shall report
. to the President of the United States
whether any State or Territory has
forfeited its right to receive its appor-
tionment under this act, how forfeited
and whether he has withheld such al
lotment on account of such forfeiture.
1t will thus be seen that it will be a
gigantic undertaking to comply with
all the provisions of this bill. Any
one who has anything to do with re-
ports to government officials knows
what vast amount of red tape is re-
quired, and in this case, if the Secre-
tary of the Interior should see fit, he
F could, upon mere technicalities, keep
, a State out other apportionment of
, the funds until doomsday. Again,
the clerical work necessary to make,
receive and pass upon these reports,
the stationery, printing, etc., will
consume large per cent of the fund,
} and thus keep that amount from the
| schools.
: Now, a State to receive any benefit
: from this act must supplement the
4 amount it receives from the fund by
| at least an equal amount from its own
: revenues. The State must then re-
f port every little detail of its school
, system, and the operation thereof, to
) the Secretary of the Interior, who is
: to judge whether or not the State has
? complied with every provision of the
bill. He is to withhold the appor-
) tionment of any State until it shall
3 appear to him that such State has
faithfully complied with every condi.
ton and requirement of the bill. II
this is not very large supervision Of
, the schools of the States, as. well as
absolute control of the fund, then we
) are unable. to comprehend the mean
> ing of the English language.
+ And then does any one suppose for
a moment that there would be any.
thing short of a continual flow OF
: charges and countercharges of misap.
, preparations and discrimination for
! the Secretary of the Interior to inves-
tigate? There would just be good
bait for the Republicans and disgrun-
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