Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-01-02
THE ACTION or THE CITY REGIS
TER.


Kegist. appears IN The Ckroaiele
To n Eoi,or Of tte CAroni.Is Please to do rn.
the justIce to publish The following:
The Er,HtH Star OF Yesterday wants to know
why the RI glster signed the check to paw ths.
police before the bill was signed bv the Mayor
Vill answtr- The general appropriation bill
A. an entirt IN separate one from the school
bill. and the general appropriation bill does
nos say that no money shall ~ paid ont of that
b-fOre the arrearage due the colorpd schools
shall have been paid; hut the school bill do =.
AGAIN the Star, speaking for the MAYOR, says
that the order to pay the white schools has
been presented 10 the Register since the bill
became a law. This y true: but the law SAYS.
o the same time. the Mayor shall pay 10 the
" hife schools. 80 also shall he paw to colored
schools the amount due them according to
the decision Of the supreme Court and if the
.StaT will publish the school hill. it won't find
one word IN NJ that saws the MavOr shall wait
Tor requisitiOn from the colored school trus-
tees but II says the Mayor shall pay over
forthwith TO the trustees of colored schools
their proportion. The Star further saws
thai the Mayor j. willing ready. and waiting
40 sign a requisitiOn for the coiored schools.
Nov, am informed nv one of the trustees of
Colorsd schools that the Mayor was not so will
ling. but v Guild sign for part OF the s-rearage
due the oOlored schools: and if that gentle
nan had signed 10 to-day he could have got
the check BY complying with the other por-
lion Of the law. The St0r further saws. that
the Register has assumed an extraordinary
power, in fact more power than the Mayor
possesses. The Register assumes no power.
bul ItkfS the pam Facts IN The school bill
his guide. The Star think the register wants
To bring politics into the school bill. He does
not want 10 do any such thing. bnt ne wants
politics kept out. and the only way this can be
done II Nv the Mayor signing the bill without
any further controversy. In another para
graph in the Star IL SAYS that the school trus-
ties are going TO the court for writ of man.
damus- was in hops that the City Hall ring
had got enough of that at the last election: but
an willing, ready. and anxious that the writ
should b. issued, not 10 satisfy any political
t.rHNf hat
personally interested in the late school bill.
Very truly, y. A. BOSWELL.
Register W. G.
We print the above. that the Register may
have a far hearing. The community can nudge
how far No has an >wered our points. 1t strikes
u. however. that he il houndering into vet
deeper water. He nor says that the reason why
he signed the check to pay the police before the
bill making appropriation to pay them was
signed. and refused TO do 80 in the case of the
school teachers. was, that 1.-The general appro-
pristion bill il an entirely separate one from
the school bill. and the general appropriation
bill does not say that no money shall be paid
ont of that before the arrearages due the colored
schools shall have been paid; but the school
bill does''
VIII the Register be kind enough to point on
the provision of the school bill that saws ..no
money shall be paid out of it before the ar
Tsarages due the colOred schools shall Ia We been
paid!" A the Register here states positively
that he based his Official action upon the fact
that there was such a clause in the bill il
Piaces him IN rather an awkward predicament
II it's not there. Tothe naked eve no such pro-
vision l. visible, on the most careful scrutiny.
and II may b. safely said that it does not exist
He admits that he refused TO sign the school
bill gtt,r II became law by the signature of the
Mayor, when II was beyond the reach of a
possible veto; but about this time various other
difficulties in the way of paying the teachers
began 10 cloud the mind Of the Register. The
INST insuperable obstacle, the possibility of the
bank refusing 10 honor his check after the 10Th
INST, had proved to D. a terror of his own
imagination; the terrible pit-falI into
which this cautious official might have
siumped By drawing money under the
Dill before IL was signed, had been happily COW
cred by the fact that the bill had become a law
beyond preadyenture, by receiving the sigma
ture Of the Mayor; again the poor teachers
come up for their pay, bat again they are dis
appointed- the Register now discovers a new
hon IN his path up the bill OF Dificulty The
STAR said the Mayor was ready and waiting IN
settle with the colOred school Trustees for their
arreaTages, but Mr.. Bos swell lis informed nv
one OF the Trustees of the eoIored schools thar
would sign FOR part of the arrearag,.s
due the eOlored schools; and if that gentleman
had signed 1t to-day he could have got The
check by complying with the other portions OF
the law 1t really seems unkind to strangle
me Registers successive creation of excuse,
ABSOLUTELY before they are out of the nurses
hsnds- but a. the answer of the Mayor to the
trustees ann Ouncing his readiness to settle
WIN them To the fun amount voted BY the
touhcils- must have been IN the hands of the
1Tustees az the time the Register wrote the
above, There really l. no help for it. The ans
Ner Of the Mayor was conclusive fully sus-
ialnlng our statement that he was ready To nay
them the entire amount due
As the Register admits in the first part of hi.
communication that he refused 10 sign rho
check for the school teachers after il had ra
"-ived The signature of the Mayor. he APPEARS
b. be laboring under some confusion of ideas
" hen he afterwards calls upon the Mayor IN
'slgn The bill without any further coptro-
Nrr-y' In bis little feat OF jugglery the Regis
yer seems 10 have forgotten exactly how many
balls I'm the way of exeuses) he had IN the air.
and What OF them had been ..pIayed QUIZ
" hat new set Of excuses may be put for.
" ard by the Register to take the place of the
shOrt-llNed crop above referred TO- il moi de-
'tlcped, but II a. probable the supply Will
tquai the Demand. In the mean time th. n ,or
eaehers remain unpaid, and the look ahead for
thsm Is gloomy one indeed