STATE UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT.
Mr. HEFFREN called up the special order, being Mr. GRAHAM'S bill [H. R. 256], to provide a fund for the permanent endowment of the State University which was read the third time.
Mr. SUTTON favored the passage of the bill with the prevent provisions. This bill seeks to give five cents en the $1,000. A man who pays a tax of $10,000 would pay a tax of fifty cents to this institution. But this tax as provided under the previsions of this bill will raise a tax of $45,000 yearly. He understood that overtures had been made to some of the Professors by Eastern Colleges and he favored placing the school in such a concition that these men would be retained.
Mr. HEFFREN. I have said nothing upon thi bill in its various stages, and shall say but little now. I perhaps am differently constituted from many on this floor. 1 have never yet learned to weigh dimes and dollars against education, knowledge and science. For half a century Indiana has had a University with no endowment fund. It is time she had such an Institution well endowed, where her sons may achieve distinction in the battle of life. I would have one Institution, where we might point in after years and say, there was another Galileo or another Herschel brought forth to the world; one who, pointing his telescope into infinite space, could make new discoveries; where comets and planets perform their stupendous revolutions, that would ennoble the name and fame of Indiana. I would have another Cuvier produced, who, by comparative anotomy, can reconstruct the monsters of ancient times from a single bone. I would have a Hugh Miller, with his geologist's hammer in his hand, standing fit the loot of some mighty cliff, roll back the curtain of time, and, as he laid bare the rocks, read of ages long since passed and gone, and what and who inhabited this world of ours. I would have one place where Indiana's sons and daughters could store the mind with knowledge, civilization and science, find where they might go forth from and flaunt their names high up on the ladder of fame where their attainments, knowledge and genius should stand as beacon lights to a lesser informed world. This would I have Indiana do for her children, and thus would I rear a monument of science and intelligence that would stand out in all the glory and splendor that could encircle go noble and glorious a purpose. Endow this University, pass this bill, and Indiana's name will be honored when our bodies shall be dust and we gathered to our rewards. I hope the bill will pass.
Mr. JEWETT demanded the previous question, which was seconded by the House.
Under the operations of the previous question the bill passed the House by yeas, 78; nays, 61.
