Arizona republican., 1915-01-23
Abolition Of Land Commission
 Urged In Two Recommendations

i through frequent and rigid examina- tions
 As to School Administration
 Under the head of improving the state school system. report was sub mtted, which urges that i Certain school districts be consolidat- 1 ed under boards of trustees. i High schools be maintained by the counties.
 Office of county school superinten- i dent be abolished in favor of boards of education composed of superintendents of the five largest districts.
 Vocational and manual training be ! emphasized in all schools.
 Transportation at public expense of 1 children in sparsely settled districts, so as to permit consolidation of little dis [ tricts.
 For State Economy
 Andrew Kimball. supervisor of Ora ham county entered a long report, com prising the following recommends tions:
 Revision of governmental depart ments by committee of five to be named by the governor. i The abolition of a number of state offices and the consolidation of work under other heads as follows:
 State historians and Pioneer Histor- ical society under secretary of state.
 Bar examiners work to supreme l court.
 ! Weights and measures. work to mine inspector.
 Sheep sanitary commission, game wardens and veterinarian, work to live stock sanitary board under treasurer.
 State land commission, duties to state engineer. as per enabling act.
 State librarian work to supreme court clerk.
 State tax commission. work to cor poration commission.
 City assessors work to county as- sessors.
 Clerk of supervisors. work to super for court clerk.
 Other sections of MT. Kimball's re- port recommended other measures of economy including increasing the judi cial districts. combination of offices in smaller counties, mailing to tax payers instead of publications of copies of budget and the stopping of appropria- tions for new work or extension of work on state buildings at this session.
 MT kimball's report contains a number of lesser items some of them the direct outcome of recommenda- tions contained in the address given at the dinner and annual meeting of the chamber of commerce last Monday night. The things he urges were all very carefully tabulated.
 He submitted the statement that county judges are not over paid but are under worked.
 To Invite Foreign Capital
 Col Allen T. Bird of Santa Cruz, fathered the resolution that the anti alien land laws should be revised so as to permit foreign capital to be invested in Arizona. He used the California laws, the result of long and bitter strife in that state, as an example of regula- tion that restricts. vet permits and even invites the investment of capital. held by aliens who are eligible, to citi- zenship in the United States.
 Land Commission Report
 The report on the land commission is presented herewith in full, together with the resolutions passed by.the con- ference:
 A large part of the report of the state land commission is devoted to formulation of an alleged general land policy to be adopted by the state, which deals in glittering generalities, and proposes little that is definite. The re- port hints at abuses of the great grants of land made to other states at the time of admission, of valuable lands having fallen into the hands of specula- a-