~,,?3 $B©^SSS$0? 1 jT '-^-y s0?™r3'- A ^3 *.y *. r«* o| public is tnat or tne weirare vey and a classification .-Apublic neaitn prevent fUHner afmifei aniT Co re^ consistent wftn Etate progress 1ST ol proper facilftles and Help for so doing, of the child. This state has done much BURNQUISTS land. Store the water course' involved to Its stats course, desirable-and to criticize for Its through charitable that are in need of greater appropriations children its natural condition In addition to the Public Domain CommtoUoa. officials for the unjustifiable expenditure There 16 not to transact their business as it Institutions. probably other relief that Is prayed for In their has We of public funds undoubtedly have, .today, no adequate inventory are ought to be transacted. In litigation ADDRESS TO more than one or two states that bills of complaint. a good effect in keeping down extravagant of our resources and no department involving enormous amounts the state ahead of Minnesota in this regard and Conmty ud Judicial Ditche*. expenditures, but I am convinced authorised* to dd what ought t« meets the opposition of men receiving yet by reason of inconsistencies and Much harm has also been done In that criticism of the state government be done to conserve and develop them. LEGISLATURE high salaries with expert knowledge of emissions In our present laws relating the construction of county and judicial in this respect is often based upon a With 30,000,000 acres of land of thia the particular subjects of which they to children, It has been felt that the ditches in that the outlets have -often state remaining undeveloped, with its misapprehension of the real facts for have made a specialty. If it pays private statutes pertaining thereto should be proved Inadequate to take care of the enormous iron deposits, with the unlimited the share of taxes which go to the state 1 corporations to be in a position to codified and revised. At the request c-f water drained Into them. It is estimated water powers within its borders, for state purposes has always been acquire the service of such men the those interested in this matter, a commission St. Paul, Jan. 3.—Governor J. that to date there has been expended with little or no information as very small compared with the taxes A. A. Attorney General's office should ..be has been appointed for the purpose for county and judicial drains to Its topography, as to what particular which go to the localities for local purposes. Burnquist, in his Inaugural address to provided with sufficient funds so as to of making a thorough study of the In this state the s*fm of $30,000,000. In sections of the state ought to be Of the total tax levy for 1915, be able to acquire such additional assistance the Legislature of 1917, urged the subject and subsequently reporting thirteen southern counties there are developed, as to what kinds of soil are less than of the taxes paid or about that may be needed from time recommendations as to any changes members to devote this session to the 11.8 now under constr '-tion sixty ditches per "cent went to the state. The to be found in the different communities, to time. If the public examiner's office that are needed. This commission was at a cost of more than $2,500,000. Within rest of the levy was for local school analysis of the present civil administration as to what drainage canals ought is to conduct efficiently all the examinations appointed in August of last year and the next ten years it is believed that, purposes and expenses in connection to be constructed to .be of the-greatest and to the simplification ot a demanded of that department, preliminary report, which shows the at least $10,000,000 more will be spent with county, city, village and township service for the present in connection larger appropriations for its work are careful and comprehensive manner in existing laws. He directed their attention affairs. In these same counties. Such expenditure with flood relief, In the furnishing of necessary. The timber board has not which the work of the commission is to those propositions which in the locality referred to is but Division of Taxes. water power and in the reclamation of sufficient authority or funds to properly being done, is appended to this address. illustrative of what Is being expended The total taxable valuation of all state lands, and of greatest service for are considered to be of the greatest safeguard the particular state resources, Their final recommendations will be incorporated for a like purpose in other portions of property in Minnesota for 1915 was the future in connection with water of which it has the management. In a bill to which the Legislature, importance at the present time rather the state. In connection with the existing $1,492,000,000. The total tax levy for transportation and all the possibilities It would be a very easy matter it is to be hoped, will give the than to the enactment of multitudinous system under which said drainage state and local purposes was $52,055,180,. of development therein involved, not for the state, because of insufficient attention that the importance of the work is being done there is considerable only for this state but for the whole of which only $6,178,000 go to the new laws. help in certain departments, to lose proposed measure deserves. cause for criticism and as a Northwest, it is clear that we Yieed a state and the balance to localities. The hundreds of thousands of dollars in Governor Burnquist's message follows: Labor Legislation. result thereof we hear manj^ complaints public domain commission. amount disbursed for the same year by. the management of its trust funds and We have had, in the past, much against our present methods of the state for local purposes will be Unnecessary Boards Should* Be Abolished. in the care of its resources. It therefore enactment of law pertaining to the petitioning for the establishment of approximately $6,200,000. The state, Gentlemen of the Senate and House Of appears that, if the properties of rights of property as compared with ditches, of appraising the benefits and therefore, pays back to the counties Representatives: Without going too much into detail Minnesota are to be properly handled costs, and of releasing the bondsmen what we today call humanitarian legislation. more than it collects from them and if Knowing most of you as well as I do, in connection with a discussion of the and protected, although expenditures before the expiration of sufficient time It is -only forty years ago .school maintenance, which accounts by reason of our past association, It 4s reorganization of our civil administration, can be reduced in some departments, it for the proper testing of the drains. since the passage of the first law involving for such a large portion of the money with especial pleasure that I greet the I wish to say that 1 am absolutely is impossible to reduce the total expenditures Need of Central Authority. the regulation of hours of labor. paid by the state to localities and road members of the Fortieth Legislature. of all the departments, In accord with any change that will Our state drainage commission, as Such legislation was at that time building, which has with commendable When serving in this body, I learned tend to eliminate unnecessary positions which amount, as aforesaid, to nearly regarded as extremely dangerous and now constituted, does not have sufficient foresight been made such an important to appreciate the freedom with which and needless boards. By reason of this $1,500,000. As this sum is less than when, thirty years ago, an attempt was authority and is composed of state part of state development and put we, as legislators, consulted one another fact every appointment that has heretofore one-fifth of the total annual legislative officials, who are so busy with matters made to keep children out of factories Minnesota in a needed and prominent upon matters of legislation and I been made by me has been made appropriations it is clear that even if pertaining to their own offices, that It such attitude was considered "a reckless position from which she should not recede, a reduction in the cost of running the trust that, during the session which with the understanding that acceptance Is impossible for them to give to these Interference with economic freedom." but advance, were paid for by executive departments were made, such Is now opening, we may at all times of the position is subject to any change But changes are taking place matters, which require expert knowledge, local taxes the state could pay its running a reduction would scarcely have any feel at liberty to confer with each other that you, as legislators, may make and the time that they demand. When and have taken place until, today, all expenses from indirect revenues upon the business that we are here to some appointments have been delayed effect on the tax rate, but If, on the needed the vast expenditure of money fair minded men in publl6 life believe such as the gross earning tax, the inheritance transact. Believing that such business In order that legislation, tending to a other hand, the Legislature should not for drainage purposes and the inadequacy In legislation- tending to give adequate tax and others of like nature can be transacted most profitably by reduction in the number of offices, appropriate sufficient funds to secure of our present system are taken compensation for Injuries sustained and the state tax levy could be entirely efficient management, through the devoting this session to the analysis might be facilitated and opposition to Into consideration, It would appear advisable and to insure payment thereof, to secure abolished. ot proper equipment of its boards with our present civil administration, to changes reduced to the minimum. to abolish the said commission the ample protection of lives, the True Economy. qualified men and enough money with the simplification of cur existing laws Public Health. decrease in the number of accidents, and and substitute substitute therefor therefor some some qualified ou Although only a small share of the and to the oentrallzing of the efforts which to do the work demanded of The development of the resources of state au'/orlty to pass upon the conditches the improvement of all conditions under responsibility for a high tax rate can, them, it would be possible in the long of the Legislature upon those measures the state is Important, but the preservation struction of all drainage ditche and which men work, the shortening by reason of the facts heretofore stated, run for the state to sustain under such iWiutfh you think most imporlafit, I desire, Of the health of our citizens is of their hours of labor to the lowest whose duty it would be to make a systematic be placed on the state government, conditions enormous losses. Through through this Inaugural message, still more important. Last year we possible point, and bring about as soon and state-wide study of the no state official would on that account the proposed reorganization of state toot to advocate the enactment of multitudinous appropriated only $74,000 to the State situation and thereby lay the foundation as possible that situation in which no favor the extravagant expenditure of departments it cannot be expected that new statutes, but to submit Public Health Department. While we for the proper co-operation of the man, who desires to work, shall be public money. We all believe in making you can lower to any considerable extent for your consideration only such propositions appear to be willing to expend millions compelled to labor without receiving different portions of the state. This the tax rate as low as possible, but the direct cost of government, 41 are deemed to be of the to take care Of the mental and for his toil a sufficient amount in central authority should devote all of at the same time we are more anxious but the possibility of saving immense greatest Importance at the present physical derelicts of the state, we spend Its time to the duties of the office, gathering wages to enable him and his family to to have the work of the state well done sums for the state Indirectly through time. very little to help eliminate the causes sufficient data and information live in such a manner as to secure for and its money wall spent than to have the adequate safeguarding of its resources Topographical Survey. of their unfortunate condition. The of to enable it to pass intelligently upon them their full, fair share the accessories the taxes unreasonably reduced for we and through the business-like In 1909 tiie Legislature enacted a law modern revelations of scientific medicine the advisability of instituting drainage of life. all agree that too much economy is conduct of its affairs by the right kind through which It was intended to make aire indicative of the opportunities proceedings and to have submitted to apt to result in the greatest extravagance ot Industrial Disputes. of co-operation and co-ordination possible "a topographical survey of the of the state for the improvement it ,for its approval, the plans for either and that the reasonable expenditure There are times in this state as well its various boards and offices is so evident several water-sheds of the state for the of the health and the prolongation of local state projects before the construction of money for valid purposes is as elsewhere when employes feel that as to show, most clearly, the imperative purpose of securing data from which the lives of the citizens. We, of this thereof is commenced. often the truest economy. In state affairs they are not getting that to which need of legislation which will competent plans for a uniform system state, have not yet come to a full realisation as in private business the results Soil Survey. they are entitled, either In wages or provide for such a rearrangement of of drainage might be prepared," but of what can be accomplished for accomplished and the dividends received Only six counties and part of another conditions of employment. As a result our civil administration. succeeding Legislatures have not apr the prevention of disease and the preservation determine the wisdom of the investment. have been given a soil survey in this serious strikes take place. The' state proprlated sufficient money to carry of life for we have neglected Budget System. state. The federal government has executive is then asked, not only to use out the provisions of this act. Only In a large measure the opportunities On or prior to the first day of next been all of the work of this nature per been doing the National Guard to prevent disorder Legislative Appropriations. about 8 cent of the state has that have to us through the medical come month, I am required, under our present that has been done in Minnesota and riot, but, although he is not authorized Our are, The last Legislature .appropriated covered. neighboring states discoveries of the present time. law, to submit to you the estimates up to this date. If the two governments by law to do so, to attempt to less money than was appropriated during us. lb this matter, far ahead of North The sum contributed by our state to for the next biennial period. Tou will co-eperated in making the survey settle such industrial controversies either of the two previous sessions. N Dakota has covered 14 per cent of her Its department of health last session then be in a position to know how much more coud be accomplished. notwithstanding the fact that we have As a result the recent tax levy for the territory Iowa, 21 per cent Wisconsin, meant an annual expenditure of only much higher or lower than this year's We need to determine for what crops at the present time what is known as state revenue fund was fixed at one 21 per cent and-South Dakota 24 cents per capita. In spite of its expenditures, the estimated expenditures Minnesota's soil can best be used. Before the State Board of Arbitration. The mill and the total state tax levy at per cent. If this work is to be done low appropriation, Minnesota holds for next year will be. This procedure we go to the expense of draining existing law upon this subject provides 3.65 mills, which Is the lowest since appropriations of a sufficient amount to fourth place in efficiency, but It is impossible has been made possible by reason hundreds of thousands of acres of state that when a majority of employes of 1910 and this reduction was accomplished do it will be necessary. If the state for our health department of the enactment by the last Legislature property we should know whether the their employers make application although the one mill road tax does Its share it will be possible to secure with such small amount as is now given of what is known as the budget peet lands constituting a large portion therefor, the said board "shall visit the was added to the levy, which had not the co-operation of the federal it to make as rapid progress as it system in appropriations. Under said thereof are adapted to agriculture or locality, inquire into the gispute, hear been done up to 1913. The appropriation government through appropriations sould do if more funds were made law the Governor is required to prepare to other useful purpose and thereby and advise all parties interested," but by from the revenue fund for the fiscal that have been provided it for this available for the advancement of public forms to be sent to all the different see to it that no money shall be expended the amount authorized to be paid the year from August 1, 1916, to July particular purpose. health. If necessary less money departments and to the different for the drainage of said lande members of the board for such work 31, 1917, is $8,450,000. Of the amount State Drainage. should be appropriated to other departments state officials with the request that tho unless, such drainage should be found Is so small that it cannot be expected appropriated by the last Legislature Such a su-vey is necessary because in order that more might be blanks therein be filled in -for the purpose profitable. that they should leave their homes or for the fiscal year, the sum of $2,365,000 of our unsatisfactory drainage situation. used for the purpose of preventing the of getting information as to the Forestry. places of labor or business to go to the was appropriated for state charitable We have appropriated enormous spread of disease through the enforcement exact amount of the appropriation that We also need to know what lands locality involved fcr the purpose of and correctional institutions and con amounts of money for the construction of proper health regulations and each department believes it will be Should be set aside for forestry purposes making a thorough investigation of the stitutes 28 per cent of the total appropriations. of drainage ditches, many of which the necessary propagation of health necessary for it to have during the next under the constitutional amendment, matter in dispute. The Governor has The total sum appropriated have failed absolutely in the purpose education. biennial period and for what the adopted in 1914. no jurisdiction over the members of from the revenue fund for educational for which they were intended. Through Tuberculosis. amounts asked for shall be used. The At the present time the scarcity of the board so as to compel them to act, purposes was $3,656,000 and constitutes the methods we have heretofore purSued, The tuberculosis death rate in Minnelota Legislature will, therefore, on February paper and the great demand for pulpwood nor has he any authority to subpoena more than 43 per cent of the total appropriations some lands have been benefited, In 1915 was 2,200. There are, at first of this year, be in possession are an example of the unlimited witnesses for the purpose of acquiring for the fiscal year. This {put the lands below those drained have, the present time, several counties anxious of facts pertaining to these appropriations possibilities in connection with the forestry knowledge as to the truth Or falsity money is spent for University, Normal tjirough__sUch drainage, been flooded. to build hospitals if half of the activities of the state. It i£ that it Is now impossible for me of the charges made by the strikers or School and agricultural education and We'Save, toSa7,-«R-6ur^ sost-were paid by the state as provided to communicate to you and claimed—by~ ~the~ state forestry board their employers, Tfi the Governor is to for. special aid to High, Graded and of North tlon instituted by the state that in that is for In the bill passed in 1913, but if the land Minnesota, when the dlfferent departm' be expected to act fti these matters the Rural schools. About 22 per cent of Dakota, and one by the state of South properly wad con* the funds for such a purpose have Jbeen adapted to forestry, ficiais of the different state institutions present law should be so amended as the total appropriations is for the Dakota, in which each ot said states exhausted. During the two-year period have been heard upon the proposed to give him the power to appoint, for Legislative, Judicial and Executive departments. claims alleged damages to Its physical verted into normal state forest, said prior to the date when the funds were budget to the extent that you each particular strike if in his opinion The legislators' salaries of properties, by reason of the acts land would be a capital worth at least exhausted 32 counties applied for and may permit, it Is for you to determine It Is necessary to intervene, men who amount to the sum of nearly $200,000 Minnesota in the handling of drainage $200,000,000 yielding an annual net qualified to receive state aid. On Sept. how much of a reduction if any should are. familiar with the work In which and the annual expenditures in the projects, In a sum exceeding $1,000,000 revenue of $6,000,000. Before the com I, 1915, the state had facilities for takr be made therein. No one would deny the strikers are engaged and with the Judicial department is more than $266,000. ipencement of such work it Is apparent and asks for the issuance of a permanent. Ing care of 454 patients. During last that it is the duty of us all to keep business to be investigated, or who, for The sum of $1,452,550 is appropriated injunction against our. .state tft that the first step shouM be a soil sur- (rear the number was increased to 875. down the legislative appropriations some other reason, would be especially to carry on the work done by The number that can now be taken during this session to the lowest possible F. C. ROGERS qualified to assist in adjusting labor the state officials and by the many different :are of in both public and private Institutions point, but to reduce the proposed conflicts. There should be no permanent state departments. A sum ot is about 68 per cent of the number budget to such an extent as to cripple board of arbitration, but whenever about $500,000 constituting the remaining who annually die from this preventable our institutions or to destroy their effectiveness a strike is threatened the Governor 6 per cent of the total appropriations, disease. It is said that before for good would be neither should have the right, if the situation is expended for misbellaneoue the anti-tuberculosis work 6f Minnesota efficiency nor economy. Is sufficiently serious, to appoint three purposes such as the Soldiers' Home, will have, a decided effect upon fair and impartial citizens, whose duty the Historical Society and other public the death rate the state, must be In a It should be to induce both sides to projects. FIFTY NEGROES, 4 WHITES position to accommodate as many conlumptives designate committees to represent them Appropriations for Charitable Institutions. as there are annual deaths to get them to adjust, if and" thus try LYNCHED IN U. S. IN YEAR from consumption. possible, in a peaceable manner the Minnesota takes much interest in Commission Public Health. differences that have arisen between earing for its unfortunates. It is, I Because of the apparent lack of Interest Records of Tuskegee Institute for 191C PRACTICAL FURRIER employer and employe. It is not the believe, the only state in the Union extending in the matter of public health Intention that the men so appointed Are Made Public by President aid to its prisoners. It was ind on account ot the failure on the should be empowered to compel arbitration, the first state to establish a hospital —Causes Shown. part of the state boards to properly if such a thing were possible, for crippled children. There are, today, so-oper&te In their work, some weeks Fort Frances, Ontario but to act as conciliators between the more than 1,200 dependants in the *go a commission was appointed contending parties with full power to Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 2.—Fifty-fouf public school at Owatonna. In the institutions tl*e Governor to devise w-ays and mean* subpoena witnesses and to make a full persons were lynched in the United for the deaf, the blind and it procuring harmonitnrs efforts on the Investigation of the claims and demands the feeble minded at Faribault there States in 1916, according to records ot pari of the different boards so that t&e of the strikers and of all the was, during last "year, an attendance public health work In and the sxneral the Tuskegee institute here. Fifty of conditions surrounding their employment of nearly 1,900 and in the five state itubeTcukjsis' work in particular wwald The Oldest Exclusive Fur House so as to procure definite and authoritative the victims were negroes and four hospitals and asylums for insane not be hampered and retarded. The data upon which to act. No there was a population oi -.ore than white persons, included in the record :ommTSsio.n appointed has reported particular salary should be prescribed, 6,600. With the increase in the number jertain excellent recommendatioirs -of are three negro women.. but a fund should be set aside for the in the World of the state's inhabitants must which the foil owing the the m«tst important: purpose of paying for the expenses of In a statement presenting the report, come an increase in the number of its such investigation, and for the services unfortunates and therefore, if the present Robert R, Moton, president of 1. The State Board of Health should of unprejudiced and reliable men in standard is to be maintained, new bo reorganized and made to consist of the institute, said: whom both sides could have confidence buildings for the inmates will from five instead of mine members. for no others can be appointed if there "Fourteen, or more than one-fourtlfe. time to time be needed and larger appropriations 2. The State Board of HeaRih should is to be any hope of an amicable adjustment for their maintenance will of the total lynchings, occurred in the, be jgTanted bread, general txewers instead of the matters in dispute. become necessary unless the members of specifying in detail tn the law state of Georgia. Of those put to, The compensation of such conciliators, of this body can agree upon, some plan the limits of its duties. if ai^y, 'should be fixed at the time of death forty-two, or 77 cent of the per whereby those, who are relatives of 3. The Board of Health should be appointment. There are cases now total, were charged with offenses oth-. the inmates and are able to contribute empowered to appoint a commissioner where the Chief Justice, the Attorney Ot to their support, can be made to do so er than assault. The for public health. charges General and the Governor determine through legislative enactment. You 4. The present advisory commission which whites were lynched mur-. the amount to be paid for certain services. were have the power to reduce the appropriations should be discontinued and its powers These officials, or any others der, three suspected of cutting ft for charitable purposes if you and duties transferred to a new division rX who mtght be named, could constitute deem it wise, but if, upon investigation, woman, one (this a Mexican)." of the State Board of Health to be a board for determining what amount it is found that such a reduction will headed by a man especially train* a in should be paid in .emergencies and how lower the high standard that Minnesota tuberculosis work. the pregposed strike fund should ba expended. has established and make it impossible Hobos to Plan Model Conventiort. 5. All existing state financed actfvities for the state to give its wards relating to public health should be St Jan. 2.—A with Fair Markets. Louis, pencil the of the care to which they are entitled, I organized under State Board There has been, oj late, considerable love and kisses behind it rule a believe that you will agree with me Health. can criticasm, of" the methods now in vogu« that such action by the legislature Industrial lurcSoae should ts hobo convention, declares James Eada of the handling and marketing ol would be neither wise nor economical. How, St, Louis millionaire hobo leader. transferred from the Department of grain. Wherever unfair conditions ar« The state has made great progress ILabor to the State Board of Health. Bo shown to exist in the delivery to our when the annual convention the along educatfonal lines. We boast of of 7. Larger appropriations for the markets products in- th« of farm and Its many and varied educational activities. International Welfare association ig S&ate'e public health service Should be handling and inspection of the sama mi We feel the returns in the elevation called to order In Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. panted. of our citizenship, secured frojn A copy of the full report of this compsAsslon terminal points, the Legislature-should, 80, the delegates will miss the gavel expenditures for such purposes, repav la also appended to tGhis mesand as as possible, through legislation, far many times over the amounts involved. pounding. This, How. said, was th* will, trust, receive the careful I eliminate such unfair conditions. The Wo have, within our borders, a pepple first move to show hobo conventions consideration of the members of marketing of grain and produce la becoming Who desire education We fully realise tbito body. more and more Important. This were hot riotous affairs. The convention that without our schools the loyalty of EXPORTER AND2IMPORTEROF The reports of Doth the legislative (natter deserves our most serious attention will be In session three days pro-. today to our state and to American institutions oommisslon on changes in our «M1 administration and if more Just and better Tiding delegates drop frem freight would bo Impossible. There and the commission on ways of transacting the business are those who may believe it desirable tmiM in tim«. pubfte health agree in recommending be devised through. legislative enactment, to change the amounts of the money that the present advisory commission the producers of this state are appropriated to particular departments fee of abolished, that the State Boand undoubtedly entitled to such legislation or branches of our educational system, Health he made to consist of five instead from this body. Any practical bet flying more to acme and less to others. of nine jnembers, and that a commissioner terment or improvement, which can ba There are citizens who, on aocount of of health b« appointed. to Suggested in the weighing and Inspection the situation in some portions of the have full authority over health mattors. of grain, should bo encouraged LMten Peak Cefebrates Chrtotmaf, state, wisely advocate the establiahment The two commissions. however, and adopted. Reddjpff, Cal., 26.—Ltigftn peak Dee. as to tha of of more night schools for the differ method appointing 7^ Constitutional Amendments. commissioner of purpose of giving adults, especially celebrated Christmas by omitting tbs health. One favors i|r- During recent years certain proposed Highest Cash Prices paid on those-of foreign descent, an opportunity of the appointment by the Bo4rd ronstitutional amendments, such as freat black pillar of •$•*. House to acquire at least an elementary Health, and the other by the Governor. those pertaining to the prohibition of tops were covered -wiifc fcjk view* Raw Furs education, to learn more of American The question as to whether an appointment the sale of Intoxicating liquors and to Institutions, and -thus become more fa* tor tie spectable through field glMsea should be made by a hoard or by the granting of the rights of franchise miliar with the purposes and ideals of the Governor Is not, in my opinion, your to women, have been discussed In gen before they had opened wait American citizenship. very Important If the Legislature gives legislative campaigns and have been .Ghristnas packages. He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs from the United to the appointing power sufficient authority, up for consideration In this body. Under Appropriations for Administrative Departments. with reasonable limitations. the constitution, you alone have States and pay as high a price for them as any When a position requiring technical the power to determine the question ot Man-a-Day Recruiting Slogan. The State of Minnesota is a growing training Is Involved the appointing house in the United States. their submission to the people. The State. More and more is expected of power should have the right to remove executive is given neither the right to Minneapolis.—The navy recruiting its Officials. No business institution the appointee and the power with suitable approve nor the power to veto -your station in the old postoffice building is would handle its business in the affairs safeguards to adjust his salary. action in this regard. If, under auch manner in which a public institution, KSURE BE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY The length of the term.of such an appointee striving now to get a man a- day- astheir conditions, his opinion should be considered G.« ROGERS !SS such as Minnesota, has handled hers. should be indefinite and in all material, 1 wish to say that 1916 recruiting record. Last" In some departments, on account of insufficient ease's where it can. be done the Legislature my past attitude On these questions is year 865 were recruiting, one for each help, the work of the officials as should prescribe high quali­ well known and, since becoming Governor, is necessarily delayed. There some are day, and Lieutenant J. D. Willson says Jha fications as can reasonably be applied my I have made no change In boards and offices that ought to be to those who are to be appointed. will at least better that total by position relative thereto. abolished, but there are others, such one since this is leap year. WdtfeM af ChUdrMu Responsibility for High Taxes. the investment board, handling mil- jui ClnnVr «owu.ctcd with tho question Tfi. jjeep the state taxgg a§. tew as la UfiBI o{ 4nllMe Iil securities without & ig-nx. irV