The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-18
A POLITICAL TRICK.
SECRETARY MOBILES ATTEMPT TO
STIR UP ASENSATlON.

the Interior III an UGccrn Portable Posi-
ton If he Persists Claflin will be tn g
Only Sufferer.
COLUMBIA, March There is a
serious difference Of opinion betw cen
Governor Tillman and Secretary Of the
Interior Noble as TO what would be a
fair division of the Federal funds ap-
propriated by Congress for the agrlcul-
tural and mechanical COLLEGES OF the
State. The Legislature OF South Caro-
lima has formally accepted the appro-
priation for this State, and passed an
Act dividing the amount equally be-
tween the Clemson College and the
Clanin College. Governor Tillman
early in January wrote Secretary Noble
letter, giving the Secretary all the ln-
formation desired. In reply to the Gov
ernor the Secretary replied as follows
on January 3lst:
II have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt Of your letter of the 24:n inst.
endorsing a certified copy of an Act OF
your Legislature accepting the provision
of the Act approved Angus 50, 1890;
making appropriation ior an agricultural
college (colored) and the Clemson Agrl-
cultural College (white.) The school
population, according to the latest count
on file IN this office (that Of lSS0) is
$50 per cent white and GIL per cent,
colored. am of the opinion that the
requirement for an equitable division of
this fund between institutions Tor the
education of the two races Will be met
By dividing the same in the SAID ratio OF
the school in this case.
Very respectfully.
John W. Noble, Secretary"
Answering the Secretary, Governor
Tillman wrote cn February IL as iol-
lows:
~ reply TO ycur letter of January 81
has been delayed by illness. The ques-
zion as to what would be a Just and
eouitao ole' division as between our white
an colored agricultural aud mechanical
colleges of the fund appropriate by
Congress last year is, SC far as this
Safe is concerned, no longer an open
one. Our Legislature has acted and
adjourned. and will not meet again be-
fore November, so have no power II
the premises. Please let me know
whether YOU refuse to paI South Caro-
lima her quota upon the basis proposed
bv the General Assembly, and II so,
whether you insist that the school popu-
lation as shown by the census OF 1851
instead of 1890 shall govern.
Il will call your attention turther TO
these facts: Over so per cent OF the
school tax in South Carolina IS paid by
the whites, while the negroes receive the
benefit Of over half OF it. Second, the
relative demand for collegiate education,
for which Congress provided, bears no
relation to the relative numbers OF the
two races. Third. your refusal to allow
this money to be divided as the Leglsla-
lure has ordered, will cripple the colored
college very seriously, because, relying
on this fund. it has already entered upon
enlargements of its teaching force ard
facilities, which will have to be stopped.
While the Clemson College (white) IS
not yetin operation, and can easily await
an appeal to Congress next December.
| ask YOU, then, to weigh your actions
we'll before doing anything to lnJure our
colored college.
am very respectfully,
r p Tillman Governor
Secretary Noble has not yet replied 10
the above. Governor Tillman said,
that according to his information, the
apportionment Of the fund IN West Vir-
oinia. is made on the basis Of one-thlrd
for the colored people and tWo-thlrds
for the white people, the exact ratio OF
the school population. The following
letter of Governor Tillman to Governor
Northen, Of Georgia, shows him low
the thing works:
NOur General Assembly divided the
money appropriated in 1890, by Con,
eress, for agricultural and mechanical
colleges equally between the white and
negro schools, and when so notified
Secretary Noble, he replied: the require
ment for an equitable division OF this
fund will be met by dividing the same IN
the ratio of the school population. He
further mentions the census OF 1851,
with a relative proportion OF 6+ per
cent colored and &c per cent white: as
proper basis Of division. AS under
stand it, the Georgia Legislature divided
the fund upon the basis Of school Popu-
lation. and Mr.. Noble demands that the
negroes shall receive half, so we lind
that lie wishes to make South Carolina
lust what Georgia has done and yet OBJ
iect to Georgia's actions, and further
that he wants to take the school popu-
lation as the basis OF apportionment by
the census of 1880 instead OF that OF
1890 which shows the white population
of our State to have gained heavily,
while the negroes have gained very lit
tie. He appears to ignore the tact that
nearly all Of the school taxes IN the
South are paid by the whites, while the
relative demand for higher education as
between the races bears 40 relation TO
their numbers. and that by the division
proposed in South Carolina or IN Geor-
sia the negroes will receive more than
an equitable share of the Congressional
glart. AS our Legislature has adjourn
ed there is nothing for me to do except
to insist upon his acceotlng Its acllon;
and in the event Of his refusal, to appeal
to Congress at Its next session"
Consigned to the Ohio River.
CTSCISSATI, Ohio, March THE