TEXT BOOKS FOE SCHOOLS.
Pending the order for the introduction of bills-
Mr. GILMAN offered a resolution that the Committee on Education be instructed to draft a bill and present the same to the House providing a commission to select a uniform system of text books to be used in this Slate, and providing for the State to furnish said books.
In explanation of his resolution Mr. GILMAN stated that the people had attempted to regulate this matter by law but the present law gave the publisher cf she present system of books used a monopoly, and the result is that the people pay 50 per cent. more for their school books than in the other States. He desired that the State should provide for the publishing of the system of books adopted by the Commission to be provided for ill the bill of the Committee.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on Education.
