Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-02-07
new SCHOOL PLAN
lip IN LEGISLATURE
Democrats Block Effort To
AT Eclish Commissioner Of
Confederate Pensions

Resort to parliamentary law enabled
Represl ntative John It. Murphy, of
Covington, and D. D. Howard, of Yer
sai!lcs, temporarily, at least, to pre-
vent the House of Repl escntatives
abolishing the office of Confederate
Pension Commissioner.
Representative Murphy was the
first Democrat to preceive the effect
Of the Dill and stopped the roll call
to interpose an objection.
Ovcrruled, he objected again after
the bill abolishing the department was
passed, 48 to SO. He moved to re-
commit the bill and was overruled
second time.
At This juncture Representative
Howard Joined him, making the point
that the bill, which abolished the
Office o. Confederate Pension Com
missioner and placed it under the
Adjuste nt-Gencral, carried an appro-
pIiation and must receive 81 votes.
Speaker J. f. Bosworth took the mat
ter undcr adviscment until Monday.
Representative James H. Thompson,
of Boui bon County, charged that the
Office Of Commissioner Of Confederate
Pension; was not considered to be
useless, but that the bill was intro
duced for the express purpose of de-
/ capitatilg the present Commissioner.
The atmosphere surrounding the
whole question, Representative Claude
d. Minor said savored of politics,
adding that "if there was man in the
state OF Kentucky who was qualified
to administer the duties of the office it
was Colonel w. J. Stone, who marched
| to the tune Of "DiXie" and fought in
the Graz.
By a vote of 81 to 0 the House
passed thc bill of Representative A.
M. Wash to simplify Indictment for
violation of the stock law, amending
section A649 of the Kentucky statutes,
Senator Perry's "No Party
! Emblem" bill was given its first
reading over the protest of the
committee by a vote of II to IS,
a few Republicans joining, the
! Democrats in voting it.
Senator Perry said the bill puts q
premium of intelligence. His views
were shared by Senator Brig I arris,
Rcpblican Senator C. w. Burton
favored the bill, he said, as a means
Of preventing negresses controlling
the state when they obtain suffrage"
Republican leaders Hiram M. Brock,
Robert Antle and S. P. Parks opposed
the bill. The measure was read into
the calendar by vote of 21 to 13.
Taking up as a special order the
first of the educational measures,
shortly before the noon recess, the
Senate went into Committee of the
Whole to consider the bill. George F.
Colvin, Superintendent of Public In
struction, explained that a crisis ex-
lists in the educational system in Ken
lucky. Attendance in the public schools
last year, he said was only 46 per cent
of the seventeenth school census.
This condition he attributed to be
due largely to the fact that thousands
of schools were untaught and other
thousands were taught only a part Of
/ the term. More than 1,400 teachers
he said, had left the schools because
: they could not live on salaries pait
them. The average pay OF schoo
teachers, Prof. Colvin said, was $35 tt
t $40 a month. The state had done it,
: part, Prof. Colvin said, but counties
had net. He advocated minimum
tax cf 80 cents on the $100 in coun
ties for school purposes. Further con
!. sideration of the bill was fixed as
c special order for Thursday.
}. A bill was introduced by Represent
e ative r. L. Stewart to create depart
i ment of adults education and to appro
t. pirate $4,000 annually for two year
: to carry out the provisions of tn
J. measure. The department would tax
the place of the Illiteracy Commits