The morning call., 1895-02-09

the Superintendent of Schools and the sec
rotary of the Board OF Education is pro-
vided for. Each county is to have dis
tinct organization, and funds are to be
raised by per cent to be taken monthly
from every teachers salary, the money
that teachers forfeit by absence, which now
goes into the general fund % per cent OF
the dog license money and requests and
donations.
Three ladies came up from San Francisco
yesterday to urge the passage of the bill.
They were Mrs. Nettie R. Craven, the
principal of the Mission Grammar School |;
Miss Murphy, principal of the Jefferson
Primary School, and Mrs. E. P. Bradley,
the teacher of drawing at the Polytechnic
High School, They held an informal re-
ception yesterday, to which they sum-
moned their friends among the legislators
and urged the business of their demands.
The bill will probably be considered to-
morrow by the Committee on Education,
to which it was referred, and fight made
for its passage by the ladies.
Miss NJ. NJ. Murphy, principal of the
Jefferson Primary School in San Francisco
and one of the strongest advocates of the
teachers pension BILL is disposed to take
her experience in meeting adverse COM
ments on the measure from legislators
good-naturedly.
"We drew up bill which we thought
was nearly perfect" said she, "but when
we went before the Senate Committee on
Education we found it was all wrong, and
the attorneys declared that it was uncon-
stitutional, so we have had new measure
prepared which eliminates all the features
to which objections were raised.
at is true that there are teachers who
oppose the proposition" continued Miss
Murphy, referring to an opposition from
her own profession, "but it is because they
do not understand the proposition. 1t is
true that they were not shown the bill, be-
cause it was not deemed advisable to do so
Just then, but now the measure is before
the Legislature and they will have the OPP
portunity of judging of it's merits"
Miss Murphy admits that she expects
opposition in the Legislature. 1--WE have
tried before to secure the passage of pen
sion bill. We now bring it UP in, as we
believe, an unobjectionable form. We
shall try to pass it. If we fail, that ends
it. This is the last time we shall come be-
fore the Legislature. If we do not succeed
now we shall not come here again"
Mrs. E. P. Bradley explained that she
was quite sure the present bill would be
found acceptable. This was because it
asked for no appropriation.
''You see," she said, "this is Legis-
lature of retrenchment. If we asked only
81 we could not get the bill through. AS it
is, we only ask for a chance to make the
desired fund ourselves. Our first bill
asked for percentage of certain licenses.
Now we are going to raise the fund by
taking per cent of the money paid as sal
aries and the money lost by absences. Nor
is joining the fund compulsory, for those
teachers who do not wish to take
advantage of the provisions of the
act need only to make the fact known
within ninety days and they will not be
taxed. You must understand, though,
that this applies only to those teaching to-
day. The act provides that no teacher
shall be granted school who does not
agree to contribute to the fund. And don't
you think that if you wanted a place at
$75 a month you would be willing to give
up IS cents month to get it, even if you
did not know that the money was going to
help splendid cause along"
This bill will make profession of