Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-21
BILL To Be DRAWN
FOR NEW SCHOOL
LAW FOR STATE
Members of Legislature Ask Citi'
zcns' Committee to Prepare
the Proposed Measure.
TO MAKE CHANGES
IN PRESENT LAW

Dover. Doc. 21-Members of the
General Assembly of 1921 adopted yes
ter,lav afternoon q motion made by Sen
ator Alice. authorizing q citizens commit
tee TO draw new school law for Della
ware which shall embody a system of
taxGticn for school purposes that will
reduce the load in reel estate at least
80 per cent Although 30legislatnrS we're
present, the vote was light Probably three
or four voted athrmatlvcly and two OF
three negatively. The citizens committed
was appointed two months ago by the
holdovcr Senator's, and yesterdays &C
ton was taken 1t a conference Of lcgisla-
tors and the executive committee Of the
citizens committee
Robert G. Houston. chsirman, and
Dr r. W. Cooper. secretary OF the exeCu-
tive committee, called the conference
which was held IN the State House. IL
began in the morning, and discussion
continued three hours. Sixty persons
exhibited great interest in the proposed
school legislation
Part Of the discussion was published
Yesterday bv Every Evening Partici-
pants IN addition TO those then quoted
were numerous.
senator Palmer advocated the drafting
of an entirely new school law. ono that
would be workable snd cmbody the good
features Of the present school law, He
thought the school tayahles should he
gwen moro seh-gOvernment
Senator Richards opposed special school
districts and proposed uniform capita
tior tax for school purposes
ReprcseutativC-elect Miller said many
of his constituents dislike the present
school law. and Reprcsente tivc-eicct
Paskey advocated its repeal
Represeutative-elect Noble announced
that he was elected to oppose the present
school law
RepresentatIve-elect Brown stated so
20 90 per cent Of the people in his district
want the present school law repealed, and
Representativc-elect Paskey favored re-
peal.
Represcntatives-elect Clendaniel. Of
veil Meggins1n and Phillips recommend
81 school law revision
Rcpresentative-elect Gray praised vari-
ous features Of the present school law.
RepreScntativc-elCct Hudson said his
constituents told him 20 night the present
-choOl law 70 a finish.
ReDresenvative-clect Lester favored =
modern school law.
Senator Alice declared the present
cause it contains much vcrhage He
81 ygested the drafting of school law
that would please everybody and asked
that it ba clear and concise
School taxes were discussed, and taxing
bonds and mortgages was proposed.
Former Representative Lyons apposed
further increase of Wlmi ngton's sax
burden unless the CITY received share
of the State s hool funds porYortionatc to
population. He referred "a the proposed
bonding Of New Castle county exclusive
Of the special school districts, IN the sum
Of SlO00000 for school purposes and
thought Wilmington would be asked TO
redeem most or the proposed bonds.
Sussex countians criticised Wilmington
for not coming under the present school
law and declared it had thrust upon the
rural sections Of the State something the
city would not accept
The conferrees analvzed answers to
school QuestIonnaires that had been cir
culated IN the counties. and the greatest
objection seemed II relate to school
taxation, consolidation, transportation
administration and organization
Senator Alice moved that the citizens
committee write a school law which Del
aware could afford to maintain.
Robert G. Houston asked Senator
Alice 70 make the motion more elastic
Senator alice refused, but Oh recon
sideration stated he did rot ike the
wording OF TIE motion He rext moved
that the citizens committee Re author
ized 70 draw 4 new school law which should
include 8 system for supplyi1g funds as
we'll as system for distributi, them.
Ii mes H. Hughes thought the motion
was imperfect, ard Ser ator Alice faally
moved that the citizens committee be
authorized 70 draw a new school law which
shall embody a system Of taxation for
school purposes that VIII reduce the load
on real estate at least 80 per cent
Robert G Houston ard james H
Hughes feared the embodylrg Of tax Oh
vestmerts might endarg ger the cor
stitutiouality Of the proposed school
law. and MIR. Houston said Senator Alice
was trving TO put on the mmittee some
thing it could Z do. The motion, how
ever, was adopted and Mr. Houston
stated rhe committee will do the best
Il can.
1t was the sense Of the legislators that
the citizens committee should spend q
res sol able sum for expenses and be
bursed bv the state
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