Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-01-14
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.

Riley S. Young of Walworth county
was reelected speaker of the house.
p. Shaffer, Madison, vas elected for
the seventh time as chief clerk, and T.
@. Gretney, Madison. was rechosen as
sergeant at arms. In the senate, Sem
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 kielpinski
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 perfunetory gay
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 C. p. Cary and
Secretary Z. A. Fitzpatrick of the
state board of education viii De the
chief figures in the fight. Each
sponsors reorganization plan. MIR.
Cary desires to preserve the dominant
pace for the state superintenlent's Of
ice, 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 hoard
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-
cationaI 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 Su-
pervisors; the vocational board ex-
ponds $4,000, and employs a secretary
and four assistants: the state board Of
education expenas $4,000 and employs
a secretary and four assistants. For
administration the university board re-
gents eypends St25.oO0; the normal re-
gents, $4,000, ana the mining school
board, S14.60
Should the Cary plan be accepted
the educational system will revert
practically 10 the basis it occupied
prior to the Philip regime. The state
superintendent win 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 educatioG win remain
and receive additional authority. 1t
will absorb the vocational board. The
state superintendent will be a member
ex-ofiicio, but the board itself will take
over the inspection work now done by
sis 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 were it
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, areNcom-
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. Dor.
den, state board of education; Plat
Whitman. state Insurance commission.
err; Miss Maud Neprud. state board OF
control; Miss Caroline Kmnz. 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 date. Upon information Sc
cured from employees the committee
win outline proposal that will be nut
up 70 the legislature.
Through a pension system the work
Of the civil service commission would
be strengthened, as $here would be an
added security 10 state epplo~.