The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-08
POUR IN
EDUCATORS URGE LEGISLATORS mn
ACT ON BOARD OF CON
TROL BILL
10000 SIGNERs ARE EXPECTED
Both Sides in Legislature Ready to
right, but just Now Are
Busy Watching Each
Other.

If the legislature refuses to take I'M
the board of control imbrogIio at This
session it will do SO in disregard ~ tba
WISHES Of 20,0O citizens of Minnesota.
Petitions are beginning to roll into
state Superintendent Olsen to be pre-
scented to the legislature urging inn
mediate action. These petitions have
oeen freely circulated in every county
IN the state and they are coming back
wen Iaden with names. Several of those
received yesterday contained over 2O0
signatures, and I'D to date there arc a
total OF 1900 signers, with less than one
tentn OF the petitions heard from. The
peutlons read as follows:
70 me Honorable Legislature OF thu
state of Minnesota:
The undersigned citizens NJ +ha +a4
OF minnesota in the interests of nuhIio
euOcauon, beg leave to make the fol-
owing representations; First, by ma
Jorlly decision Of the supreme court ~
the state of Minnesota # has been d.
clded that the law placing 1.-The manage
IIonI dHu cohtroI Oh charitable refCrma-
t tory ana penal Institutions under the
norman schools under Charitable" and
that these schools are therefore SUBJ
JecC TO said board Second, that in this
majority decision it is expressly stated
thdt we, the court, are not REQUIRED
70 hoid, and we do not hold that normal
schools are, as matter of fact "a
the the term Is generally understood, char
liable Institutions
Your petitioners represent that NOT
Wltnstand1ng this qualification of the
court tnat these schools are not in
a S4o3z as the term Is generally under
Sto41, charitable Institutions . tbfs
authoritative statement that thew are
IN some sense charitable institutions
IS interpreted by the public as assign
diIs SIhen 10 this class of institutions
e aitu accordingly as determining the at
CIIuOe or the state toward them IN thA
support which it gives them. as well
a. N me administration of the appro-
prlatlon which it makes.
Your petitioners further represan+ tbo+
the historical classification of the schooIe
l9r the people as Charitable" originat-
Gu III tne fact that under monarchiaI
common people were not recognized an
pelong1ng to the governing class and
=; tIie[9 lore. that the assistance afforded
IN the education of their children was
regarded as a charity
1our petitioners submit that in a gov
eTilment OF the p eople and for the nao-
PtF, our educational institutions have
aItalned to the same honorable rank
as other departments Of government
ana that any seeming degrading Of
Item TO the rank of charities would be
serious blow to their efficiency
Your petitioners, therefore. resnectf,,I-
~ ask that to remove every slisDicion
OF doubt as to the honorable rank Of
education in the state Of Minneeoto
your honorable body shall nv res0fr''
tion or otherwise make such exDIinj+
classlhcat1on of the public school j sys-
tenn, including it's Institutions, as will
d. once accord to them the high rank
anu dignity TO which they have at
ffalned and VIII forever distinguish them
from those institutions that are '.chari-
TABLE reformatory and penal"
Petitions Backed by Letters.
Several of the petitions are accom-
panied by personal letters urging the
matter more strongly and more specific
any than the petition itself does. The
nrst replies received naturally come
from those cities having normal schools
Duluth seems especially opposed to the
present law and the Duluth delegation
VIII probably be asked 70 make good in
the night If it is once opened I'D in the
legislature
AT the recent conference between the
board of regents and the board of con.
troll the matter was left Temporarily nm
settled in the hope that some action
would be taken by the legislature which
might settle the difficulty.
Both sides are on the alert in the leg
lslature. Senator Snyder, the friend Of
the university in the senate. is ready to
spring the matter whenever he sees an
opening, but he is busy watching the
otter fellows. The board of control
forces, or rather those who favor fore
ing the university and all other instftu-
lions under the law, may take the in
ttlatlve by springing a surprise amend
ing The title Of the bill to include all in
stitutions
The administration forces hope to be
aoIe TO settle the educational feature Of
tlle law as the university and normal
schools want 1t, without arousfng any
nght on the board of control bill. Those
VINO are opposed to the board of con-
tfol bill entirely will not hear to this ar
ransement, and are ready to touch of
the networks the moment an effort to
amend appears. They say that If the
BOARD or control law is a good thing for
one institution it is good for the others.
t ano they VIII try to uphold their conten-
ton by appealing to the friends ~ fTro
institutions included under the law
against their wish They will urge thar
IT is unjust discrimination. 80
When the petitions are all in they will
DE submitted to the legislature. and
Dill erecting the proposed change will
probably Submitted at the same time.