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Show ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR MURDERERS Repeal of the present method of In flicting the death penalty, by hanging hang-ing or shooting, .and Hie substitution of the electric chair, is urged bj the state board of corrections in its hi ennial reiion filed with Governor Spry yesterday From Its lnv Hons the board declares it Is satisfied I hat electrocution Is the most modern and the best method of Inflicting the death penalty The board also recommends the consolidation of the state prison, the state Industrial hc hool and state men tal hospital, under one Kenral board of control. Under such supervision public offenders could be properly .segregated and classified much to the advantage of the various institutions and to the Rreat benefit of the in mates, it Is held. Under the present system, first offenders and those with no innate criminal tendencies are allow al-low r) to mlnKle "lib the vicious and habitual criminals, with dire results, it is pointed out. On this matter the report says: Under a general board of control there would be no conflict In the policies pol-icies of the various Institutions, a splendid gradation and classification could be made, which would provp e -reedlngly beneficial to each Institution. Institu-tion. From an economic viewpoint 'i WOUld result In jjreat saving to i he- state financially In the purchase ol Supplies and the general expense of operating the various institutions" Convict labor, says the report, an-Itborised an-Itborised under ihe enactment of the last legislature, bus resulted In vast Improvement of the convicts. boib morally and physically and the benefits bene-fits accruing to the state through th-l th-l ett rmenl ot roads has in itself more Hian justified Hie appropriations made for that purpose. It is recommended that the legislature appropriate S4n, 000 ibis year to defray tho expense of additional equipment so that a larger number of convicts can be put at I work building roads The board asl.s for an appropriation Of $16,000, with which to cultivate the j land owned by the state prison, thus i providing a needed means of giving I more convicts outdoor employment. H 13 reported that during the last two I years the pr.son authorities have ac quired additional water rights by purchase pur-chase The purchase of more water rights would Increase the value ol rhe land and would enable the board to employ a larger number of con vlcts. |