Show FOR o EFFECT ONLY Noise Cut mormon Teachers Vnntert jniuorlty Representation a Hoax During the noon convention receess today to-day several of the delegates gathered in a I groupe and were discussing this clause of i Article XI I SEC 2IThe Legislature may establish free schools provided That no sectarian or denominationaldoctrine shall be taught t in any school supported in whole or in part by the public funds Nor shall any I professor instructor or teacher be pre I fated employed or rejected in said i schools on account of his religious faith or belief or his affiliation or sympathy with any denomination creed of sect I This section it is feared will be a great I stumbling block t Mormon trustees Under it they will be bound to hire without preference teachers regardless of religious faith or belief One of the delegates dele-gates from the southern part of the Territory Ter-ritory who took part in the talk was particularly emphatic in the assertion that he wanted no enemy of this people to teach his children no matter what the teachers qualifications might be compared com-pared with those of a Mormon teacher Anothei southern delegate didnt want the trustees tied up as he would not send his children to an outside teacher if he could help 1 certain delegate from eastern Utah said that would be all right What wear we-ar trying to do is to is to form such a constitution as will admit Utah to Statehood State-hood The provisions of the constitution constitu-tion will have to be acted upon by the Legislature and Legislatures did not do anything they were forced to do Another delegate taking his key from what the lastmentioned member said remarked that section two of Article X was put in for effect that there were lots of things in the new constitution for effect among them the minority representation repre-sentation These remarks were made openly before be-fore a reporter of this paper who is personally per-sonally known to some of those who took part in i the talk |