The San Francisco call., 1896-10-23

would be planned in the near future.
Mr.. Clement had promised to do so, but
he had not kept his promise. He would
doubtless do so very soon. The speaker
had not seen or heard any reply to one OF
the objections raised by Mr.. Reddy to the
charter but he hoped that reply would
be soon forthcoming.
Elisha Brooks remarked that the bad
points of the charter had been pointed
out, but that the good points, ana they
were many, had not been mentioned. he
would like to have that aspect of the char
ter Illuminated.
"If we defeat this charter" he added,
1.-THE opinion will gain ground that the
maximum fund is too much, and that viii
be bad. Another point in its favor IS the
segres alton of the salary fund. We are
liable to make up in very short time
those DEFICIENCIES"
Professor Mann announced that he had
some thing new to say on the subject. The
teachers believe that the tenure OF office is
weakened by the section which says that
no teacher shall be dismissed except for
sufficient cause, which cause shall be de-
termined by the Board of Education after
such teacher shall have had hearing in
his or her defense. He understood that
the sufficiency of the cause would be de-
termined after the hearing of the case
by the general laws of the State.
Silas A. White opposed the reference OF
the matter to a committee.
"Why should you delegate your power
to some secret star chamber proceeding?"
he asked. Tine freeholders did not treat
the teachers of this City with that degree of
circumspection and propriety that would
allow us to give to their successors, the
Charter Association. any kind of pur-
| chase. Let US vote upon the resolution
here and adopt it or reject ii"
| Mr.. Lyser did not think that the resolu-
tions were sufficiently specific.
Mr.. Mann read the following letter from
r. II. Webster, candidate for School
| Superintendent:
imperative engagements detain me
from the meeting of teachers called by
yourself and seven other fellow teachers.
This l much regret, for l am in sympathy
| with your purpose"
A motion being adopted recommending
the appointment by the chair of q COM
mittee of five to prepare an address to be
delivered to the teachers, Mr.. White arose
and in north pole accent remarked that
he would be very much pleased if some
body would show the propriety and ele-
gance of selecting a deputy superinten-
dent by the Board of Education and thus
come into conflict with the Supertnten-
dent.
."Mr. Chairman, !" he added, 81 wish you
would place some lady on the committee,
because [ am opposed TO the charter
that's square toed."
Miss Hodgkinson of the Girls High
School and several others said that they
were opposed to the charter.
G. w. Moore, vice. principal of the Lin
coin Grammar School announced that be
was against the charter.
James Denman made speech favorin e
| the charter, in which he said that every
boodler in the City Hall was opposed tc
the charter, and that was one of the
reasons why he favored it.
The resolutions were referred to the fol.
lowing com mittee and the meeting ad-
journed: r. D. Faulkner, James Denman
Elisha Brooks, w. w. Bush. A. L. Mann,
Mrs. L. K. Burke, Miss N. a. Wood and
Albert Lyser.