Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
THE BLAIR BILL.
The Full Text of the Measure Soon to be
Voted on in the Senate.
How 1t is Proposed to Spend Uncle Sans NIL
lions to Educate the Coming Genera
ton in America.

! the following bill, which was read twice
and referred to the committee on educa-
ton and labor.
December Is, 1889, reported by Mr..
| Blair with amendments.
December 10, 1889, ordered to be re-
| printed for use of the senate.
A bill to aid in the establishment and
temporary support of common schools.
Be it enacted by the senate and house
| of representatives of the United States
| OF America in congress assembled, thai
for eight fiscal years next after the pas
sage of this act there shall be annually
appropriated from the money in the
treasury the following sums, TO wit:
The first year the sum of 81 900 ZOO, the
| second year the sum of $40, 900 ZOO, the
third year the sum of SIS, 900 200, the
fourth year the sum of S13 900 ,000, the
fifth year the sum of S11 200, 900, the
| sixth year the sum of 50, 900 1000, the
seventh year the sum of 81, 900 900, the
eighth year the sum of S., 900 900; which
several sums shall be expended to secure
the benefits of common school education
to all the children of the school age men,
toned hereafter living in the United
States: Provided, that no money shall
be paid TO a state, or any officer thereof,
until the legislature of the state shall,
by bill or resolution, accept the provis-
ions of this act; and such acceptance
Shall be filed with the secretary Of the
interior. And If any state, by its legis-
lature, shall decline or relinquish its
share or proportion under this act, or
any portion thereof, the sun so relin-
pushed shall be covered into the treas
ury. And any state or territory which
shall accept the provisions of this act, at
the first session of its legislature after its
passage, shall, upon complying with
the other provisions of this act, be emit
tied at once to its pro rata share Of all
previous annual appropriations.
Section 2. That such money shall an
nually be divided among and paid out in
the several states and territories, and,
in the District of Columbia, in that pro-
poi ton which the whole number of per-
sons in each who, being of the age of
ten years and over, can not write, bears
to the whole number of such persons in
the United States, except as provided IN
the fifteenth section; such computation
shall be made according to the census of
1880, until the illiteracY returns of the
census of 1890 shall be received, and
then upon the basis of that census. And
IN each state and territory, and in the
District of Columbia, in which there
shall be separate schools for white and
eolored children the money received in
such state or territory and in the Dis
trict OF Columbia, shall be appOrtioned
and paid out for the support of such
| white and colored schools, respectively,
in the proportion that the white and col
ored children between the ages of ten
years and twenty years, both inclu-
| sive, in such state or territory and in the
District of Columbia, bear to each other,
as shown by the said census. The fore
going provision shall not affect the ap-
plioation of the proper proportion of said
money to the support of all common
schools wherein white and colored chill
dren are taught together.
Sec. g. That the district of Alaska
shall be considered territory within the
meaning of this act; but no acceptance
of the provisions of this act, report of
the governor of the district, or expen-
diture by the district for school purposes
shall be required; and the money ap-
portioned to said district shall be ex-
pended annually, under the direction of
the secretary of the interior, in the man
ner provided for the expenditure of
other appropriations for educational pur-
poses in said district; and for the pur-
pose of sscertaining the amount to be
apportioned to said district the secretary
of the interior shall ascertain, in such
manner as shall be deemed by him best,
the number of illiterates therein.
Sec. 4. That no state or territory shall
receive any money under this act until
the governor thereof shall file with the
secretary of the interior a statement.
certified by him, showing the common
school system in force in such state or
territory; the amount of money ex-
pended therein during the last preceding
school year in the support of common
schools, not including expenditures for
the rent, repair, or erection of school
houses; whether any discrimination is
made in the raising or distributing of the
common school revenues or in the COM
mon school facilities afforded between
the white and colored children therein,
and so far as is practicable, the sources
from which such revenues were derived;
the manner in which the same were ap-
portloned to the use of the common
schools; the number of white and col
ored children in each county or parish
and city between the ages of ten and
twenty-one years, both inclusive, as
given by the census of 1880, and the
number of children, white and colored,
of such school age attending school; the
number of schools In operation in each
county or parish and city, white and
colored, the school term for each class;
the number of teachers employed, white
and colored, male and female, and the
average compensation paid such teach
ers; the average attendance in each
GLASS, and the length of the school
term. No money shall be paid out un-
der this act to any state or territory that
shall not have provided by law a system
of free common schools for all Of Its chill
dren Of school age, without distinction
OF race or color, either in the raising or
distributing of school revenues or IN the
school facilities afforded: Provided, that
separate schools for white and eoiored
children shall not be considered viola
ton of this condition. The secretary of
the interior shall certify TO the secretary
Of the treasury the states and territories