Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-12

lature had been approved by the pee
pie. He urged that no different course
be pursued by the present session.
The message paid splendid compli-
ment to the higher educational institu-
tions and the public schools OF the cit
les and towns of the state. However,
the governor does not think that the
rural schools have kept pace with the
other institutions of learning in the
state, and calls attention to the report
Of the committee appointed by the state
educational association to remedy this
evil. The governor did not especially
Recommend all of the report of hat
committee, he did unqualifiedly endorse
the addition of manual training and
domestic science departments with
proper appropriations necessary for
their maintenance and healthful growth.
Of farmers Institutes the message
says: There have been held during
the past two years 1876 regular farmers
institutes. all of which have been well
attended, and a gratifying interest has
been manifested in this phase of agri-
cultural endeavor by the farmers
throughout the state. These meetings
have done much to stimulate and
encourage the ambitious and progress
;,,a farp,ar hyy hr;npipm 70 him a kpouuI
edge of the best and most useful meth
DDS of modern agriculture, but the
work has been greatly hindered because
of insufficient appropriations and this
fragrant effect should at this time be
remedied as recommended by the sup
e~rintendent. The department is in
urgent need of at least So, 500 for COM
pleting the work for this fiscal year
and | would advise the legislature to
take care of this need during the early
part of the session."
The message is strong in its RECON-
mendation of public roads and high
ways and urges the passage of laws by
the present session which will compel
the improvementof the same throughout
the state.
Attention is called to the fact that
the state has grown too large to per-
nit one man to perform all of the
duties incumbent upon the office of the
state veterinarian, and while he speaks
in the highest terms of the present
incumbent of the Office, DR.. H. j.
Hicks, of Milbank, yet he calls atten-
ton to the fact that owing to the vast
territory to be covered by him many
farmers have suffered severe losses and
much inconvenience. The message
asks the legislature to provide for
other such officers.
The governor said that many COM
plants had been filed in his Office
against county officials especially in
the newly organized counties -who fail
through neglect or refusal to perform
the duties of the Office to which they
were elected. Legislative attention was
called to the fact that under the
present laws the chief executive could
do nothing but request the direlect off,
cial to do his duty. The governor adds:
cit is evident there should be a limited
power of removal vested in the gov
ernor as to all officers having to do with
the enforcement of law"
The building of an executive mansion
for the use of the governors who shall
follow him was one of the recommends
of Governor Wesley.
More power is asked for the board of
railroad commissioners to give that
board the necessary authority to com
pei the railroad and express companies
to do the right thing with the people.
The primary law is commended al a
whole, but the governor told the legis-
lature of several amendments which he
deemed advisable to the present law.
Mention was made of the deficiency
now existing in the expense fund of
the attorney generals ofice-due to
the prosecution of the railroad rate
cases-and the legislature is asked to
make a deficiency appropriation suffi-
cient to finance the attorney generals
Office until the close of the fiscal year,
and to increase the allowance to be
made to that fund for the coming two
years.
In speaking of the constitutional
convention matter the governor uses
this language: II am convinced that
the question of calling a convention for
the purpose of revising the present
instrument is of enough importance to
warrant your serious consideration at
this time. 1t is evident to me and it
must be to all who are informed on the
subject that the state has developed so
rapidly that u constitution is now a
misft-in other words the coat has
been out-grown. Our statutory laws
need amendments, in some instances
complete revision. and our entire sys-
tenn Of administration is In need of a
great many changes"
An annroDriatiop II aaked far nark-