and order of business, resolutions. A recess is taken to allow the committees time to do their work. Upon reassembling the names of the persons entitled to seats in the convention are presented by the committee on credentials, the names of the permanent officers and an order of business are presented by the second committee and a set of resolutions by the committee on resolutions. These resolutions in state and national conventions are called "platform" and each separate resolution a. "plank;" they are an embodiment of party principles upon which the issues of the campaign are usually based. The business is then taken up in order and the officers nominated or delegates appointed as the case may be. Committees.—The committees referred to are named in the different conventions and have charge of the campaign in their respective jurisdictions. Each committee has a chairman who is the active head and upon whom most of the responsibility is placed and who receives most of the credit or blame for the success or failure of the campaign. D. EXPENDITURE OF EDUCATIONAL FUNDS. The following amounts have been paid to the several state institutions by the state on account of interest, surplus and direct appropriations from their organization to June 30th, 1903: Primary Schools... University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). $28,521,191.44 ... 7,126,495.82 1,888,685.57 254,500.00 141,917.65 2,304,399.52 873,724.99 E. STANDARD TIME. By act of the legislature, approved February 17, 1885, and which went into effect September 19 of the same year, standard time, central division, based on the ninetieth longitude west from Greenwich, was made the legal time for the state. F. ARBOR DAY. Arbor Day, which is being observed annually by proclamation of the governor, was directed by a concurrent resolution of the legislature, which requested that the governor call the attention of the people of this state to the importance of planting trees for ornament and shade. The governor has named an "Arbor Day" each year since. G. STATE FLOWER. Whereas, a refined sentiment seems to call for the adoption of a state flower; and Whereas, our blossoming apple trees add much to the beauty of our landscape, and Michigan apples have gained a world wide reputation; and Whereas, at least one of the most fragrant and beautiful flowered species of apple, the pyrus corvuaria is native to our state; therefore Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Michigan, that the apple blossom be and the same hereby is designated and adopted as the state flower of the state of Michigan. |