The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-14
RILEY s. YOUNG
IS RE- ELECTED
Practically All Old 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 OrSdulZeu DIT HUOu LOooy W
eiecting practically all of the old OH
GERS of the last session.
Riley S. Young OF Walworth county
was reelected speaker of the house.
E. Shaffer, 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 for
the third time, and Vincent Kielpinsk1.
Milwaukee. 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. INSTRUMENTATION
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
flee, 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-
ton, employing % inspectors and SUI
perviSOrs; the vocational board eX-
ponds $4,000, and employs a secretary
and four assistants; the state board of
education eXpendS SIC, 900 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. $14.6O.
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 a reOrgani-
cation will provide no agency for the
formulation of general educational pol
icieS.
The Fitzpatrick plan places great
emphasis on the question of policy.
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 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 Phillip 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 were it
thought advisable to do so. The fourth
plan is liz the nature of a compromise
between the Cary and Fitzpatrick
plans.
prising a committee taking in every
classification of state work, are COM
piling data for an actuarial study on
the possibility of working out plan
for pension fund for state employees.
Members of the committee are DR..
Charles Mccarthy, chairman, Supreme
Court Justice Rosenberg. J. B. Bor-
den, state board of education: Platt
Whitman, state insurance commission
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 pension system the work