The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-26
,r,,,1a order, and purposes Of the Board

have been frustrated II Here Is q res
olution OF unconditional instruction, go
far as it relstes to cost, except that the
contract was to be awarded to the tosces!
RESPONSIBLE bidder. The committee, by
this resolution of unconditional instruc>
ton was left with absolutely no alterna-
tive, and without even q pretszt for
non,action. The resolution, as adopted,
requires the committee to 60 forward and
have a room OF specified dimensions
finished and ready for occupancy, by the
lst OF September, 1873.
Pursuant to the instructions embodied
in the resolution, notice was given that
proposals would be received up to the
evening OF Tuesday, August 4tb, for the
proposed improvement to the Colored
School House; proposals were also in
vited for the building OF small frame
house for the accommodation Of q
branch of the Seventh ward Primary
School, which is now nearly completed.
In response to said notice, it appears
that several master builders, upon recei-
wing specifications for constructing the
house 10 he built in the Seventh Ward,
banded 10 proposals for the erection oil
said house, and the contract has been
awarded hnt as | have been informed,
not 10 the / ....t responsible bidder!
But no proposal for finishing room
in the Colored School House was hand
ed to the committee by any master
builders, for the obvious reason, as is
alleged by the master builders, that
the committee did not ask any Of them
for any such proposal
In this manner, Mr.. President the
LAW has Jesa Graded, and this board
has been defeated in its well intended
purposes and orders TO extend TO the
colored children OF the Independent
Sch COL District OF Wheeling, the imper-
lively needed facilities for acquiring a
common school education.
Thus, Mr.. President, | have as con-
cisely as practicable, presented the facts
in relation to this, in itself, as to its
cost, very Insignificant improvement
asked for by the colored people OF the
district, which, has, unnecessarily, con-
sumed so much of the Boards time for
these many months.
The Board DID, at its last meeting,
ORDER that the much needed improve
ment to the Co!ored School House
should be made, and INSTRUCTED the
Committee on Buildings and Grounds,
to execute their unconditional order
"wITuoUr DELAY"
You have learned how the execution
of the order OF the Board was proven
t:f.
Now, 0; course it is Tor the Board to
say, whether it desires TO make the i'm
proyement asked for. II the language
OF the resolution adopted at the last
meeting means anything, it means that
the Board once determined to make the
improvement. Has the Committee t.
whom was intrusted this duty, fulfilled
the object Of their commission an
swcr no. Tley made the attempt, but
sophisiicsl Larrier insured their fall
ure 10 execute the unconditional orders
of the Board, which are 60 plainly GET
forth in the minutes
Now, Dir. President, has this Board
any assurance that, hereafter, similar
barrier GU may not arise and defeat its
explicitly expressed wishes? Whether
through sophistry, disjngeniousness
sklltul evasion of sworn duty, inadvert'
ence, or otherwise, the explicit orders
of the Board have been frustrated, we
shall not inquire. 1t is sufficiently
humiliating Tor us to know the fact
that they have been frustated.
Now, Mr.. President, there remains
only ten dayO, until the LIST Of Septem-
Der, the time fixed by the Board, lor
the completion of this work which, IN
VAIN, it has already ordered TO be com.
plcted without delay"
Unless the Board acts pronptlY-uu.
less it acts NOW, the work it has ordered
to be done, will not be commenced, let
alore completed, by the lst Of Septem-
Der.
Would it be proper in this emergency
for the Board n0w to open and con-
slider bids for furnishing a room In the
basement OF the Colored School House,
Here, on the table, are proposals 10
DO the work, from four or five master
builders-from the same parties
Messrs. Exlev, Brodie and Donel-who
laid before the Committee on Buildings
and Grounds, proposals for the 7th
Ward improvement, and who 'rculd
have presented THESE bids at that time
if they had been permitted.
l, therefore, offer the following reso-
luton:
Resolged, That the proposals Of
Messrs. Exley. Brodie and Donel, to-
gether with all other proposals on the
table, for furnishing room in the base-
ment Of the Colored School House, be
now opened, read and the contract
awarded to the lowest responsible bid
der.
now move that this resolution be
adopted.
Mr.. Hubbard offered TO amend the
resolution OF Dr.. Hupp by adding to
the closing sentense the words, Ill
satisfactory" which amendment was
accepted by the mover, and the resolu-
ton as amended, after much discussion,
and call for the yeas and nays, was
adopted by the following vote:
Ied8-Messrs. Bickle, Crawford,
Hsll, Hupp, Maxwell, Hubbard and
Wheat; /.
Nayr-Messrs. ElIifritz, Oue, Stifel,
Stewart and Wilson; ).
The bids being opened were as fol"
lows; Haley & Eoberhart proposed to
finish room in the Colored School
House fox the sum of S32O; J. N. Bro
die, $40; David E. Donel, $50;
Exley Il Co., 32O. The contract was
awarded 10 David f. Donel, be being
the lowest responsible bidder. 1t was
suggested that the clerk be instructed to