Speech #490020641

This you would fix by an arbitrary rule. and fix it upon the ground that the State can not be trusted to do it. That is the objection to the amendment. I have said. Mr. President. that the States have largely different resources for the education of their children. One has lands that are immensely valuable. In the other the lands are scarcely salable at any price whatever. In one the donations by Congress because of the increased immigration into those States ran up rapidly into large amounts of moneyand becamevast funds builtup for the permanent education of the people. I find that California received 6.749.394 acres of land. that Minnesota received nearly 3.000.000 acres2.969.000. Oregon. 3.329.000.