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for Congress was prone to devote the income accruing from 

 their sale to other purposes than that to which they were 

 devoted by that act, the cause of agricultural and me- 

 chanical education, and it was foreseen that the revenue 

 from that source would soon be exhausted and that the col- 

 leges and experiment stations would be left without the 

 income upon which their usefulness and life depended. 



To save the colleges and experiment stations from utter 

 ruin, Senator Morrill presented in 1890 a bill known as the 

 Second Morrill Act, which provided that the annuity to 

 these institutions should be paid from the Treasury of the 

 United States, To secure the passage of such a bill a great 

 variety of opinions and interests had to be reconciled. 

 There is many a pitfall in the way of a bill through Con- 

 gress. After the friends of this bill thought their work was 

 done and were resting upon their oars, Senator Morrill 

 informed President Goodell of the situation as follows : 



WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16, 1890. 



MY DEAK SIR, As you may perhaps have seen, I at- 

 tempted to get up the College Bill on Saturday last but 

 had to consent to its going over until Thursday next. I 

 find that there are various amendments to be proposed. 

 Alabama wants one to take care of a colored institution 

 established by the state, and I regret to say your Senator 

 Hoar desires to put in some provisions so that he can get 

 in an institution at Worcester, I suppose of some techni- 

 cal or mechanical character, and this I very much regret. 

 I think your institution ought to have the whole of the 

 appropriation as well as all others, for I do not want to 

 raise the question in all the states as to where the addi- 



