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Show THE EDUCATIONAL BILL. It Provides for $79,000,000 to be Dis-tributed Dis-tributed Anion? the States and Territories. i Fire at Akron, Ohio, Destroys Property Valned at 300,000. Genearl Sherman Sends n Lengthy Answer to a Begging Letter. i " h: What the Educational Bill Pro. ,Z . vides Washington, March 6 The " Education bill, as it passed the Senate, provides that for eight years after its passage there shali be annually appropriated from the Treasury the following sums in aid of common school eduoation in the States and Territories and the District of Columbia and Alaska: First year, $7,000,000; second ; year, $10,000,000; third year, $15,000,000; fourth year, :$13,000.-' -09rfirttirear,$l,ero, 000,000; A seventh year, $7,000,000; eighth year,' $5,000,000; making $77,000,000,- besides which there is a special appropriation of $2,000,000 to aid in the erection of school-houses school-houses in sparsely-settled districts, making A total fund of $79,(fo0,000. The money is given to the several States and Territories "in that proportion which the whole number of persons in each, who being ' or the age of 10 years and over cannot write, bears to the whole number of suoh persons in the United States," according to the census of 1880, until the census figures of 1890 shall be obtained, and then according to the latest figures. In the States having separate schools for white and colored children, the money shall be paid out in support of such white and colored children between 10 and 21 years old in suoh State, as shall bear to each other by the census. No State is to receive the benefit of the act until its Governor shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a statement state-ment giving full statistics of it3 sohool system, sys-tem, the number of white and colobed'childben . : ' The amount of money expended, etc.,' the number of schools in operation, the number and compensation of teachers, etc.-. No State or Territory shall receive in any year from this fund more money than it has paid out in the previous year from its own" revenues reve-nues for common schools. If any State or Territory declines to take its share of the national fund, such share is to be distributed distribu-ted among the States accepting the benefits of the fund. .If any State or Territory misapplies mis-applies the fund or f ail3 to comply with the conditions, it loses -all subsequent apportionments. appor-tionments. SAMPLES OF THE SCHOOL BOOKS In the common schools of the States and Territories shall be filed with the Secretary of the Interior. Any State or Territory accepting ac-cepting the provisions of the act at the first session of its Legislature after the passage df the act, shall receive its prorata share of all previous annual appropriations. Congress reserves the right to alter or repeal re-peal the act. The bill now goes to the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives for concurrence. |