Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-01-17
THOUSANDS JOIN IN LISTERS INAUGURATION GRAND BALL FOLLOWS
ABOLITION OF TAX
BOARD IS URGED
Consolidation of Other Depart
ments Recommended by Gov
ernor in First Message.

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Recommending the abolition of the
state tax commission and the assign
ment of its duties to a special deputy
in the secretary of states department;
the abolition Of the bureau of inspec-
tion and the substitution therefor of
two or three expert accountants in
the auditors office; the consolidation
of the duties Of the state dairy and
food commissioner, the state commits
sioner of horticulture, the state veter-
marian, the state oil inspector and the
state grain inspector into new de-
partment, that of commissioner of ag-
riculture and inspection, Governor
Ernest Lister embodied numerous rec
concentrations and re-arrangements of
the administrative branch of the state
government in the inaugural address
delivered by him before the members
of the legislature Wednesday after
noon.
! All were made with the view of GEN.
Trailing the authority and eliminat-
ing so far as possible the duplication
Of employees in departments at pres
ent decentralized, but whose interests
are common. The changes enumer-
ated above cover this feature of the
address; among the new Democratic
governors other recommendations
were the following:
Honesty, efficiency and economy in
the state government.
Adoption of q preferential presiden.
tial primary law.
Direct election of United States SEN
ators.
Non-patisanship in county and city
elections.
Abolition Of straight ticket circle,
requiring the voter to mark the
name Of each candidate for whom his
ballot Is to be counted.
Better lighting facilities in election
booths.
Making voting space on ballots at
least " inch in size, on the left of the
candidates name instead Of the right.
Maintenance of three educational in
stitutions of high rank instead of five
Of ordinary caliber; incurring the
abolition Of normal school at Cheney
and the combination of the three nor
NAL schools into one.
| Change in school laws to permit
more general use Of school buildings.
More consolidated form Of institu-
tional appropriations.
Removal of board of controls au-
thority over institutions having sepa-
rate boards of regents.
Establishment of separate training
school for girls.
Development Of industrial depart
ments of training schools SO clothing,
shoes and other articles of wearing ap-
parel used by patients in hospitals for
insane may be manufactured.
Fixed prices on products Of peniten-
tiary jute mills, at cost or small per-
centage over cost. eliminating practice
of selling jute bags at 40 per cent.
profit.
Employment of convict labor in con-
structing state highways.
Abolition of board of managers Of
state reformatory. placing board Of
control in direct charge.
Moneys collected by any state de-
| partment, board of commissioner,
should be deposited with state treas
urer and disbursements made only on
warrants drawn by the state auditor.
Suggestion that 1t might be advisa-
BILE to place the labor commissioner
under the industrial insurance COM
mission.
Creation of the office of inspector of
commission houses to protect growers
and shippers of fruits and vegetables,
under proposed new department of
commissioner of agriculture and in
spection.
Advice against the issuance Of bonds
for state highways or increase in tax
for such purposes, but use of money
now available for road construction,
postponing bond issue or tax levy un-
til next legislature when results Of
two years. work by state and counties
will be known.
Increase in tax on fishing industry
to pay expenses of fisheries depart
ment