The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-19
County Supervisors Demand
Repeal of Law for Crea-
ton of Co. School Board
MCGEEHAN OFFERS TO SETTLE
Former Highway Commissioner Would
Settle Claims of the County Against
Him for $50 and Commissioners VIII
Act on the Suggestion Later.


The new county board of education
has failed to meet with the approval of
the members of the county board and
that board has unanimously passed a
resolution demanding the repeal of the
law creating the board. The matter
came like a clap of thunder from
clear sky, but when the members of the
board were asked to consider it, it was
found that the feeling against the
board was unanimous. There is moth
ing of a personal nature in the action
of the board and the criticism implied
in the resolutions adopted is aimed at
the law rather than at the Kenosha
county school board. The report on
which the resolutions were acted on
follows:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Kenosha County.
Gentlemen:-
We, your committee, appointed to
draft resolutions to abolish the law
now creating County Board of Edu-
cation, report as follows:
Whereas, We believe that it is wholly
unnecessary, arbitrary and unconstitu-
tional for the reason that Sub. Sec
Is Of Sec. 702-1o provides, "That on
or before the first Monday in Novem-
Der in each year the County Board of
Education shall report the total amount
required to the county clerk, who shall
report the same to the County Board
of Supervisors at it's annual meeting in
November and such amount shall be
levied in the county tax and collected
as other taxes which levies tax on
incorporated, cities maintaining school
boards of their own and over which the
County Board Of Education has no
jurisdiction and is therefore taxation
without representation, and
Whereas, We fail to see wherein the
rural schools secure any benefit what
ever, believing that townshop boards,
local school district boards and county
superintendent are better able to adj
just all matters pertaining to the well
fare of rural schools than a county
Board of Education selected from diff
ferent localities in the county, and
Whereas, Sec. 702-10 places too much
power in said Board of Education, not
only by increase of unnecessary cost
to tax payers by the organization of
a Board of Examiners for common
school diplomas, thereby depriving To-
cal teachers and the county superin-
tendent of schools of all authority in
such common school diploma examina-
ton.
Therefore Be 1t Resolved, That this
board call up its representative in the
state senate and its member of assem-
bly, for the repeal of this law and that
q copy of this resolution be sent to
each county clerk of this state to be
laid before the Board of Supervisors of
each county for their consideration
and action.
Respectfully submitted
j. J. Barrows,
VIM. Luke,
w. A. Epson.
At the meeting, of the board this
morning former Highway Commissioner
M. G. Mcclellan and his attorney,
Peter Fisher, appeared before the board
and sought to secure a settlement of
the claims against Mcclellan based on
the work on the roads last year. The
matter was pretty well threshed over
and McGeehan offered to pay the
board sixty dollars in full settlement
of all claims that the county may have
against him. He was instructed to sub
nit his proposition in writing and the
board will act on it later. In the suit
brought in the name of the county 1857
was claimed.
The remainder of the time of the
board was given over to routine work
hearing reports of the various county
offices and acting on claims.