Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
IN TEACHERS FAVOR|ONE MAN IS HEARD
Senate District Committee Paper Manufacturer Opposed
Acts on Pension Bill. to the Mccall Bill.
CHANGES HOUSE MEASURE DOESN'T WANT FREE PULP
Pupils Says There Plenty
Will Not Go to Fund. for Paper Making.
HOPE FOR EARLY LEGISLATION SPRUCE NOT BEST TIMBER
Ead-To Be Reported Says, and Has a
at Once Opportunity.
Senate District Committee
Acts on Pension Bill.
CHANGES HOUSE MEASURE
Tuition Fees Of Non Resident Pupils
Will Not Go to Fund.
HOPE FOR EARLY LEGISLATION
Friends of Retirement System Are
Elated-To Be Reported
at Once

Favorable action on the public school
teachers pension bill was taken by the
Senate District committee this morning.
By this action the establishment Of a
teachers retirement system In connec-
ton with the local public schools is put
nearer to a realization. and its friends
In Congress see a chance Of getting the
legislation through at the present ses-
sion.
Amended as the committee decided to
recommend It this morning, the bill will
go before the Senate In the same form.
with two exceptions, as similar meas
ure now before the House.
Two important differences between
the House and Senate bills. as reported
from the respective committees of the
two houses. result from the action Of
the Senate committee today. The Sem
ate bill will not place tuition fees Of
nonresident pupils in the retirement
fund and 1t will not add to the fund
each year a sum equal to ~ per cent
OF the annual appropriations for the
salaries of teachers Of the District, as
proposed by the House bill.
The Senate committee eliminated the
provision for the contribution Of IL
per cent OF the annual appropriations
for teachers to relieve the government
button was to be made, half from the
District revenues and half from the
federal Treasury.
Creates Retirement Fund.
The bill. in its first section, creates a
public school teachers retirement fund
to consist OF the permanent fund and the
annuity fund. The permanent fund is to
be made up Of all moneys received from
gifts, legacies, donations and requests,
and any unused balance in the annuity
fund at the end Of fiscal year, but the
permanent fund Is limited to 100000. The
annuity fund Is to consist Of interest on
the permanent fund, any balance to the
credit of the appropriation for teachers
salaries at the end Of each fiscal year and
l per cent OF salaries for first ten years
of teaching, ia per cent for from ten
to twenty years Of service. and 2 per cent
for twenty OF more years Of teaching.
The treasurer Of the United States is to
invest the permanent fund in United
States interest-bearing bonds anu trans
fer the interest to the annuity fund, re-
porting the transfers to the Commits
sioners.
1.-THE board Of trustees Of the teachers
retirement fund" is created in the second
section, to consist OF two members Of
the board Of education. elected annually
at the first board meeting in May of each
year; the superintendent of public schools,
the director of intermediate instruction,
the colored superintendent OF public
schools and nine teachers of the public
schools. to be g ected from the primary,
intermediate and secondary departments.
The board is to have general control Of
the administration Of the retirement fund,
under the general supervision when APP
peal is made to 1t. Of the board of edu-
cation.