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sideration in several State Legislatures, there was introduced Janu- 

 ary 22, 1907, in the National House of Representatives, by Congress- 

 man Davis, of Minnesota a bill (H.R. 2,475), to provide an annual 

 appropriation for industrial education in agricultural high schools 

 and in city high schools, and for branch agricultural experiment 

 stations. 



The bill provides for an appropriation "to each State and Terri- 

 tory for the maintenance of instruction in agriculture and home 

 economics in agricultural high schools of secondary grade and in- 

 struction in mechanic arts and home economics in city high schools 

 of secondary grade a sum of money equal to ten cents per capita 

 of the population of each State and Territory." The bill further 

 provides that the funds thus appropriated shall be used only for 

 instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts and home economics, and 

 that all states and territories and all schools accepting these funds 

 shall provide other funds with which to pay the cost of providing 

 the necessary lands and buildings and of instruction in all general 

 studies required to make well-rounded high school courses of study. 



The bill further provides that each agricultural high school may 

 maintain a branch experiment station for each of which the federal 

 government will appropriate annually |2,500, provided the State 

 Legislature appropriates an equal amount. 



It will be seen that if the State of Pennsvlvania has a population 

 of 6,000,000 that this means a federal appropriation of |600,000 annu- 

 ally for secondary education in agriculture, mechanic arts and home 

 economics, to say nothing of the money appropriated for the branch 

 experiment stations. In addition money must be provided by the 

 state or otherwise for the necessary lands and buildings and for the 

 instruction in all general studies required to make well-rounded 

 high school courses of study. 



The significance of this bill may be best realized by giving a brief 

 account of what the federal government has done heretofore for 

 agriculture and mechanic arts. 



In 1862 the first Morrill Act was passed, apportioning to each 

 State 30,000 acres of public land for each Senator or Representative 

 in Congress to which the states were respectively entitled, for the 

 endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college. This 

 apportionment was, therefore, in proportion to the population of 

 tho several states. Pennsylvania derives |30,000 annually from 

 this Act. The second Morrill Act passed, in 1890, appropriates 

 iB2.'.000 annually to each state, and the Nelson Amendment, passed 

 in 1907, adds $5,000 annuallv, and this amount until it reaches 

 150,000. The Hatch Bill, passed in 1887. establishing the experi- 

 ment stations, appropriates $15,000 annually, while the Adams Act 

 passed in 1906, added $5,000, and to this amount will add $2,000 

 annually until the amount reaches $30,000.00. The total appropria- 

 tion from the federal government for higher education and for the 

 Experiment Station in a few years will amount to $110,000, while 

 the appropriation for secondary education will amount to $600,000 or 

 $700,000 annually should the Davis Bill become a law. It will be 

 noted also that all these appropriations except in the case of the 

 first Morrill Act, make the same appropriation to each state with- 

 out regard to its size, wealth or population, but the Davis Bill, like 

 the first Morrill Act, apportions the monev in accordance with the 



