Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-26
Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March Members of
the board of control. superintendents of
state institutions and trustees and
Others Interested in Iowa educational
and other institutions are manfesting
great interest in the new law for the
creation Of a board of control n ths
state of Minnesota, patterned after the
Iowa law, but presenting some improves
,ments and radical changes. In view of
the fact that there has been some agi-
tation looking to the placing of all the
educational institutions under control
of the Iowa board, at least in financially. |.
matters. and other agitation looking 10 t
the taking from the board control of T
certain of the Institutions the Mime I
sofa experiment Willi have an important t
bearing on the future of institutional 7
mana cement in Iowa. II will he re-
called that a committee of the MiIneso-
Ia legislature visited Des Moines anGs
With members of the board of control
visited some of the Iowa. institutions /
and afterwards made a highly cnmpli- |
mentary report which completly refuted
many of the strongest objections which |
had been uvged against the single
board plan of controlling state institu-
lions. In accordance with The recom
mendations of this committee a bill was
lsput thru the Minnesota legislature,
which creates a board of control to SUI
3persede and take the place of the state
board Of charities and corrections. the
board OF trustees for the hospitals and
asylums for the insane, the board SO al
rectors for he institute for aefectives,
Except in its power over the schools 70,
the deaf ard blind. the board of man
ayers for the state training school for
boys and girls, the managers OF the
state reformatory and tbs trustees Of
] the state prison. The soldiers nome
alone is excepted.
But the most interesting feature ef
the Minnesota plan is that hy which
4 they divide responsibility for tbs corr
slstrol of the educational institutions of
the state. The law provides tina. the
board of control shall have an exercise
full authority in all financial matters.
of the state university, the state normal
A schools, the state public school and the
schools for the deaf and blind The
lsboard shall dsbrrse all public moneys
Isof the several Institutions named. and
shall have the same authority in the sex-
q slpenditure of the public money appfopri-.
lated therefore as in other installations
4 named in the law, except as otherwise
1 provided, and the board shall appoint a
4 purchasing and disbursing agent there
4 for. The board shall have supervision
+ of the constructionof all buildings and
betterments erected at the cost OF the
state, but shall co-operate With the To-
Iscal boards of the several institutions in
1.-the preparations Of plans and specifica-
tions therefor. The board shall have no
authority or control over any private
ibequests or devises for the benefit of
( the educational institutions. The vari-
lous boards now in charge OF the several
5; educational institutions are 10 be re-
Itained and shall have and retain the
RI exclusive control of the general eiuca-
j tional policy of said Institutions. of the
ri courses of study, the number of teach
s. ers necessary TO be employed and the
salaries paid. and such several boards
shall have the exclusive power TO en-
> plovs or dismiss the teachers and others
= engaged in carrying on the functions OF
said Institutions. and shall also have
: exclusive control of the grounds, build
q ines and ether property of their several
institutions and Of all other matter
. fconnected with said Institutions except
Las specifically reserved to the board OF
control. The exemption of the schools
for the deaf and blind from full contro
$ of the board--or. in other words. treat
! Ling them as educational and NOT char
e liable institutions--is something which
: might we'll have been done in Iowa, as
e evidenced by the discomfort in rhe man.
S agenent of 10th these institutions now
J. Theye are distinctly schools and ough7
I. 10 be part of the educational system
5 of the state. But how the Minnesota
:, people will get along with the divided
: responsibility in educational institu
tions is a problem yet to be solved.
! Members of the Iowa board of con
! troll will go TO Mount Pleasant tomorrow
! with an expert engineer from Chicago
!, whoi proposing to put in a plant FOL
ISL sewage filtration to take care of TIL
: sewage from the insane hospital. A
e present the sewage runs out into a small
v stream near the hospital and is recog
n nized as a source OF danger. The SEW
e age from the Henry county poor farm
also empties into the stream. The plal
rroposed is one which runs the sewag,
Into great 8caverns, where 1t is purified
Ihe board also has in contemplation th
n adoption of the plan for the hospital a
- Cherokee.
: Inspector Olmsted and Assistant In
!. spector Hume, of the Iowa Nationa
= Guard, have yet to inspect the militi;
= companies of the Fiftietn Regiment a
: Washington, Centerville and Newtor
= the other companies having all been in
srected At Muscatine they met Ma.
Davidson, who had just returned fror
lie the Philippines He was not yet full
n rested. He has lame foot, which wa
i. broken and which did not heal properly
1t and he will have to submit to some kin
m OF an operation to get the bone
IN Strengthened out right. Davidson wi
,e probably go into the regular service. bu
to in the adjutant generals department
e. sergt. Frank Jones, formerly of Con,
lrany H, Des Moines, and later of tn