Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-05-04
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
CONVENTION.

tlnuence OF tne preSenlstale OF tninSS
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
CONVENTION.
The convention of the school direc
tors of Butler comfy, for the purpose
of electing County Superintendent o
public schools, met in the court room
yesterday afternoon at one O'Clock. r
A. Mifflin was elected chairman of the
convention, and Geo. H. Graham, A. ID
Weir and Frank Eastman, Secretaries
On motion, the roll was called and re
/ called when it was found that 239 di
rectors were present, though three 9th
ers CAME in afterwards making the
number 242 A motion was made and
carried, that directors then absent and
afterwards coming in should be given
chance to vote at the end of each bal
lot. On motion the convention pro-
ceeGed to nominate, when the four
gentlemen whose names have been an
nounced in this paper were putin nom-
ination by their friends. On motion
the convention proceeded to ballot, with
the following results:
1st ballot-McKee 101; Murtland,
100; Russell, So; Campbell, I.
End ballot-McKee, l07; Murtland,
104 ; Russell, 81.
3nd ballot-McKee, 10l Murtland,
106; Russell, 35.
4th ballot-McKee, ITO; Murtlaud,
los Russell, 90
9Th bailot-McKee, III; Murtland,
Ill; Russell, 20.
9th ballot-McKee, ia; Murtland,
IlS; Russell, 9.
Mr.. Cubbison here withdrew the
name of Mr. Russell.
7th ballot-Murtland, l26; Mckee,
lis; Russell, l.
At the end Of the 7th ballot the con-
vention made hasty adjournment.
Before commencing to ballot the
convention, on motion, requested the
candidates to leave the room, and Mr..
Mitchell gave notice of meeting of the
school teachers association in Butler on
the 26th inst, when DR.. Higbee, the
State Superintendent will be present.
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The time available for equipng
the Mary and Helen. if she is to make
an Arctic journey this season, is fast
running away, and work should soon
begin in order to strengthen her for
her taskA The project was pushed
through Congress with little reflection
The bill appropriating $l75.OOO was
urged by that venerable sailor, Mr.. r.
w. Thompson, reinforced by the expert
enced Arctic navigator, Major Goff.
The actual direction of the expedition
has fallen upon their worthy successor,
Judge Hunt. The Jeanette will not
be overdue for year yet, and she
could not have been expected back last
winter unless she had made ridiculous
failure DeLong was fitted out for
voyage to last until the middle of the
year 1882; hence the outcry raised at
Washington toward the close of the
year 1880 was rather premature. But
The erudition displayed by Messrs.
Thompson and Gof on the subjects of
cairns, ice foes, and pemmican dazzled
Congress, and the search was ordered
Perhaps after the Mary and Helen
has gone to search for the Jeanette,
it may be thought necessary to send
another vessel in search ofthe Mary aud
Helen-that being one Of the possible
penalties of dabbling in Arctic affairs.
In the House last Friday Ruddi-
man read his report. which performance
occupied the attention of the members
about half an hour. The report attacks
the Attorney General for creating the
inquiry on which his opinion on the
legislative salary question is based and
takes issue with him on his interpreta-
tion of the constitution. that it does not
empower the Legislature to fix q per
diem compensation for members, quot
ing numerous opinions to strengthen
the position The report claims that
the Supreme Court has laid down rules
which make it clear beyond all dispute
that statute duly enacted and APP
proved cannot be safely disobeyed or
practically vetoed by dash of the pen
Of any public official and that none but
a competent jurisdiction may venture
upon the reluctant end delicate prov
ince of subjecting such statute to the
tests of adverse criticism and resistance
The portion of the Attornew Generals
opinion that heportion of the law fixing
the salary of member at $1,000 a
session can stand aud the per diem
feature fall, is assailed as untenable
Occasion is taken in several stages Of
the report to sarcastically refer to the
Attorney General. 1t is claimed that
the session is one, and entirety, from
the first Tuesday of January to the
hour of adjournment sine die; the sala-
ry is one, an entirety, of payment fer
a continuity of official service The
report was almost unanimously adopt
ed and three thousand copies ordered to
be printed. The Attorney General
says the report is too ill-natured and
vindictive to be strong. In the Senate
same day the judicial apportionment
bill was passed finally.
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