SCHOOL DISTRICT DIRECTORS.
Mr. SMITH, from the Committee on Education, reported back Mr. McHenry's bill [H. R. 119] to provide for the election of Directors of School Districts outside of cities and towns, with a recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. McHENEY opposed concurrence in the report of the Committe on the ground that people outside of towns and cities should be granted the right to choose Boards of Trustees as well as people living inside of corporations, and it is not wise to leave school matters in the hands of one person who is irequently chosen, not because of qualifications for the place, but for different rea page: 90[View Page 90]sons entirely. What this bill asks is that the people should take into their own hands the rights which belong to them.
Mr. SMITH objected to the bill because it would change the entire school system, and required a revision of the present law.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of Knox, did not believe that the best interests of our Public Schools demand this proposed change. He believed the report of the the Committee should be concurred in. and as time enough had been taken up on this discussion, he demanded the previous question-
The demand for the previous question was seconded by the House, and under its operation the report of the Committee was concurred in.
And so the bill was indefinitely postponed.
The House then adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow.
