Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03
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1Sa5 sht % niqRdo bfIa Go3siI1sg 80;
futurei exorbitant outlay in preventing and,
Furnishing crime.
Di'Mr Mattocks went in6or keeping the scbools /
open for mans months; We need the fuIls schol.
astlc year. Some of the larger bows mipbt
not attend in the summer time, Init a,,ree4, ).
would go just the same. We may as wen
set out to DO it at once, take strong sroun,. 3,
ana set our mark high He. was for going ON =
Ms nisetss'9doi1 G3ijJ eh3 gol js.a s,ro,;-,r,
Ar. Nell SAID that was well enough-but !,
how, was the qaestien.-~Tbere- was ..
left Of realising es5oo due the gBoara from
$lo,eoo req"irsa,' ttbyathe language Of tbsT
act,l to paid the Board by the Citv to,,D. y
c'l. "A mandamus would compel them to COM. q
p'y' but he felt delicacyinaproposin the mat,
ter, as It was doubtfdt sxpsdient d We have
received, OF the $lo, oooIasssssed for us aboatI
$4,000, and for the next three months the col.
iecuons WILL be yeryl small as, 1everybodr is
wa''mg 70 see ,'what the Legislature will do.n,
we would;not get the county apportioument :.
antu after the February meeting of the Coun.o
ty Board, though the Treasurer had .preal, - /,
accept his order for several hundred doll.-.l
But our debt ere that time will anount -
$SOoO-7o Hest that, some Of the, female. p,
were IN actual need their arrearages of sal
aries, and had told him with tears in tbe;r !,
eyes that they were unable to procure the :
clothing forthe winter they needed l., ,e,.. -
MT Fiske said the salaries paid sby the
board 70 the Female Teachers were yery lib. r..
erai' They were much higher than in Boston !,
"here iiVlng Was not SO cheap as here. ., Thew
could be reduced considerably, and vet no AM
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THE MAYOR MAKES SPEECH. 7rf noi,e7
Ihe President, COL Robertson. bepoed
leave to say few words. He said ne IA
not consider the case Of the Board hopeless
,ney should not think of closing a school or. or J,
dismlssing Teacher. We have mot re..h.d, {
tnat point yet. He went on to saw tbo,,o,,7 ID
that our taxes are enormous. In the old co',n'
tries it would create revolution. Il amounts.
u . iair rate OF interest No city officer should
receive salary except those who have To de.
Vo'e tnelr whole time to it. Respectable citi.
zens would take them for, nothing. But we
nave had set Of lazzaroni in Office living off
ol US mere Men who came here to do II
No wonder our taxes were high. We had
llved too fast. We all understood that The
board was in debt like everyone else. Well
what Of it Let the debts bury the debts
The Legislature [''of which / am member,,l
wiz put US on the road of prosperity again
we would have Napoleonic Era. We will
lund the debt The Bonds will sell m It
Pracncable. We will show the disposition to
90 right. We will start on the cash system
again. He had made an estimate for redu,.
ced schedule of expenses, and believed the
schools could be operated for the scholastic
year for $4,000. Wellfx it. It can be done.
Mr. Paine said our embarrassments were
una manly from the buildings put up in 1855
ms year we have had no building sxpenses.
ana we ought to be able to get throush. The
schools should be maintained bv Al m..n.
lney are our greatest advantage, and are =
means Of securing to us class of population,
who might not otherwise settle here. Our cit.
'zens feel this, and they will endeayor to do
their part by paying the school taxes. to su..,
tain us.
MI. Lott offered a resolution providing that
the President, and Insp. Mattocks and Stew.
art oe appointed special Committee to re-.
port a plan to pay the arrearages now due on
salaries, as well as to accomplish reduction
oi salaries and expenses and fully provide for
the same.
Co. Hewitt opposed the reduction of sala.
RES. de said to reduce them would be equiv.
alent allen to the reduction of the terms. We
would be apt to have services equivalent to
the salary given, and if the pay was stinted.
f the spirit Of the teacher would correspond
Our difficulties are not insuperable. They
can De overcome, and if the members of the
Board use all their exertions it will be done.
MI. Fiske regretted that it seemed neces.
sary as part of the plan of retrenchment to
dispense with the Principal, whom, he said
had been most faithful officer, and had &C.
cepted his present post at great sacrifice to
himself. ,e-....-
Col Hewitt pitched into the idea Of redu.
cling the salaries of the female, teachers. quite
spiritedly. He had yet to see female in any
position whose services were properly reward
ed, and did not favor Starving salaries"
Mr.. Fiske and Mr. Neill both showed that
the salaries paid by. the Board to females
were much above the average elsewhere,
while the price of living was less here than in
the cities named.
Some further unimportant discussion en-
sued, when the resolution was taken up and
adopted. .-..
The Board then adjourned, having had a
harmonious and interesting session.
- The Columbia s. Carozinian, of the
18th instant, says: The premium offered bv
Col. A. M. Hunt, for specimen of native
African to he avh;h;fod a. H. Cx-4