The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-17
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
MONDAY EVENING, August 16.

] MONDAY EVENING, August 16.
Board met in special session.
Present-Messrs. Boring, Bickel, Bias
sett, Ewing, Hutchinson, Hamilton, Hall
Pollock, Stewart and Wilson.
President Hall called the Board tt
order.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read, approved aud signed. ~
The President stated that the meetins
bad been called to take some action in
regard TO mistake that had been made
in awarding the costract for furnishing
Washington township school house. Il
sppears that the award was made to j
c. Orr d Co., under q misapprehe nsior
If the style of furniture and its cost. >
Mr.. Boring moved that the action Of
che Board in awarding the contract
for furnishing Washington Township
School House with school desks, &C., be
recohsidered. . r
Mr. Wilson said that the difference
between Chase g. Sons bid, and that Of
J. c. Orr, is nearly s110O, Mr.. Orr's bid
being s29l0, and Messrs. Chase & Som:
$500.
Mr.. Orr [by permission] explained
that the Board did not understand ex
sctly what he offered. They had fig.
ured on one kind of desk, and the one
he proposed to furnish, and had in the
room, was the cheaper one.
Mr.. Ewing said that it had been rep
resented that Mr.. Williams was acting
as agent for Chase 81 Son. If this was
so, it is grave charge. Mr.. Williams
being superintendent of the Public
Schools, it is direct violation of tbs
law, and the Board desired to know the
truth or falsity of the charge before &C.
tion is taken in the matter. Mr.. Will
lisms or the Secretary of the Board car
answer in regard to this matter.
Mr.. Bickel said he had seen circular
of Chase & Son with Mr.. Williams
name sign ed to it, but did not know tina
Mr.. Williams had received any compen
sation for 80 acting.
Mr.. Williams said that the charge wa'
one of malfeasance in Office, charging
that he was acting as agent for party
who had put in q bid. While resting
under this charge it is his duty to ex
plain his action in the matter. One Of
the Chases while in Wheeling some
three years since furnishing the Island
school house, requested him to send
them orders. He informed Mr.. Chase
that as the law then stood he could moi
do so. The law was changed and spe.
cial law for the city of Wheeling had
been passed. Under this modified law
he had sent them orders for schools out
side of his district. But he had never
sent them an order for furniture for the
Wheeling District except when directed
by the School Board. He had fully ex-
planned, he thought, his position on
this question. The law does not
say that the District Superintendent
shall not recommend any book furniture
or apparatus, it only provides that he
shall not be engaged in the sale of any
such articles. The simple fact that he
had acted as the agent of Chase d
Son for the sale of furniture outside of
his district should net be brought
against him in this connection. And
in the two years he had thus acted he
had not lost two days from his duties in
attending to the affairs of Chase & Sen.
The vote being taken on Mr. Behring'S
motion to reconsider it was carried.
Mr.. Wilson moved that the whole
subject be recommitted, with instruc-
tions to advertise for new proposals.
On motion the Board adjourned.