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Show CONTRACT SCHOOLS. In addition to the Government schools in operation numerous con-tri~ ct schools are included in the foregoing tables. The amount of money set apart for these insLitutions for the year ending June 30,1892, as well as in preceding years, is shown by the following table: TABLE10 .-Amounts set apart for v a r i o u ~~ a t i g i o a a6 odiee for Indian education for. each of the fiscal yeara 1886 to 1892,inolusiue. Hom&n Cathcllic .......... :.. . $118,843 $194,635 Presbyterisu ...... .-.-....-. . 32,995 87 010 Coaerep,tionsl .............. 16.121 2~:696 Martinsburg Pa ............. 6.400 10,410 ~ l n s k~s r a i i ing~ o h o o.l.. ............. 4 175 Episoopd .............................. 1 880 Frieoa. ..................... 1,960 ztsns Mennonite ............................. 3,340 Middletom CaI ....................... 1.523 Unitarian .............................. 1.350 Lutheran, W...i.t.t.e.n.b..e.r.g... .W..i.a. ..................................... ... hlethnbiat Mias Howard ................................... Approp~iationP o r L ~ l Inn-a t ~ t t ~ t ~..o.n. ............ 33,400 83,400 33,400 a3,m 33.400 A utopr~stion for Eampton i'uitLtute ................... s,oao ao,oao z o . ~ o 20, wo zo.aro no,oro ""I . --- Total ...........--...... 22& 259 363,214 876,264 580,905 562,640 ST0.218 1 611,5T0 The contracts hereafter with all contract schools will be made directly with those having immediate charge of t,he schools and not with mis-sionary boards. This wilJ simplify the work. A11 contract schools in which public money is expended will be sub. jected to the same inspection and supervision as Government schools, so far as this call be done without interfering with the organization, discipline, and management of the schools as church iostitutions. They eau thus be brought into closer and more harmonious relations with ' Government schools and be helped to do their work more efficiently. Tbe policy of aiding church schools is one that has growu up as a matter of administration, having only a semblance of legislative an. thority. But the rapid development of the public:school sjstem has brought the Government schools into a position where it is entirely feasible for them at an early day to assume the whoIe charge of Indian education, so far as it i8 carried on by the Government. T can not retrain from the expression of the earnest conviotion that it is contrary to the letcer an6 the spirit of the Oonstitution of the United States (see Appendix, page 160) and utterly repugnant to our American institutions and our American history to take from the public moneys funds for the'support of sectarian institutions. I believe that the Goverdment ought to assume, absolutely and completely, the con-trol of Indian education, and that these wards shonld be trained in the Government institutions with the specific end of fitting them for Amer- |
