Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-30 | Page 7 | Rideout Measure and Eckersley Bill Pass

RIDEOUT MEASURE AND MM ECKERSLEY BILL BILLOne PASS One Raises Age of Compulsory Education the Other Creates More Superintendents Two To hills bills were passed b by the Senate yesterday Senator Hideouts Hideout's measure increasing the tho age for compulsory education education edu edu- cation from rom 16 to IS years ane and Senator Sen San ator atol Joseph bill increasing the number of ot count county superintendents nt on the state board of ot education from rom two to four and providing providing- for Cor the th furnishing to school districts o of fr freo j copies cOIles of ot the course of ot stud study promulgated promulgated gated sated b by the tho board There was vii some debate about the tho Hideout bill Senator I. I L. L B B. B Wight submitted submitted submitted sub sub- an amendment which W was S add ald- ed The bill exempted from rom provisions of 0 the compulsory education law Ian children children children chil chil- dren hose taking front from school chool was necessary for or the tho support o of widowed d mother or invalid father Senator Wight I ht amended tho the bill so 80 that only children more than fourteen years old are so exempt The Tho Theote vote ote on the Rideout bill was wm wasten wasten ten to eight Those Tho e who voted for the bill were Senators Booth Craig Cral- J Eck- Eck ck- ck Ferry Hansen I- I Kelly ellY Hideout Smith Wight and Williams 11 IIams Those rhose opposed opposed op op- op- op posed w were re Senators Funk Iverson Lunt Lun t Olson Thornley and Gardner Gardnel There was no ihO opposition to the Eckersley Eck- Eck ersley ersle education bill