The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-03
May Be Made Superintendent
of Washington Schools.
BOARD Is CASTING ABOUT.
lanes T. Mscieary Has Been Pracli.
csliy d Resident OF Washington for
Past fourteen Years.
IrRoM TIE ST PAUL DIsPATCH.l

Washington. July 3l.-The board OF
education of the city of Washington is
looking for suitable man for superin-
tendent of the public schools OF the ma
tional capital.
While discussing available timber for
the place, the name of Prof. }. L. Nc
Cleary of Minnesota, may be considered
in a certain contingency.
Should Professor McCleary fail to re-
eeive the nomination for congress IN the
second Minnesota district on his radi-
cal "standpat" platform, without ques-
ton he would be rendered the position
Of city superintendent OF the Washing
ton schools Whether or not Professor
McCleary would accept the offer is, OF
course, question.
For many years he has been practical
" resident of Washington and identi-
fed himself prominently with its local
affairs. His hardest work in congress
was put forward in special efforts to Sc
cure substantial appropriations for this
CITY, and, while he did not always sue
coed the official records show that Pro-
fessor McCleary has spoken about ten
words on the subject of District of Co
lumbia legislation to one of any other
pertaining to the northwest OF, i'll fact,
to any part of the country.
1t was during Mr.. McCleary's short,
but rather unfortunate, career as a mem
Der of the appropriation committee that
he had charge of the District of Column
bia appropriation bills, and his record
in that capacity forms an interesting
chapter.
During the discussion of the bill for
general appropriations, Minnesota
member of congress brought forward
figures to show that the various
eleemosynary institutions of the Dis
triCt CT Columbia cost more to maintain
than all of the same kind of institutions
i'll the state of Minnesota Mr. McCleary
made as able defense as he could, to
this charge at the time it was made.
Had Speaker Cannon seen fit to con
tinue MIN as a member of the appro-
pIiations committee, the District of Co
lumbia undoubtedly would have had
Professor McCleary's valiant defense and
I a. g
vouchsafed, complete reply to John
Lind and j. A. Tawney in their criti-
cisms regarding District appropriations
Washington feels kindly disposed to-
ward AIcCleary. For it is of official rec
ord, that, during the time he had charge
of the District of Columbia bill, more
money was expended for keeping the
Potomac river free from ice, and fol
removing snow and frost from the pave
ments than ever before or since during
like period
Those genial and withal liberal gen
try at the district headquarters were ill
disposed to Mr.. Tawney, present chair
man of the house appropriations com
mittee when he refused to o. K an al
lowance for shoveling snow off Pennsyl-
vania avenue last winter.
There was disposition to appeal to
the senate, and mayhap to the president
himself, when the irreverent Tawney, in
response to the appeals for asnowshovel-
ing appropriation, replied well, where
is the snow. Out in Minnesota we call
such things only a slight frost"
What contrast between the dark
grim-visaged James OF Winona, and the
obliging and urbane James of Washing
ton, now of Mankato, whose generosity
to the District of Columbia, is something
which Washington will long remember