The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-01-03
EFFICIENCY NJ BOARD!
URGESl0 CHANGES
RECOMMENDS DEPARTMENT or
PUBLIC DOMAIN EMBRACING
MANY BUREAUS.
STATE-0WNED PAPER MILLS
Attorney General Smith Drafts Bill
for Establishment of Factories on
State Timber Lands as Remedy
for Serious Situation.

for Serious Situation.
st. Paul
The report of the state efficiency
and economy commission summarizing
its recommendations for 10 changes in
Mlnnesota's system of government,
has been presented to Governor J. A.
A. Burnquist by A. J. Rockne, chair
man OF the commission. The commits.
sion will meet again Dec. 20 to make
possible minor changes and plan a
campaign for getting the program
through the legislature. The recon.
mendations will be Incorporated into
10 separate bills and the argument and
data compiled will be made public
more fully.
Recommendations in the report in.
clude:
Creation of state department Of
public domain, embracing bureaus
of public lands, fish and game, for
ests, immigration, mines, highways
and drainage and waters, each head
ed by a commissioner.
Elimination of unsalaried state
boards and substitution Of salaried
commissions, the members to devote
their entire time to the states york.
A single state board of education
to replace all existing boards with
the exception Of the university
boards.
Designation of the state board of
control to act as state purchasing
agent, manage the capitol and han
die other new duties.
A state bureau of investments.
Reorganization of the state health
department..
Amendment of the state constitu-
ton to limit the house membership
to $50 and the senate membership
to 80.
A constitutional convention for the
complete revision of the state con-
stitution.
A law compelling all state DEPART
ments to turn all miscellaneous re-
soon as received.
Divorce Of the state grain inspec-
ton system from the railroad and
warehouse commission.
Abolition Of present hotel and oil
inspections system, and the trans
fer of these duties to the dairy and
food commission.
The report represents the commits
sion's work since Aug. 3, 1915, when
it was organized.
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For State Paper Mills.
Attorney General Smith is giving
personal attention to drafting bill
for introduction in the next legisla
ture for the establishment of state
owned paper mills on state timber
lands, as proposed by the Minnesota
Editorial association following the
conclusion that the situation as to 1917
supply of print paper is so serious as
to threaten discontinuance of many
Minnesota newspapers.
A draft of such a bill was request.
ed by Frank A. Day of the Fairmont
Sentinel, and once secretary to the
late Governor John A. Johnson, Chair.
man Herman Roe of the Mortified
News; and other publishers on the
legislation committee of the associa-
ton, who consulted Attorney General
Smith and other state officials on the
subject
Although the state supreme court
more than 20 years ago ruled adverse.
ly on proposal that the state engage
in commercial business, the attorney
general said, conditions have greatly
changed in the interim and he hoped
to draw a bill that would stand the
constitutionality and all other tests,
and afford the desired relief to the
Minnesota newspaper publishers as
we'll as returning the advantages prom.
Used to the state.
And in the paper mill project, it is
explained, the state will be assured
of a good market for pulpwood from
state lands and grounds for a big re-
forestation undertaking.
X X X
Praise for Third Regiment.
Praise for the Third Minnesota regi
ment, including the statement that il
had met every demand upon it and
conducted itself admirably during its
service at Camp Llano Grande, is con
tanned in letter received by Colonel
H. V. Eva from Brigadier General H.
M. Lewis, commandant of the Llano
Grande camp. To this was added a
letter from Brigadier General F.. e
Resche Of the Minnesota brigade, also
expressing high satisfaction with the
troops.
X X X
To Ask More Teachers.
The need of betterment of the teach
ing facilities In the arts college is tc
be employed by the board of regents
in its request for appropriations. I'm
der direction of President Vincent
facts are being marshaled to show hoh
inadequately this college has beer
looked after in recent years. In the