II. TABLES OF SCHOOL EXPENDITURE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, CLASSIFIED BY RACE. Table A gives the school expenditure, classified by race, in each Southern State that reports the expenditure so classified, as far back as the record goes in each. In Maryland the expenditure for negro schools for the first three or four years is mainly in the city of Baltimore. The totals, of course, include only the States tabulated. Table B gives the white and colored school population (children 5 to 18 years of age) in each case where the school expenditure is given in Table A. The relative white and colored school expenditure, it is evident, possesses no significance unless considered in connection with the relative number of children of each race for whose benefit the expenditure was made. Table C gives the expenditure for white schools per capita of white school population and the same for the negro schools. The averages are for the States recorded each year. In making an estimate of the white and colored school expenditure of the remaining Southern States, the most obvious assumption to make in the absence of any positive information is to consider that their white and colored school per capita expenditures bear the same ratio to each other each year as the average per capita given in Table C. It is upon this basis that the classifications by race have been made that are given in Table D, except for the years 1870-71 and 1871-72, in which the ratio of white to colored per capita was taken at about 6. 1886-87. d 289, 306 c 131, 633 1,564, 621 208, 369 1, 629, 973 264, 894 727,999 806, 846 1, 834, 553 296, 733 1, 930, 794 278, 576 1, 688, 010 222, 653 2,029, 542 202, 810 g318, 712 2, 302, 836 291, 865 482, 139 a Excluding certain small sums not classified by race and a few counties not reported. b Does not include permanent improvements in Baltimore City. c Does not include permanent improvements outside of Baltimore. dIncludes salaries of teachers and superintendents only (or cost of tuition). TABLE B.-Estimated number of children 5 to 18 years of age, a a The figures for 1870, 1880, and 1890 are from the United States census. TABLE C.-Expenditure per capita of school population, white and colored (that is, per capita of children 5 to 18 years of age). a Excluding certain small sums not classified by race, and a few counties not reported. e Does not include permanent improvements outside of Baltimore. d Includes salaries of teachers and superintendents only (or cost of tuition). f Does not include permanent improvements. g For 8 months. h In 1896-97. TABLE D.-School expenditure of the sixteen former slare States and the District of Columbia, approximately classified by race. DIAGRAM 1.-Number of pupils enrolled in the common schools of the United States each year since 1870-71. 15 millions. 9 8 7 19 1881-82 10,211,578 1882-83 10,651,828 1883-84 10,982,364 1884-85 11,398,024 1889-90 12,722,581 1891-92 13,255,921 3 1892-93 13,483,340 1893-94 13,995,357 1894-95 14,243,765 1895-96 14,498,956 2 1896-97 14,652,492* 1897-98 15,038,636′′ *Subject to correction Imillion |