The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-07
SOME DETAILS.

SOmE "DETAILS.
The bill empowers the general super
intendent to appoint subject to the mill
tary governors approval, superintendent
in each of the eighteen military districts.
at salaries of $1,000 to $500. Local adj
visory school boards are to be organized
in the municipalities as civil government
becomes established. English is decreed
to be the basis of all instruction and au-
thority is given to secure 300 teachers
from the United States at salaries of SIS
to 500 monthly. travelling expenses to
Manila to be paid by the government
One section of the bill reads as follows:
''No religious denomination shall have
the right to teach it's particular faith
in schools partly or wholly supported by
public funds"
Financial aid by the government is to
be provided in localities where tilera is
sufficient evidence that poverty prevents
the establishment OF schools. Provfsi2n
Is made for training natives as teachers
in English and $500, 600 Is authorized to be
expended. under direction of the mill
tary government, for school buildings,
and like sum for furniture. Anpropria-
lions are made for conducting three nor
NAL schools, and an army officer Is di-
q reeted TO report upon q proposal to found
an agricultural school The first report
of Stpt! Atkinson described educationt
under Spanish rule during two years Of
American military government and the
present outlook. Under the Spaniards
there was but one teacher to 200 in
,habitants, no school houses to speak Of
outside. OF the dwellings of teachers, and
= no good text books. The books in use
Contained partly religious instructions,
the recita tions were mechanical and the
compensation of the teachers was made
quate. Army officers who superintend
in most cases conscientiousIy and with
good effect, and have been generally; en-
couraged at the aptitude OF the pupils.
SCHOOLS IN MANILA. ~.
+ While many of the PROVINCIAL schools
have been taught by ecclesiastics, the
public schools in Manila have practically
all been in charge of natives. There are
row thirty-six schools in Manila; none
of which were founded by Americans
though all are supported through the
provost marshals department, and eight
more are being established. English IS
required to be taught and several Amer
lean female teachers began terms Of
service last month. David P. Barrows
the newly appointed superintendent Of
Manila schools, states in a report just
submitted to the military government
and civil commissioners that under Span
ish rule the public schools were prae-
ticafly private institutions, subsidized by
the government, to which parents who
could afford to pay for their tuition sent
their children. The public schools. during
the investment of 1898 were reepencd
under charge of Father D. McKinnon,
chaplain of the First California voIGn-
teers. Since then the salaries of the
teachers, including arrears, have been
paid by the military government. Ma
tive teachers, meanwhile, have been TAX
ing instruction in English. SO as to be
able to teach it The military govern
ment has also supported three higher
schools conducted by religious orders,
namely, a teachers normal school, the
Athenaeu1n (JesuiD and the girls mu-
nicipal school. The Iast-named has the
only really creditabIe school building in
Manila. 1t is being taken over by the
American school authorities The sisters
in charge Of the girls school are study
ing English and lending every aid pos
sih!e. The assuming of actual control
of the normal school and the Athenaeum
involves some questions now pending be-
tween the Americans and the church au-
p thoritieS