The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-20
MERCHANTS ARE
GIVEN ALL THE
AVAIL ABLE CASH
Compromise With the
eaCherS.
LATTER RETAIN WARRANTS
ALL PENDING LITIGATION TO BE
ABANDONED.
Strengthening Out the Claims for
Salaries and Supplies Against
the Former School
Board.
LATTER RETAIN WARRANTS
ALL PENDING LITIGATION TO BE
ABANDONED.

Word was circulated late yesterday aft
ernoon among the merchants having
claims against the School Department
contracted during the incumbency of the
former Board of Education that the COM
mittee appointed from among their num-
Der and a like committee of the school
teachers had reached an agreement, the
terms Of which were even more satisfac-
tory to the merchants than those they
had first submitted to the teachers.
This agreement. which the merchants
were assured would be signed by the
members of both committees without de-
lay, gives to the merchants all the avail
able funds, amounting TO S35 900 or there
abouts. now at the disposal of the School
Board. to be applied TO the old claims, and
in return the teachers are to retain their
variants for November and December
salaries while in the event of any money
coming into possession of the board from
any unexpected source, such as the inner
itance tax, for instance, or there being a
surplus at the end of the fiscal year, 1t
shall be divided between the teachers and
merchants in the proportion Of about 8
to l in favor of the teachers. BY the
terms of the compromise the teachers are
10 dismiss all pending litigation, lnclud-
ing the suits Moses vs.. The Board OF Edu-
cation, Brooks VS. The Auditor and Board
of Education, and Morse VS.. the same de-
forced TO reduce the total of their claims
by 1000, making it approximately $1,000.
The merchants are elated over the terms
OF the compromise, and well they may be,
for they are enabled to divide among
themselves at once So, 900, while the teach
ers must look to the uncertain future for
any portion. OF their salaries for the
months of November and December. But
in justice to the members Of the commit
tee representing the teachers it may be
added that they did not surrender their
q i'm thair-
sibility. On the contrary, the teachers
themselves forced them into the step.
AT recent meeting Of the teachers the
committee submitted report embodying
offer from the merchants whereby the
teachers were TO place their warrants for
the two months il the hands of a trustee
as guarantee of good faith, the mer-
chants to adopt similar course in regard
10 their claims The available funds, at
thar time supposed TO amount to much
more than $35 coo, were TO be equally di-
Vided between the teachers and mer-
chants, and any funds that could be de-
voted to the purpose in future were also
to be divided. When this proposition was
submitted there was great COmmOtiOn
among the teachers. y large majority
fancied the placing of their warrants in
a trustees hands meant the absolute as
signment OF them, and that they would
receive but a small portion of.the amount
due them after having surrendered their
claims.
At a subsequent meeting the teachers
rejected the offer and expressly instructed
their committee not to enter into any
agreement whereby the teachers were to
Rather than to do that they were willing
the merchants should take the entire
amount of available funds With those
instructions the committee could only
make the best terms possible with the
result that the merchants last night were
chuckling over the agreement which, they
say, has been definitely adopted and only
awaits the signatures Of the members of
the two committees.
The merchants and other creditors,
aside from the teachers aud including la
borers, have placed thefr claims in the
hands of a trustee, VINO will draw the
money and divide it pro rata among them
of the $50 900, or $1,000 which the mer-
chants offered them, have, by agreeing
to abandon all litigation, left the legal
status of their salaries as badly mudded
as ever.