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3 Grammar School: authorizing the
holder to teach in any primary or gram
mar school in the State.
Then it proceeds to specify how these
life diplomas shall be granted, etc.
Waving the question of the constitu-
tionality of the BILL however, it is
charged there are enough hardships in
it imposed upon the teacher to condemn
it.
The Act provides for no educational
teachers have no guarantee that their
hard-earned and we'll deserved certifi-
Gates will be renewed, or as to whether
they shall be required to pass examina-
tion on the expiration of their certifi-
Gates or on removing to other counties.
The bill requires that holders of High
School certificates shall have taught for
three years upon these certificates be-
fore diplomas shall be granted, thus cut
ting off the possibility of excellent
teachers who have proven their eff
cheney by teaching successfully on
grammar grade certificates, from get
ting diplomas of the high school grade
simply because they have not taught on
the high school certificates. And it is a
well known fact that many of our best
teachers here never taught in high
schools at all. In fact, the great ma
jority have not. They should be granted
the high school diplomas if they hold
h gh school certificates, and no Chinese
wall should stand in the way of their
rights or their advancement. To arbi-
trarily require that a teacher should
teach twenty-four months 'in the Uni
versity Of California, a California State
lishment under the laws of California -
is manifestly unjust. 1t places a prem
ium on those institutions, as worthy as
they are, that they have no honorable
right to expect.
The bill as it now stands, if the views
of some prominent educators are cor
rect, should never become a law and the
courts should be relieved of declaring it
unconstitutional
TO-DAY'S BATTLE.
In some respects the approaching
struggle on the State Printing appro-
priation has assumed proportions more
important than any issue thus far of
the thirty-second session. The fact that
the State Printing Office has definitely
closed down on all but legisla tive print
ing makes the situation critical one;
the employees have not been paid for a
proaches the verge of exhaustion.
When the Assembly took recess at
4 O'Clock yesterday the situation was
as follows: Dibbles two bills-one ap-
propriating $4,000 for the support of
the State Printing Office for the re-
mainder Of the fiscal year and one for
$50, 600 for legislative printing of the
thirty second session We're sat upon by
the Committee on Printing and a sub
stitute reported favorably which called
for lump sum of $4,000, as did Guys
original bill, vetoed by the Governor
The committee believed it had elimi-
rated from the substitute the constitu-
tional objections of the first one and
proposed to stand by the $4,000.
But when the Assembly majority
went into caucus after o'clock-the
Senate not being present-it was diff
ferent. Dibble's two bills We're re-
garded as the solution of the matter
The reasons that are given are that a
veto to the $4,000 bill would close the
printing office, throw all the employees
out and antagonize all labor and trades
unions and people, while a veto of the
$50, 900 measure would shut the legis-
fative doors summarHy and leave the
blame of their closing with the vetoing
power. 1t is said the caucus agreed
to stand by this proposition as one
man and that it hopes to break the
deadlock by this means.
Altogether, the signs point to to-day
as one Of the most interesting of the
thirty-second session of the Assembly.