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 cabinet. Committees should be appointed in the legislative body to corrrespond to and coöperate with the various cabinet departments; the committees on education in the Senate and House to correspond to and coöperate with the Director of Education; the committees on ways and means to correspond to and coöperate with the Director of Finance; the committees on agriculture to correspond to and coöperate with the Director of Agriculture; the committees on commerce to correspond to and coöperate with the Director of Commerce, etc.

The Governor should select the best qualified persons available for cabinet positions, and the Senate and House should appoint on the various committees those who have the best training, knowledge and natural ability to be of service on those committees.

Should an important question arise in the State government, the Governor should confer with the cabinet member whose department covered that field of activity, and also with the chairmen of the committees in the House and Senate that correspond to and coöperate with that department.

To illustrate from the diagram, the Director of Education is designated as "A" in the executive department. The committees in the House