The true northerner., 1909-01-08
GOV. Warner
ON Third Term
Miclligan'S Newly Elected
Officers Sworn In.
WORK BEFORE The S0L0NS

Present Indications Are That They
Will Get Down to Business at Once
No Contest Over the speakership
This Year-Gavel to Be Welded by
Colin p. CampbelI-Laws to Carry
Into Effect Many Provisions of the
New Constitution.
Lansing, Mich. Jan. 5.-With the
booming OF salute of nineteen guns
manipulated by Battery A, First Mich
igan artillery, at high noon on Friday
last, a new state administration was
ushered into being in Michigan. For
the first time in it's history either as
a possession Of the French or the Brit.
ish, or as territory or state, Mich.
igan boasted governor who had en-
tered upon his third consecutive term.
In territorial times several persons
served more than two terms as acting
governor but only one, John S. Barry,
served a third term as chief executive
since Michigan became state. None
of these persons, however, served three
terms consecutively.
Fred M. Warner who on Friday last
took the oath Of office as governor for
his third consecutive term. is, there
fore, the first person to be SO honored
in the history of the state.
Justice Blair Administers Oath.
The newly elected state officers gath
cred in the executive parlors shortly
! before noon and as the clock Struc (
the hour of twelve the oath Of Office
was administered TO them by the new
chief jus ice of the supreme court,
Charles A. Blair. son of Michigan'i
war governor Austin Blair, of glorious
memory. The brief ceremony was per-
formed in the presence of a dis'in-
guished gathering Of citizens from
various section Of the state.
With few exceptions tie state OF
GERS who entered upon their duties with
the beginning of the new year are new
to the positions they will occuOy 70
the next two years at least. The lis.
is as follows Governor. Fred M. War
ner: lieutenant governor. Patrick n.
Kelley: secretary Of state. Frederick @.
Martindale: ardi+or general, O"amel +.
Fuller; state treasurer, Albert z.
Sleeper: commissioner of the state land
office, Huntley Russell; attorney gen.
eral. John r. Bird; Superintendent OF
public instruction, Luther l.. Wright;
menher Of he state board Of educa-
ton. William j. McKone.
! BY reason of provision Of the new
constitution. which requires that the
superintendent Of public instruction
shall be elected in April, Superintend-
ent Wright. who was elected last No
vember supposedly for the full term OF
two years from Ian. 1903 will have
to stand for reelection in April. Th ,
purpose of the change in time OF elect
| ing this offici9 was to remove The
Office from politics, the theory being
that politics cut much less figure in
spring elections than in those held In
the fall For the same reason all judi
cial offices are filed at the April cleo
! tions.
ne state Ic9iSidtuTc
In compliance with the constitution
! the for+v-hf h legislature will convene
. at noon tomo'row. Present indications
! are that IL will get down 10 real busi-
! ness with mu"h greater dispatch than
/ any of It's predecessors in recent yea 8.
! The reason for this is there will be
no contest over the speakership, that
! matter having been settled several
weeks ago Immediately after cleo ion
! Colin p Co~pbell Of Kent and JuCye
II. w New i"', Of Washtenaw, both of
| whom we've members of the last leg 9
lature and very prominent in IT'S delib-
! eratiors. announced themselves as can
didates for speaker. but as the canvass
| proceeded Judge Newkirk saw that the
! Kent man had he pole and at an
/ early day withdrew from the race.
! For this reason Speaker Campbell has
had se.eral weaks' knowledge o. the
! fact that he was to be the presiding
! Officer Of The lower house and has so
assiduously applied himself 10 the task
Of arranging the standing comm tees
that he is rec6y 70 announce thosa
committees rs soon as he is elected
and Installed. This will doubtless be
not later than Thursday Of The present
week. Heretofore il has been Gus ON
airy and necssse v 20 tate an adjourn
ment for ten devs TO give the speaker
an opportunity to MAKE ND his COM
mittees. Lieu'enant Cove~nor Kelley.
president of 20 s~~ate. has ~ oo,l-
mittees of that body ready for al
nouncement.
Session N'ill Pc Prclorred
Although this legislature will be re-
lieved OF much de ~ work th5 de
volved upon iis predecessors, there is
little doubt that the present session
will be somewhat prolonged. This viii
be due TO the necessary work incident
to providing laws TO carry irto cf' C
many of the pro isiors Of the l0W CON
stitution which The people of - 40.
by handsome majority. ra if I'd an
confirmed last November.
This cons itu'ion does away with
practically all Of III great body Of