The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-29
This IS A Big DAY
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1t interfered with local self-govern ment
or schools, and placed the control OF the
same within the power of one man, Mr..
Stockwell, the present commissioner OF
public schools. The law would throw out
OF employment many old and very sue
cessful teachers in the country towns,
who could not, perhaps, pass the required
examination, while pedagogical people.
utterly unfit to control children and una
BILE to impart to them the information
they themselves possessed, could get the
requisite certificates
Mr.. Wilson suggested that Mr.. Butman
had better read the bill again. The COM
missioner OF public schools has nothing to
do with the matter. A board Of exami
ners will examine q large number Of
applicants In every city and town and
give TO those entitled to receive them the
proper certificates The appointments
were then to be made TO the schools, not
by the State or board of examiners, but
by the town and city school committees.
Mr. Heffernan, OF Woonsocket, assailed
Mr.. Wilson. and said that what ne said
against the Democratic party, was not
true. The gentleman had brought politics
into the public school question and 1t was
an outrage. He hoped that the gentle
man would withdraw that assertion.
Mr.. Butman asked IL Mr.. Wilson N cant
that he had been influenced to come here
by reason of the ten thousand dollar"
threat. He demanded that the gentle
man from Woonsocket should retract his
assertion.
Mr.. Wilson said that he had no such in
tention. Mr.. Brown Of Woonsocket pro-
tested against the gentleman from East
Providence insinuating that the Demo
cratic members were opposed to progress
sive educational ideas
The motion to indefinitely postpone was
put and declared lost. The vote was
doubted, and the roll was called for.
The result Of the vote was as follows:
Ayes, %; noes, IS, and the motion to in
definitely postpone was lost.
1t was then voted to take the bill mp by
sections. As the several sections were
read various amendments were proposed,
debated at length and voted down.
i, When all the sections had been dis
cussed the motion TO pass the bill as q
whole was put, and Percy ID. Smith OF
Glocester, representing the Democratic
members, repudiated the insinuation that
his party was opposed to educational legis-
lation by urging that the bill be passed as
public schools that had ever come before
the Legislature for passage. He asserted
that in some OF the towns teachers were
appointed through political influence.
some Of whom held the schools for three
years, to the irretrievable loss to the chill
dren of the educational help the taxpayers
were paying for.
then prevailed with but half dozen votes
in the negative. As the vote was viva
voce the identity of those voting in the
negative could not be established.
The substitute bill for an act to allow
the Union Railroad Company to issue 3d.
000, 900 worth Of first mortgage bonds, for
improvements, etc, was presented by Mr..
o he ho ind
ciary with a recommendation OF passage.
An abstract Of this bill will be found In
another column. Mr.. Wilson said that he
hoped that there would be no debate, IS
the bill had been agreed to by the special
committee Of the city council OF the city
of Providence and the railroad company.
The compromise was endorsed by the
mayor who had SO informed the gentle
man from East Providence.
The bill WAS read, and then Mr.. Brown,
Of w oonsocket, said that he was author
lied by the Mayor of the city of Provi-
dence to state that the bill was satisfac-
tory to the city. The bill was then unani-
Mr.. Peckham of Newport called for the
valuation bill.
Clerk Lee read the bill, and Mr. Peck
ham of Newport presented the minority
report of the judiciary committee on the
revaluation bill, and asked that it be
read, which was done. In this report Mr..
Peckham asserted that the majority re-
port made use of extravagant and erro-
neous statements, especially in so far as it
referred TO the city of Newport. The
minority report requested that the bill be
continued to the May session.
Mr.. Peckham read long speech In sup
port of his report, the Rist Of which was
that the other cities of the State looked
upon Newport as q lawful prey for the
purposes of taxation.
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