June 23, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



891 



Sec. 3. That bulletins giving results of investi- 

 gations or reports of progress shall be published at 

 said stations at least once in six months, copies of 

 which shall be sent to persons, newspapers, insti- 

 tutions and libraries interested in engineering 

 and in other branches of the mechanic arts as may 

 request same in the states and territories in which 

 the stations are respectively located, and to others 

 as far as the means of the stations will permit. 



Such bulletins or reports, and the annual reports 

 of said stations, shall be transmitted in the mails 

 of the United States free of charge for postage 

 under such regulations as the Postmaster General 

 may from time to time prescribe. 



Sec. 4. That for the purpose of paying the nec- 

 essary expenses of conducting investigations and 

 experiments, printing and distributing the results as 

 hereinbefore described the sum of $15,000 per an- 

 num is hereby appropriated to each state and terri- 

 tory, to be specially provided for by Congress in the 

 appropriation from year to year, out of any money 

 in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be 

 paid in equal quarterly payments on the first lay 

 of January, April, Jiily and October in each -^ Jar 

 to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by 

 the governing boards of said colleges to receive the 

 same, the first payment to be made on the first day 

 of October, nineteen hundred and sixteen. 



Sec. 5. That whenever it shall appear to the 

 Secretary of the Treasury from the annual state- 

 ments of receipts and expenditures of any of said 

 stations that a portion of the preceding annual 

 appropriation remains unexpended, such amount 

 shall be deducted from the next succeeding amiual 

 appropriation to such station in order that the 

 amount of money appropriated to any station shall 

 not exceed the amount actually and necessarily re- 

 quired for its maintenance and support. 



Sec. 6. That in order to secure as far as prac- 

 ticable uniformity of methods and economical ex- 

 penditure of funds in work of said stations the 

 supervision of the proposed experiment stations 

 shall rest with the Secretary of the Interior. 



It shall be the duty of each of said stations an- 

 nually, on or before the first day of February, to 

 make to the governor of the state or territory in 

 which it is located a fuU and detailed report of its 

 operations, including a statement of receipts and 

 expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent 

 to each of the other stations provided for in this 

 Act, to the Secretary of the Interior and to the 

 Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this Act shall be con- 

 strued to impair or modify the legal relation exist- 



ing between any of the said colleges and the gov- 

 ernment of the states or territories in which they 

 are respectively located. 



Sec. 8. That nothing in this Act shall be held or 

 construed as binding the United States to continue 

 any payment from the Treasury to any or all the 

 states or institutions mentioned in this Act, but 

 Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or re- 

 peal any or all the provisions of this Act. 



This bill, appearing to be an important meas- 

 ure for the advancement of research, the Com- 

 mittee of One Hundred on Scientific Research 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has adopted the following 

 resolutions : 



Whereas the applications of science have made 

 democracy possible by so decreasing the labor re- 

 quired from each that equal opportunity can be 

 given to all; 



Whereas in a democracy scientific research, 

 which is for the general benefit and can not 

 usually be sold to individuals, must be supported 

 by the public; 



Whereas a combination of national and state 

 support and control is desirable in education and 

 in research and its value has been fully proved by 

 the Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts, established in the states and terri- 

 tories by the Congress in 1862; 



Whereas there is in connection with each of 

 these colleges an agricultural experiment station to 

 which the national government appropriates an- 

 nually $30,000 for agricultural research, the re- 

 sults of which have been of untold value to agri- 

 culture and to the nation; 



Whereas experiment stations for the mechanic 

 arts and engineering, including in their scope re- 

 search in physics, chemistry and other sciences, 

 would be of equal value to the nation and would 

 repay manyfold their cost, and 



Whereas at the present time attention is di- 

 rected to the need of preparation for every emerg- 

 ency, and this can best be accomplished by the ad- 

 vancement of science and the ability of our peo- 

 ple to meet new conditions as they arise; 



Mesolved that the Committee of One Hundred on 

 Scientific Research of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science earnestly recommends 

 the passage of the senate bill introduced by Mr. 

 Newlands to establish experiment stations in engi- 

 neering and in the other branches of the mechanic 

 arts in connection with the colleges established by 

 the Congress in the several states and territories, 



