Show THE TEXT BOOK QUESTION the territorial school convention in session at the university this morning the counte county sch school ool superintendents assembled for or th the e purpose of adopting school text textbooks books all of the school books now in use in this territory tory were adopted more than five years ago except readers and spellers which have not been in use quite live years having been adopted in october 1882 under the law no change in text books can be made wit within hin five years axce except it by the action of a special convention ven entea tion therefore to meet the technical requirements of the law the meeting of school officers at 10 this morning was in the capacity of a SPECIAL convention commissioner williams called the assembled superintendents to order mr reid of sanpete San pete nominated P L williams as chairman carried mr stewart nominated E H anderson anderaon as secretary carried carrie on nomination dr J R park was elected vice chairman of the convention on motion a committee of three was appoint edon credentials and pending their report a brief recess was taken the committee reported the following as members of the convention territorial commissioner P cwilliams LW illiams president deseret university sity john E R park COUNTY superintendents beaver B R maeser maesar beaver box elder J D peters brigham cache W H apperley logan davis H L steed farmington emery E A cox castle dale garfield J A worthin panguitch Pang aitch iron W V 0 mitchell parowan carowan Pa rowan juab FW chapped chappell N nephi hi kane H A broughton G g eddale millard T 0 Cal callister hster fillmore morgan C A welch morgan piute diute L G long junction city rich kich wm rex randolph salt late lake wm 31 stewart salt lake san juan J A lyman bluff city sanpete W K reid mind manti sevier victor E bean richfield summit ra A L seward Co coalville Coal alville vule thoele tooele J R clark thoele tooele uintah J H black ashley utah george 11 brimhall provo wasatch attewell Att ewall wooten midway washington J stgeorge weber edw H anderson andersen ogden those marked were present alter after the reading of the roll a notion motion to extend tao me freedom of 0 the house to territorial exterritorial ex and ex county superintendents and the representatives of publishing houses was put and carried dr park moved the adoption of the following resolution reso resolved Be solved ved that it is the sense of this convention that there exists sufficient cause to change the present adoption ol of school readers leaders and spellers for this territory and that the chair be authorized zed to appoint a committee of three members who shall select and report to this convention such other readers and spellers as they may deem best for the convention to adopt for exclusive use in this Territory for the next five years in accordance with section 16 of the school law I 1 I 1 after being amended so as to make the committee five the resolution was adopted and the special convention adlour adjourned ned till tomorrow to morrow at 10 a in shortly after the adjournment of the special convention THE REGULAR convention was called to order older the previous organization was adopted chairman williams made an address upon the importance of the work before the convention mr maeser moved that a committee the number to be determined by the convention be appointed by the chair to consider each text book and re report ort those which emch they recommend ar carried dr park moved the appointment of a committee e of three on each of the following grammar arithmetic geography penmanship drawing andt physiology carried and the chair named the committees as f follows on grammar J E R park W H ap perly and A wootten on arithmetic wm W m M stewart T C callister and F W chappell geo geography raphy wm win K R reed eed H L steed ang and wm win bex penmanship en in E H anderson john D peters eters and A L seward drawing E R maeser C A welch and W H ap perly physiology J E R park F W boppell and victor E bean A motion was put and carried au an the chair to appoint la a committee of three to consider the matter of miscellaneous books FW F W chappell J F woodbury and T C callister were appointed on this committee A question arose as to present text book on united states history would be the legal text book should this convention tail to adopt one the subject was on motion referred to the following committee comm mee K R maeser W M stewart and C A welch the question as to whether the committees ought to require propositions fro from publishers to be submitted in writing was discussed but no formal action was taken by the convention as aa it was deemed best to leave the committees free to act as they might see f fit t adjourned till 2 p m tomorrow to morrow |