The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-16


su VIOLATION Of any rule or regulation of this Board:
apo ho sucn teTcher shall thereafter employed any
Every principal ehall report the proper Board ~
trustees and 70 this Board, all violations by teach
wren the teacher may be cognizsnt, and each re-
port Of absences annexed nay roll snail contain an
a the violation by teacher included 10 the nav roll NJ
the rules ard regulations Of til 8 Board.
Sec il. No payment shall he made to a teacher in
whose case the provisions Of this bylaw have not been
complied With.
Sec IA Section IL Of article g. aforesaid shal, taxa
effect after the frs, cay of August 1889 s.S
secoops IL and Is OF the aforesaid article shall take
effect immediately.
Commissioner WATERBURY one of the minority Of the
Commiuee ON BY Laws, hoped the Bard would nos act
upon the subject TIL next meeting The minority OF thu
Con mtNe including Com missioner Curtis and himself
were deslrous OF presenting minority report upon tie
subject and he felt the Board would extsnd The
courtesy TO them before they would action on so in
posnt question. DC was unable 10 attend the meetings
OF the committee when they had the subject before the
considerst becauHe of Official business wbch kect
him engaged in ia the courts He vas therefore unable
10 bave bis report ready earlier, but be- nevertheless
considered II would be at variance with ali ths
previous policy Of the BOARD OF Education 10 pass such
resolution as the one presented by the COMMITTEES q
would have been considered at special meet
ng Of the Board, or he would have tried -
be present at the last meeting All the members should
have received notice prior that meeting question
or such superior importance WAS ABOUT to up He
again expressed the hope that the Of tho
would be laid over until next meeng and moved that
urher consideration be postponed and be made
the special order after the third order Of business the
next meeting
Commissioner TUCKER could not see sufficient reason in
VIDA, Mr Waterbury bad said for postponog TING
important question. That gentleman might always be
engaged In official duties much heretofore and there
fore able 10 attend the meetings OF the committee
He why go good book as the Bible is ad-
mtec to he should not be read the schools Geo.
sdered the members capable voting on it now
as ever they would be- for they all fully
with H. and he would as willingly vote and felt salts.
FED that be the question well as if It vas
debated in the Board for years to come. He hoped.
therefore, the motion TO lay the subject the table would
not prevail
Commissioner wArERBuRy-Is the Bible read in the
schools OF the Eighth wardY
Commissioner rUCKKs-N 10; but sit here in tho into
rest OF no particular schools but for the schools Of New
Commissioner wArERBuRy-f Il is read iu the Eipbts
ward cannot be much affected by the passage Of this
bylaw.
Commissioner GREEN could not fully concur with either
Of the gentlemen who had just occupied the floor He did
not think the eectoneering had thing do With it,
nor did he consider that posponing acton would be
Advantage IN any way. Let us nave much light upsa
II as possible. II can be made special order
for next meeting, and then We viii not be
much nearer the election influences than are now
if gentleman entertans the idea eectoneering
has anything TO do with the action Of thu
question. He WAS 10 favor Of poetpouing action for one
week. to avoid hasty legislation a subject which has
been occupying the attention Of the Board for years
Of the resolution TO the subject the table another
meeting. Every member is perfectly conversant with
this SUBJECT The Committee not TO report
their Views to this Board, but to report resolution
making it obligatory to open the schools by reading
portion the Holy Scriptures and he did not ace WIN
one in the Board desired to postpone action such
subject.
Commissioner CURTIS, who was the other minority
member of the Committee on By La va with Mr.. Water
bury, thought would be we'll to postpone the subect
till the next meeting This subject, which had engaged
the attention OF the Board for years. should not be
acted on hastily, nor should anything be done with
out proper and full consideration which would hereafter
be regretted.
Commissioner CUsHMG-I see no reason for further de-
lay upon this question There B why should
wait to receive the opinions OF the committee Their in
strucons were to report by law ordering the reading
Of the scriptures without noe or comment in the schools
BE was glad they were far removed from election times,
and hoped that the question would kept pending
till they again. The of the minority could
well be verbally the Board now as il the sub.
lect were postponed till they could send them into the
Board In manuscript
ton settled without delay BE heard that Boar1 did
adopt the resolution reported by the By law Commit
tee the matter would be carried to the courts and
part be desired TO there possible There
Ia large majority Of the Boardhere tonight which you
may not have again. and Is the time act upon this
question. ordering the reading of the Bible break up
the schools, as has been said, let them be up.
But settle the question like men some how or other.
Commissioner WATERBURY asked Mr.. Tucker If II was
because the majority present were in favor of passing the
resolution OF the committee. (rnis produced a commo-
Mr.. TUCKER informed him that il he used the phrase
"msjori'y in favor OF It, he meant to say quorum Of
Commissioner WATERBURY-lt there is such question
coming up there plenty Of time to settle between now
and the next election.
question at once, in order to have fnaly settlsd.
Commissioner ADAMS stated that tangible for
postponug IL had yet been advanced.
NCoDmseioner GOULD voted the last meeting for post
pon the question, but he opposed TO p0steon-
ed forever Ii it is postponed TO night, IT will be postponed
again and again. If did not think 80 would for its
postpone mert did before But this question has
been up for years and it should now be settled.
Commissioner GREEN said the reason why the question
not settled years ago was, because the Board
felt satisfied that they had the power TO 10 It. He sug
eested that was postponed the report Of the minority
IN M harR
individually in order to avoid further postpouement.
Commissioner FAIRMAN desired to know how members
could be informed on this subject or they would
have information enough on 1t. Uaughter) He called
for the question.
The question was then taken on Commissioner Water
burys resolution, which was lost by vote Of 81 IN the
negative against 20 In the Affirmative
Commissioner GREEN then moved that the question DO
laid the table and made the special order after the
third order of business meeting that the
report Of the minority BIO printed in the meantime.
Commissioner CUSHING objected to being out Of
order, on the ground that IL was little than rope
tton of the motion which the Board had just voted
The CHAIR decided that Mr. Green's motion was in order
Commissioner CUSHING appealed from the decision of
the PRESIDENT but his appeal was lost by the vote Of the
Commissioner CUSHING for postponng action on the
report BE considered that passing the resolution
ported by the committee would be the of depryiny
the Board of the services OF teachers and
besides he was OF opinion that they acting uncon-
stitutionally in adopting such report.
Commissioner GLOVER could not discover a sufficient
reason for delaying the settlement Of the question Hs
could not believe that any member sufficiently
enlightened upon it, The polls have been made bug
bear here to night and why should 1t not shown that
we are not AFRAID TO decide it at once?
Commissioner MASON would be willing to vote for
postponement If he did not think that IL II postponed
to night for the convenience of absent members IL would
also be delayed next evening for the convenience some
other gentlemen, who would, doubt, absent them
selves He then called upon the President to put the
question on Commissioner Green's notion
lhe question being generally called for the vote was
taken and agnin lost, by vote Of 81 against 90 amid
great agitation throughout the house.
The question now reverted to the adoption of the report
Of the Committee on By Law
The names Of the members called and while this
was being done many or them made long speeches in ex
PLANTATION OF their votes but these put in
their previous speeches.
The vote was announced after all the names of the
members had been called TO be % In OF the adoption
OF the report of the committee and 10 against H. The
Affirmative votes were those of Commissioners rmsop
watson Croz'er Gould, Tuthi eager, Andrews, Bloom
field Tucker, Gilderseve, Farr Stote Mason hfezpar
Brumnell, Reynolds, Adams, Stafford, Cushing Cantrel
Fairmen, Lee, Davenport, Ranney and Mariner The