Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-24
Of SCHOOL BOARD
The Investigating Committees Report
Presented and a Long Discus
sion Follows.
Holmes Wants an Executive Session
Cooper Appointed on the
Building Committee.

The school board met Saturday in
regular session, all members being pres
ent. 1t was known that the investigat-
ing committee reports would be pres
ented, and the rooms could not contain
the crowd.
When the minutes of the last meeting
had been rea@ Gockstetter moved that
the reference to Attorney Pigott's having
expressed his opinion that Mckay Bros.
bond was void be stricken out. Hanks
seconded the motion, Cooper said that
Pigott would render no bill for profess
sional services and moved that the min
utes be approved as read. Raban
seconded Cooper's motion. On Cooper's
motion the vote stood:
ieas-Cooper. Raban. Poole.
Nays-lIolmee, Hanks, Gockstetter.
Luckett refused to vote, declaring
that the matter was too trivial to waste
time over. Holmes declared Coopers
motion lost. On Gockstetter's motion
the vote was exactly reversed, and
Holmes declared that the minutes stood
approved as read.
Holmes appointed Lucket on the
building committee, Lucket declined,
on the ground that he could not spare
the necessary time. He proposed Coop
er and Raban seconded the nomination.
Gockstetter nominated Holmes, and was
seconded by Hanks. Cooper declined to
cast a ballot and the vote stood:
Cooper.
Holiness.
Cooper was declared elected. On
motion of Gockstetter the election was
made unanimous.
Cooper submitted an extended written
report from the special committee on
water closets. He had found the closets
a menace to health and had the cess
pools filled in and the lumber stored. On
motion of Raban, seconded by Hanks,
the report was accepted and the cost of
the work was ordered paid.
w. d. Dickinson, agent of the Boston
& Great Falls Land company, requested
the board to build a school house, to
cost at least $1,000, in the addition, and
agreed to donate four lots for the pur-
pose. The communication was indef-
nitely postponed.
County Superintendent Swan notified
the school board that he had received a
petition to add 100 acres in district No. /
to district No. II and would so recon-
mend to the county commissioners if the
board did not protest. The communica-
ton was tabled.
County Attorney Freeman then read
the investigating committees report, the
supplementary report of G. T. Anderson
and the comparative statements of An
derson and S~wearingen, all of which are
in other columns of THE TRIBUNE. Then
9. II. Repath read his statement, which
is also found in THE TRIBUNE.
Cooper, seconded by Raban, moved
that the reports be accepted, the thanks
OF the board extended to the committee
and county attorney, and that the com
mittee be discharged. Holmes objected
to discharging the committee. He de-
sired the board and committee to hold
an executive session to consider details
which he did not understand.
Hanks moved that the board meet in
executive session some night this week.
Dunn said that he Thought he com
mittee had made it's report and should
be discharged. Repath's report was
somewhat Of a surprise to the committee.
Repath evidently thought the board
wanted to get a cinch on somebody. Re.
path had accepted Whites figures. In
Justice to Swearingen and Anderson
Dunn wanted to say that Anderson
was employed the day he arrived in
town and reluctantly consented to serve.
Dunn has every confidence in Anderson'a
and Swearingen's figures. The commit.
tee told Anderson to give White the
benefit Of every doubt, When White