The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-18
TAKE No ACTION.
BOARD OF EDUCATION FIGHT SHY
OF TEACHERS MIDDLE.
TO BE DECIDED NEXT TUESDAY
All Efforts to Force Action by the Board
Result in Construction of New
North Side Building May be Indefn-
itely Postponed,

The Board of Education held their
regular meeting Tuesday night in the
Council chamber OF the City Hall, but
| it did not result in bringing about a
settlement of the fight over the selec-
ton of High school teachers for the
coming year and the agony which has
been borne by the teachers for the past
three weeks must be borne for another
week at least.
The real matter in the hands of the
committee was not brought before the
Board and the charges and counter
charges made against the High school
teachers are still a matter of conjecture
and the real substance of them is
known only to the few men who COM
pose the teachers committee and until
this committee makes its report they
will remain a secret.
All efforts to force the Board into
action or to force the teachers COM
mittee into making report at an early
date failed and the older members
nearly all favored having the entire
matter sifted to the bottom and the
whole settled according to facts.
The discussion of the much talked of
High school trouble began almost i'm
medatelY after the meeting opened.
There were no communications or
petitions and when the reports of the
committees were called for Commits
sioner Newman asked for a report of
the committee on teachers. Chairman
Melville reported that the committee
would ask for further time in which to
complete it. At this point Commits
soner Eichelman, who is member of
the teachers committee, moved that
the Board adjourn until this evening at
9:l5, and that the teachers committee
be instructed to bring in report at
that time.
The vote on the motion was tie.
Commissioners Newman, Holderness,
Eichelman, Swift, Scholey, Jackson,
Kroncke and eraser voting in the
affirmative, and Commissioners Burg,
Baker, Melville, Harbert, Williams,
Buchanan, Saftig and Pinzger voting
in the negative. Superintendent Nc
Dowell decided the matter by voting in
the negative.
Before announcing his vote the sup
erintendent stated that he was very
anxious to have the matter settled, but
he was opposed to any rash measures.
After the motion was declared lost
Commissioner Newman made motion
that the board go into executive SEES
sion and that the matter be taken out
of the hands of the committee and
decided by the board. This brought
Burg and Melville to their feet with a
storm of protests. Burg declared that
such an action was without prece-
dent, and Melville stirred up an up-
pleasantness by declaring that in
previous years the board had been
ruled by one man, but that all the
board we're running it now.
This brought Commissioned Jackson
to his feet with point of order. The
missioner from the sixth ward, and de-
clared the motion lost for want of a
second. The matter presented no
other solution and so it went over to
the next meeting of the board without
further discussion. The teachers
committee will meet this evening, and
they hope to be able to settle the
matter amicably.
The matter of the new building then
came up and Commissioner Pinzger of
the committee on buildings and
grounds, reported that he had no
report to make, but would recommend
the indefinite postponement of the
building question. He said that the
board had not as yet decided as to
where, when or what they decided to
build, and for this reason the matter
should be laid over.
On the motion of Commissioner
eraser the whole matter was finally
referred to the board as committee
of the whole, to be reported on at the
meeting on next Tuesday evening.
After authorizing the committee on
text books to purchase four copies of
Cranes Universal Atlas for use in the
High school, and allowing number of
bills, the board adjourned until next
Tuesday evening at which time it is
expected that all the veXed questions
will be settled.
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