The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-04-23

If the action of the legislative COM
mittee, or what is known as the Senate
Finance Ways and Means Commit
tee, is endorsed by the state senate
during the present session, it will
mean that the Negroes of the Volun-
teer State will, for the first time in
the history of the commonwealth, en-.
joy part of the privileges accorded
them in an educational way by the
provisions of the constitution. The
committee, after hearing numerous
arguments and speeches before it. is
said to have recommended favorably
, the passage of the house bill provid-
ing for and setting apart a certain
amount of the general educational
fund for the establishment, erection
and maintenance of an agricultural,
mechanical and normal college-a
distinctively state school where the
boys and girls of the race can re.
ceive an agricultural and mechanical
training as well as a normal educa-
| tion.
Two members of a special commit
tee appointed by the agricultural, me-
chanical and normal association
formed in this city several months
ago, visited the senate finance COM
mittee in It's session Monday night
at the Tulane Hotel They gave the
committee some information concern
ing what the Negroes best needed.
and what would be more beneficial
to them in normal training and
school of technology At any rate.
it is understood that with the appro-
priation practically certain from the
state, the committee is said to have
agreed that the Negroes part of the
Morrell fund would begin this year
to this new school, If this is true,
the first years appropriation will be
within the neighborhoOd of twenty.
seven thousand dollars, which sum
would do much towards supplying
what the Negro youths of Tennessee
have long been deprived of. Quite a
deal of money has been appropriated
last session and during the present
session for education, and it looks as
though the educational bill providing
for four normals is receiving the
hearty support of all sections of the
state. The interest appears to be
centered on one of the two favorable
bills which are to come up in the SEN
ate during the next week.
On Wednesday, April q, the Edu-
cational Bill passed the senate and
now only waits the Governors sigma
ture to become a law. This bill
provides that 25 per cent of the gross
revenue of the state shall be devoted
to school purposes Of this 61 per
cent is to go to the general common
school fund; 10 per cent for equal
izing the school terms in the various
counties; l per cent for rural school
libraries; 8 per cent to aid in estab-
fishing county high schools; 19 per
cent for three normal schools for
white teachers, one in each grand di-
vision of the state, and an agricultur-
al and normal school for colored pu-
pills; per cent to the University of
Tennessee, $4,000 of which is for the
Experimental Station in West Ten
nessee, $4,000 for experimental farm
work in Middle Tennessee, $4,000 for
railroad fare for Middle and West
Tennessee students, and the rest of
the sum total to the University prop
er which gives the University about
$450OO year
The bill is expected to produce
about 100000 school revenue annual
ly. It is claimed that it repeals the
Chestnut act and all other school
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