Mr. GARFIELD. I am directed by the select committee on education to report back the bill (H.R.No. 276) to establish anational Bureau of Education, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. I ask that for convenience in considering the bill the substitute may by unanimous consent be regarded as the original bill. There was no objection. The substitute, which was read, providesi the 1st section that there shall be established at the city of Washington, a dept of Education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and ‘erritories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and managementof schools and school systems and meth: ods of teaching as shall aid the people of the U.S. in the establishment and main tenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise romote the cause of education through out the country. The 2nd section proposes to enact that there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Commissioner of Education, who shall be intrusted with the management of the dept herein established, and who shall receive a salary of $5,000 perannum, and who shall have authority to appoint one chief clerk of his dept, who shall receive a salary of $2,000 perannum; one clerk who shall receive a salary of $1, 800 perannum; one clerk who shallreceive asalary of $1, 600 perannum; one clerk who shall receive a salar of $1, 400 perannum and one clerk who 5 all receive a salary of $1, 200 perannum; which said clerks shall be subject to the appointing and removing power of the Commissioner of Education. The 3rd section provides that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Education to present annually to Congress a report embodying the results ofhis investigations and labors together with a statement of such facts an recommendations as will in his judgment subserve the purpose for which this dept is established. In the 1st report made by the Commissioner of Education under this act, there shall be presented a statement of the several grants of land made by Congress to promote education, and the manner in which these several trusts have been managed, the amount of funds arising therefrom and the annual proceeds of the same, as ar as the same can be determined., The 4th section preposes to authorize and direct the ComrPubBldg to furnish proper offices for the use of the dept herein established.