The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-03
SOME funny WORK.
Why Are the Teachers Not
to Be Paid---Or Are
They Not?

There seems to be no foundation for the
rumor that the Board of Finance will re-
fuse to pay the public school teachers for
the months of July and August; nor has
1t been customary heretofore to pay them
for the months Of July and August with
the June payment on July l.
The Board Of Education at recent
meeting resolved that this should be
done and Mayor Cleveland signed the
resolution ordering the warrants drawn
President John Edelstein, when ques-
toned by q JERSEY CRY NEWS reporter
last night said that while the Board of
Finance fixed limit of expenditures of
the Board of Education for each mont h
separately, in this instance it had really
nothing to do with the matter. The
Board does mot pass upon the warrants
ordered drawn for salaries. The Board
Mayor. City Clerk and Comptroller alon e
are required.
But Comptroller Hough says the Board
of Finance limits these expenditures to
each month separately, and consequently
he would refuse to pay out sec, 900 when
the limit is fixed at $50, 600 in round num-
bers.
NOW LAW FOR IT.
President Voorhees,, of the Board of
Education, said there was no law to Sus-
tain such a rule, and other members of
the Board of Education, notably Messrs.
Kelly and Pfingsten, side with President
VOORHEES,. They maintain that no
the maintenance of the Pub
lie Schools, and that the Board
OF Education can expend that amount as
it sees fit. Mn Voorhees, asks:-"Why
should not the teachers be paid for these
two months in July? Their work for the
4 io ME VUhu ahn11id fhnu hn
obliged to wait for two months for a bal
ance due them?"
Superintendent Poland said the teach
ers were thus paid in BROOKLYN, and the
custom of paying the yearly salaries of
teachers in ten instalments, instead of
twelve, was pretty much in vogue
throughout the New England States.
A MECHANICAL DIFFICULTY.
City Clerk Scott was asked why, even af-
ter the Mayor signed the resolution, the
teachers did not receive their July and
August salaries. In the first place, >
force during the rush for licenses, etc,
it was entirely beyond the range of possi-
bility to draw off the warrants; and even
had the time, had not the pay rolls for
these months at hand"
Clerk Wiseman, of the Board OF Edu-
cation, said the reason the pay rolls were
not at Mr. Scott's service was because he
had told Mr.. Scott some days ago that
they would soon be brought in, and Mr..
Scott replied that he could bring them
in, but the teachers would be paid
August / and September as usual. Mr.
Wiseman said he thought it no use then
to submit the pay rolls, hut they could be
submitted at an hours notice.
1t then occurred to me that possibly for
some reason, after the Mayor had signed
the resolutions the order to pay the
teachers for the two months had been
eountermanded by some one. Comp
troller Hough assured me that there WAS
plenty of money to meet the drafts for
the three months. And In answer to
those who claim that the Board of
Finance has no right to limit
the monthly expenditures Of money ap-
priated by the State to the Board of Edu-
cation. Mr.. Hough assured me that not a
cent Of the $250,000 appropriated by the
State had yet been received, but that the
money was still In the hands Of County
Collector Dugan.