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GOVERNOR FRAZIER
DELIVERS HIS MESSAGE
Chief Executive Outlines League Pro.
gram Which is Expected to be
Carried Out by Present Leg
islative Session

Carried Out by Present Leg
islative Session
/ Bismarck, N. D., Jan. S.-Governor
Lynn j. Frazier Of North Dakota, at
the inauguration today of the states
second Nonpartisan league admins
tration, outlined the program the
league leaders have determined shall
be carried into effect during this ses-
sion of the legislature.
The document sets forth far-reach-
,g proposals involving radical de-
partures from the states past pol-
(, icies.
Governor Frazier outlines not only
many of the points that it has been
predicted that he would touch, but
also breaches a number Of new prob
lens not heretofore considered out
side the league circles.
Industrial Commission
The executive gives no detailed pro-
posal as to how he expects the legis-
lature to carry into effect the estab-
hshment of state-owned industries,
except that he advises the creation Of
! an industrial commission which shall
have power to establish any and all
public utilities that the state may
undertake. This would concentrate
all industrial power in single board,
making that body responsible for the
handling of terminal elevators, flour
mills, bureau Of markets, the opera
ton of Ignite coal mines and bri-
quoting plants, all of which the state
is advised by Governor Frazier to I'M
dertake
The Bank Plan
The state central bank plan is not
fully outlined, the governor simply
indicating that he proposes bank
which shall be patterned after the
federal reserve bank and the federal
farm land bank, proposing that this
central bank shall aid in financing
banks, corporations and associations,
and provide real estate mortgages
for farmers.
Overturn Education Control
A recommendation that has been
predicted from time to time, but
the known attitude of so many league
members of the legislature who are
opposed to the plan, is that which
has to do with the educational system.
Governor Frazier would carry into
effect the previously published pro-
posal to centralize certain education
al powers into the hands of a COM
missioner of education, measure
that has been brought forth, it is con-
tended in some sections, as a measure
Of retaliation against Minnie J. Mel
son, superintendent of public instruc-
ton, for one of Governor Frazier's
proposals is to take powers and duties
from that department for the creation
of the new department.
Plan Even More Broad
But Governor Frazier has gone
much further than has been indicated.
He would have the state board of re-
gents deposed, and he likewise would
abolish the state board of education,
establishing in their stead new body
to be known as the board of education
with authority over the whole educa-
tional system = institutions, elemen-
tary schools, etc.
board of regents and the state board
of education be abolished and their
powers and duties and certain powers
and duties of the state superintend-
ent of public instruction be transfer
red to and exercised by single state
board of education to consist of not
more than five members" says Gov
ernor Frazier. ''This board shall
have the control and administration of
all public schools and higher institu-
tons Of learning, and should have
power to appoint commissioner of
education and inspectors, whose spe-
cial duties would be to supervise and
promote the best interests of the pub
lie schools with special attention to
raising the standard of our rural
schools"
AS the governor indicates, the plan
would remove from the superintendent
Of public Instruction the entire con-
troll of the schooEs-rural and city
and would virtually leave nothing for
that department.
Cut the Tax Commission
With reference to the one-man tax
commission. Governor Frazier carries
out the predicted recommendation for
the adjustment Of the three man COM
mission. Four years ago the legis-
lature contemplated such step, but it
was successfully opposed.
Not only does the governor con-
template the cutting down of the tax
commission, but he also would con-
centrate authority over the penal and
charitable institutions into one salar-
led man, and into the hands of two
elected state officials-une three men
to constitute a beard Of control.
AS to labor laws, the governor is
not specific simply saying that "sev-
Hpl important laws recommended by
Organized labor were passed by the
house but met the fate of many other
progressive measures in the senate"
two years ago, and he recommended
that needed laws be put on the stat
ute books at this Time" Also he ad-
vises that provision be made for
safeguarding the rights and welfare
of the coal miners"
An Inoone Tax
The creation Of new taxes for the
state is set forth in a single SEN
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