Report of Committee on Constitutional Amendments. 93 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- 

 MENTS. 



We recommend a change in electing the board of directors, amend- 

 ing article four in the constitution, so as to elect one director for one 

 year, one for two years and one for three years, and afterward to 

 elect every year one director to serve for three years. 



We recommend a change also in article four, so that the secretary 

 be elected by the Executive Board instead of by election at the annual 

 meeting as heretofore. 



We recommend a change also in article eleven, empowering the 

 Executive Board to pay the secretary a salary of $1,000 per year, if 

 they deem best, in consideration of his keeping an open office and 

 giving his whole time to the work, spending at least eight hours a 

 day in his office. It shall be his duty each year to get out a creditable 

 annual report, issue monthly bulletins to each member, preparing 

 articles as often as once a month for the leading papers, doing also all 

 in his power to secure new members. This is to be done with the 

 advice and direction of the Executive Board. 



C. S. HARRISON, 

 G. A. MARSHALL, 

 A. J. BROWN, 



Committee. 



MR. BARNARD: I move that the report of this committee be 

 accepted and taken up for consideration at ten o'clock tomorrow 

 morning. 



Motion carried unanimously. 



G. A. MARSHALL: Now we don't want to go about this matter 

 blindly. This committee has done considerable work this last summer 

 in the way of inquiry. Mr. Harrison, Brown and I are the members 

 of this committee as appointed. We have looked into the work of the 

 secretaries of the Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and 

 Colorado societies. We have visited some of their offices, and this is 

 the conclusion we have come to. This is a serious matter, and it 

 is going to cause us to spend more money; it is going to be a step in 

 advance, and will mean more work. We have inquired down at the 

 Capitol building to see if we could get a room there, and we have 



