The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-02-16
SUPER|NTENDENTS
, URGE CHANGES N
STATE SCHOOL Law
Propose Substitutes for
the Proposed Bige-
low Law.
WANT MORE TERMS
Also Object to Limitation Up
on the Payment of
School Bonds.
WANT MORE TERMS

Aberdeen, S. D.-While the county
superintende2ts of the state are al
most unanimous in their opposition
to the Bigelow bill which in its origi-
nal form proposed makins the coun-
ty superintendent but little more
than clerk. they believe the educa.
! tional system Of South Dakota needs
amendment and at meeting of the
county superintendents of the state
held in Aberdeen number OF
changes we're recommended in the
present laws. There were a large
number of superintendents present
at the Aberdeen conference, and the
others were presented by letters, SO
the sentiment of the different officials
could be accurately guaged, and the
following changes in the state edu-
cational laws were recommended by
the conference and will be presented
to the legislature for its considera-
ton:
An amendment to remove the limi-
tation on the reelection of superin-
tendents to the second term.
Senator Norbeck's bill providing
for the payment by the county Of the
actual expenses of the superintend-
ent while visiting the schools of the
county and other performance Of OFF,
|cial duties.
Fixing the salary of the deputy
superintendent at so per cent of the
superintendent's salary.
Representative Morris bill defin-
ing school" as one department.
Payment of 50 a day and mileage
to members of the library board 9TH
er than county officials.
Establishing a text book board to
consist of the county auditor, the
states attorney, the chairman of the
board of county commissioners and
one qualified teacher elected by the
school boards from each county COM
missioner district.
Removing the limitation on the
payment of bonds by school districts,
making them possible to be paid in
not less than one year and not more
than 1 S years.
CURTIS BILL HARD BLOW
AT NEWSPAPERS OF STATE
Pierre, S. D.-After a long wran-
gle in house committee over Senate
Bill Sc, by Curtis, in which he seeks
to eliminate the expense of publica-
ton of Constitutional amendments
and referred laws, the whole ques-
ton is to get out on the floor of teh
house in committee of the whole,
Wednesday for discussion, and con-
sideration. Curtiss cuts the publica-
ton of the laws and amendments
from the newspapers of the state,
and provides for sending them out in
pamphlet form. This bill was
brought out by the fact that on ac-
COuuJ I'll suc O1l oO many
laws last year the printing bills of
the various counties ran up to as
high as $500 for such publication,
and the total amount called for in
the state for that purpose was about
$4,000. The idea advanced in the
new law is that the work can be done
much cheaper by sending out PAM
phlets and leaflets to all the voters
of the state through the Office of the
secretary of state and the county au-
ditors.
The printers are coming back with
a proposition that they will agree to
a law which will place the maximum
figure for such work at $500 in any
one year to any one paper; and will
agree to other provisions of the law
as it stands. They say that this will
be just as cheap as the Curtiss plan,
and under certain conditions cheap
err. They say that if there are but
or two amendments to be voted up
on, the expense would be light, and
that it has never been heavy enough
in all the fourteen years since the
present law went into leffect to may
any difference until the long list OF
last year, which was nearly all en-
braced in the one militia law which
wa sreferred. They say the machin-
cry for carrying out the Curtiss Law
would have to be used just as much
on one lone law or amendment as on
any number of them, and the only
reduction of exepnse would be thai
of the printing alone, which would be
small. To carry out the law would
require additional help in the Office
IOf the secretary of state, and in the
office of every county auditor in tbs