Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-11
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
Secretary Boruck Comes to the Defen
of its Members and Cleik.

Secretary BOruck Comes to the Defense
of its Members and Clelk.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In your issue Of
this morning you take occasion to criticise
the apparent delay in the transaction OF
business on the part of the Board of Ex-
aminers, and particularly on the part of S.
P. Maslin, its Secretary. You do the latter
great injustice. He is faithful and palms.
taking in the discharge of his official duties,
for which he receives 81 800 per annum,
and saves the State not less than SIS 900
each year in cutting down overcharges in
claims presented tor payment / admit
there is an accumulation of business on
the Secretary's desk, which has been the
means of entailing lsziness on the gentle
men employed in the Controllers Office,
but they, and not Mr.. Maslin, are RESPONSE
bic for this state of affairs.
In the first biennial message of Governor
Waterman, made to the Legislature, was
the following recommendation:
strongly recommend and earnestly request
that your honorable bodies provide for the
creation of Board of Examiners, which shall
take the place of the present ex officio Board,
whose duties Will be the same, with some few
additions, caused by the growth and demands
of the States business, and whose powers will
not be SO circuMscrbed. This new Board
should not alone take the place of the Board of
Examiners, but should also perform the duties
of the State Capitol Commissioners, and act as
State Board of Charities. They should have the
power and authority to lat least once every fis-
cal year. and as often as they deem necessary,
expert the books of the different institutions of
the State. They should have the power to COM
pei any institution to change its form of book
keeping, to conform to a general system that
should be introduced throughout the different
do rfr, lnrafa Nf
should have the power to inaugurate and COM
pei the introduction of perfect and thorough
system of business in all departments. They
should exercise supervision over all public
buildings in the course of construction, and ap-
prove all contracts made by any department or
institution of the State; and they should super
wise the management and control OF all Orphan
Asylums and Homes for Aged Indigents
.. The creation of such Board with such DOW
ers and duties would be productive of much
good. 1t would reorganize the business system
OF the State. 1t would satisfy and silence for
ever the ominous complaints of the States
creditors against the State. 1t would instill a
healthy growth and vigorous life in the weak
financial policy OF the State. 1t would knit to-
state her numerous Boards Commissions and
institutions, which have during the past years
been gradually widening the breach between
the creator and the creature.
In the interest of thorough business principles
and good government, earnestly ask that you
create such Board of Examiners.
Had this sensible and useful recon-
mendation been permitted to become a
law, the laziness which the gentleman in
the Controllers Office claim has been en-
tailed upon them by Mr.. Maslin would
have been obviated. But when this recon-
mendation was formulated in bill and
presented to the Legislature for action,
every gentleman in the Controllers office,
with every other Democrat in the Capitol
building Gncluding the porters, front and
rear, rallied in force to beat it, and sue
ceeded on the ground that, as Governor
Waterman was Republican, he would
appoint Republicans on the Board (al.
though he agreed to appoint one Demo-
craft, and for the additional reason that it
was anti-Catholic in sentiment and intent.
M. D. BoRUcK, Private Secretary.