Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-31
DAY SCHOOLS FOR DEAF MUTES.
Senator Phillips Introduces u Bill to
Open Several New Ones.

Open Several New Ones.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 25.-The Wiscon-
sin Pathological institute has prepared Il
bill which will be introduced within Il
day or two providing for day schools
for deaf mutes. 1t provides for the re-
vision of the laws under which the public
day schools are conducted in Milwaukee,
La Crosse, Wausau and Manitowoc,
ard under which it is proposed to open
several more, in several particulars.
First, by making it mandatory on the
state board of control and state superin-
tendent to grant permission to any incor-
porated city or village to open such
schools when applied for by the local
authorities.
Second. by increasing the state aid to
public day schools for the deaf to 500
per capita per annum, which is less than
the per capita cost for current expenses
at the state institution at Delavan, not
counting the large Investment represented
by the buildings furnishings and I'M
provcments at Delavan.
Third, by providing that with the
state aid to public day schools for the
deaf increased to 5000 per capita, a maxi
mum of four or five pupils per teacher be
by law, and the money received from the
state for the support of such schools be
used exclusively for the payment of
teachers and the purchase of books and
apparatus.
Fourth, by providing. for the appoint>
ment of a state supervisor of the educa-
ton of the deaf by the state superintend-
ent, by and with the consent of the state
board of normal regents, who shall define
his duties and fix his compensation.
Fifth by compelling the board of nor.
NAL school regents to provide for normal
instruction and training of teachers of the
deaf in connection with one or more or
the state normal schools.
Sixth, by providing that deaf-mutes.
sufficiently taught to speak and read the
lips, and otherwise qualified be encour-
aged to enter high schools. normal schools
and the university to complete their ed
ucation with hearing ana speaking pu-
pills.
Seventh, by making it illegal for con-
genital deaf-mutcs to marry. i'll order to
prevent the formation of a deaf variety
of the human species"
Eighth. By providing that deaf-mutcs,
who by reason OF the long instance OF
their homes from public day schools, in
ability of parents to govern. Indulgence,
unftness of homes or incapacity to be
taught speech, and by speech, cannot
we'll be instructed in public day schools,
shall be sent TO the state school for the
deaf at Delnvan.
Ninth. by providing that full and i'm
martial information be published and cir
culated by the state superintendent, the
state school for the deaf at Delavan and
by city and county superlntendents tor
the benefit of the families and friends of
the deaf, regarding the location aud adj
yantages of the various public day
schools for the deaf, in Incorporated cit
les and villages and of the state school
for the deaf at Delavan, that they may
choose. according to their Judgment and
convenience, the school to which they
will send their deaf children, with lib
erty to transfer them from one to anoth-
en- by and with the consent of the state