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NATIONAL EDUCATION.
The Blair Bill, Appropriating Ss9,"
100000, Passed by the Senate.

The blair Bill, Appropriating Sso,-
100000, Passed by the Senate.
What is known as the Blair educational
bill has passed the United States Senate IN an
amended form after long debate. The final
vote upon the bills passage was thirty-slx
yeas to eleven nays. The vote in detail was
as follows:
yeas-Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Bowen
Call. Colouitt, Conger, Cullom, Dolph, EusSis,
Evarts, George, Gibson, Hoar, jackson, Jones
lArk,), Kenna, Logan, Malone, ManderSon,
Miller IN. ", Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill, Pal-
mer, Payne, Pugh. Ransom, Fadaie9ergeIr' @ Ir
Sawyer, Spooner, Teller, Vance, Van "a! "yck'
voorhees,. Walthall, Wilson ua.)--36.
Nays-Cockrell, Cooke, Frye, Gray. Hale
Harris, ingalls,, Jones (Nev.), Maxey, Plumb
The educational bill provides that for eight
wears after it's passage there shall be annual
" appropriated from the treasury the 1ollo"-
ing sums in aid of common school educaaon
in the States and Territories and District OF
- 9 oo0 oCo. the % second wear, SO, 100000; the
third wear, s15,OOO0OO; the fourth year.
$4,000, 600; the fifth year, s11, ,ooo, 600; the
sixth year, 1900, 600; the seventh year, ST.
600 OOj: the eighth year, 5000, ,0O0-maklng
s77,OOO.OOO, beside which there is a special
appropriation of s., 600, 600 to aid In the erec
ton of school houses in sparsely settled @ dds'
tricts. making the total fund OF S'''ooo,,,
OOO The money is given to the several
States and Territories ''in that proportion
which the whole number of persons in each,
who. being of the age Of ten years and over,
cannot write. bears to the whole number OF
such persons in the United States, according
to the census of 1880, until the census figures
of 1890 shall be obtained, and then accord
ing to the latter figures In States
having separate schools for white and colored
children the money shall be paid out IN sup
port of such white and colored schools re-
and colored children between ten and
twenty -one years old in such State
bear to each other by the cen
sus. No State is to receive the tn
benefit of the act until its governor shall hle
with the secretary Of the interior statement
giving full statistics of the school system, at
tendance Of white and colored children:
amount of money expended, ETC., number OF
schools in operation, numDer anu conlpensa-
ton of teachers, etc.
No State or Territory shall receive in any
wear from this fund more money than it has
maid out the previous year from its own rev.
enues for common schools. If any State or
Territory declines to take its share OF the ma.
tional fund, such share is to be distributed
among the States accepting the benents OF
the fund. If any State or Territory nlisap-
plies the fund, or fails to comply with the
conditions, itloses all subsequent apporSlon-
ments.
Samples of all school books in use in the
common schools of the States and Territories
shall be filed with the secretary OF the IN
terror.
Any State or Territory accepting the pro-
visions of the act at the first session OF its
legislature after the passage OF the act shall
receive its pro rata share OF all previous an
nual appropriations.
Congress reserves the right to alter or re-
peal the act. eD
santativeS for action.