Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10

huHHlnS INC OoluleIS Orpnan SCHOOLS, mas
met with a reverse. The Joint Legislative
and Grand Army Committees have decided
to try another plan. A bill is to be pre-
pared which will place the whole matter in
charge of a commission. The orphans will
be cared for in private families and schools
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.-The joint
committee of the Legislature appointed to
confer with the Grand Army Committee as
to the future of the soldiers orphans schools
met at o'clock this morning at the Grand
Army headquarters and adopted the bust
ness-like recommendation to form a COM
mission consisting of the Governor of the
State, the Superintendent of Public In
struction, the Department Commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic, one State
Senator, two Representatives, and three
representatives of the Grand Army.
This, moreover, was agreed upon by the
G. A. R. Committee at an all day session.
The plan involves the taking of the schools
outSof the hands of the Wright syndicate
and placing them under the control of the
Commission. The Joint Legislative Com
mittee consisted of Senator Cabin. of Leb-
anon, and Sloan, Indiana, and Representa-
tives Stewart, Philadelphia; Bean, Mont
gomery; Billingsley, Washington; Evans,
Chester, and Skinner, Fulton.
A DELEGATION OF GRADUATES.
The G. A. R. committee was Post De-
partment Commander Wagner, of Wright
vile; A. c. Reinoehl, Lancaster; Major
Moses Veale, Post 2, Philadelphia; Thomas
G. Sample, Post 12S, Allegheny, and C. G.
Shirk, Post 81, Erie. A delegation of
graduates of the orphans homes was re-
ceived and through Mr.. Taylor they pre-
sented a request urging the committee to
recommend the re-opening of the homes and
schools, as they stated there are, to their
knowledge, many soldiers orphans now in
a destitute condition.
They advocated, however. a reorganiza-
tion of the institutions upon basis differ
ent from that upon which they are now es-
tablished. The G. A. r. Committee then
presented their proposition. after which
they retired. The subject was given careful
consideration and then adopted and sub
committee of three was appointed, whose
duty it will be to frame bill by which a
commission will be formed, as stated above.
This commission will be expected to con-
solidate the present Soldiers o rphans'
homes and schools, place some of the
children in church or other homes, and as
far as practicable from time to time to
secure private homes where the orphans
will have careful training, and to gener-
ally provide for them as circumstances shall
suggest or permit.
TO PREPARE A BILL.
The committee to frame this bill consists
of Senators Goblin and Sloan, and Represen-
tative Bean. They will meet at the call of
the chairman in Harrisburg, and when the
bill is ready for presentation will submit it
to the general committee, when, if approved,
it will be introduced into the Legislature
for its action.
This proposed plan of disposing of the
children was approved by the department
encampment, and is believed by some who
have examined into the matter to be the
most feasible of any yet proposed, and will
rid the State of the syndicate homes and
schools, and will permit the family plan of
taking care of the orphans to be adopted if
the commission shall find it to be practical
BILE. This commission will continue in ex-
istence as long as the necessity for the care
of the waits now looked after by the State
shall exist.