New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-29
THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL QUEST ZION.

TIE CATHOLIC COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONFER
| WITH THE BOARD OF EDUCArION-rHE CATHOLIC
VIEW Oh TUE MOVEMENT FOR COMBINING PAgO-
CHIAL AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Mr.. Herman, Clerk OF The EOard of Educa-
ton on Saturday received from VcarGencra q NAN
the OF the gentlemen who are TO form the COM
nittce which will confer with the committee OF the
Board Of Education relative the proposition to CON-
bine the Catholic parochal schools with tho public
schools II also notified to the Board that the Cath
Ollie committee would be ready TO into session any
day near close OF the present weak The following
are the committee solicited by thr :, W-G'mera':
Henry /. Tognct No. ~ West Twenty eighth-st.
Frederick Il. Gilbert Fihave. aud Thirty 'first3t
John H. ID .veliu, No. 95 Ma iis.n-aye.
Frederick II. Coudcrt, No. 135 East Folty-third st.
George V. IIcoRer No. 278 MadlsOnaye.
Rignal T. Woodward. For Washington.
Rev Edward J. ORciiJ, pastor Ot ST. Mary's Church.,
Ggdna-si.
Tie following are the names of the Committee ap-
pointed by the Board of iucation: President Ncson,
Commissioners Wetmore, Baker. Farr, Yermyea, Kelly,
and Townsend.
This action grows out OF request OF the Trustees Of
the Catholic ParOcIia Schools to the Board OF E1uca
ton to appoint committee OF its members to meet
similar committee from their body, :" to consider on
what terms the parochia schools may be admitted to
the benefit Of the common school SYSTEM subject it's
laws regards OF instruction. the hods II
discipline. and the general management, in such
nCr may he agreed uDon." The sgners Of the re-
quest chef Of whom was the General OF the Arch
diocese or Now Ncm Rev. Father Quinn, claim
to represent tnan fifty schools, Of which
have large aud cOnmodiOus buildings erected for
school purposes, provided with almost everything
necessary for free schools and capable of afOrng SUI
hcent space for from 800 To 1000 children EACH Tie
thew represent Se paid and sim pay their 21l share
OF the taxes that go 10 the support or the common
schools, without deriving any benefit in return. This
III, trst step toward the closing OF long'eXisng DIM
Guilty.
public school education Tor their children Their
objection TO the system as 1t pray IN this city is that
no religious instruction Is provided for the Chhdren.
Religious instruction Catholics consider "a necessary
element in education and Cor The system that studous-
ly elects this necessary element they have very hard
On the other hand the absence OF religious
instruction at oil constitutes the very pride OF the pub
open Tor cGiIdrcn every creed Between these two
daiuef rcuy opposite vie VS. lie the bone of
which Father Qinn ana his colleagues the representa-
yves and trustees or The Catholic pagocBiai SCHOOLS,
seem anxious TO remove once Tor all.
Pcuding the meeting Of the committee. It Is impos-
slbe TO say what concessions be made demanded
either side. 1Eey Will TO discuss the points of
the letter to the Board OF Education which Is not only
an appeal FOR truce TO the hara>siDg conflict that
mas been waSed over the question OF puDhc education.
lies. as the letter plainly shows wish TO go hand IN
hand with tue pubic at large III education OF the
CHILDREN. The question Is, viii they surrender their
chief claim lot Catholic instruction TO Catholic children
or how far Will the Board II Education cOnccde to that
demand, II. as Is likely. II be made
The latest utterances Of Ec Church authorities indicate
that tho chei claim Will not under any circumstances
bo abandoned. The CardiualArchbishOp OF Nrw-York
~ his most recent uteance h.. declared cmphaiealy
that careful religious instruction ana moral ttanng
must he secured Catholic youth by hearty and gen
eIou cooperation not OF parents alone. but OF the faith
III nt large, with their pastors and thar "in
40 ts rIcrhces have 10 bc made by the classes least
able to AFFORD them. Tner strong adherence TO this
uau principle may be safely pophesed from their past
acton IN thnt direction. The Catholics, Us Father
Qdnns IL ter 10 the Board shows have up schools
OF their own rather than expose their children to what
they consider To he the dangers OF purely secular ed
ucniOn Tho fact OF the schools having been filed i'm.
mcdiAtely shows sufficiently tho general objection
on the part Of Catholics 10 tins obnoxious feature
IN the system Oi public education point
oil out by Cardinal NJ .,'lo,key while thu
ihct OF their having been built az all
speaks sunoienty for the earnestness OF the Catholjc
BODY III tue matter But tho supporting OF so many
schOOls u OF course serious additional tax although
voluntary " these imposed by State IL 10 70 u,n