Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-01
Hope for School Teachers Alb
sent Because of Illness.
SENATOR GALLINGER ACTS
Takes Up Proposed Amendment to
the Sundry Civil Bill.
HELP FOR SICK FIREMEN, TOO
To Get Pay When Injured in Line
Of Duty If Provision
Is Passed.

A way out Of the difficulties over the
| employment of substitute teachers in
| the local public schools into which a
decision of the controller of the Treas
ury enmeshed the board of education
| may be provided in the sundry civil
| bill as 1t passes the Senate
1t is also possible the leaves of alb
sence for those employees of the school
system who are required to work
whether school keeps or not and for
leaves for teachers in case they are
i'll or quarantined or in case there is
death In their immediate families
| will be provided in the same measure.
Senator Gallinger has proposed an
amendment embracing those features
| and he will endeavor to have it put
in the sundry civil bill along with the
| other amendments which the Senate
Seeking the Remedy.
An attempt to make provision for the
hiring of substitute teachers was made
by the Senate committee on appropria-
tions in connection with the District ap-
preparation bill. BY an amendment au-
thority was given the board of educa-
ton to employ substitutes at rates Of
pay to be fixed by the board. While the
Senate approved the amendment, 1t was
lost In conference. and, as the bill was
finally passed, the board found itself
still unable to employ substitutes Capt.
James F. Oyster, president Of the board
OF education, and Alonzo Tweedale, au-
ditor for the District. conferred with Sem
OF CnI1 1i,,on ~t,~i~
District committee, a couple of days ago,
and as a result of the conference Capt
Oyster submitted to him the draft of a
proposed amendment to the sundry civil
bill.
The plight in which the clerks of the
school system and of janitors and other
similar employees whose services are nee
essary throughout the year found them
selves without any annual leave Of alb
sence resulted from the conference pro-
vision for leaves Of absence for employees
Of the District. While leaves were pro-
vided for such employees. a special ex-
ception was made as to employees Of the
school system.
The Proposed Amendment.
The draft Of the amendment prepared
by Capt. Oyster and the school officials
also makes provision for school en-
ployes.
The amendment provides:
THE board Of education is hereby
authorized, in the event Of the alb
sence OF any regularly employed teach
er, to employ substitute teacher from
an eligible list to be approved by said
board, and to pay said substitute teach
er one-ha1f of the basic salary pro-
vided for the class in which employed
for periods not exceeding thirty calen-
dar days, and the full basic salary for
periods in excess thereof; provided.
that leave OF absence Of any regularly
employed teacher shall not exceed
thirty calendar days in any one school
year and Tor this period such teacher
who may be absent shall be paid, in
case the absence Is due to- personal
illness. death in family or quarantine
on account of contagious disease, the
salary of the position less the amount
paid to the substitute teacher, and any
absence In excess of said thirty days
Or absence for cause other than herein
specified shall be without compensa-
ton; provided. further. that all other
employees Of the board of education
may. in the discretion Of said board
be granted not exceeding thirty days
leave of absence with pay in any one
calendar year and in the event of the
absence of any janitor, assistant jani-
caretaker. at any time during school
sessions. the board of education is
hereby authorized to appoint a substi-
tute, who shall be paid the salary of
the position in which employed, and
the amount paid to such substitute
shall be deducted from the salary of
the absent employe."
Pay Of Injured Firemen.
Another provision which Senator Gal
linger has proposed for insertion in the
sundry civil bill will allow the members
Of the fire department to get pay for more
than thirty days while they are recover
ing from Injuries received in performing
their perilous duties. 1t is argued that
when a fireman is ordered into burn
ing building or up a long and steep lad
der into clouds of smoke he should not
have the feeling that if he Is injured he
and his family may have to do without
his pay for a part of the time he is re-
covering.
So Senator Gallinger has asked that the
sundry civil bill contain a paragraph pro-
viding that leaves Of absence, without
disallOWance OF pay, of members OF the
fire department of the District of Colum-
bia may be extended in case of illness
incurred in line Of duty. upon the recon-
mendation of the board of surgeons, ap-
proved by the Commissioners. for a period
not Exceeding thirty days in any one
calendar year"
Firemen are allowed. under the pro-
visions Of the District appropriation bill
which has just passed, thirty days of
annual sick leave But it is pointed out
that firemen sometimes receive injuries
that will put them on the sick list for
more than a month, and 1t was thought
some provision ought to be made for such
contingencies.
An appropriation Of $21 600 to meet de-
ficiencies during the current calendar year
in the poiicemen's and firemen's relief
fund, deficiencies which are recurring
every month. is also proposed by Sena-'
tor Gallneer. For the police relief fund
| 1t is proposed to appropriate $4,000 and
for the fremen's fund $1,000.