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40 Verhandlungen der dreizehnten Verſammlung

Mr. Leutner; as advisory members: Prof. Graebner, Prof. Brohm,
Dr. Duemling, Rev. Lindemann, Mr. Tatge and Prof. Crull;

3) to solicit contributions in order to secure the necessary funds,
and to lend pecuniary aid to such district synods as are unable to
defray the costs incurred in opposing such compulsory school laws;

4) to recommend to those district synods who have not as yet
acted upon this school question the election of a committee, whose
duty it shall be to obtain correct information about all measures and
resolutions respecting the school question from time to time; to give
public notice of matters of importance, to see to it, that articles in
point are published in the secular papers, to attend to the lawsuits
that may arise; to procure the funds required in times of election;
to find out what position the candidates have taken in respect to the
school question, and eventually to endeavor to secure the nomination
of such candidates as we may support;

5) to advise the General School Committee to act in unison with
a committee of the Synodical Conference.

Beſchloſſen — und zwar einſtimmig —, daß vorſtehende fünf Punkte
ſo, wie ſie lauten, ſowohl ihrem deutſchen als auch engliſchen Wortlaute
nach, von der Synode angenommen werden.

Die Ehrw. Synode von Wisconſin hat eine „ſtehende Com⸗
mittee zur Ueberwachung der Schulgeſetzgebung“ ernannt und
beauftragt „allſeitig Erkundigung über die Durchführung des neuen Schul⸗
geſetzes einzuziehen, die Schulgeſetzgebung in unſerem Staate zu überwachen,
den Verlauf des Schulſtreits auch in anderen Staaten zu verfolgen, das
Publicum durch die öffentliche Preſſe aufzuklären, um den Widerruf, oder
doch eine unſere Gemeindeſchulen ſicher ſtellende Amendirung des Bennett⸗
Geſetzes herbeizuführen.“ Letztere hielt eine Berathung mit einer zu gleichem
Zweck ernannten Committee der Ev.⸗luth. Synode von Miſſouri. Beide
Committeeen beſchloſſen, andere Kirchengemeinſchaften, ſowie auch einzeln
ſtehende angeſehene Staatsbürger zu einer Verſammlung einzuladen, zu dem
Zweck, um eine feſtere Organiſation aller Gegner des neuen Schulgeſetzes
in's Leben zu rufen. — Die Verſammlung fand ſtatt am 28. December 1889
in der St. Johannes⸗Schule in Milwaukee. Nach einer gründlichen Er⸗
örterung des in Frage ſtehenden Geſetzes und der zu ergreifenden Maß⸗
regeln ernannte die Verſammlung zur Leitung des Kampfes eine Staats⸗
Centralcommittee von 15 Mitgliedern, mit dem Auftrag, eine ſogenannte
Platform und einen Wahlfeldzugsplan auszuarbeiten und einer künftig zu
berufenden Staatsconvention vorzulegen. Dieſer Centralcommittee gehören
auch die Mitglieder der Committee der Ehrw. Wisconſin⸗Synode an. Noch
ehe dieſe Staatsconvention abgehalten werden konnte, ergab ſich die Noth⸗
wendigkeit, an den Stadtwahlen am 1. April, wobei es ſich namentlich um
die Erwählung von öffentlichen Schulbeamten handelte, kräftigen Antheil

40 Proceedings of the thirteenth convention

Mr. Leutner; as advisory members: Prof. Graebner, Prof. Brohm,
Dr. Duemling, Rev. Lindemann, Mr. Tatge and Prof. Crull;

3) to solicit contributions in order to secure the necessary funds,
and to lend pecuniary aid to such district synods as are unable to
defray the costs incurred in opposing such compulsory school laws;

4) to recommend to those district synods who have not as yet
acted upon this school question the election of a committee, whose
duty it shall be to obtain correct information about all measures and
resolutions respecting the school question from time to time; to give
public notice of matters of importance, to see to it, that articles in
point are published in the secular papers, to attend to the lawsuits
that may arise; to procure the funds required in times of election;
to find out what position the candidates have taken in respect to the
school question, and eventually to endeavor to secure the nomination
of such candidates as we may support;

5) to advise the General School Committee to act in unison with
a committee of the Synodical Conference.

Resolved, and indeed unanimously, that the five points above be adopted by the Synod just as they stand, in both their German and their English wording.

The Venerable Synod of Wisconsin has appointed a "standing committee for the oversight of school legislation" and has charged it "to gather information from every side about the implementation of the new school law, to watch school legislation in our state, to follow the course of the school dispute in other states as well, and to enlighten the public through the public press, in order to bring about the repeal, or at least an amendment of the Bennett Law that would safeguard our parish schools." The latter [committee] held a consultation with a committee of the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri appointed for the same purpose. Both committees resolved to invite other church bodies, as well as prominent citizens standing by themselves, to a meeting, for the purpose of calling into being a firmer organization of all opponents of the new school law. The meeting took place on 28 December 1889 in St. John's School in Milwaukee. After a thorough discussion of the law in question and of the measures to be taken, the meeting appointed, to direct the struggle, a state central committee of 15 members, with the commission to work out a so-called platform and a plan of campaign for the elections and to submit them to a state convention to be called in the future. The members of the committee of the Venerable Wisconsin Synod also belong to this central committee. Even before this state convention could be held, the necessity arose of taking a vigorous part in the city elections on 1 April, in which it was a matter especially of the election of public school officials,