454 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
sical and scientific, and including military science and tactics, should be 
the teaching of sciences relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts. 
We have $34,000 annually from the Federal Treasury, which, by the 
terms of the act, is to be used, among other things, for the teachin 
of subjects related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and whic 
may be used for other scientific and classical studies. I affirm that the 
entire amount of $34,000 received from that source is used by Cornell 
University in the teaching of subjects related to the sciences of agri- 
culture and mechanic arts. . 
Secondly. We receive, under the Morrill Act of 1890, $25,000 annu- 
ally from the Federal Treasury. That is to.be used, by the terms of the 
act, for instruction only in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English 
language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, 
and economic science, with special reference to their applications in 
the industries of life and to the facilities for such instruction. We 
divide that money between the several objects specified in the act of 
Congress itself, giving to agriculture $10,000, to mechanic arts $10,000, 
to the English language $1,000, and to the other objects mentioned in 
the act—namely, the mathematical, physical, natural, and economic 
sciences—$4,000. Laffirm that this second appropriation, equally with 
the first, is used by Cornell University for the objects specified in the 
act. I have before me the report of the treasurer, which contains the 
budget for the current year, and the figures I have just given you, 
showing the distribution of the appropriation under the second Mor- 
rill Act, will be found in this report. ; 
Thirdly. Cornell University receives from the United States $13,500 
a year, under what is known as the Hatch Act, passed in 1887, for an 
agricultural experiment station. That money is used by Cornell Uni- 
versity exclusively for the payment of investigators and the conduct 
of investigations and experiments, and I think if you will consult any 
body of scientific experts you will find that the agricultural investiga- 
tions emanating from Cornell University are second to those from no 
agricultural experiment station in the United States. I hope, there- 
fore, that I have demonstrated that when there is a suggestion, no 
doubt made inadvertently, in the statement before me, that Federal 
moneys have been diverted from the objects for which they were ap- 
propriated to objects other than those specified in the acts of Congress, 
the statement is without foundation. 
The next sentence is as follows: 
They were better endowed than any institution in the land, and should be doing the 
best work of any institution in the land, yet never did anything. 
That is a pretty hard saying. ‘*They were better endowed.” That 
means, of course, that the Federal endowment coming to Cornell Uni- 
versity was larger than that given to any other institution in the United 
States. That is true, because the State of New York had the largest 
population, and the grant was in proportion to the number of Repre- 
sentatives. But, as I pointed out, New York’s share amounts to only 
$688,000, on which we get $34,000 of interest. I think, though, that 
there is something else underlying that statement, and with the per- 
mission of the committee I will develop it a little. 
It is often assumed that a larger portion of the endowment of Cor- 
nell University has in some way come from that Federal grant. And 
