The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
LIBERALS AND THEIR SCHOOL RECORD


meeting explain themselves:
''Mr. RODNEY lillian moved that the trus-
tees be authorized to levy tax of three
fourths of per cent, on the taxable prop
erty of the district, to construct building
for school purposes.
"Messrs. CRTTCHLow, You've, LovEsEY,
TAYLOR, DARKE and others spoke on the
question, when Mr.. PAUL moved an amend
ment to the motion that the tax be in
creased to one and one fourth per cent.
''Mr. YOUNG moved an amendment TO the
amendment that the tax be one and half
per cent.
'Messrs. CRITCHLow, BUCKLE and PYpER
were appointed judges of election.
"Balloting on the last amendment then
took place, when 90 ballots were cast, 50
for the amendment and 40 against it.
1.-THE motion as amended to one and a
half per cent. was then balloted on. Ninety
one ballots were cast, 60 in favor of the
motion and 81 against it. The chair de
clared the motion as amended carried.
'ADAM SPIERs, MATTHEW CULLEN, ].
H. PAUL, JAMES c. Woops, E. B. CRITcH-
LOW, c. w. SrMoSs and M. HEINAU were
appointed comm ittee to approve or reject
the plans for school building, which were
submitted by the trustees from a compe-
tent architect
This much the minutes tell US: That
Messrs. CRITcHLow, CULLEN, HEINAU, and
other Liberals attended the meeting, and
took prominent part in 1t. The minutes
do not say, however, what is known to all
who attended the meeting, that Mr.
CRITCHLow not only spoke on the tax
question, but made an enthusiastic address
in favor of the tax, education, and school
houses, following whom Mr. YouNG (the
present city marshaD moved to increase
the rate of the tax to ~ per cent There
was some surprise at the result of the
balloting, the Peoples parry having sup
posed, after. the Liberal speakers had ad-
vocated the tax, that the vote would be
nearly unanimous in favor of it. 1t was
suspected, however, that the Liberals, with
the honorable exception of Mr.. You've,
voted soiidly against the tax. Which way
Mr.. CRITCHLow voted is not known; for he
said in court, 81 voted for-against-I
didn't vote at all on the tax" But the
Liberals were bitten; they had pretended to
favor the tax and so introduced the amend
ment of IL per cent. thinking some of the
Peoples party would vote against it, and
these votes added to all theirs would kill the
tax altogether. The chairman, thinking
the Liberals were acting in good faith, ap-
pointed three of them-CRrTCuLow. Gull
LEN and HEINAU on an important COM
mittee for subsequent work as above
noted. But behold the sequel
On the 10Th day of April, the following
notice was served on the trustees:
$50 JOHN KIRKMAN, WILLIAM TAYLOR. and
JIM IS T. STRONG, trustees of Tenth school
district.
Gentlemen-You are hereby notified by
the undersigned tax payers of the Tenth
school district, that in our opinion the &C
ton of the taxpayers meeting of the
22d instant in voting to levy tax of one
and one-half per cent. for the erection of a
school building was illegal and not author
lied by the terms of the notice posted by
you calling said meeting; and that any
steps taken in pursuance thereof, for the
purpose of levying said tax, will be resisted
by US in the courts
And we further notify you, and through
you all whom it may concern, that in case
any future meeting of the tax payers be
called for the purpose Of levying a tax for
the purpose aforesaid. such action will be
resisted by US in the school meeting. and
further, if we should be unsuccessful. and a
tax DC voted over our heads, we shall fight
the same to the highest court
Our action in this respect will be based
on the fact that the Tenth school district
has at present no need of new school
building, inasmuch as what is known as
the Tenth ward meeting house is upon
ground belonging to the district for school
purposes, and the building itself belongs
to said district and should be used for
school purposes, MT only because it is
upon school land, but because it was orig
inally built By donation as and for school
building.
E 3. CRITCHLow.
JACOB MoRITz.
NJ. CULLEN.
WILLIAM HURD,
JAMES NJ. SMITH,
JAMES AsHMAN,
H. BARNES,
M HEINAU" and eighteen others some of
whom did not appear afterwards in the
case. The above named, however, took
an active interest in the matter.
The Liberals carried the case into court
and made paltry, contradictory ATTEMPT
at pettifogging in trying to resist the tax
and were beaten.
AT the next tax meeting for free school
they showed up, voted against the free
school and were defeated. At the last meet
ing for levying free school tax six Liber-
ais appeared and voted with the Peoples
party in favor of the tax; so it seems they
gave up the idea, finally, of fighting school
taxes ''to the highest COURT
The Liberal claim that the meeting house
was school property is characteristic. The
ground was originally bought by church
committee, meeting house was erected
upon it by donation and school was held in
the meeting house Finally, and also by
donation, another meeting house was built,
and the mayors deed to the land being
now for the first time obtainable, the
trustees took up the whole piece and gave
to the ecclesiastical organization the deed
for that part Of the land on which the