The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-18
Some Prac tical
Suggestions By
Second District
Congressman
Continued from Saturday,

The department OF agriculture has
had placed at its disposal S70,o50 to
provide for a director Of public roads
and other officers, and to enable the
secretary OF agriculture to make in
quiries in regard to systems of road
management throughout the United
States; to furnish expert advice or
road building; to make investigations
in regard to the best methods OF road
making, and the best kinds of road
making materials in the several
states; to investigate the chemical
and physical character of road ma,
terials; for the employment of local
and special agents, clerks, assistants
and other labor required In the city
OF Washington and elsewhere; for col.
lating, digesting, reporting and illus
trating the results OF such investiga.
'tions and experiments; for preparing
publishing, and distributing bulletins
and reports: and to enable the secrs.
tary OF agriculture to assist the agri.
cultural colleges and experiment sta.
tons in disseminating Information on
this subject. From all Of which II
will be seen that great deal of pre-.
liminary work has been done, and the
public mind prepared for larger appro.
priations in the future in the interest
OF the good roads movement.
You will have noted that the copy
of the act approved March 4, 1907,
which I transmitted to you and which
makes the appropriation first refer.
red to, give the key to the uses to
which 1t may be applied in the fol.
lowing language
80 To be applied only for
the purposes of agricultural colleges
as defined and limited in the act of
congress approved July 2, 1862, and
the act of congress approved August
80, $780," and that the sums appro.
priated are described as "for the fur.
ther endowment and support of the
colleges tmeaning agricultural col.
legss) shall be paid by, to, and in the
manner prescribed by the act of con.
gress approved. August 80, 1890,
and the expenditure of the said
money shall be governed in all re.
spects by the provisions of the said
act of congress approved July 9, 1862
and the said act of congress approved
Au1,,rt IN 12onU
The act of 1862 is that creating
the agricultural colleges, in which 1t
was provided that the interest which
should arise from the sale OF the land
granted or the scrip should be in.
vested, "and the interest OF which
shall be inviolably appropriated by
each state which may take and claim
the benefit Of this act, to the endow.
ment, support and maintenance OF at
least one college where the leading
object shall be, without excluding
other scientific and classical studies.
and including military tactics to
teach such branches as are related
to agriculture and the mechanical
arts in such manner as the legisla-
lures Of the states may respectively
prescribe, In order to promote the
liberal and practical education OF the
industrial classes in the several pur'
suits and professions Of life.
The legislature of West Virginia in
accepting this grant and in creating
the board OF regents. made 1t the
duty of the board TO establish from
time to time "such departments Of
education In literature, science. art
agriculture. and military tactics MS
they may deem expedient, and us the
funds under their control may war
rant, and purchase such materials
implements and apparatus as may BIZ
requisite to proper instruction in al
said branches of learning, SO as tt
carry out the spirit of the act of con
gress aforesaid, approved July 9, 1862.
By the act of congress approved OF
August 30. 1890, commonly known al
the Morrell act, by which the sum o
$4,000 was appropriated. ARISING
from sales of public lands" shout,
be applied "only to instruction In as