Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-01-14
RILEY 5. YOUNG
is REELECTED
Practically All Cid Officers in Re-
organization of Legislature.
MAY CHANGE SCHOOL PLAN
Officials Compiling Data for Actuarial
Study on Possibility of Working
Out Plan for Pension
Fund.

legislature organized at noon TO-DAY py
electing practically all of the old ofn-
-cers Of the last session.
Riley S. Young of Walworth county
was reelected speaker of the house,
e. Shatfer, Madison, was elected for
the seventh time as chief clerk, and L.
G. Gretney, Madison, was rechosen as
sergeant at arms In the senate. SEN
ator Timothy Burke, Green Bay, was
chosen president pro tempore of the
senate; O. G. Muson, Viroqua, was
chosen chief clerk of this house foi"
the third time, and Vincent Kielpinski.s
Milwaukee, a service man, was chosen
as sergeant at arms
The officers of the two houses were
decided upon at party caucuses held
Tuesday evening.
! The members Of the legislature sim
ply went through the perfunctory way
| of organizing and will be ready tomor-
row to hear the message of Gov. John
J. Blaine.
Madison, Jan. 12.-Reorganization
of the educational system of the state
is expected to take the foremost place
| in the work of the legislature.
State Superintendent G. P. Cary and
Secretary e. A. Fitzpatrick of the
state board of education will be the
chief figures in the fight. Each
sponsors a reorganization plan. Mr.
Cary desires to preserve the dominant
place for the state superintendent Of
fee, while Mr.. Fitzpatrick brings for
ward a plan to strengthen the state
board of education as the agency to
formulate the policies of the state.
The present state organization COM
prises the state superintendent, the
state vocational board, the state board
of education, board of university re-
gents. board of normal regents and the
mining school board. OF these, the
state superintendent and the state vo-
cational board are concerned chiefly
with the inspection and supervision;
| the state board of education endeavors
| to formulate educational policies, while
the boards of regents and the mining
school board are concerned with adj
ministration.
The Office of the state superintendent
expends 100000 annually on inspec-
tion, employing % inspectors and SUI
pervisors; the vocational board ex-
ponds $4,000, and employs secretary
and four assistants the state board Of
education expends $4,000 and employs
a secretary and four assistants. For
administration the university board re-
gents expends $125,O00; the normal re-
gents, $4,000, and the mining school
board, $14.60.
Should the Cary plan be accepted
the educational system will revert
/ practically to the basis it occupied
prior to the Philip regime. The state
superintendent will direct inspection
and supervision; the regents and the
mining school board will have charge
of administration, and the vocational
| education and education boards will dis
appear. The critics of this plan, many
Of whom are supporting the Fitzpat-
rick plan, assert that such reorgani-
cation will provide no agency for the
formulation of general educational pol
1 icies.
The Fitzpatrick plan places great
emphasis on the question of policy.
I Under this proposed reorganization the
state board of education will remain
and receive additional authority. 1t
will absorb the vocational board. The
| state superintendent will be a member
| ex-officio, but the board itself will take
/ over, the inspection work now done by
his department. Regents, boards and
mining school boards will remain as
| administrative agencies.
Two other plans have been suggest
ed. One is the plan put forward by
| Governor Philip six years ago for one
| state board of education to supersede
| all other boards This plan receives
little attention, because it is not be-
lieved it could be adopted We're 1t
! thought advisable to do So The fourth
plan is in the nature of a compromise
between the Cary and Fitzpatrick
| plans.
State officials and employees, COM
prising committee taking in every
classification of state work, are COM
piling data for an actuarial study ON
the possibility of working out a plan
for a pension fund for state employees.
Members Of the committee are Yr.
| Charles Mccarthy, chairman, Supreme
Court Justice Rosenberg, J. B. Bor-
den. state board of education; Plat
Whitman, state insurance commissions
er: Miss Maud Neprud, state board Of
control; Miss Caroline Kuntz, tax com
mission; John A. Hazelwood, secretary
state board of public affairs.
Clarence Ruggles, chief examiner
for the civil service commission. has
sent letter to all state employees to
secure the data Upon information Sc
cured from employees the committee
will outline a proposal that will be put
up to the legislature.
Through a pension system the work
| of the civil service commission would
be strengthened. as there would be an
added security to state employ
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