The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-31
Southern Illinois Republicans Pre-.
pare Bill for a Rearrange-
ment Of Counties.
MILLER YIELDS THE WHIP
Tries to Get Shermanites in Line
School Superintendent Are
Aroused Over Bill About
Normal Graduates.

By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 30.-The Southern II
linois Republicans have practically reached
an agreement upon the rearrangement OF
judicial districts in that part Of the State
A bill now has been drawn up by several
of the Republican representatives from the
| affected territory, though in its present
| shape 1t is expected to arouse the opposi-
| ton of some assemblymen.
The constituents Of Judge Lynch of Rich.
! land County will have special ground for
grievance, since it places him in the Fourth
| District. which, by such reapportionment
| would be strongly Democratic.
The proposed districts would include the
| following counties:
| First circuit-Alexander. Pulaski. Uniou Will
| Hanson. Jackson. Franklin. Perry and Randolph.
| Second Cdrcuit--Massic. Pope. johnson. Hardin.
Saline. Gallatin. Hamilton. White. Wayne Ed
wards and Clay
| Third CIrcuit-Rond. Madison Monroe. Wash
Fourth tireuit-Marlon, Clinton Fsyette Mont
gomery. Christian. Effngham. Jasper. Richland.
| lawrence Wabash and Jefferson.
ford. Cumberland and Coles.
Sixth Sirsuiit-Champsisn. cut. CO. Douglas. Moultre.
The county superintendents of schools will
be up in arms against the proposed law pro.
yiding that graduates of the State Normal
without examination. Charles Van Dorm.
superintendent of the Sangamon County
schools. has begun the attack upon the
to the presidents Of the Normal schools. and
Will send a letter to the teachers of the
State. He claims that the move aims at
thority.
The system" said Mr.. Van Dorm. "of
granting State certificates to Normal grad
county superintendents. would do the
schools of the State more harm than the
Normal schools do good, and that is say
a lon ic iy,,no Go, AZ
State Superintendent to know what the
army of teachers who have State certifi-
Gates are doing. neither can the NoEnal
schools know. even II each had supervisor
over them. II a county superintendent is
not permitted to know, then the School
Board oar yI alone & can Judge of their work"
by Albert G. Lane. former president of the
State Teachers. Association, and Alfred
Bayless. State Superintendent of Public In
struction.
MILLER USES THE WHIP.
The supporters of Speaker Miller are max
Ing every effort to whip into line the way
erers among the Sherman following. 1t was
bring about a conference between some Of
night. but it failed. Sherman. himself. was
not In Springfield at the time. having left
at at o'clock in the afternoon for Efing-
Talk Of such a conference has been gen.
eral for a week. and Representative Curtis,
speaking for some of the Sherman men, has
openly said that he was seeking an agree
nent. But Judge Sherman denied yester-
day that he has countenanced any plan for
a caucus and states that he does not ex-
pect to.
During the apparently idle days between
the adjournment yesterday and the NEXT
session Tuesday much will be on foot
toward deciding the Sherman Miller issue
1t seems clear. however. that no amount
of persuasion by the Miller faction
whether or not good committee places are
offered as bribes. can gain a majority over
the Sherman men and Democrats combined.
Every circumstance points to a brambly
The strong men are against the Governor
and the Senate's rundown of Lieutenant
Governor NOrthcott and adoption of the
two.thirds rule are both anti Yates demon
In House and Senate several distinctly
antfadministration measures were intro
duced this week. especially in the Senate
rnncipaI among them is the bill to place
the supervision of all State institutions uI.-
der the State Board Of Charities, thus TAX
Ing from the Governor q long list Of op-