The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-24
FREE SCHOOL BOOKS.
Mr.. Ca TROLLS Bill to Have
the State Provide Them
Trenton Routine.
Special to the Jersey city Nsws.

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der that it might not be transparent why
the extraordinary occurrence OF a session
on Thursday, when the day for maj al
tournament had not been liked, LOOK
| place. the House was held together until
about one o'clock and a number OF oiils
were passed and many moro were adj
vanced upon the calendar. Ia fact, SO
hard did the Assemblymen work both
before and after they received the Gov
| ernor's message that almost every Dill on
the calendar was disposed OF.
Governor Werts did not come to the
| State House at all during the day, but
the yetoes were brought up from Lake
wood, where he is now staying, by john
McMaster, his private secretary. Mr..
McMaster was nXiou to get the part OF
the work he had to do over as quickly as
possible. Mr.. Hutchinson's motion they
he referred to the Committee or the
Whole to b. cons idered next Tuesday
noon, (which meaut a public hearing, was
defeated by this vote:-
Ayes-Baake, Barrett. Baxter, Burton, Flynn.
Giaspel, Holmes. Hutchinson, Lane, Matlack.
Murphey. Ross, Salinger, Stafford, Stranger,
Stuner and Wilson.
Ma ys-Carrol, Chamberlain, Clark. Cramer,
DAILY, Dittmar, Diver, Dupuy, Harrlgan, Honce,
Hearns, Kelly. H. A. Kelly; I; M, LaSning'
| Strahan, Swartwout, Tahen, Thompson, Tine,
Wright and Laller.
Mr.. O'Brien, who was not III his seat
when the vote was taken, came in before
the result was announced, and had bis
name recorded in favor of the resoln-
ton.
Mr.. Lane moved that 1000 copies of the
Governors message be printed and given
to the members for distribution. The
resolution was carried and by two o'clock
In the afternoon the document was ready
to be scattered broadcast over tho State.
After the bill Is passed over the veto OF
| the Governor today. it will go 10 the Sen
ate and then it Will be a law. Where the
hearing which was promised to the
! Citizens' League will come i'll in this pro-
ann 1t il difficult to see. Speaker
| Flynn declares that he intends to do all
he can to give the citizens a hearing on
the bill and that is the reason he voted for
| Mr.. Hutchinson's resolution.
A POTATOES
The bills which wore passed at yester-
terday's session were all Of noimportance
10 Hudson County, and mainly related to
townships. One solitary bill was intro
| duced, and that was to authorize the
| SUPERINTENDENT of the Capitol to employ
| an assistant at $1,000 a year. whose BUSH
| ness it should be to take charge of the
telegraph office in the State House. re-
ceiye and transmit all messages, and see
that those received were properly distrib.
uted.
Mr.. Tine of Hunterdon has withdrawn
his bill, which seeks to remove the seat of
his county from BENNINGTON to Clinton.
A good story is told. apropos. OF the
measure. II appears that "the
Pennington crowd" as they are
called by those who tell
the story, some time e began to ciamor
for a new Court House. They mad sue
ceeded in arousing a public sentiment i'll
their vicinity which threatened TO foist
upon the county the expense of building
a new county building, when this bill was
introduced. The panic Into which this
remote possibility of losing the County
Seat threw ''the Flemlngton crowd" was
ludricous. They Immediately began to
shout loudly that the present Court
house was good enoug h for any county
in the State and began to look around
with a gun for the man who wanted to
build another. The desired result having
been obtained, the bill Was Withdrawn.
UNIFORM SCHOOL o
Mr.. Carroll has introduced Il bill which
provides for a uniform system of text
books for use in the public schools of this
State. 1t provides that within six
months after the passage OF the act the
State Board of Education shall appoint
persons qualified to compile the list.
The term in which this is 10 be dons is
not to exceed nine months and the. COM
pensation of the compilers Is to be fixed
by the Board. The list is to consist of
one spelling book: four reading books;
two a~rithmetics; W grammars; one his
tory OF the United States; one treatise on
the civil government of the United States
and of this State; one physiology;two geo.
graphieS; one physical geographic; ana
such book or books on drawing and writ
ing as the said Board shall deem proper
and necessary, and such supplemental
reader or readers as they shall deem
proper; said Tex books shall consist Of
lessons commencing with the simplest
treatise on the subject to which they re-
late and advance by regular gradations to
the highest standard, on such subject
prescribed by said Board to be pursued
in said public schools; said text books
shall also contain sucn maps, illustra-
tions and diagrams as said Board shall
determine to pc necessary and proper.
The Board must secure a copyright OF
the book listed, and, as soon as the list is
ready, the Board is co bid tor proposals
for publishing the books selected. Con-
tracts awarded under the bids are TO last
five years and $4,000 is apl ropriaUed TO
carry out the provisions of the act. The
beginning of the school year of 1894 is the
day fixed for Introducing the new books
to the schools. after which no other text
books will be permitted. There is a pro-
| tlSU, uOW0tOi, tudu HOuuiaE III Ii dCS
contained shall require the use of any OF
the series of text books hereby provided
in the public schools of any city Of this
State In which there is now in use a sys-
TEN of free text books, until such time as
the proper officers of said city shall deter
mine to adopt and use ia The public
schools therein the series of text books
hereby provided. CT any thereof.
TO BE GIVEN FREE.
The sum of 800. 900 is appropriated as a
"revolving fund" to enable the Board of
Education of this State to carry out the
provisions Of the act, which fund shall be
designated as the school text BOOK
fund.-" such fund shall, at ali times, be
subject to the order of the said Board of
Education; provided. that all demands
against the sum SO appropriated shall
first be approved by said Board; said
fund when no longer needed may be con-
verified into the treasury of this State.
The books are to be furnished to the
children at their actual cost. transporta-
ton included. II is further provided
that the Boards of Freeholders of the
several counties and the Boards of Edu-
cation of the several cities are also to pro-
vide for each of the towns or for tneir
city a ''revolvina fund" to bs Known as
the "school text book fund.- which fund
shall not exceed in amount twenty-five
per centum OF the actual cost of the text
books required for use by the pupils i'll
the public schools in such town or city,
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