The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-01

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 Continuing, MT. Troup said: Gentle men, I am not in favor of the power delegated by this district to the board of education being delegated to any one-man power I am not in favor of the importation of teachers from out side of the city school district at larger salaries than are paid to the daughters of taxpayers in the district, and then for the board of education to refuse to put the salaries in the report of the dis trict and ask the people what they are going to do about it'
 Moderator Rourke-"Confine yourself to the question, MT. Troup"
 MT. Troup-"I am not ready to vote for any tax, for any purpose, until l know how it is to be expended and whether or not the machinery of our high school and normal school is insuf- ticient to make teachers of our own children, or if we must go to the wild and woody west for them.
 "We get so much science chasing grasshoppers and dlssecting butterflies that fundamental knowledge Is driven out of the pupils heads. The high school has become so bad that would not send my children to it. know others who think the same Of 1t as do. I want to say to you here that we want a new principal in New Haven. I am opposed to the one-man power everywhere, and the time is coming when the taxpayers will pay dearly for allowing this instrument-the charter forced upon them by pinfeather states hnnnro hla MaVOr-
 Councilman Gifford-"Talk to the question"
 MT. Troup-"What I say may be un- pleasant to the gentleman. but he must take it and go away with it. l want to go on record as being in favor of hiring our own girls for teachers, ana not of importations. am not to be scared by threats that the pubic schools will be closed. I don't believe they will be-
 Alderman Chillingworth-"I am in sympathy with what the gentleman has just said about hiring New Haven girls as teachers. Since the last school meeting I have made some investiga- tion and have found that our superin- tendent of schools, since his advent, has appointed sixty-siX teachers, or whom sixty were from Connecticut ffty-four of this number being from New Haven, three from New York state, two from Maine one from Mass achusetts and one from Illinois.
 MT. Fleetwood-"For heavens sake, Chillingworth, stop Lord, let's vote
 Calls of Question:" rent the air, and the crowd, having remained compara- lively quiet for a few minutes, now broke forth into howls of redoubled calibre after it's rest.
 Anthony Carroll rose to another point of order when asked by the chair what his point of order was he said: Its this-what Chillingworth said wasn't true.'
 Laughter and discordant yells greet ed this sally. and in the midst of the tumult MT. Hogan rose to speak, but was howled down by cries of Out of order!"
 MT, Hogan, however, persevered, and called to the chairman to recognize him, but to no purpose.
 James B. Martin wanted to know By what right of parliamentary law the chair refused to allow a citizen to speak" He said further: T think that the gentlemen in favor of hasty action here must have something to conceal If they are not afraid, let there be fair and deliberate discuss sion People who come to this meet ing havea right to know what the tax is to be laid for, even in detail, and should not be shut off,"
 l MT. Carroll again spoke. He said: 1T know that the better class at this meet ing are saying that the uncultured men 1 don't want to pay for education. MT. Chillingworth said in his remarks, and by the way, his memory comes back when he wants it, that New Haven | girls are employed as teachers in our schools. Now, here is the last report 1 of the board of educ. ton, and if he can show there the statements that he has made, then I am with him. No man l can be on two sides of the house; no one can work for two concerns. We have got superintendent of schools here who is not director in the kin | dergartens." ,s | Here Edward F. Mccarthy called for the previous question, and after the interruption MT. Carroll continued: q say the New Haven superintendent of public schools can't be director in the kindergarten on Oak street and pass by New Haven girls and go down to the missions to get teachers. Members of the board of education are also di- rectors in that mission school,
 q know of instances in which girls who graduated from Hillhouse stood next on the list for appointment as teachers and they have been passed over and teachers imported while tax payers were told that teachers posi- tions were not made for their, daugh- | ters."
 | At this point in MT. Carrolls re-. marks the yells became so frequent and so loud that it was impossible to hear what he was saying. Sit down." Co l ahead" You're winner" and like phrases were shouted to him while he kept the floor and struggled to be heard As he continued, Edward F. Mccarthy shouted again for the previous ques- tion. Fiercer and louder grew the wells until finally MT. Carroll shouted at the | top of his voice, T don't want to be in- | terrupted."
 Mr. Carroll-"I asked the clerk of the | board two days ago where the salary accounts were. He said one had never | haa,, cta If a5 hut uyoc rroipor +o l, ,,,,+