Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-20
CASE Of Or. CHANCELLOR
COUNSEL CONSIDER ADVISAHIL-
ITY OF GOING INTO COURT.
Said to Be Duty Of Board Of Educa.
ton, Under the Law, to
Try Superintendent.

Leckie. Fulton & Cox, ATTORNEYS for
Dr. william L. Chancellor. superintendent
or public instruction, have not decided
just what sort Of stand they will make
for their client. They are considering
today the ACCESSIBILITY OF taking the case
at once into the courts on the charge
that the board of education is not legally
and morally competent to determine his
case. Mr.. Fulton, however, said that the
Arm has not completed the study of the
law bearing upon the case, and therefore
has not formulated any definite line of
action.
Some readers of the statement made
yesterday by Mr.. Fulton. and published
in The Star. expressed the opinion today
that DR.. Chancellor's lawyers had de-
cided to demand that the case go before
special committee of arbitration not
composed Of board members, but such Is
not yet the plan of his counsel.
Stuart Mcnamara, assis. ant United
states attorney, counsel for the board OF
education. was asked today his opinion OF
the chances of DIR. Chancellor securing q
nearing before a committee of arbitration.
Duty to Try Superintendent.
THAT remark" he said, smiling, must
have been made In levity, or else by
some one who is ignorant of the law in
the case. 1t is the duty of the board,
under the school law. to try the superin-
tendent''
Mr.. Mcnamara would not discuss the
case further.
No attempt is to be made to prevent DR..
Chancellor. or his attorneys. from ex-
aiming the records of the board of educa-
ton. 1t is understood that Mr.. Mcnamara
has advised the secretary of the BOARD to
allow the attorneys to examine any rec
ords definitely asked for, but not to allow
any records to be taken away from
Franklin School building. Before ope ming
any records. however. Mr.. McNamars, It
is stated, has asked Secretary Hine to
communicate with MIN by telephone.
1t is further understood that the board
am. its attorney have never disputed the
right or DR.. Chancellor, in his capacity as
superintendent, to enter the Offices Of the
board and examine records.
Inc following order was issued to the
employees of the board in the Franklin
building yesterday:
Amy request made of the clerical force
in the secretary's office by Suot Chan
cellor, asking them to perform for him
any service which bears upon the relation
of the superintendent to the board Of edu.
cation is not to be complied with without
express permission Of the president of the
board By. order of the vice president Of
the board"
The order was signed by Harry o. Hine,
secretary. Prof. Barton w. Eyermann Is
the boards vice president.
Searching Of Records.
This order is meant by the board to
have nothing. to do with the searching Of
the public records of the board by DR.
Chancellor, or his counsel, but is said to
have been issued to prevent any clerk
from obeying any request of DR.. Chancel-
lor to perform ex parte services for him
in the present controversy or in other
words, to prevent any employe of the
board of education from lending his as
sistance to defeat the purpose of the
board.
1t was this order which was shown ito
Mr.. Leckie yesterday when he went to
the Franklin School to search the records
Secretary Hine told him he would have to
board or Mr.. Mcnamara before granting
the request.
Capt. James F. Oyster. president Of the
board, will return tonight from his hunt
ing trip in West Virginia and Immediate
ly get in touch with the school situation.
1t was learned today that the board
will brook no unnecessary delay in the
proceedings against DR.. Chancellor. It
will meet, as decided, next Saturday aft
ernoon, and hear the evidence to be pre-
sented by Mr.. Mcnamara in support OF
the formal charges against the superin-
tendent. If the attorneys for the defense
are not ready to present their side of the
case at that time the board will doubtless
made by the board to bring the matter
m the earliest yocSihlo copcf,cino