Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — THE TREASURY SURPLUS. [ARTICLE]

THE TREASURY SURPLUS.

Aa Elaborate Scheme for Promoting Education. [Washington dispatch.] One of the most elaborate schemes for reducing the surplus in the Treasury, and n>o»t promising of suooess should it bo adopted by Congress, is in the hands of the sub-commit-tee of the House Committee on Education. It Is a draft of a bill which was prepared by the authority of the Interstate Commission on Federal Aid to Education, whloh held its i-esstons at Louisville, Ky., during the Industrial Exposition. These gentlemen have elab orated a scheme for assisting the States and Territories in the promotion of education by distributing among them a fund of nearly $66,000,000, to be doled out at intervals of three years during the next twelve years, the apportionment to be mads upon the basis of illiterate population between the ages of 10 and SO years in States, and beween 6 and SO years In Territories. Accompanying the bill are tables showing the method of appointment and the amount which each State and Territory would receive for each year and for the entire period. Out of the $66,000,000 the New England and Middle States would he entitled to $8,009,090 In twelve years; the Western and Paciflc States, $4,486,860; the Southern States, $55,650,750; the Territories, $5,446,860, and the District of Columbia, $83,860. In the first period of three years Illinois would be entitled to $148,676 a year; In the second period, $106,982 a year; third period, $71,886 a year; fourth period, $36,644 a year; making a total of $1,069,380 for Illinois In twelve years. This is the largest sum appropriated to any Western State. Ohio is put down for $763,370, the total for twelve years; Indiana, $746,370; lowa, $365,080; Minnesota, $183,960. Georgia and Alabama would each get more than all the Western and Pacino ooast States combined, and Texas more than all the New England and Western States. Hon. J. L. M. Curry, general agent of the Peabody fund, now in the oity, had a consultation with the members of the House committee In relation to national aid for oommonschool eduoation in the States and Territories, of which be is an earnest advocate. The oommitteo has not yet adopted any of the several bills in relation to this subject.