The Proposed School Law

The bill relative to the qualifications of the of the Countv Board of School Examiners, County School Commissioner, and other school matters, now before the legislature, and which will no doubt become a law before the spring election, provides that each examiner shall possess at least a third grade certifícate and have taught at least nine months in the public schools of the state. A Commissioner must possess at least 24 months experience as a teacher, and be a gradúate of the literary department of some reputable college, university, or state normal school having a course of at least three years, or hold a state teachers certifícate, or be holder of a lirst grade certifícate which has been signed by the state superintendent of public instruction. Those who have held the office of commissioner of schools under the provisions of Act No. 147, Acts of 1891, shall also be eligible. In counties having less than fifty school districts a man holding a first grade certifícate will be eligible to the office. These provisions in the main are all right. But it strikes one who has looked into the matter somewhat as thongh there are many counties ín the state in which it will be difïicult to fill theposition. They will have to import. Another good provisión of the bill is that no certifícate shall be granted any person not a citizen of the United States. There are many other provisions of the bill that are excellent. Before the bill is passed, however, we should suggest that on page 2, line 15, an explanation be made of what board is referred to, whether the board of examiners, board of supervisors, or what. The bill is pretty sure to become a law, and take immediate effect. Senator McMillan is probably the only senator who has been el cAedby every vote in the legislature since the nation was first formed and political parties have divided the people. It is a compliment that the gentleman no doubt appreciates, and Mr. DonoVan did a very graceful thing in voting for him. The United States Senate ha voted money to collect the income tax. notwithstanding Senato Hill's vehement protest. Uil couldivt swing the senate. There is a disposition upon the part of the millers from va nous sections of the state to have the Iegislature iix the weight and size of a sack of flour. Tliat might be a good idea, too. Either another block of bonds must be sold very soon to meet Lhe needs of the government, or else there must be a suspension of gold payments. The condition tlial confronta the government is no fcheory. It is a fact all right enough. A bilí is to be introduced in the Iegislature providing i'or the sale of pi ne barrene upon which taxes are delinquent, to the highest bidder. Often the taxes have been allowed to run till they exceeded tlie inarket value of the land, so that the owner liad no desire to keep the land and no one cared (o pay for the tax title. The bill will bring sometliine; into the state treasury.- Cheboygan Tribune. If Senator Watts" senatorial reapportionment isa go, Washtenaw and Livingston will constitute the Seventh Senatorial district, and there will be a natural democratie majority therein of 1,500 or more. Jackson is placed with Hillsdale in the Sixth district, and will have a republican majority of about the same amount. The Washtenaw republicans very naturally kick against being overwhelmingly swallowed up. The French republic is without a head. The new president, elected as successor to the murdered Carnot, in a fit of pique the other day, resigned, and now some other man will be called upon to fill the important place. Casimir-Perier proved himself too sensitive to fill the position. He could not withstand the criticisms of the opposition. He should have been old enougli to realize that our best men are made by honest criticism. It is self-conceit that kicks at honest criticism, and a right-minded man should be ready to meet it. "No one can vote hereafter at an election in Michigan except full citizens of the United States," said Judge Steere to the News this week, "except that special class, which is not very numerous- those who had their first papers two years and six months before the 7thday of November, 1864. This is the plain reading of the consti tutional amendment. It seems hard to disqualiíy a foreign born person who hasbecome an elector, but this is what this act does, except in the case of the certain class mentioned. How the amendment will be construed by the courts is a question for the future to decide. - Soo News. Here is a poser for a foreiíjner: A fast man on a fast day took his fast horse and tied him fast, and as fast as he could broke his fast. ïben he rose, took off his hose, and went with a hose along the rows and put his rose on the end ofhisnose, which, as every one knows, as a sort of a hose. So here goes. His hose watered every rose in all the rows. Now, say, who knows how a foreigh wight could learn very fast the meaning of hose and rows, and knows and nose, or try to perform any rite right, or even write right which involved the right writing of wright, rite, write, and riot?- There! the machine busted. - Menominee Herald. Can not this legislature dosomething to help the people secure better country roads? Let the prisoners at Jackson and in other state prisons prepare the material for roads, and sell it to the counties for actual cost. How would that do?- Courier. That scheme would never work. Transportation would be too expensive. Almost every township has material enough to make good roads if they will only use it as it should be, but there is where the trouble is. - Manchester Enterprise. Transport the prisoners, and let them work up the material where it is, the way they do in some of the southern states.