The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-11
Fargo Agricultural College
Will Receive 10000 From
the Government
IN ADDITION TO LARGE
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION
Fifty.Ninth Congress- Appropriations
Will Reach and Perhaps Pass the
Billion Mark-Interview With Mr..
Gardner, Of Michigan, on Support of
Educational Institutions.
(Ry e. C. Snxder.A

(By e. c. snyder.)
Washington, D. c., March lit
has been we'll said that the congress
which closed on the fourth instant
was money mad" The exact total
OF appropriations which are carried
by the many bills enacted into law
cannot be stated at this time, but it
Will be very close to, IL it does not
exceed billion dollars. 1t will be
said with truth that most of the ap-
preparations are meritorious but it
was very clearly demonstrated that
the most rampant howler for state
rights and the doctorines of Calhoun
is willing to tear the constitution into
shreds when it comes to the question
of an appropriation in which the state
shall individually receive a benefit.
When the Agricultural appropria-
ton bill reached the senate an amend
ment was added which will eventual
ly result in the annual payment to
each of the states and territories eigh-
ty thousand dollars ($SO,0O0) to aid
the Agricultural college and expert
ment stations, an increase OF $25, 900
over the amount now paid. This sum
may not be considered large for agri-
cultural education in state like New
York or PENNSYLVANIA, but the act
does not make population the basis
for the distribution of the fund and
Nevada with its 10000 population is
placed upon the same basis as New
York with 100000. 1t is doubtful if
Nevada has thousand children who
will attend an Agricultural college
its entire school population does not
exceed 5000 or 1000 so that the
amendment added by the senate, and
in which the house finally concurred,
will practically pay the entire cost
of education for the whole school
population of that state at least.
During the discussion over the pro-
position to concur in the senate
amendment Mr.. Scott said:
Il want to call to the attention of
members of this house the fact that
the government of the United States
is already paying to each of these
Agricultural colleges $25,O00 a year
under the Merrill Act, $4,000 under
the Hatch Act, and when the Adams
Act natures We will be paying $751;
900 more year, total of $4,000
year, which goes to these Agricultural
colleges and Experiment stations in
every state and territory of the Union
If this act should become law when
it reaches maturity, we will then be
paying $4,000 year to every state
and territory, and that will make an
annual appropriation for that pur-
pose of $3,S40,000."
Mr.. Gardner, OF Michigan, also
pointed out the danger to be feared
from such legislation. MIR. Gardner
said:
I'VE are now, if this measure pass
es, contracting to give 100000 a year
in perpetuity to SO institutions, state
and territorial. What does that mean
equal to $2,000,000 every year at four
to reach colleges? 1t means a sum
per cent per annum to every institu-
ton. At four per cent that means
an accrued income at the end of
$1,600,000 to the Agricultural college
Of the state of Michigan and every
other like institution.
ut means the drying up Of private
benevolence and that our states will
withhold the hand that gives to our
Agricultural colleges because the gen.
eral government gives so literally. l
speak for the state of Michigan when
say believe her great commonalty
do not ask 1t. She is rich in agricul-
ture, rich in mines, rich in all the
elements of wealth, and she does not
ask the government to give this per-
petual endowment, which would an
nually employ forty professors at
$4,000. The Michigan Agricultural
college is the Oldest, the most renown-
ed and one Of the best endowed in the
country. The president of the United
States comes to us on the S1st of May
to celebrate our semi-centennial as
the mother of all the Agricultural COL
leges in the United States"
Mr.. Wadsworth, chairman of the
Agricultural committee called atten-
tion to the many bills pending which
propose to add still more millions to
the annual appropriations for alleged
agricultural education and added
Now, Mr.. Speaker. the next step will
be the public schools and there you
have capitalized federal governmental
and federal governmental control of
your education. That is the basis of
my, great opposition to it, and l beg
this house not to take this step, at
least let 1t go over and be considered
ON its merits and not jam it through
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