The age-herald., 1897-09-28

l state and county funds of last year, for which the negro was entitled, amounts d to $11, ,215.92, considerably more than he received. The negro is under the laws of the United States and the state of Alabama entitled to ons-half of every dollar raised by taxation for school pur- poses. If we charge the negro the same as the white child we will raise more than is necessary for the negroes. If we put the charge for white children down to that of the negroes, then we will not have enough to pay the white teachers" concluded MT. O'Brien.
 Dr. Dozier replied in an indignant strain that S11 per capita had besn ex- pended during the eight months school term of last year. This Sheriff O'Bnen denied, and showed that many had not paid tuition fees. To this Dr. Dozier re- piled that was the milk in the cocoanut, the children could not go to school un- less they had fees to pay; that the chill dren of a poor man and widows had been robbsd of their share of the state. county and city funds, and if a child had enough coming to him to educate him for three or six months, it is not just to rob him of it if he has not a.50 to pay.
 Sheriff o'Bnen said the board was willing to do what pr. Dozier proposed, but it could not pay the teachers with out money, S.li .,i,,vccuid nof bdiLN LNw money from the banks on the paper of 0 bankrupt town.
 Dr. Dozier took up the subject of Prof. Phillips salary ard said he only worke d eight months in the year and was paid $l 800 a year. Tine whole school syst ern, he said, was pocr. His boy had bes n attending school for seven years and di ] not know an adverb from tumble-bug. Capt. Hart said 14e admired Sheriff OBrien, and he was rot to blame for the charging of fees in free schools He added that the bcurd of education would have no trouble in borrowing enough money from the banks to conduct the school free from now to January.
 He computed that each child of school age was, from Sheriff O'Brien's figures, entitled to $4n worth of frse eatlca- ton, and in vehement language declared that they should get their just dues
 M. J. Gregg, a member of the sclool board, followed with the assertion that the board had endeavored to do the best. thing possible under the circumstances, that Birmingham had the best school system in the country ard that the board was trying to secure legislation which would permit it to raise enough
  months yearly.
 On the question of unfairness MT. Gregg said $1,S00 of the negroes share had been in the past year expended on the white children, and for that reason the beard proposed to charge the negro children less than the white chilirsn.
 A committee of four consisting of w. c. White w. H. Hunter, w. M New ton and M.. B. Canton W as appointed to draft resolutions expressing the sense of the meeting. The committee, through it's chairman, W. H. Hunter, said that its members did not desire to take snap Judgment, so reported that they had de- cidd to meet and confer with the board of education in the high school building on the evening of Friday next The re- port was adopted.
 Meanwhile about one half of those in attendance had left the hall, and those remaining adopted the resolution head ing this article and adjourned