Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-27
DELAY WITH PAY ROLL
Teachers May Not Receive
Checks Within Ten Days.
CHANGES MADE BY BOARD
Question as to Remuneration of
Heads Of Departments.
NINETEEN DOLLARS DEDUCTED
Provision Of Organic Act-Discussion
Of What Are Claimed to
Be Rights.
CHANGES MADE BY BOARD
NINETEEN DOLLARS DEDUCTED

Inquiries at the Franklin building this
afternoon disclosed the fact that the Octo-
Der pay roll for the teachers and other en-
ployes Of the public schools had not been
sent from the Office Of the board of educa-
ton to the District building. 1t will doubt
less not be forwarded until some time next
week, owing to the time required to revise
1t in accordance with the changes made
by the board at its meeting last Thursday.
Unless the District auditor and tho dis
bursting officer break all records In the au-
dHing and making out Of checks, It Is
stated there will be a delay in the pay
ment OF October salaries, perhaps Of ten or
twelve days.
1t was hoped by the teachers and school
employees generally that the DELAY in the
payment Of salaries occasioned last month
by the necessity of waiting for the decision
of the controller Of the treasury would
not be repeated.
Continues to Cause Trouble.
The salary question has by no means
ceased to trouble the teachers At present
the thirteen heads of departments in the
high schools feel that an injustice is being
done them when they are told they must
lose $40 each from their salary because,
although they were appointed teachers be-
fore September. they were not designated
as heads of departments until September
1t has been decided that they will not re-
ceiTe salary for the time between the date
OF their appointment as teachers and the
date of their designation as heads of de-
Partments, and must lose $40 because their
designation was made after September 1.
The case OF the teachers in question has
been stated, as follows:
appropriation bills for many years back
have provided specifically for heads of de-
partments in high schools, under the CLASH
hcation OF teachers. The organic act Of
lSO6 June) and the appropriation bill in
accordance Herewith designates and appro-
PIRATES for them in exactly the same way
as do the preceding appropriation bills.
The title Is not new one nor a different
one.
Every head Of department, with the
exception of two. appointed or designated
to take charge Of a specific subject or set
OF subjects was appointed as a teacher
August Il. 1906 and was ready to perform
and did perform. all duties required of him
continuously from date Of appointment
Only Salaries Available.
"The only salaries available for these
teachers under the organic act of June,
1901. and the last appropriation bill were
ten $1,000 salaries. and. by implication,
these teachers were to receive these SAL
aries, each $780, and the mere designa-
ton Of special subjects for each depart
reservation Of such departments for the
ten teachers. In fact. the mere placing Of
these teachers at q salary Of 1890 each
would be equivalent to the appointment Of
each OF them to some department
In many cases the same teacher has
charge Of the same department as formerly
and 1t would seem that in such cases the
mere appointment Of such teachers neces-
sarily implied that they were to have these
respective departments and that any future
designation subsequent to September 1,
1905, as heads of the same departments
was mere surpiusage and added no weight
1T does not appear that these teachers
could be paid other than 81 800 each for the
entire year beginning with the opening of
school September 1906, as there were no
other salaries available for them, and it is
doubtful whether the auditor could create
for them for any period a salary which
was not authorized and appropriated for,
under the appropriation bill for the year
1S06-07. To do so would be to invest the
auditor with legislative power to create
for every teacher salary not authorized by
Congress, and such legislative power is in
compatible with the duties of an auditor
and belongs solely to the lawmaking
power"