not only instructors for our technical, normal, secondary, and grammar schools but also for our universities. If you give the Republic this national university, California will, with Wisconsin and the other States, aid in building and maintaining the greatest seat of learning in the world, whose mission it will be to insure forever the primacy of this Republic among the nations of the earth. The CHAIRMAN. We are very much obliged to you for your statement, sir. (The joint resolution of the California Legislature and communications referred to by Mr. Caminetti and made a part of his remarks read as follows:) [Chapter 14, statutes of California, 1913, p. 1910, introduced by Senator A. Caminetti.] [Chapter 14, Senate joint resolution No. 20, relative to aid from the Government of the United States for industrial education and the inauguration and establishment of a national university and department of education. Filed with the Secretary of State February 4, 1913.] Whereas the perpetuity of our form of government depends on the intelligence of a free and independent electorate and the ability of the people to meet the obligations of good citizenship in every sphere of human endeavor; and Whereas the people of the several States, firm in this belief, have established and maintained at great cost public-school systems, including normal and technical schools and universities, for the education and training of the youth of the Republic; and Whereas the preservation of and the progress made under our free institutions have been largely due to the education and training thus given; and Whereas there exists throughout the land a growing demand for more instruction in branches that will prepare pupils for industrial pursuits; and Whereas as results of education among the people are the mutual benefits conferred upon all by an ideal American citizenship, so the expense attending its achievement shall be proportionately shared by the Nation and the several States; and Whereas the National Government should directly aid by a per capita appropriation to such grammar, secondary, and technical schools in the several States as furnish instruction in industrial branches prescribed by Congress and by inaugurating and endowing at Washington, D. C., a national university to head the educational system of the Union; and Whereas the time is at hand in our history when the cause of education should be advanced to a paramount position in the Government of the United States by the creation of a department of education and the appointment of a secretary thereof with a seat in the Cabinet: Therefore be it Resolved by the senate and assembly, jointly, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives in Congress requested to use all honorable means to secure the aid set forth in the foregoing preamble, and also the inauguration and establishment of a national university and department of. education at Washington, D. C.; be it further Resolved, That the governor be, and he is hereby, directed to transmit a certified copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States, the President and Speaker, respectively, of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, the Commissioner of Education, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress; be it further Resolved, That the governor be, and he is hereby, further directed to transmit a like copy to the governor and superintendent of public instruction, respectively, of each State, and also to the presiding officers of the respective houses of the legislature of each State. Hon. EDWARD HYATT, STATE OF OKLAHOMA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, Oklahoma City, February 18, 1913. State Superintendent, Sacramento, Cal. MY DEAR SIR: I have received and read with much interest your letter and the resolution passed by your legislature. I heartily agree with you in this, and am asking a friend of mine, and a prominent educator, who is a member of the Senate of Oklahoma, to take the matter under advisement with a view to offering a similar resolution in the Legislature of Oklahoma. Thanking you for this courtesy, I am, very truly, yours, R. H. WILSON. STATE OF FLORIDA, Mr. EDWARD HYATT, OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, Sacramento, Cal. DEAR SIR: Yours of February 11, inclosing senate joint resolution 20, adopted by the Legislature of California, received. It gives me pleasure to inform you that I am in hearty sympathy with the import of this resolution, and will endeavor to get the same adopted by the Legislature of Florida when they meet in April. I am, yours sincerely in the cause of general uplift in the Nation. W. N. SHEATS, State Superintendent. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Hon. EDWARD HYATT, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sacramento, Cal. DEAR SIR: I have yours of the 11th instant inclosing your senate joint resolution. I heartily approve your plan and shall be glad to start something in our legislature similar to this next winter when the assembly convenes. Yours, very truly, BARKSDALE HAMLET, Superintendent Public Instruction. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Hon. EDWARD HYATT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Columbia, S. C., February 19, 1913. Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sacramento, Cal. MY DEAR SIR: It will afford me pleasure to support any movement seeking to secure Federal support of industrial, agricultural, and vocational education in the elementary schools and in the high schools. It is also eminently desirable that the Federal Government establish a national university and a national department of education. Yours, respectfully, J. E. SWEARINGEN, State Superintendent of Education. Mr. EDWARD HYATT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Baltimore, Md.. February 20, 1913. Superintendent of Public Iustruction, Sacramento, Cal. MY DEAR SIR: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February 11 inviting attention to the accompanying Senate joint resolution. I fully agree with you upon the importance and necessity of extending our educational resources and giving education such recognition in the councils of the National Government as proposed in this resolution. At the present time, however, our legislature is not in session. It does not meet until January, 1914. I shall be glad to do what I can in any other way to advance the object of the resolution. Yours, very truly, F. A. SOPER, Superintendent. Supt. EDWARD HYATT, Sacramento, Cal. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, MY DEAR MR. HYATT: I have your favor of the 11th requesting me to have our legislature pass a joint resolution calling upon the Federal Government for financial assistance and correct recognition of the eductional work of the country. I am in hearty sympathy with the movement, but your letter did not reach me until with a few hours of the close of our legislature, when the business was much congested and we were in the throes of a hard struggle for a number of important measures, and it was, therefore, practically impossible to get the resolution passed upon. If at any other time I can contribute a mite to the movement, I shall be more than glad to do so. Very truly, yours, M. P. SHAWKEY. (Thereupon, at 10.05 o'clock p. m., the committee adjourned until Tuesday, March 3, 1914, at 10.30 o'clock a. m.) |