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 and Senate are designated as "A" in the legislative department. The lines connecting them illustrate the relation existing between the executive and legislative departments. If an important question arose in the State in regard to education, the Governor should call in to his presence the Director of Education and the chairmen of the committees on education in the House and Senate, and they would constitute the governmental agency to treat with that question. If it developed that one of the assistants in the department of education was especially conversant with that particular question and some member of a committee in the Senate or House other than the chairman was especially conversant with the question under consideration, they too should be called into the conference. Then, with a course of action determined upon, the work of execution should be carried on through the regularly constituted channels provided for in a State organized as a republic under its constitutional guaranty.

This course should be pursued in treating other questions pertaining to the other departments and legislative committees. It would be a great improvement on the present chaotic, wasteful, unbusinesslike method of conducting the various State governments.