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Show REFORM SCHOOL TEACHER IS CENSURED the needs and requirements of the Institution, In-stitution, and we submit that a new main building, sufficient and adequate to the growing needs of the school, should be in mediately provided, the same to be of a capacity and design to permit of a separation of the younger members from those older In years and crime, and to further permit of a system of grading, classification and promotion. In the event that the financial condition of the State will not permit of the erection of such a building, then we recommend that the girls' cottage should be built, as requested by the board of trustees, and that their supplemental requests for funds for the library, etc., be favorably considered. 7. Your committee desires to say that it made no Investigation of the attempted at-tempted burning of the institution some time ago, for the reason that this matter, mat-ter, Is now legally and properly before the District court. The parties to the attempt are In the Weber county Jail, and we felt that while the case was pending the parties might very properly refuse to testify in the matter. 8. In conclusion, your com-nlttee desires de-sires to express its appreciation of the kindly and courteous manner In which it was treated by the board of trustees and other officials of the school, and the entire en-tire freedom with which the school was placed In Its hands for Investigation HARDEN BENNIONi , . . Chalman Joint Committee. DON B. COLTON. 3 I Secretary Joint Committee. The report of the legislative committee commit-tee which visited and Inspected tha State Industrial school at Ogden presented pre-sented its report to the Assembly yesterday yes-terday afternoon. The report was adopted by both houses. The committee report censured Teacher J. E. Wallace, and, while It did not demand his removal, suggested that only one who Is endowed with a great degree of patience should be employed in such an Institution. The trustees of the institution are highly commended and Superintendent Allison and Mrs. Allison are exonerated from blame for the recent attempt to burn the school. A new building and water system are recommended, and she board Is thanked by the committee for the aid given to that body while on the visit of inspection. The report Is in full as follows:' To the President of - the Senate and Speaker of the House: 1. Tour committee appointed under authority au-thority of House concurrent resolution No. to Investigate the condition of the State Industrial school at Ogden and the charges made through the public press In relation thereto, beg leave to report that on Saturday and Sunday, March 7th and 8th. we made such investigation, investiga-tion, and subnlt herewith, our findings and conclusions, as follows: 2. We find first .that the board of trustees trus-tees of said Institution are exempt from all blame, condemnation or opprobrium In the management thereof, and we desire to emphasize, as strongly as possible, our approval of the wise and careful manner man-ner In which thry have conducted the I cruelty, Inefficiency and mismanagement that may have been circulated respecting them. A. In the opinion of your committee, the charges of cruelty and harsh treatment treat-ment preferred against Mr. Wallace, the teacher of the boys, as reported in the public press, have been exaggerated and magnified; but, while we exonerate him from any wilful or intended cruelty, we feel to condemn as unwise and unnanly his acknowledged choking of Francis Whltecotton, even though the same was done under extreme provocation, and to say that In our opinion no person should be employed In connection with the school who has not a very patient and kindly disposition and temperament. 6. Regarding the charge of unsanitary conditions of tho institution, we feel that there Is a measure of just complaint, not as to the management, but on account of the fact that the buildings and accommodations ac-commodations are entirely Inadequate and unsulted In their original construction for the purpose to which they are applied, and the requirements of their present crowded condition, and on account of the lack of facilities for a pure and whole-son whole-son e water supply. Your corrtmittee, therefore, feels that It cannot too strongly urge upon the Legislature that provision be made and Immediate steps taken to Provide an adequate supply of pure water or culinary and domestic purposes, by connecting with the Ogden water-works system. At present' the inmates of the school seem to be all well and hearty, but the typhoid epidemic of the past season, sea-son, resulting no doubt from an infected water supply. Is a forcible warning of the dangers-from the present source. The enlargement of the present sewer system sys-tem is also a pressing necessity at the present time. i. Your conmlttee desires to call attention at-tention to the fact that at the last preceding pre-ceding session of ' the Legislature the school then contained less than thirty in- affairs of the school, and the interest bey lriv frin.it. I H th individual and jr'-ncral wlftr of the Inmates. S. We 1rire ri-n m fuUv and com-ll com-ll Mv Mr. a.ii Mrs. Allison, ' , s.i. "i -ntr-.ii rt Hii-1 rrrtron resiwt-wl resiwt-wl . i v t n Vif ji'-jWants and I n'."i"( f'-.i ail '."...I fe 4 aaJ'iujJOi'3 of mates, while at the present time there are seventy-one actually in confinement and about 150 on parole, all or any of whom arc pvb.'ect to return and confinement nt any time.- We therefore wish to say. n forcibly nnd emphatically as possible, that the buili'inps. e'Pilnment and number of j ea-plojijs iu; a;t"j:lh'.r luadejiate . |