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Show WANT A SI'EEIIV JI1UL ; Tha School Beard Institutes Proceedings to Enjoin the Ten itorial Coin-mis'ioners. Coin-mis'ioners. j THE ELECTION NEXT MONDAY. j An Overflow in the Various Schools I Causes the Board to Look for ' Mjro Room, j j I lie board of ed'.u ai ion met last night ! with Yico President Nelson in the chair i and Trustees Colbaih, Mitchener, New-j New-j man, Pike, Snow and Young at their ; licks. ; I tic minutes of the previous meeting ; were read and approved, whereupon j Trustee Young moved to a suspension j of the regular order of business, w hich j prevailed, and the finance committee j liied the following report: Your committee on finance, to which was referred tho subject matter of the resolution of Thursday evening last providing for a suit enjoining tho Utah commission from hulding the election to test the popular will on the subject j of tho issue of $:tuO,()(M in bonds for schools and schoolhoiises, has attended to the duly assigned it. Messrs. Sutherland Suth-erland iV. Judd have been engaged to bring the suit contemplated, and the papers for the same were tiled in the Third district court this day. It has I been urged by the committee that a I speedy determination of the matter is ! essenti.aj, and counsel fully understand that fact. The report was accepted, placed on file and the committee instructed to continue its labors. The fact that Hiram Colbath had moved out of tho district represented by him was cited and the clerk instructed instruct-ed to notify him to take such steps as were necessary to quality tha vacancy. The board decided to take no action until un-til Mr. Johnson had boon given ample opportunity to resign. llecoinmendations of Superintendent Millspaugh concerning the adinissiou of pupils to a certain grade wero referred to the committee on school work. Mr. Millspangh submitted licit chil-dern chil-dern of tho lirst and second grades were pouring in at such a rate as to over-tax all t he schoals. All over the city the increased attendance was tilling the buildings beyond their capacity. Trustee. Trus-tee. Pike moved that the superintendent report the number of tho overflow. That gentleman staled that tho second district w as very much over-crowded. In that district a room of a size huII'i-cient huII'i-cient lor only twenty-one pupils was holding sixtv-rive. One room in the Third ward nad eighty. The Fourth, Seventh and Sisth wards wero all full and crowded. Jn fact, all the schools wore too full of first grade scholars. Kuferrcd to the committee on building with power to act. Tho approaching election upon a matter of school bonds was then taken up Trustee Young, who recommended that tha finance committee proceed at once to the enjoinruont of the Utah commission as tho election was due on Monday next. All members of the board acquiesced and an adjournment was taken until Thursday evening, at which time the regular order of business will engage attention. |