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by the Committee on Public Lands, but it was passed 

 by the Senate on June 10th, and nine days later by 

 the House of Eepresentatives. President Lincoln 

 made the bill a law by affixing his signature July 2, 

 1862. Thus the name of Senator Morrill has become 

 indissolubly connected with federal aid to agricultural, 

 mechanical and military education. 



Twenty-eight years after this grant of Government 

 lands to the States for educational purposes, the prin- 

 ciple of appropriating money directly from the Treas- 

 ury for the same purpose was enacted into law. This 

 was also accomplished largely by the aid of Mr. Mor- 

 rill, who had then become a Senator. A bill appropri- 

 ating money for such service was approved by 

 President Harrison on August 30, 1890. Under this 

 act the sum of $15,000 a year, beginning with 1890, 

 and an increase of the amount of such appropriation 

 for ten years thereafter by an additional sum of $1,000, 

 until at the end of ten years the total appropriation 

 should become $25,000 annually, was appropriated to 

 each State. 



Meanwhile efforts were made, also, to support from 

 the federal treasury the experimental work of agricul- 

 ture in the various States. The establishment of the 

 colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, including in- 

 structions in military science, was a powerful stimulus 

 looking to the establishment of stations for conducting 

 agricultural experimental work. About 1883 a bill 

 granting funds from the federal treasury for this pur- 

 pose was introduced by Eepresentative Carpenter, of 

 Iowa, but failed of passage. The measure, however, 

 was supported by the agricultural colleges of the coun- 

 try, and subsequently became a law. Under the lead 

 of Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, a bill bearing his name 



