Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-30 | Page 6 | Urge New Convention

URGE NEW CONVENTION County Superintendents Indorse Nelson and V Score Book Houses The convention wh which ch adjourned late yesterday evening e served t to show that thai V the count county superintendents of schools E Eare are In perfect accord with State Stale Superintendent Super Super- Nelson Eight resolutions were vere adopted in which the superintendents superintendent's superintend superintend- ent's action Is ls fully Cully approved ed and the thc calling colling of or a a. new convention mended One of or them indorses es his action I in opening and r reading the school book bids and states that the action wa was wa based on the advice ad of ot Attorney Gen oral eral Breeden Several resolutions embodied em em- bodied In la the report of or the committee on resolutions were not adopted b by th the convention One of these was cas That we denounce the action of ot Glnn Ginn Co a disappointed publishing house In fostering and encouraging the suit o of r Tanner vs Nelson and believe such suet t action d unwarranted and unjustifiable and as being prompted b by selfish anc and mercenary motives The General Attorney-General was present at al the tho afternoon session and md advised the delegates that the best way was out of their difficulties would be In calling a new nev He Ho said that hr hr- believed that the thc June convention complied compiled with witt I the spirit of or the law but that no ono one could S1 say what the Supreme me court would do although the chances were favorable for a reversal of ot the case The General Attorney-General made the statement statement state state- ment meat that In his opinion the section o of or I the tho statutes s which states slates that the convention convention con con- must be he called within thirty days das before the school book contracts expire is merely directory but the re requirement re- re ment of ot days' days notice of a n. convention Is mandatory Mr Breeden thoroughly the State State- Superintendent of Public Instruction He lIe said I have found Mr 11 Nelson Kelson energetic and conscientious In all that he does doe he be seems t to have only the welfare wel wel- elfare el- el fare of the schools at heart I want wont to M say here that It Is not true that Mr Nelson did anything In connection with the Tanner suit which 1 did not ap ap- ap- ap prove He and I consulted d freely and agreed are about abou t everything that was done In that case The Tho sense of the convention was that new books are imperative and that th their lr adoption cannot much longer be dispensed with