New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-12
CIRCUIT HITS AT MAXWELL.
4 PLAN TO DEFEAT HIN.
Bill to Take Royalties SAID To Be
Worth $4,000 Yearly.

Superintendent MaXwelfs retention as the
head of the school system of the city may de-
pend on the ability of himself and friends to
defeat at Albany bill drafted by Controller
Grout. which means either that DR.. Maxwell
will have to surrender his position or turn over
to the city treasury about $4,000 year tas
estimated by the Controller) of royalties received
on the sale of textbooks used in the New DIX
schools The Controller says that Dr. Maxweli
will have to give up one or the other.
That Tammany is back of tho Controllers
fight against DR.. Maxwell was made PLAIN yes
terday by the Controller himself, VINO SAID thd'
Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles L. Guy
in charge of the city's bills at Albany this year
would take the Controllers Dill TO AioanS 'o-0"'
and see to its introduction
There is already in the charter provision 'iae
city officials shall not receive pay from the city
for their services other than their salarles' anu
that thew shall not engage in business WIN the
city in the way OF Furnishing supplies Oh any
sort to IT. All this is contained IN oeceoh 100
of the charter, which says that VIOLATION VI '"e
section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, ana as
such shall subject the offender to either iihpli'
onment or fine. There is an exception 10 'iii'
provision which permits superintendent MaA-
we'll and subordinates in the Department OF
Education to receive royalties from the sale OF
textbooks used by the city. The Corporation
Counsel's office is said to have made an inVesu-
cation and discovered that the sales OF DOCKS
from which Dr. Maxwell derives a royalty give
him an income of more than S2oOoo outside Oh
his salary as superintendent. Controller Circuit
bill directs that all such royalties shan De
turned over to the city treasury. In support Oh
his contention that this is a proper arrange
ment, he says that Professor Caswell, the nusl-
cal director of the Brooklyn public schools reg
ularly turns over to the city all the royalties
I IF lllGfN
cations to the schools The Controllers bill in
part follows;
No school officer shall have or receive for his own
use any fees. perquisites, commissions. income
afborsS of or Interest in Books used in
any OF tho public schools in the city OF New-York
admnistsred by the Board Of Education And every
school officer who shah receive any fees. perqni-
sites commissions. income, revenues or royalties
arising out of such authorship or interest snail Pc
fTe ne cain BE ea cd returns to the
showing the amount OF all such fees, perquisiites
commissions, income. revenues or ROYALTIES received
by him since the last preceding report. the person
from whom received. and shall produce the receipts
by said school officer, OF the aggregate anouns
over Without deduction by the school officer
receiving them, to the Chamberlain. and detailed
such form as the Controller shall prescribe. stating
when and from whom such moneys were received rea
revenues or royalties received by school officers
shall be paid by such school officer into the city
treasury 10 the credit OF general fund for the
reduction of taxation. The Controller may require
dltion TO that herein provided for and may exam
Inc any such school officer under oath touching the
amount OF any such fees, perqusites, commissions
income revenues royalties paid 10 or received by
any such school officer
1t is understood that Controller circuit also is
directing his guns against Associate Superin-
tendent John II. Walsh in charge OF Brooklyn
and Queens, who likewise is the author OF GER
tain text books extensively used in the schools.
A partial list OF the Maxwell books IS said to
be follows:
Maxwelps First Book in English" Maxwelrs
Advanced Lessons in English. MakweH IN
troductory Lessons in English" Maxwell y John,
| ston's School Composition" MaXwelfs Advanced
Lessons in English Grammar and Maxwell &
Smiths Writing In English
The books on which Mr. Walsh is said by the
Controllers friends 10 draw royalties when sold
TO the New-York Department OF Education are
follows
''Walsh's Mathematics Book No 1; "walsh's
Mathematics" Book No. 2; "Washs Mathematics"
Book No g. ''walsh's Primary Arithmetic"
''Walshs Grammar Arithmetic" Part J. walsh
Grammar Arithmetic" Part ii, and "Walsh's
Grammar Arithmetic Part III
Controller CIRCUITS friends say that as as
the bill is up for debate and passage in the legis
lature Mr.. Maxwell viii either have to allow It
to pass quietly and then surrender his royalties
to the city, according TO the amended law. or
will have TO get Republican help to beat the bill.
IL Mr. Maxwells friends are discovered lobbying
against the bill the Tammany leaders will try
to make campaign capital out Of it.