Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-18
GFor the Bradford RepOrter.l
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Mr.. EprroR: In the report of the proceed
ings of the late School Directors Convention
published in your paper of the 4th inst, find
myself classed among those who voted for the
increase of Mr.. GUYERs salary. A little ex-
planation may not be improper. l opposed the
increase of his salary from first to last, and at
all times when opposition could avail anything
After resolution to increase his salary had
been passed, which resolution l r0ted against,
the alternative was presented us of making that
salary $1,000, or $500. | voted for the latter
sum, stating in connection with my vote (as
your reporter has correctly stated that be-
ileved it would hasten the repeal of the law crea-
ting the Office of county superintendent. be-
lieve so still. Either sum would be an out
rage But had it been fixed at $1,000, the
people might have borne with it and submitted
! to it for year or two, when it would have
been precedent and preteXt for another grab
at the school funds of the county Now, |
think, they will see the outrage so plainly, and
feel it SO keenly, that they will arouse them
selves to such action in the matter as will at
an early day relieve them of the whole thing /:
and thus in the end it will be a less burden
than would have been the $1,000 salaey Could
the other counties of the State be made to see
and feel as Sensibly as we must and do the
odiousness of this law, not man would be sent
m ha -
Already the friends of the measure are ell
deayoring to quiet the minds of the people and
hush up their indignant mutterings by announc-
ing the editorials of the Argus, that it costs
Bradford County nothing. But will they be
lulled into submission by such a bribe Per-
nit NE TO put in juxta-position two very i'm
portant paragraphs -
Bradford -Aygrs. -ict Of the Legislaturt Sec %
1t was clearly demonStra- Which said compensation
ted to the Convention Ito county surerntenicnts)
the salary OF this officer sha lie paid by the Super
County superintendent isntcadent Of common schools
not taken ot of the e0uRys by his warrant drawn &C.
share Of tis Stite GPpTopTa- and shall bt DEDUCTED
tiO1, and It does add ruH e Go,faT of the Srcte
one t4taEs to the IdIes OF appropriation 10 81 TIid to
me County t4< ss5sTaI Schoo! DISTRICTS
fer sad County.
Which is the better authority? 1t was urg-
ed in convention that $50, 900 were added TO
the usual State appropriation, int5rsa'ioNy, for
the purpose of paying the several county super
intendents, but in consequence of fixing their
salaries " so outrageouSly low" a large amount
of this sum remained uneypended, and would
fall back into the general funds of the State,
to be fshed out by the Harrisburg hawks, if
not voted TO the county superiutendentS. Let
Us look into this q little. OF this $50. 600, the
several county superintendent have received
S2I.s37 SO; leaving unexpended the enor-
nous sum Of s., l62 so. OF this Mr.. GUYER
has got the lions share, $1,000 leaving about
the same amount TO be divided among sixty
two other county superintendents. Mr. GUYER
wanted $4,000. He should have asked just
81, l62 So and his friends should have voted
it to him, i2asmuch as it cost the county moth
ing This would have swept the board and
kept ii all away from those hacks at Harris
| burg.
But for the facts Two hundred and thirty
thousand dollars were appropriated by the
@kaN| 4N4 StOek anu al "a has nut dlE
been expended, it IS the State Superintendent
fault for the salaries OF all the county super
intendentS were known to him before any dis
tribution of the school fund was made It was
not necessary, therefore, for him 10 withhold
sn! Of that appropriation for emergencies, for
there were none 10 meet. Again if it Is not
all expended We shall have more for another
year, unlcSs il be voted 10 the county superiIs-
tendents for that appropriation cannot fall
back into the general fuad-cannot be uRap-
propriated except by act Of the Legislature
The school system Is continuing system, and
what belongs TO it and is unexpended one year
is on hand for another So much for all this
elbow" about the $50, 900.
have seen fiji to say thus much with refer
enee to the reasons given for Increasing Mr..
GUyER's salary. win hereafter redeem my
promise TO examine the practical workings Of
this branch of the late school law, and give
some further reasons for eppasizg the increase
of his salary. Yours, &c. K.
SHESHEoUIN, August :, 1855.
HlSr TO BARRlsrEE following IS 3
useful hint to harriSters vino offer rIsa reos re
ports TO the bench There is wide step be