Daily globe., 1878-09-03

terest---The Manner of Letting Contracts
Considered, and Some of the Boar6
| Get Mad About 1t.
! The board of education met last evening &C
cording to adjournment. The chairman called
the board to order when the secretary read tn,
following communication.
ST. PAUL, Sept. Cd, 1873.
| A. q. Manson, Secretary Board of Education. st
| Paul:
| s1n: In accordance with the law beg to inform
you that the funds in my hand treasurer of tn,
board OF education amounts to the of thou
and eight hundred and ninety eight and 3-1Ot
7, ,S98O3 100) dollars, and that the sameis deposited
in the Merchants National bank Of st. Fanl. Very
respectfully,
| w. II. MERRIAM Treasurer.
| MIR. Merriam explained that this was the first
| opportunity he had had to carry out the re-
quirements of the law as the funds were not
turned over to him till the last month. Refer
! ring to the matter of loaning the money, he
thought the moment the board took the money
out of his hands and placed it where he could
not be responsible for it his bonds. would be
| cancelled.
| The report was accepted.
Mr.. Donnelly moved that the report be pub
lished in the city official paper, the GLOBE.
The motion carried.
Mr. Scheffer asked if it would not be well to
publish the other monthly reports as they were
| in the hands of the secretary. The president
did not think it necessary.
| DR.. Hagan, as supplement to tho report OF
| the committee on schools, reported that @. T..
| Campbell had been appointed principal of the
High school; s. s. Taylor, principal of Jeffer-
son school; Miss Wheaton, teacher of elocution
in the High school, and j. d. Bond, special
teacher of penmanship.
The report Of the committee was adopted.
IMPROVEMENTS ASKED FOR.
Mr.. Benz as chairman of the committee on
RESOLVED, That the committee On property be
instructed and have power to act to have the
following improvements executed.
l. To build two out-houses for each Of the
Sixth ward and Neil school houses.
2. To supply and contract for the necessary
seats (school desks) for the Sixth ward school
house.
g. To contract for the necessary stating
(black-boarding) of the same building.
4. To let contract for furnaces of the Neil
school house.
5. To order the necessary Improvements on
well near the Mclean school house.
The resolutions were orGared read separately.
On the second resolution NIr. Donnelly said he
thought the desks should be advertised so that
bids be obtained
Mr.. Benz said the committee had already
asked for bids, and found a. Rochester firm
were making desks cheaper and better than any
| other firm. Desks were like furnaces, the
cheapest were not always the best. There was
firm in Minneapolis which stealing the
model of the Rochester company, but their
desks were not so good cheap. The reso-
luton carried
| On resolution fourfurnaces for Neil school
MIR. Donnelly moved that the committee be
| instructed to advertise for bids and report to
| the board for their action.
| MIR. Scheffer seconded Mr.. Donnelly's amend
ment.
| MIR. Benz had no objection to the
! resolution of Mr.. Donnelly, but
! if the committee was not to be trusted to
| give the contract to the lowest bidder--he did
not know what the committee would do about
it.
Mr. Scheffer--It has always been the custom
of the board. The amendment of Mr.. Donnel-
ly was carried. The other resolutions of Mr..
Benz were carried.
Mr.. Benz then said he had met with 80 much
abuse he wanted to resign.
DIR. Murphy am president and if you re-
sign shall appoint you again.
Mr. Benz-But if [ insist. 1t has been said
here that we have to swallow the sixth ward
school anG 30 forth and he did not intend to be
abused by the newspapers and members of the
board.
Mr.. Benz went on exeitedly to say that the
GLOBE had assailed him, and when he spoke to
the gentleman representing that paper, he had
replied that nothing was stated in his psper
more than what had occurred at the previous
meeting, and he (Benz) did not mean to be
| criticised by members of the board as Mr..
McCardy had criticised him.
Mr.. Donnelly called the gentleman to order.
He did not see what his conversation with the
representative of the GLOBE had to do with
the matter. Ii the gentleman wished to
tender his resignation there was no reason why
| he should not do it.
Mr. Mo{lardU---I houo hoao Uo;tipcr for fb;p
wranging to get through. 1t appears ex-
pected to make an apology. L have none to
! make. What said at the last meeting was
that the Sixth ward school was bulldozed
| Through. The committee commenced building
| before authorized; the same was done with the
| furnaces. / said if we had to swallow the
building we might as well swallow the furnaces
| see nothing to apologize for.
Mr.. Merriam-What are the facts of the
furnace case, Mr.. President?
| Mr.. Fresident-The committee we're ordered
to examine and report and they thought they
| bad power to act. The board thought the com
mittee acted in good faith and endorsed theil
| action.
| MIR. Merriam said he was one of the commit
Tee and he was sure he was acting in good faith
Ia the matter of the second bid, he said it wa.
only an addition to the bid and not an alt er
ation
hlr. Benz wanted to know what Mr.. McCard,
the Sixth ward school, and he did not think
there was any hurrying through. 1t appeared
the whole matter with emphass) was because
Prendergast did not get the contract.
MIR. Donnelly rose to point of order.
After some further talk a soothing, deliber-
ate speech from DR.. Hagan quieted the storm
and business proceeded.
Mr.. Donnelly introduced resolution dispen.
sing with
TEACHING THE LANGUAGES
the teaching of German and French in all tn
schools except the High school. He said at
tempting to teach languages-and it was onl,
an attempt-was perversion of the use
of the common schools. This is a]
English speaking community. All courts ar
conducted in English. and it is as absurd t.
try to teach German as French and French a
Irish or Bohemian; and any nationality had
much right to ask that their language be taugh
in the public schools. 1t was waste of tim
and great waste of money.
MIR. Merriam seconded Mr.. Donnelly's mo
ton. He did not think the public schools hae
any right to attempt the impossible task o
teaching languages.
Mr.. Scheffer spoke at length in favor of ths
German language as necessary, and it wa
quite possible for pupils to learn the Language
with the help they received at home.
Mr.. Donnelly replied to Mr.. Scheffer. 81,
thought MIR. Schefer's arguments did no
amount to much. He spoke of newspaper
being printed in German-he thought that wa
30 much the worse for the country. Tt was a,
English speaking country and all should lear,