The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-11-24
Mayor Scholey in Character
istic TRADE Makes Attack
on Board Of Education
WOULD DELAY NEW SCHOOL
Mayor Insists That He Will Not Sign
Order to Give Board Funds for Build
ing New School Addition-Ot
Work of the Council
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The food gates of oratory were
thrown down at the meeting of the
common council on Monday evening
and Mayor Scholey who is now in train
ing for the legislative marathon at
Madison opened up in one of his char
acteristic TRADES for the first time in
many months. This time it was the
Board of Education that drew the fire
of the Mayor and he kept popping away
at the board for q full half an hour
in a way that proved decided break
in the usual monotony into which the
meetings of the common council have
fallen in the last few months. For
some time the Mayor had been too busy
with politics to make any set speeches
before the council but in that one-half
hour Monday night he delivered himself
in such vehement manner that the
members of the council have begun to
was brought on by report of the
finance committee in which it sug
gested that the requisition Of the school
board which had been made in the
manner provided by law be turned
down in the part providing for money
for a sinking fund for the rebuilding
of school buildings, The Mayor sup
ported the report of the cammittee and
in expressing his stand on the matter
took occasion to take lot of hard
raps at present and past members of
the school board. He declared in no
uncertain language that he would sign
no order for the money for new school
ana declared that in his opinion that
there were enough schools in the city
to do for at least another year. He
aimed his darts of oratory especially
against DIR. E. F. Rowell and James
Cavanagh and the statements in regard
to these men were far from compli-
mentary. Ia closing the Mayor in po-
etic language declared "even though
] may be forced to go behind prison
bars l shall refuse to sign any order
to provide for a new school building
during this council year. I feel that
the school board is putting too much
on the exterior and not enough on the
interior of the schools and under the
present conditions of the city treas
ury let them wait for new schools IN
Til the council sees its way clear to
give them the money to build them. >
1t was suggested to the Mayor that
under the law the city council would
have to raise money demanded by the
board of education but the Mayor in
sisted that law or no law he would de-
cline to sign any order for the money.
The report of the committee was adop-
ted and the next move will probably
have to be made by the board of edu-
cation. In the meantime the members
of the finance committee of the coun-
ell have been invited by the board of
education to make trip of inspection
and learn just how the rooms in the
various schools are being used. Every
member of the council feels that at
the present time al appropriation for
new school building would be hard
ship for the city and would necessitate
large increase in the tax levy and
for this reason are urging the board to
make an effort to find some way out of
the difficulty. The aldermen ON the
finance committee suggested plan
for the issuance of bonds to provide for
the proposed additions to the Frank
school but many of the aldermen are
opposed to any further bond issue at
this time.
The fight in regard to the appropria-
tion for the schools was the one real
spectacular thing at the meeting of
the council The committee was not
ready to report on the paving of Eliza
beth street and this matter was not
brought up. It is said that some prop
erty owners who have a reputation for
lighting in court have insisted that the
contract go to the lowest bidder and
this insistence on the part Of the prop
erty owners is CAUSING some Hesitation
on the part Of the members of the coun-
Gil who favor giving the contract to
another bidder.
The old question of the transfer Of 4
saloon license from ESQ Main street
to place on Elizabeth street was re-
moved from the council when the own
ers Of the Main street building sent 4
notice to the council declaring that
they had not declined to rent the build