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referred to this committee because of a resolution at the end. 

 It does not seem to me, Mr. President, that it is really a com^Dlete 

 disposition of the report, merely to adopt the resolution, but 

 that is all this committee could do and so I will read the resolu- 

 tion at the end of the report, and this I consider as very im- 

 portant, bearing on important legislation at this session of the 

 legislature. 



The President : I believe it was the presiding officer's idea 

 that it was handed you to pass upon and if it suits you, the 

 society can act upon it. 



Mr. Palen: The resolution covers the point about which there 

 has been quite a little discussion on the side, the question of 

 the autonomy of the state in the use of funds that may be given 

 to it, or returned to it from the national government, that have 

 been collected in the ways in which the national revenues are 

 gathered. 1 shall read the resolution: 



" Therefore, he it Resolved, That if the policy be adopted of 

 returning to a state for specitic purposes a portion of the income 

 that the federal government derives from the indirect taxation 

 of the citizens of that state, the state should have the same liberty 

 in the application of these funds to the purposes named that it 

 has in the use of any other portion of its income." 



That " the policy of the further introduction of instruction in 

 agriculture into the public schools; and that to better accomplish 

 this result, plans should be perfected as rapidly as jjossible for 

 maintaining agricultural instruction with larger allotments ; and 

 that an allotment be provided each school, union or high school, 

 teaching a class of not less than fifteen in agriculture, and for the 

 common district school giving an approved course in nature 

 study." 



The committee commends the report in every particular and 

 I wish to say that Dr. Jordan, who had to go home last night 

 and who was a member of the committee on resolutions, gave 

 us a lengthy talk on the importance of certain features of this 

 report. 



Mr. Denniston: I move the adoption of the report. 



