The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
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college. or some part of 1t. were to be
located there This movement now
has the support of the entire congress
sional delegation of the Pacific coast
The secretary of war and the chief OF
staff of the United States army arc
recommending it; the board Of over
seers and the board of trustees of
Whitman college are exerting every
effort to accomplish the passing of
the bill now in congress. 1t would
mean that Whitman college would be-
come Immediately an institution with
two millions of endowment as the pos
session of this property would make
all the subscriptions thus far received
Immediately available.
The bill, which was introduced yes
terday in the upper house of congress,
is as follows:
An got granting to the trustees of
Whitman co lege the lands embrace
V
tary reservation for the purpose OF
| aiding in the establishment and
maintenance of an institution of
higher earning in the Pacific
Northwest.
BE it enacted by the senate and
| house of representatives of the United
states in congress assembled:
That, there be, and is hereby, grant
ed to the board of trustees of Whit
/ man college, a corporation organized
under the laws of the territory (now
state) of Washington. for the pur-
pose of aiding in the establishment
and maintenance of an institution of
| learning for the instruction of both
sexes in literature, science and art,
| at Walla Walla, in said state for the
accommodation of the people of the
Pacific Northwest, Cor, in lieu of fore
going description of purpose, ''for the
| purpose of aiding in the estab ish-
nlent and maintenance of an institu-
| ton OF accommodation of the people
| IF the Pacific Northwest") so much
| Of the military reservation at Walla
| Wal a. in said state, established by
executive order Of date May %, 1859,
and called Fort Walla Walla as has
| not been heretofore sold, granted or
| disposed of by the United States. The
lands within said reservation as orig
| inally established and intended to be
granted by this act are described as
| follows:
Lots 5, and Z, section 25, town
ship Z, north range 35, East Villain
| cite meridian; lot 2, section SO, town.
ship Z, north range 35, East William
cite meridian; lots z, 8. 8, 10, II, IL,
| IL, east hat of southwest quarter and
southwest quarter of southeast quar-
| ter, section 30, township Z, north
range SO, East Willamette meridian
Lots S, and 7, section 81, township
| Z, north range SO, East Willamette
meridian, containing 619.57 acres.
The foregoing grant to the trustees
of Whitman college is made on the
| condition that Whitman college shall
furnish for all time, free Of tuitional
charges, to any person of Indian blood
who is a government ward, maintain
ing tribal re atiOnS in the states of
Washington Oregon and Idaho, who
shall have fitted himself for entrance
70 Whitman college, training in all
college branches maintained by said
Whitman college.
Walla Wala, Wash
| Hon. Wesley L. Jones, United States
Senator, Washington, D. c.
Dear Senator Jones: l wish to ex-
press my approval of the memorial
congress and the bill for the appro-
pr1aflon of the army post at Walla
WaIa to the uses of Whitman coll
lege, and l respectfully urge upon you
your last endeavors to secure the
passage of this bill
Yours very sincerely
(Signed)
z. E. Shaw, M D. W. w. Baker.
w. n kirklnan' T. M. Hanger,
0scsr n w ,,,r1eTnS w. S. Clark.
r. H Turner, F. w. Kaiser,
=. A Roser. John H. Pedigo,
John l.. SharpJ. H. Morrow,
stein, Louis F. Anderson,
rank De~'eof Eugene Lorton,
Thos. J. Drum
George Drumheller,
j. M Crawford, Thomas Mosgrove,
Oscar. Caine, E. E. Fall,
Malcolm Mclean, Dorsey M. Hill,
Al'eT7 II. Rey- Grant S. Bond,
nolds,
F. w. Paine, d. H. Cox,
]. c. Scott, ]. w. Langdon
E. L. Brunton, Y.C. Blalock. M. D..
Howard c. Thomp- F. W. Rees,
son, N. G. Blalock,
w. P Winans, A. ]. ellis,
Endorsements also by Hon Levi
Ankeny, Hon. Miles c. Moore, Hon
Gilbert Hunt.
List of Precedents for Gift of Public
Lands to Private Colleges.
Vol. IL, Chap. 2, page 891-An act
to enable the trustees of Blue Mont
college to preempt a certain quarter
section of land
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress as
sembled that the following named
persons, Isaac Boodnow, B. d. Hous-
ton, Washington Marriott, Charles E.
Blood, James Dennison, VIM H Nc
Co'lum, John Paulson, John Pipher
and John Mimball, trustees of the
Blue Mont College association, be and
they are hereby empowered to enter
at the proper land office the follow
ing described quarter section of land
to-wit: the southwest quarter of
section H. township 10, south, of
range east, in the district of lands
subject to sale at Junction City in
Kansas territory, for the use of the
said College association, the said
property to be regu ated or disposed