The San Francisco call., 1898-12-17
CLAIMS,
 BUT THEY MADE
 No TEACHERS Riotous Meeting of School Directors. STOPPED BY iNJUNCTI0NS RAN THROUGH BANTEL'S LONG
 LIST OF BILLS. Billingsgate Marked the Speeches and Disgraceful Filibustering
 the Tactics Elm
 ployed.
STOPPED BY INJUNCTI0NS
RAN THROUGH BANTEL'S LONG
 LIST OF BILLS.

The two latest crooked schemes con- ceived by the ready wit of the Board Of Education have died a-bornin'. At the meeting last night the ready hand of the law with Judge Belcher Deuind it, man. ifested itself in the form of an injunction served upon each Director in the bunch. restraining them from consummating the two jobs that yesterday mornings Call an- nounced that they would attempt at last evenings meeting. The thirty new teach CTS with which it was intended to swell the depleted substitute list did not trans pire. and with the fear of a Christmas spent in the durance that would neces- sarily result from open contempt of the courts order, the board refrained from abolishing the business evening school that it might sidetrack Professor E. C. Fitzpatrick
 The injunction that did such good work was sworn to by Mervin Mark Lane, and there was no limit placed upon the term of its operation. Its intent is to prevent for the balance of the term of the pres ent board every crooked scheme that is in prospect, and the list is one of no mean proportions.
 Judge Belcher's injunction did not issue until late in the afternoon. It was de- sired that the board know nothing of it until 1t had gathered at the meeting room, but despite every precaution the word was passed and every Director was ready for the service when it came.
 No attempt, however, was made to fore stall it. It was roundly Sneered at. and each brave Director boaSted that he would ignore it if he saw fit. The only remark able fact was that none of them saw fit, and the meeting, as a meeting, resolved itself into one of the most disgraceful of the many broils that have been fought to a finish since the board first met.
 Robbed by the injunction of the power to push through their last grlst of crook edness they one and all fell to fighting themselves mid- night before the game was finished. The star performers were Head, Waller and Gallagher, and on a half dozen occasions it seemed that general fist fight was inn minent.
 The lie was passed without reserve or consideration for the teachers who had gathered to see if justice was to be done them. The Cnl5- business conSummatel was the filing of 7O00-word opinion from Assistant District Attorney Dunne upon the resolution presented for his consider:i- tion by the merchants at last Wednes- days meeting.
 MT. Dunne announced that in his opin- ion the board had the right to audit claims presented to it and order their payment without the signature of either Superintendent Webster or President Bar rington. In other words, MT. Dunne's opinion gives the board powers of prefer ence in the payment of claims that make it possible to muict the teachers for the ben eft of the merchants whenever the com missions offered shall be commensurate with the risk incurred.
 It gives the board the arbitrary power to prefer any claim or any creditor, for robbed of the balancing power exercised by the Superintendent Auditor Frederick is compelled to pass for payment any claim that comes to him so long as it shall come within the provisions of the one-twelfth act
 Directors Head and Derham made a vain attempt to force the payment of the teachers salaries, but by the filibustering measures of Waller and Gallagher they prevented makiDQ sary motion. There was a batch of sup ply bills that were to be ordered paid under the new ruling of MT. Dunne. and the pedagogues were effectually shut out. In all, claims aggregating $63, ,953, all of them for supplies, were passed to the Au- ditor, and among them were the claims that Director Bantell has been so long and so chary about bringing in.
 The row of the evening started when Head charged that all of the alleged mis- takes. out of which has resulted the deficit that haunts the board. were 'icrim inal, malicious and knowinglyfavrong." Waller jumped to his feet with an objec- tion to such language and Gallagher fol- lowed, and they kept it up until called down by the president Head got the floor again but was once more interrupt ed and finally Gallagher called for the since July l, "just to prove that Head is a deliberate liar and that he voted for every resolution that cost money that has
 Gallagher added that Head was playing to the gallery full of teachers and Waller backed him up in a speech three-uuar- ters of an hour long and twice as wide. Waller said he would take it out of Heads hide if he could not get satisfaction any other way, and then accused him of de- manding compensation for every vote he made. He stated f1atly that he had to buy Heads vote on the elementary committee report passed at last meeting by giving him one of the appointments on the list
 Head did not deny 1t and Waller finished with a chunk or so of supposedly pood advice to the teachers on how not to col feet a salary.
 Head made an attempt to get a reso- lution before the board providing for the payment of the November salaries. but he was again frozen out and after the passage of a block of claims without more consideration than the necessary motion, the meeting was adajourned.