Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
FUND FOR TEACHERS
Senator Gal|inger Proposes
System of Pensions.
FORMS BOARD OF TRUSTEES
All Teachers Eligible to Retirement
Under Prescribed Conditions.
PROVISION FOR ASSESSMENTS
Amount of Annuity to Be Governed
by Salary of Beneficiary
During Service.

bin was introduced in Congress yes
terday by Senator Gallinger. chairman OF
the Senate District committee. providing
for the pensioning OF veteran teachers In
the service of the local public schools
In announcing some days ago his inten-
ton to present such bill. Chairman Gal
linger declared that the subject of teach
ers pensions would receive special atten-
ton at the hands of a subcommittee. and
at the time of submitting the proposed
law yesterday he asked for reprint OF
800 copies Of Senate document 5s5 of the
second session Of the last Congress relat-
ing to teachers pensions.
The Gallinger school teachers retire
ment bill provides, first for the estab-
lishment OF two funds-the permanent
fund and the annuity fund.
Legacies and Other Gifts.
moneys received from gifts, legacies. do
nations, requests and other similar
sources: OF tuition fees of nonresident
pupils; and Of any unused balance at the
end Of the fiscal year to the credit of the
annuity fund of the teachers retirement
fund. When this fund reaches S1OO.0Gt
these receipts will go into the annuity
fund, unless otherwise specified in the
gift or legacy.
Provision for Annuities.
The annuity fund Is to consist of the
interest on the permanent fund, in a sun
equal to ~ per cent of the annual ap
preparations for the teachers salaries
each year; of unused balances to the
credit of teachers salary fund at the enc
of the fiscal year: 1 per cent of the sal
aries Of teachers who have taught ter
years or less. III per cent Of the salaries
of teachers who have taught more thar
ten and less than twenty years and :
per cent for those who have taught TWEEN
ty or more years; deductions from an
nuities later provided in the act: and in
terest on this money deposited In ma
tional banks. The annuity fund. it is
specified. is only to be used in the pay
ment of annuities
1t Is further provided that "all teachers
retired under this act who have not con
tributed their pro rata share of the re.
tirement fund for a period of twent )
years. Ii retired with disability, or TWEEN.
ty-five or thirty years without disability
as hereinafter provided shall be assessed
an amount each year after retirement
equal to per centum of the average
annual salary upon which retirement i:
based. which amount so assessed shall bt
deducted monthly from the retired pay
of such teacher until there shall have
been made twenty, twenty-five or thirty
annual deductions, as the case may be
including those made previous to retire
ment."
Board of Trustees.
The bill also places the control of the
retirement fund in the hands Of board
of trustees to consist of two members
OF the board of education elected annu.
ally at the first board meeting in Octo-
Der, the superintendent of schools, the
colored assistant superintendent OF
schools and six teachers of the publ,
schools. OF the six teachers on the board
of trustees 1t is provided that three shall
be white and three shall be colored, and
that two shall be elected from each OF
the three departments-seconda inter.
mediate and primary. The white mem
bers of the board Of trustees are to vote
on questions affecting white teachers. ano
similar provision is made with rega RI
to colored teachers. The act also gives
the board of trustees authority to make
rules and to enforce them, to summon
witnesses and administer oaths and to
render decisions in the case Of all ap-
to the board of education
Requisites Enumerated.
In regard to teachers entitled to bene-
fits of the retirement fund, the bill essen.
TALLY provides:
ION the recommendation of the boa rd
of education the board of trustees of the
teachers retirement fund shall grant ar
n a
time of the passage of this act who shall
have attained the age of sixty-fiye wears.
provided, that no teacher who shall he
appointed hereafter for the first time to
any position at greater age than fifty
years shall be eligible to an annuity. ex.
cept under cases hereinafte specified. Ir
all decisions under this provision no an.
peal may be made from the board o,
trustees of the teachers retirement FUND
to the board Of education.
Powers of the Board.
'"The board of trustees of the teachers
retirement fund. beginning October j
1911, shall have the power and it shall be
its duty to pass a resolution declaring
the maturity of service and right to the
immediate benefits of said fund of the
teachers entitled to the benefits thereof
in the following cases:
or hereafter to be employed who shall
have taught thirty years in public day
fifteen of which shall have been
in the public day schools of the District
of Columbia.
Second. To all teachers employed or
hereafter to be employed who shall have
taught twenty-five years In the public
schools of the District of Columbia
Third. To all teachers employed or
hereafter to be employed who shall have
taught for period or periods aggregat-
ing at least twenty Years. in DU.ulc Gay
schools ten of which shall have been i'm
the public day schools of the District OF
Columbia, and who shall be considered
by the board of trustees to be mentally
or physically incapacitated for perform
ing duties of a teacher; provided, that
affidavits declaring such incapacity have
been presented to the board of trustees
by three competent physicians two of
whom shall be chosen by the trustees and
one by the applicant.
Teachers Incapacitated.
Fourth. To all teachers employed or
hereafter to be employed who have
taught at least five years and less than
twenty years in the local public schools,
who have been declared mentally and
physically incapacitated for performing
duties of teachers by the board of trus-
tees Such teachers shall get an an