The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-01
C HARLEST0 N.
The Conventiou-Repor on Educa.
tion-ProbabIe Adjournment Next
Week.
Special Correspondence Of the Register


not quite completed the repor. at the
time OF adjournment in this evening.
The readers Of the REGISTER will be
able to form better idea Of the dispo.
sition of the Convention in relation to
this matter it | state simply the re-
suits arrived at rather than detail the
slow stages and the various means by
which those results have been reached.
Suffice il to sav, then, that the tenth
Article OF the present Constitution has
been substituted for the greater part of
the report OF the Committee on Educa-
ton and that Article has been trans
ferred, almost bodily. 10 the Constitu-
ton now proposed. Several slight
alterations have been made, but only
such as to place the Article in conioTm-
itv 20 the portions OF the Constitution
heretofore agreed upon, and several
additions have been made Upon these
additional sections, the main struggles
OF the day have been had.
One o:the sections OF the tenth Artl-
Gle of tn. present Consttut on provides
that the county lew for school pur-
poses shall be made by the authority
Of the people thereo'" The meaning Of
thcs, words has been differently con
struei in different counties in the State,
and some confusion has resulted there
tem. though the Supreme Court has
decided that levy made by
the Board OF Education in any
county is made by authority OF the
people thereof" the members OF the,
Beard being the representatives Of the
people and acting in Their stead. In
order however, 70 leave no further
room .or doub; "a TO the proper prac-
ticc, it was moved 20 strike out these
words but after considerable debate,
they were retained. Mr.. Price moved
to amend the language referred to by
adding thereto the words ito be ascer-
tsined in such manner as may be pre-
s.r bed by law" This, too, was the
s1Iiect OF much debate. Mr. Raymond
thought that the effect OF the section
when amended would b. to deprive the !
rcopl- in some localities. where an ad-
verse vote might tc given, OF the benefit
OF the schools, ami thought that the |
plan OF requiring vote OF the people |
every year when school levy was con
,emplated, would be attended with
great inconvenience, and would proba-
Hly eventua'e in the adoption OF the
general State tax advocated by Governor
Price ard Others. ard the abandonment
OF any local taxation whatever. Mr..
Prices amendment was defeated by a
vole OF IS Tor and 80 against
The township system having been
discarded in the new Constitution, 1t
WAS necessary TO provide in the article
on education tor such sub division OF
the counties as would suit the purposes
Of the school system aud accordingly
the following provision was 'ncorpora-
ted into the report by Committee OF the
Whole: The school districts into
which any county Is now divided shall
continue until changed in pursuance OF
general law.
4 DISCUSSION which was participated
in bv M,ssrs. Wiley, Wheat, Daven-
port Woods and Travers then arose
concerning the manner o. collecting the
scho ! ieyies, and resulted in the alop-
roin o. the following section urnn this
subject which was Offered hy NJ Ca.
laher:
"All levies laid 10y any county or Dis
trict for the purpose OF free common
schools eh.l be reported to the Clerk
o. the County Court AMI shall be col
lccted by tie sheriff or other collector
under such regulations as may lie pro
vlded by Law, who shall make annual
settlements with the County Court,
which settlements SHALL be made
matter Of record br the Clerks thereof
in took to be KEEP; for that purpose"
The section OF the report Of the COM
mittee requiring the Legislature to
make provision FOR the education OF
coiorei children, and prohibiting the
teaching of white and colo:ed persons
in the same school, was adopted with
out debate, even the surviving apps.
ties making no audible objection.
The section prohibiting school Off
GERS from acting as agents for the sale
of text books or school furniture. or
bsing interested in the sale of these ar
ticles, was then adopted, with the pro,
riso that it should not be construed to
Apply to a book written or thing in
vented by such person.
Mr.. Campbell, OF Brooke, moved to
strike out the section prohibiting appro-
priations OF public money in aid OF any
school controlled BY any church or de-
nomination.
Messrs. Park, Of Jackson, Wiley
aud Hagaus urged the retention OF the
section, while Mr.. Jackson, OF Wood,
and Matthews, OF Greenbrier, favored
its rejection, upon the ground that its
object was already accomplished BY the
provision OF the Bill Of Rights. The
section was stricken out BY vote OF
80 for rejection aud - against,
A lengthy and a, times very spirited
discussion was then had upon the
proposition to prohibi, the creation Of
any independent school districts, aud
authorizing the Legislature TO repeal
the acts authorizing those already in
existence. 1, was held by the commit
tee that the creation OF independent
school districts was in most cases a
source Of fragrant abuse and that their
effect was often detrimental to the
general objects OF the school system.
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