. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . board to provide instruction for deaf-mutes, and infavor of public day schools for this purpose, with state aid,and eloquently urged the inestimable value of the home andthe family to deaf-mute children, the claims of which the stateinstitution for the deaf cannot suitably respect and utilize. In pursuance of this report, a committee of the schoolboard was appointed to prepare a bill for presentation to thelegislature, giving authority to the board to establish andmaintain a school or Schools for the instruction of deaf-mutesresiding in
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . board to provide instruction for deaf-mutes, and infavor of public day schools for this purpose, with state aid,and eloquently urged the inestimable value of the home andthe family to deaf-mute children, the claims of which the stateinstitution for the deaf cannot suitably respect and utilize. In pursuance of this report, a committee of the schoolboard was appointed to prepare a bill for presentation to thelegislature, giving authority to the board to establish andmaintain a school or Schools for the instruction of deaf-mutesresiding in the city, and pledging the state to the pajinent ofa fixed sum annually per pupil, towards the support of sucha school. This action by the Milwaukee school board was sug-gested by a similar provision in Massachusetts, by which theHorace Mann school for the deaf in Boston is sustained. The bill prepared by the Milwaukee school board wasintroduced into the legislature at its session in 1881, butfailed because its merits were not explained and WILLIAM E. SMITH. As Governor of Wisconsin he favored tlie methods and measures of the PhonologicalInstitute for the improved education and treatment of deaf-mutes. PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS FOR DEAF MUTES. 11 At the next session of the legislature, in 1882, the bill wasagain introduced and much pains taken to explain it to thecommittees to which it was referred and to members. At thesuggestion of a member of the legislature it was amended soas to make it general and apply to all incorporated cities andvillages. In this form it passed the assembly late in the ses-sion, but failed in the senate for want of time. The following summer the national education associ-ation held its annual meeting in Madison. The division fordeaf-mute teachers was addressed by PROF. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. He strongly advocated the oral education for the deaf,and day schools for that purpose. Governor Rusk listened with close attention and in hisnext annual m
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