Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-28

DlllS ana accounts.
Rerouting of State highways, MAX
ing State responsible for main trunks
and townships and boroughs for un-
important roads.
Reorganization of Department of
Public instruction by the State Board
of Education with special attention
to vocational education.
Consolidating the Forestry. Fish and
Game Departments into Department
: of Conservation, whose forces, with
the State police, would give 500 men
constantly on duty.
Comforting on Public Service Com
mission powers of the Water Supply
Commission except supervision of
dams, stream regulation, photographic
division, Pymatuning swamp and WA
ter inventory projects. The topo-
graphic and geological survey to be
| completed, but salaries of officers cut
off.
State and Institutional
Creation of Board of Public Prop
erty to have charge of all State build
ing projects and purchase of supplies
| of all kinds, the suggestion being
made that things be standardized as
much as possible.
Creation of Department of Publicity
| "for the exploitation of Pennsylvania's
/ greatness" the idea being to keep the
people informed of what the State is
| ton, ETC.
| Creation of a State Tax Commission
and taking from Auditor General all
duties in connection with collection
of taxes and confining him to auditing
and accounting, the statement being
made that it would bring about bet
ter results in the matter of revenues"
and prevent constant changing of Of
ficials dealing with such matters.
Reorganizing the Attorney Generals
Department into a Department of
Justice whereby all departments will
obtain legal service from the depart
ment and the practice of different de-
partments having attorneys through
out the State be discontinued.
Creation of Revenue and Finance
Board to take place of sinking fund,
public accounts, private bank license
and revenue boards as now consti-
tuted.
Extending State printing contracts
from four to six years and publica-
tion of biennial instead of annual re-
ports.
Abolition of Office OF health officer
of Philadelphia and of State Quaran-
tine Board and vesting such offices in
Department of Health.
Placing Dairy and Food Commits
sionerS office and State Livestock
Sanitary Board now under Department
of Agriculture under charge of Com
missioner of Health.
Increasing factory inspectors and
bank examiners; providing that an
thracite mine inspectors shall be ap-
pointed and not elected and that there
shall be inspectors for mining outside
of coal.
Two additional troops of State po-
lice.
A sinking fund or insurance fund
instead of insurance policies for all
State buildings.
Abolition of Soldiers Orphan
Schools Commission, Statutes at Large
Commission, Underground and Ele-
waited Railway Board and Board of
State Property.
Recommendation for a liberal ap-
preparation program for improvement
of waterways in east and west ends
of the State and immediate start on
work
bridges destroyed by flood or fire, such
work to be done by counties.
Abolition of the farm counsellors
or travelling advisor service and estab-
lishment of experimental farms in
stead.
Legislation to give Banking Com
missioner authority to close up all de-
funct or insolvent concerns, doing
away with receiverships.
Charts showing the relationship Of
officials and employees in the depart
ments are submitted for the first
time ..
In addition to the forty-three rec
concentrations the report says in re-
gard to dual office holding. 1--WE rec
ommend that legislation be enacted
combining Offices wherever duties are
compatible ami providing one salary
for all services" 1t is held that the
system of making subordinates clerks
has been in the main an economical
one as to provide one clerk to give
sole time to each board would be too
expensive.
1t is also stated, 1.-The commission
disapproves of the practice of using
the contingent fund to increase the
compensation of positions created by
statute at a fixed salary. If, present
salaries are inadequate they should be
referred to the General Assembly for
readjustment."
The report commends a number of
the departments, notably the Depart
ment of Health, which is commended
as conducted on strictly business prin-
ciples. 1t is recommended that this
department be given the Livestock
Sanitary Board, whose inspectors
should have powers enlarged so as to
be able to inspect retail meatshops,
the dairy and food division with an
increase of six inspectors and thatsthe
inspection of bakeshops and ice cream
plants should be transferred to the
Department of Health from Labor
and Industry. A liberal appropriation
to establish the Bureau of Housing,
larger appropriation for the medical
inspection of schools; funds to extend
the dispensaries from tuberculosis to
other communicable diseases and in
crease of the sanitoria at Cresson and
Hamburg.
The plan for the Department of
Conservation calls for a commissioner
at $500 and chiefs of forestry, game
and fish at $4,000 each.
The reorganization of the Attorney
Generals Department interested the
Capitol to-day. as such a recommen-
dation had been anticipated. The re-
port disapproves of the practice of
each department having it's own coun-
sci and says all legal work should be
in department of justice as the out
side service has cost as much in a
year as the whole Attorney Generals
Office. The staff would be under the
proposed plan: Attorney General at
$4,000; solicitor general at $500;
five deputies at $1,000 each, five as
sistants at $4,000 each, five stenog-
raphers, three law clerks, one clerk
and a messenger In the Department
of the Secretary of the Common
wealth recommendations for increases
of salaries for the corporation bureau
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