222 CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (NATIONAL Am TO COMMON SCHOOLS.) 



is not so large as the statistics of some other 

 countries show in proportion to population. I 

 find it stated as a statistical fact that in the 

 province of Brandenburg there were 10*9 ille- 

 gitimate children out of every 100. 



"In the province of Schleswig-Holstein there 

 were 9*6 out of every 100 ; in Berlin, there were 

 13f out of every 100 ; in Magdeburg, there were 

 9'0 out of 100; in Hanover, 8*9. The same 

 author gives the proportion which the prosti- 

 tutes bear to the inhabitants of certain Euro- 

 pean cities as follows: In Hamburg, 1 to 48 

 inhabitants ; in Berlin, 1 to 62 ; in London, 1 

 to 91 ; in Vienna, 1 to 159 ; in Munich, 1 to 

 222 ; in Dresden, 1 to 236 ; in Paris, 1 to 247 ; 

 in Brussels, 1 to 275 ; and in Strasburg, 1 to 

 302. Unfortunately, we have no reliable sta- 

 tistics in this country, as they have in Europe, 

 by which we can give the correct proportion 

 of population who are either illegitimate or 

 prostitutes. But I fear it may safely be as- 

 sumed that in proportion to population we are 

 but little behind European countries in laxity 

 of morals in this regard." 



The bill was passed by the Senate, June 18, 

 by the following vote : 



YEAS Allison, Beck, Bowen, Cameron of Wis- 

 consin, Colquitt, Confer, Cullora, Dawes, Dolph, Ed- 

 munds, Fair, Frve, Garland, Harrison, Ingalls, Jack- 

 son. Jones of Florida, Jones of Nevada, Lapham, 

 McMillan, McPhcrson, Mahone, Manderson, Miller 

 of California, Mitchell, Morrill, Palmer, Pike, Pugh, 

 Kiddle benrer, Sawyer, Voorhees, Wilson 33. 



NAYS 'Bayard, 'Brown, Coke, George, Hampton, 

 Jonas, Kenna, Lamar. Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, 

 Ransom, Vance, Vest, Walker 15. 



Hoar. IJOgao, Miller of New York, Platt, Plumb, Sa- 

 lmi, Salisbury, Sewell, Sherman, Slater, Van Wyck. 

 Williams 28. 



The House took no action on the measure. 

 National Aid to Common Schools. The Senate 

 gave much time to the consideration of a bill 

 to aid in the establishment and temporary sup- 

 port of common schools. It was introduced by 

 Mr. Blair, of Ne\v Hampshire, as a substitute 

 for a measure offered by him in the last Con- 

 gress, and referred to the committee on educa- 

 tion and labor, and reads as follows: 



That for ten years after the passage of this act there 

 shall be annually appropriated from the money in the 

 Treasury the following sums, to wit: The first year 

 the- sum of $16,000.000, the second year the sum of 



'o, the third year the sum of $13,000,000, 

 and thereafter a sum diminished $1,000,000 yearly 

 from the sum last appropriated until ten annual ap- 

 propriation- shall have been made, when all appro- 

 priations under this act shall cease: which several 

 Bums shall be expended to secure the benefits of com- 



100! education to all the children of the school 

 Age mentioned hereafter living in the United States. 

 SEO. 2. That such money shall annually be divided 



id paid out in the several States and Terri- 

 tories in that proportion which the whole number of 



in c.-ich who, bcine of the acre of ten vears and 

 over, ran nnt n-a-l and write bears to the wtiole num- 

 ! " r "' :>"'' pereona in the United States: and until 

 Otherwise provided such computation shall be made 

 accord ng to the official returns of the census of 1880. 



SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the "Interior, at the 

 close of each* fiscal year, shall ascertain the total 

 amount of the school fund to which the States and 

 Territories and the District of Columbia are entitled 

 under the provisions of this act, and shall certify the 

 same to the Secretary of the Treasury. That upon 

 the receipt of such certificate the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall, on or before the 31st day of July of 

 each year, apportion the said total sum BO certified 

 among the several States and Territories and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia upon the basis of population and 

 illiteracy specified in the second section of this act. 



SEC. 4. That the amount so apportioned to each 

 State and Territory and to the District of Columbia 

 shall be paid, upon the warrant of the Commissioner 

 of Education, countersigned by the Secretary of the 

 Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, to 

 the treasurer of the State, Territory, or District, or to 

 such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such 

 State, Territory, or District to receive, account for, 

 and pay over the same to the several school districts 

 entitleu thereto under said apportionment. The term 

 " school district" as used in this section shall include 

 cities, towns, parishes, or such other corporations as 

 by law are clothed with the power of maintaining 

 common schools : Provided, That such distribution or 

 payment, alter the receipt of said fund by the State, 

 Territory, or District, may be made to any officer 

 designated by the laws of the State, Territory, or Dis- 

 trict for the disbursement of the school funds to the 

 teachers employed in such schools. 



SEO. 5. That the instruction in the common schools 

 win-ruin these moneys shall be expended shall include 

 the art of reading, writing, and speaking the English 

 language, arithmetic, geography, history of the United 

 States, and such other branches of useful knowledge 

 as may be taught under local laws, and shall include, 

 whenever practicablej instruction in the arts of indus- 

 try, and the instruction of females in such branches 

 of technical or industrial education as are suited to 

 their sex, which instruction shall be free to all, with- 

 out distinction of race, color, nativity, or condition in 

 life: Provided, That nothing herein shall deprive 

 children of different races, living in the same com- 

 munity but attending separate schools, from receiving 

 the benefits of this act the same as though the attend- 

 ance therein were without distinction ol race. 



SEC. 6. The money appropriated and apportioned 

 under the provisions of this act to the use of any Ter- 

 ritory shall be applied to the use of common and in- 

 dustrial schools therein by the Secretary of the Inte- 

 rior. 



SEC. 7. That the District of Columbia shall be en- 

 titled to the privileges of a Territory under the pro- 

 visions of this act, but its existing laws and school 

 authorities shall not be affected by the operation of 

 this act. The Commissioner of Education shall be 

 charged with the duty of superintending the distribu- 

 tion of its allotment, and shall make full report of his 

 doings to the Secretary of the Interior. 



SEC. 8. That the design of this act not being to 

 establish an independent system of schools, but rather 

 to aid for the time being in the development and 

 maintenance of the school system established by local 

 government, and which must eventually be wholly 

 maintained by the States and Territories wherein they 

 exist, it is hereby provided that no part of the money 

 appropriated under this act shall be paid out in any 

 State or Territory which shall not, during the first 

 five years of the operation of this act, annually expend 

 for the maintenance of common schools at least one 

 third of the sum which shall be allotted to it under 

 the provisions hereof, and during the second five 

 years of its operation a sum at least equal to the whole 

 amount it shall be entitled to receive under this act. 



SEC. 9. That a part of the money apportioned to 

 each State or Territory, not exceeding one tenth 

 thereof, may yearly be applied to the education of 

 teachers for the common schools therein, which sum 

 may be expended in maintaining institutes or tempo- 



