The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-09
SCHOOL BOARD
HAS HOT SCRAP
poIitics Rules in Proceedings
of First Meeting Since
Election.
BROWNING IS PRESIDENT
,,cHT FOR CLERK AND TREAS
uRER GOES OVER A WEEK.

.tt NOW becomes my Guty to preside
-.- the first political board in existence
100 have been connected with the Og-
-. school system" said NJ S. Browning
- evening after he had been elected
-r,sidsnt Of the board Of education. 1t
20 the first meeting Of the new board
"a the vote for president was divided
.,-ctlv on political lines. The action OF
81, members Of the board in the business
-ti,b followed the election Of president
,.-9~ad the truth Of Mr. Browning state
rent. -, -. e.,.,,.,,.,. ,7,,~-
49, tts meeting between Mr.. Browning
- DR. C.. r. Coulter and Hyrum Pin
-res the new and only Republican mem
r. With but one exception the board
I'D along party lines. The exception
MS in the selection Of a vice president
tf-e- ". H. Williams nominated Or. Coul-
--- for vice president. Mr.. Browning left
,ts chair and placed in nomination MT:
rs-r Democratic member from the Third
rsr5 Mr. Williams was apparently eager
so- harmony and voted with the Repub-
rrsns thus insuring the election OF Df.
coulter.
New Members for Reform.
The new members apparently attended
the meeting determined to reVoiuuoni1e
srsrvthing For the most part they were
-rslIrcessful. They failed in an effort 10
..stra the immediate election of a clerk
md treasurer. also to have the books
-B4ftad for the past four wears. When
Mr. pneree got too inquisltlVe about the
r-4rYs finances President Browning SaT-
.4srigaUv remarked that it was carrying
things too far "to make these imputations
al the first meeting of the board Again,
De- don't Qr-4ar n
irg i'm a sarcastic vein said: II there are
mo- other muck-rakes TO get to work the
chair will entertain a motion to ADJOURN
Dr Coulter. on motion of Mr.. Brown.
iug was made chairman of the meeting
The election of president was the ilfst
business ana Nit FaTr with few compi-
fnentarr references as to his many guam
fc7tions. nominated Mr. Browning There
we're no other nominations. but Mr. Pin
gree insisted ON a vote by roll call. FAIR
Williams and Browning voted yes and Pin
gree and Coulter voted no.
Piugree next moved to proceed with the
election of clerk and after Mr.. Farr had
nominated Miss IVY Williams. the present
incumbent the president declared the cleo
tiou OF clerk at that time to be out of or
der Dr Coulter at once took the floor
and commented on what he termed I-regu-
lsrities iG the selection of clerk and treas
urer iu the past and said il was the duty
meeting lie declared it wac matter Of
law and not of choice, and that the law
made 10 imperative. He proceeded to quote
from q lengthy transcript Of the laws of
1897. section / 900.
Fight OFF for Week.
President Browning assumed the posi-
ton that both the clerk and treasurer had
been elected for two years that they had
one year yet to sCrvc. and that the legis-
ature had wisely provided il should be so
IN order that changes would not occur
in these offices az the same time the mem
berShip of the board was changed. He
again ruled the motion out of order. Dr.
Coulter appealed from the decision Of the
chair, hut the chair was sustained by a
party vote Coulter then got d motion
through 70 lay the question over for
week, TO secure an opinion from the legal
advisors of the board. and that the board
De governed by that decision.
Nr. Pingrees motion 10 have the books
ior the past year audited was amended by
ur Coulter to read four years and that
the auditing be done by uninterested per-
sons The four-yeaT proposition failed,
and when the motion was changed so as
70 provide for the auditing OF the books
Aace the last time they were audited it
was carried
Ar. Pingree asked for information as to
NE amount of money the board had on
interest and at what rate. President
bTowning explained that the higi school
pond money was placed in an open &C
count az Z-a per cent interest and as in
asnlg1 as The old board had been unable
% determine how long tie money was to
ne ue1 ZIP it was left for the new board
% decide \ motion finally prevailed in
Siltung the treasurer to furnish Informal
~. as ID what bank the money was de-
vested in- the date the bonds money was
.r'N.kHN. rnfarnd inf and al
wal rate This information is to be pro
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