The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-17
THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR
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| sentials. It is the water color painting, at great cost for materials and su- pervisors of that subject, that robs the taxpayer and ruins the child. The the ory is not that water color work helps In industrial arts, but that it teaches them some refinement and artisticness. 1t is waste of money to allow the board of education money for a super | visor of penmanship. The teachers can teach that There is now no supervisor of nature study, but the study itself takes time and money, and the people I represent insist that their money be spent to do some good to the children and not to injure them"
 Alderman Dowe-"How can this board remedy that if it saw fit to say that there should be no water color work?"
 MT. Dewell-"The only way that the board of finance can stop it is not to al- low the money for it. The only way to stop anything that you don't approve of is not to allow money for it. You, gentlemen, are the only ones who can do this. The court of common council can't"
 Alderman Dowe-"We allow them a general account and they can spend it for what they want
 Mr, DeWell-'I supposed that they were obliged to specify what they want ed; they ought to the same as other de- partments They asked for money for Oak street school last year, and after it was appropriated they asked to have it transferred to the salary account, and it was transferred.
 None of the citizens for whom I ap- pear oppose free education. They heartily favor it. An answer from the board of education as to why they teach these things is demanded by the con census of opinion. To-day in every city they are rising up against it and think that 1t is a waste of money and ruinaticn of the child No one I repre- sent Is opposed to teaching music and good, common sense drawing. It don't seem necessary to dissect frogs and plants. To-day the power to transfer money is in your hands absolutely. If the board of education wants to employ some of these supervisors they can ask for an appropriation for repairs of some school and then come and ask for it's  you to look after these things. An as- sistant superintendent don't seem nec- essary. Last year the board of educa- ton insisted that she was not an assist ant superintendent. We are now pay ing for superintendents $5,S00, which seems too much. The board of educa- tion is to-day answerable to no one, and 1t delegates it's power to one or many answerable to no one, the super intendent. It takes the vote of five members of the board to overturn what he does. You see how far the power has been delegated away from the peo- pie, about as far as it ought to be under free government. The only place where citizens can be heard is here.."
 Alderman Dowet9"You believe then that it is in the power of the board of finance to specify the items for which the board of education can spend it's general fund??"
 Utmost certainly do."
 MT Dewell pointed out to the board that the charter requires that the esti- mates asked for by the various depart ments shall be itemized
 c. w. Ross, chairman of the general Fourth of July committee asked that $1, 200 appropriated flor the Fourth of July celebration, In reply to the charge that money heretofore appropriated for that purpose had not been used to the best advantage by the citizens he said that the city gov in previous years had not been patriotic enough to arrange celebra- f nf tGn ,,,I ( lof 4 the committee composed of representa- tives of the various societies of the city. | If the societies, oby what they have done, have at last awakened patriotism | enough in the city government to eel | ebrate the Fourth of July he felt that l had been accomplished If | the city government would take the ' from the societies they | would be glad of it.
 City Clerk Norris spoke in favor of | any money appropriated for amuse- ments being expended by a committee | of the city government as all public are.
 Joseph R. Manning appeared to fav- | pr the paving of streets within the original nine squares and some in the
  ] building inspector, and thought pro- vision for there items should be made In the appropriations
 When MT. Manning finished it was [0:50, ten minutes before the hour when the board had decided to adjourn. Anthony Carroll stated that he desired -o be heard, but that he wanted more han ten minutes. He said that he could finish within an hour. As he was he last one to be heard the board de- ,ided to give him an hour, and to sit lntil 12 o'clock, if necessary. MT. Car 'ol finished at 11:40, after having offer I'd some practical suggestions concern ng appropriations.
 All the citizens having been heard who appeared the board will hold no nore public hearings.
 OF MIR. CLARK AND