REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Education, to which was referred the portion of Governor Baker's message with reference to memoralizing Congress to extend the time for the completion of agricultural colleges, reported that a bill in Congress obviates the necessity for such a step on the part of this Legislature.
Mr. Fuller, from the Committee on Education, returned Mr. Armstrong's bill [S. 190] to legalize irregular proceedings of Boards of Equalization iu cities, with a favorable report thereon.
Mr. Armstrong explained that this bill applied probably only to the city of Kokomo
page: 120[View Page 120]Report concurred in.
Mr. Scott, Chairman of the Committee on Education, returned the bill [H. R. 155] providing for a Board of School Commissioners in cities of 8,000 inhabitants and over, with a favorable report.
Mr. Fuller presented a minority report recommending that this bill be laid on the table, believing that politics and sectarianism should find no avenues to creep into our public schools
.Mr. Gooding was inclined to favor the minority report, believing that school commissioners would be better selected by the Council of cities than by ward meetings, where sectarian influences were more likely to obtain.
Mr. Sarnighausen endorsed these remarks, and favored concurrence in the minority report.
Mr. Scott objected to the argument for taking away elections from the people. Such a course is going beyond what experience in this country has taught us. If a matter can not be left to the people, he desired to know why. He moved that this subject be made a special order for Thursday, at half-past ten o'clock A. M.
Mr. Orr thought the nearer we kept to the people, the safer we are.
Motion for special order was agreed to.
