Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
TEXT OF SENATOR ARnEvs BILL
ON ELECTION OF COUNTY -
svRERiNrEhDENTs.
ELECTIVE ~ CONVENTION
INSTEAD OF POPULAR VOTE
Each School District In County 70 Have
One Vote In the cenvsntion-Tsrm
Of Office Three Years, Beginning in
1s1s-saiariss Graded According to
Number OF Townships.

To make county superintendents of
schools elective by a county conven-
ton. rather than by popular vote. ex-
tending the terms to- three years in
stead OF two, and grading the salaries
according to the number Of townships.
form the provisions Of the new senate
bill introduced few days ago by Sen
ator Wallace II. Arney.. Of this county,
The election Of county superinten-
dent, II Mr.. Arneys bill becomes law.
would be effected by a delegate con-
vention composed OF one representative
from each school district in a county.
the first one to be held on the first
Tuesday Of April, 1915. The terms OF
all present Office holders are extended
until the first day Of September, 1915.
Provisions Of the Bill.
The provisions Of the bill. known as
senate file No. 2s7. are as follows:
"On the first Tuesday in April in the
year 1915, and each third year there
after. and whenever a vacancy &C.
ours in the office Of county superin-
tendent OF schools, convention. shall
be held at the county seat for the pur-
pose Of electing q county superinten-
dent Of schools, at which convention
each school township. city, town or VII
lage Independent district and each In
dependent consolidated district r. the
county shall be entitled to one vote.
Each such school corporation shall be
represented at the convention by the
president OF ii,e sctsoo! board. or IN
his absence or inability to act. by some
member Of such school board; to be
selected by the board
Tits further provided. however. that
where a civil township is composed in
whole or in part Of rural Independent
districts, that such rural Independent
districts shall be entitled to one vote
in the convention, which vote shall be
cast by such person as may be selected
by the presidents of the component
rural Independent districts within such
township at . meeting to be held at
such time ana place as the county au-
ditor shall dx in the written notice
hereinafter provided for.
IAN representatives to such conven- :
ton shall serve until a county super
intendent IL elected and qualified.
Such conventions shall be called by
the county auditor by mailing as-wfit-
ten notice to the president and Sec
Rotary Of each school corporation at
least ten days prior to the date Of sucn
convention. and by the publication of
such notice in the official newspapers
published in the county.
THE county auditor shall be the Sec
rotary Of such convention. and shall
call same to order and submit q list
Of the school corporations entitled to
participate in such conventions.
Said convention shall organize by
the selection of q chairman, and when
SO organized, shall elect a county su-
perIntendent Of schools, who shall pos
sess the qualifications required by law
and shall hold the office for the term
of three years and until his successor
is elected and qualified. Such con-
yention, may by a majority vote. select
a committee consisting Of five members
whose duty shall be to investigate the
various candidates for the office OF
county superintendent and report to
said convention at a subsequent day to
which the convention may adjourn; or
by a three fourths vote of such con-
yention, said committee may be au-
thorized to elect county superinten-
dent and file its election with the
county auditor. and said person shall
be deemed duly elected to such Office
"a majority Of Representatives herein
provided shall constitute a quorum.
such representatives to receive 10 cents
per mile one way. for the distance
necessarily travelled in attending such
convention, to be paid from the county
treasury"
Salaries Specified.
The salaries to be paid county super
Intendents is outlined in the bill as
follows:
I'm counties composed of twelve civil
townships or less. S1.700 per annum.
I'm counties com posed Of more than
twelve and less than seventeen civil
townships, $500 per annum.
I'm counties composed Of more than
sixteen and less than twenty-one civil
townships. $1,000.
I'm counties composed Of more than
twenty civil townships, $4,000.
Other Specifications Of Bill.
Other specifications. of the bill are
as follows:
1.-THE county. superintendent of
schools may be Of either sex, and shall
hold a regular flve-year state GER
tificate, and shall have had at least
two years training above the high
school, and at least three years ex-
perience in teaching; but this provi-
sion an to certidcatiOn training, and