The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-09
QUESTION OF SUPERVISORS
AN INVESTIGATION BY 4 SPECIAL
 COMMITTEE WANTED,

CounciImen Last Night-voted in Fla.
 vor of the Substance of the Deweu
 Nesolution-Minorit Report Adopted
 Creation of New City Office Pc.
 titioned For.
 AS soon as the board of councimen had been called to order by President
 Anderson last night Councilman Maley
 Of the Seventh ward moved that the
 rules be suspended in order that the
 board might act upon reports of com
 mittees. The motion was carried as
 was also one by Councilman Baldwin
 of the First ward that when the board
 adjourn it be subject to the call of the
 chair
 lengthy report from the lamp com-
 mittee recommending the placing of a
 number of gas, naphtha and electric
 lights, and the changing of a number of lights, was read and accepted and the
 recommendations adopted in concur renee with the aldermen. The contract with the New Haven Electric Light
 company was approved.
 The street committees report on vari-
 ous matters considered by it was next presented. Among the matters report ed upon was the petition of the Fair Haven and Westville road for permis- sion to connect the tracks on Church street, part of the system purchased from the New Haven Street Railway company, and the tracks on Chapel street. Councilman Spreyer moved that the board concur with the aldermen in accepting the report and adopting the recommendation. Councilman Higgins of the Fifth ward objected and spoke in opposition, as did also Councilman O'Sullivan of the Seventh.
 Councilman Baldwin at this point asked what had become of the petition for an order directing the removal of unused tracks on George street. Coun- cilman Sade of the street committee explained that the petition had been held up pending certain Allegations in which the railroad company was in- volved.
 A vote on adopting the recommenda- ton concerning the connection of the Fair Haven and Westvlle companys tracks on Church and Chapel streets was then taken and the recommenda- tion was adopted by vote of 20 to 3.
 The report of the special committee to which was referred the petition of the .p aI, FS,, tro, of S7,50O in that department was the next matter taken up. The majority report of the committee was first read. This report recommended the granting of transfer of $4325, a $7,500 transfer hav- ing been asked for. The minority re- port, signed by Councilman Hall, rec commended that the entire amount ask ed for be transferred and that the mat ter of supervisors be referred to spe- cial committee to investigate the whole subject and report back.
 The majority report was signed by Aldermen Dewell and Ryan and Coun- Y, ciman Harris. After recommending the transfer of $4 325 the report contains the following:
 This Is the opinion of your commit tee, and from the figures presented by the board of education, will enable the board to carry out its plan of education to the end of the school year, if it abol | ishes the injurious supervisor system in September 1899
 "It is the intention of your committee | to give the board of education all that | is necessary for legitimate expenses. but l not to allow money for unnecessary ex- penditures.
 'Your committee has paid particular attention to the supervisor of the pri- mary department Cor more properly called assistant to the superntendenD, such stress being laid upon the neces- sity of the office by the members of the board who appeared before us, and up- on careful investigation is of the opin- ion that such teacher is unnecessary and a reprehenslble waste of the tax payers money, because each district Is provided with a supervisory principal, who draws q salary of s2,500 year.
 "Your committee believes that, in re- fusing to allow money for supervisors, it is following the wishes of large ma iority of the voters of the city, and is not only doing it's duty by the taxpay- CTS and teachers, but by the children who are being harmed by the false sys- tenn which prevails in our schools"
 Councilman Walsh of the Tenth ward moved that the minority report be sub- stituted as the report of the committee. The motion was carried and it was then voted to adopt the minority report as the committee report, the vote being 2S to ?, Councilmen Slade and Hogan vot- ing no. The members from the outly- ing wards voted with the majority. Chairman Anderson having ruled that they had vote on the matter.
 The resolution disapproving Of the system in the schools and 1t as an unnecessary ex- pense, introduced at the last meeting if the board of aldermen by Alderman Dewell was taken up. Councilman Ho- gan said that he favored the retention l If Prof. Jepson, but that he thought ' hat the hiring of supervisors was an ! expense. He said that teachers work from o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night and ! ret only $500 or $500, while the super ,is ITS who do not work nearly so hard ret $1, 800 per year. He also favored the hiring of home talent for teachers in- ! tead of "going to the woolly west" He ;d +1,o+ +bara xyere inst ac smart DeO.