The Washington times., 1911-05-17
CONGRESS EXPECTED
TO ACT FAYORABLY.
ON TEACHERS BILL
Some Members Even Helped
to Whip the Measure
Into Shape.

q. There is strong indication that when
the bill providing for the retirement
of teachers in the Washington public
schools who have grown old in the
service is presented in Congress today
or tomorrow that it will receive bet
ter treatment than most District leg
- Sislation. 1t was said today by mem
z bers of the Board of Education and
= other school officials that before the
= bill was even completed various mem
a bers of the House and Senate District
"A Committees were sounded and that
they not only expressed themselves
I; in favor of ii, but that they gave ma
Z terial assistance in putting it into
q form.
y The bill as gotten up provides for the
Z rStirement with pension OF teachers who
Isshave served a certain period of years.
: or who have been incapacitated in the
Eswork, either physically or mentally.
sxMrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. vice presi-
Sspent of the board, is chairman of the
committee which has been Appointed to
take care Of the matter. Other members
are Henry P. Blair and Earnest H.
Daniels.
Provides Two Funds.
= The bill provides for two funds One
is TO be permanent and The other an
? annuity fund. The first will consist of
''all gifts. legacies. donations. bequests,
devises made over to il: the tuition fees
of pupils residing outside the District.
amounting to about 500 per year, and
any unused balance at the end of each
fiscal year; provided that when the per-
manent fund shall have reached 100000
all moneys in excess shall be placed to
H. oF
otherwise specified in the original gift.
legacy. donation, bequest or oevise."
The bill. in part, reads:
The annuity fund shall consist of in
tereSt on the permanent fund, 1la per
cent of the annual appropriation for
salaries for teachers. any balance to the
credit of teachers salaries at the end
Of each Year--nut to exceed Sl0.OgG, how
eVer-and a per "entum of the salaries
Of teachers to be deducted bv the Com
will he: Teachers having served ter
years or less. l per cent; teachers serv-
ing more than ten years, but less than
twenty. per cent, and teachers having
served twenty years or more, per
cent. The basis of this deduction will
Re the nearest even 800 to the salary Of
the teacher
r.. Requisites for Eligibility.
g. THE teachers who will be entitled to
the annuity are those who have served
thirty years in day schools, fifteen of
which years shall have been in the Dis
trict of Columbia; teachers who have
served for a period or periods aggre-
rating twenty years, ten of which
shall have been in the District, and
who shall be considered by the board
of trustees to be mentally or physically
! wholly incapacitated, and teachers who
have served at least five years and
less than twenty years in the District,
who are mentally or physically Inca
paCitated.
NO teacher will be eligible for the
annuity however, until he is retired
from the service, or if he is receiving
a similar pension from any other fund
of another State. In speaking of
teachers the bill designates the teach
ers of day schools; the superintendent
and assistant superintendent OF
schools directors of various depart
ments and instruction and librarians"