The Washburn leader., 1916-12-15
Plan Very Short
Legislative Session
Non.Partisan League Members Think
Necessary Work Can be Done
Other Lines
INTRODUCE MANY NEW BILLS
State-owned Terminal Elevator Bill
up-RadIcai Steps Taken Along
OTHER LINES

Plans for q short session OF the
state legislature, sponsored by pro.
minent Non.partisan league memb-
ers.elect of the assembly, will be dis
cussed when the Nonpartisans hold
their proposed possession caucus.
It is understood that a group of
proposed bills. embodying the prin-
ciples for which the Nonpartisan
league has been contending through
out the past campaign, have already
been drawn, and will be introduced
Immediately the session is started.
1t is also understood that it will be
the purpose of the league hackers to
rush the program through first-clear-
ing the boards of league legislation
as early as possible.
Early reports indicated that the
.Ileague members hope to conclude all
Legislation by February /, but with
in the last few weeks, so many prob
lens of such great concern to the
state have come forward, that it is
not likely that it will be possible to
adjourn on that date even should the
leaguers be inclined to do so.
That legislation looking to the es-
tablishment of a state-owned ter
minal elevator will be passed, is gen.
orally conceded. That such legisla-
tion will place the elevator within the
confines of the state, where it will
be subject to this states regulatory
laws, is a sentiment that has grown
to remarkable proportions within tho
past few months.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture it was proposed that the ter.
minal should be located outside the
state, and the discussions that arose
during the 1915 session of the as
sembly, have been the means of edu-
eating the people to the idea that
state owned terminals would be bet
ter within the state.
It is understood that the league
terminal elevator legislation will not
provide that the state itself go into
the terminal business, but that the
bills to be presented will simply pro.
vide for the establishment of the
elevators, the same to be operated as
store houses. on the basis of the cot
ton warehouses in Louisiana.
Insurance legislation as affecting
hail insurance losses probably will
be confined to the establishment of
a state hail insurance based on the
-Sblan of the Saskatchewan system.
The Saskatchewan system provides
for compulsory insurance, with tax
on all farm lands.
AS for fire insurance, state regula.
tion measures, as advocated by the
National Association of Insurance
Commissioners, will be recommended
by the retiring commissioner, w. c.
Taylor, and no doubt will be approx:
ed by the incoming commissioner, o.
G. OlSnoSS.
The educational boards have come
in for considerable consideration in
procession gossip.
That radical steps will be taken in
connection with the board of regents,
is generally accepted. Just what is
proposed, however, is not at this
time known.
Two plans have been suggested
one proposing the complete elimina-
tion Of the present board and the
substitution of an entirely new board;
the other for the establishment of
two boards. one governing the pure.
" academic institutions, the other
industrial schools, demonstration
farm work, experiment station, etc.
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