The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-28
TO BE PAID AN NUALlY
It Was Endorsed by the Association of
City Superintendent
SENATOR MORRllLfS GREAT WORK
Will Furnish Instruction in Mining, MetalIurgy,
Geology, Road Making, Forestry, Agri-
cultural Engineering and Other
Industrial Interests.

The Association of City S~uperintend-
endorsed the bill pending in Congress to
| Appropriate money to the States for min
ing schools, and urged upon our
Senators and Representatives that they
work for it's success.
A bill is now pending in Congress
which is likely to increase the income Of
the Agricultural and Mechanical COLLEGES
by $1,000 possibly $4,000. It
tor Tilllnan; into the House
by Representative G~rosvenor, and it
! it can be gotten before the House before
the great rush Of business be
gins, it is likely to pass by a 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 a shortage in the Treasury.
The a. and NJ. Colleges have always
been objects of special consideration by
the National Congress-. They were origi-
nally established by act of Congress,
July 2, 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 a companion building for the Su-
preme court, which Will doubtless soon
, be erected.
Senator MorrilIs greatest work, his life
work, was the establishment of the va
rious State Colleges Of Agriculture Nc
Cnanic Arts. He believed in the educa-
ton of the plain working people, cspe-
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 &c
supplement the State system by a sys-
tenn of industrial colleges. His bill cS-
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 pendinc
in Congress, proposing to use a portion
of the proceeds of the sales of the pub
lie and 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 ReDresen,
tatives in Congress to give it their active
and effective support.
'RcsolVed. That, in the judgment OF
this association, the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands (since these
lands are a common property of the
whole people,, should be applied to pur-
poses which are equally important to al
! sections of the Ountr 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 il
Congress-"