The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-26
$4,000 OR $4,000
FOR MINING SCHOOL
Bill Now Pending Before Con-
gress For This Sum.
TO BE PAID ANNUALLY
1t Was Endorsed by the Association of
City superintendent
SENATOR MORRILL'S GREAT WORK
viii Furnish Instruction in Mining, MetaIlurgy,
Geology, Road Making, Forestry, Agr-
cultural Engineering and Other
Industrial interests.
Industrial Interests.

The Association of City Superintend-
ents in session in Raleigh the past week
endorsed the bill pending in Congress t.
Appropriate money to the States for min.
ing schools, and urged upon oul
Senators and Representatives that they
work for its success.
A bill is now pending in Congress
which is likely to increase the income OF
the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
by $4,000, possibly 100000 1t
was introduced into the Senate by Sena-
tor Tillman: into the House
by Representative Grosvenor, and it
it can. be gotten before the House before
the great rush of business be-
gins, it is likely to pass by big ma
jOrity. 1t was up in the
last Congress and passed the Senate
unanimously, but was held up in the
House, along with the Appalachian Park
, Bill and other popular measures for fear
of shortage in the Treasury.
The A. and NJ. Colleges have always
been objects of special consideration by
the National Congress. They were origi-
July 3 1862, the father of the act being
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont. one of the
most far-sighted and eminent statesmen
our country has ever produced. Senator
Morrill, worked on this idea for fifteen
years before succeeding, He is also the
father of the magnificent Congressional
building, and he labored earnestly to Sc
cure companion building for the Su-
iol. n ~
be erected.
Senator Morrill's greatest work, his life
work, was the establishment of the va
rious State Colleges of Agriculture Me
chanic Arts. He believed in the educa-
tion of the plain working people, espe-
cially in their Industrial education.
Knowing that the States had already
provided for general education and
literary culture in their public schools,
colleges and universities, he decided to
supplement the State system by a sys-
tenn of industrial colleges. His bill es-
tablished them: the Supplemental Nor
rill Act increased their endowment: the
Hatch Act still further increased it, and
now it is proposed to complete this grand
system of instruction by another act
providing for Mining and Road Building.
The Association of City Superintend-
ents. in session yesterday, unanimously
endorsed the bill. as follows:
Resolved. That the bill, now pending
in Congress. proposing to use a portion
of the proceeds of the sales of the pub
lie lands to provide for'the Agricultural
Colleges of the country with increased
means of instruction in mining, metal
lurgy, geology, road making, forestry,
agricultural engineering, etc., is of meal
culable importance to the mining, agri-
cultural and other industrial interests
of North Carolina, and we most earnest
~ request our Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress to give ii their active
and effective support.
Resolved, That in the judgment of
this association, the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands (snce these
lands are common property of the
whole people,. should be applied to pur.
poses which are equally important to all
sections of the country and not merely
TO those of particular localities.
Resolved, That the secretary of the
association be instructed to transmit
certified copy of these resolutions to each
of our Senators and Representatives in
Congress"