The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-01
BUSY DAY In SCHOOLS
TODAY WILL BE AN EVENTEIJI,
ONE IN EDUCATIONAL CIR
Giles LOCALLY
SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET

Committee of the Public school
Union VIII Meet, and Secretary
Healy VIII Stick the Pay Roll
Under Comptroller McCardy's
VIII Re Refuse to Audit 1t Thens
The committee appointed by the Public
School union to inquire into the status of
the charter matter did not meet yester-
day, but will get together this morning
to look into the legal question as to
| whether or not the old charter commits
sion Is still in existence, officially and eff
fectively.
The board Of school inspectors will hold
Its regular monthly meeting at the New
York Life building this afternoon, at 2:30,
to consider the situation, and, as far as
can be learned, there is no disposition on
the part of the board to recede from the
position which 1t has taken
H. c. McNair, who, besides being a
member Of the board, was one of the
members of the charter commission of
1885, and therefore has been afforded an
opportunity to hear the legal questions
involved in the charter discussion thor
oughly dissected by such men as Col.
Clough, Greenleaf Clark H J. Horn,
w. H. Lightner, Pierce Butler, Norman
Fetter and the other eminent legal gen
tlemen who were on the commission, has
been the backbone of the school board
In a way, having been the sturdiest in
insisting from the first Of the fight 70: a
| larger appropriation, that the money
| could be gotten and would be. He kept
the other members of the board braced
! up before the supreme court knocked out
the special school tax, and he has gotten
them to a point where they are not will
ing to recede
Secretary Healy yesterday finished the
pay roll for the teachers for October, and
it will go to the city comptroller early in
the morning and is expected to come up
at the meeting of the committee on ways
and means of the council this afternoon,
| unless Comptroller McCardy declines to
audit it, in accordance with his time
honored ruling that no department may
spend in one month more than that
months share of its annual appropria-
ton. 1t is figured by some Of the friends of
the schools that Mr.. McCardy has gotten
himself into a position where this ruling
will have to be abandoned, as he ap-
proved the two weeks pay roll for the
opening weeks of school without objec-
ton, and in this the wages were at the
same scale as provided for on basis Of
$3.50, 900 for the ten months school, instead
Of 1921, 900, the amount fixed by the council
If the pay roll is not audited, the next
Gov dow IIIr0I
teresting developments. The teachers do
not want their salaries cut naturally, and
how they will incline to not receiving the
money in the event that the pay roll is
not audited remains to be seen. The fact
that the first pay roll was audited without
objection adds to the intricacy of the
problem, because if the schedule is not
! to be followed, then the question arises,
what Is to be done with the money which
has already been paid to the teachers
under the schedule as fixed by the board.
1t has been suggested, in a resolution
submitted by Gen. John B. Sanborn at the
meeting of the chamber of commerce yes
! terday, that it would be better to cut
! off the high schools, or some OF them,
than to deprive the smaller children of
the part Of the years course. Gen. San
! born's resolution was as follows:
! Resolved, That the committee on educa-
| ton Of the st. Paul chamber of commerce
! be requested to ascertain and report at
| its earliest convenience.
That the whole number Of children in
! attendance upon the public and private
schools of st. Paul including the parochial
| schools.
| tendance upon the high school or schools
| including all branches thereof and the
! mechanics arts school.
The whole amount Of money raised or
received from all sources and from what
| sources for the support of schools in St.
| Paul
What amount or proportion of the same
| Is expended for the high school or, schools
! or their branches, and whether the policy
| of the board Of school inspectors in the
! expenditure of the money is such as will
! be likely to deprive the children Of the
| great mass Of our laboring people of the
! privilege Of attending school for any por-
| ton Of the ordinary school year by the
reason Of the expenditure Of an undue
| proportion of the money IN the conduct
of the high school or schools.
| What amount of money considering the
! present condition of business and market
value of land should be levied and raised
| at this time for the public schools in st.
| Paul.
1t was referred to the committee OH
! education, as was also the following res
olution by Thomas Cochran:
/ Resolved, That the committee on educa-
| ton be requested to confer with our
tees appointed by other organizations of
| the city upon the present financial condl-
| ton confronting the board of education
! and under such counsel and aid in the
| matter as may be practicable.
With reference to the latter, President
Zimmerman, of the school board, said
yesterday:
Our books are public records and open
| to inspection by any citizen. We are
perfectly willing that the chamber Of
| commerce or any other persons make as
| full an examination as they desire. They
can also examine the schools themselves
and see their condition
| LAS far as closing the manual training
| school is concerned, the board was ready
! to do that two years ago, but there were
| mass meetings to protest.