The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-06


 for such care cannot be provided at the present site of the school, an- other site should be secured ana adequate provisions for their care should be mat de. all of which am in formed can be done at a minimum cost through the sale of the present property upon which the buildings of the school are located.
 Consolidation of Commissions. .s am in full accord with the recom mendations made by Governor Bald win in, his 1913 inaugural message, advising the consolidation of the duties of the factory inspector with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a transfer of the duties of the Building and Loan Commissioner to the Bank Commissioners department, the abolition of the offices of Commis- sioner of Domestic Animals, Dairy and Food Commissioner. State Ornithologist and State Board of Agriculture and in lieu thereof, the creation of the office of Commissions CT of Agriculture with adequate powers and authority to perform the desired duties of these several boards l or commissioners, and the abolition of the Board of Examiners of Barbers and the Connecticut Board of Emba1mers, with a transfer to the State Board of Health of such of their duties as may be worth continuing I also concur in the recommendation of Governor Baldwin for single commissi oners of fisheries and game to have also the duties of the She'll Fish Commission, and believe that tfons would benefit the state and re- the adoption of these recomnienda< suit in substantial saving Of ex- pense. The multiplication of unnec- essarye cofnni ssions and the continu- ation of several comnissi ons where one can as we'll or better serve the osesY, r7 7Na fa1o Nh only persons benefited by the multi pIicatfon or continuanee of unneces- sary commissions are those who are appointed to fill the offices and draw their salaries.
 F also concur in the recomnn enda- a single bank commissioner take the place of the Bank Commissi oners and avoid 2. divided responsi biiity.
 i#s There are numerous other boards and commissions whose duties dupli- cate or overlap each other. For in stance. the inspection and regulation Eof tenement houses are subject to the
 overlapping duties of six different com missions, and the inspection and adjudication relating to infected and adu1terated foodstuffs, including milk, come under the Jurisdiction of six different sets Of officials. The system of our various commissions is cum bersone and cornp1ex and Is the product of some three hundred and. fifty statutes and amendments II recommend that the General Assem- ply authorize the immediate appoint ment by the governor of a special com mission of nine members, a ma 1 jority of whom sl1al be members of the General Assembly and of existing EstateNor county commissions, and that said commission be instructed to re- port to this General Assembly not I later than ApriI II 1915, on:
 The reorganization and con- solidation of various state and county boards and commissions with view to greater economy and efficiency l The revision Of the public health laws of the state so as to more def nite1y fix responsibility. eliminate l wastes and applications and prevent an accumulation and uplication of preventive measure so that the con- ,struetfye work of medicine and science vii be more efficient than is
 possible under our pesent system
 Improved Highways.
 l The measures taken to constr uct I and maintain improved highways
 throtghou the state during the last I twenty years have converted g. con siderable part of our highways into
 avenues of travel seryiceabIe at all
 seasons of tfte year. to the material sl pecuniary advantage of. our agricul- l turaI communiti ties as wei to the con- F l zens who have occasion to use tn en- and have resulted in many instances N in the building up Of our country
 towns and material addition to the I taxable property of the state. We
 may with pride and confidence invite I a comparison of these improved hi gfa- I ways with those of ad dJoining states:
 But these improvements have been the cause of the largest single item
 of state expense for several years,
 or the finances, this subject calls for
 careful consideration and conserva-
 tive action.
 Net Debt of the State.
 s Tn 1904 the net debt of
 s the state was S214534 49
 In 1909 it was 2,01s,04s-74 Tn 1913 it was 6784. .66s. .32
 This is an increase of $4,21z, sos. II
 during the fiscal year ending Octo-
 Der 1, 1914, and it should be remem-
 bered that the yearly expense is in
 creased by the interest on this debt
 The estimated public expense for
 the ensuing two fiscal years is given
 as $17,676,26 one item of which is
 $4 ,456 900 for improved highways. or 5l more than one-fourth Of the whole
 amount It is to be desired that all
 of the highways much used by the sj residents of the state, even in the less
 settled communities, may, in the not
 distant future, be So improved as te come within the good roads class.
 think it may be conceded that to
 reasonable extent the cost of the T permanent construction of the i'm
 proved. highways can be properly met by issuing bonds to be paid serialy within reasonable Limitations of time and not extended beyond the perma-
 nency of the Improvements, but mani. festly the cost of the repair and up keep of these roads should be- in included in the necessary yearly ex- pense of conducting the business o1 . the state and met by it's revenues re.
 eeiyed from year to year.
 This meeting of the normal ex-
 pense as it arises is necessary to the
 solvency of any corpoation, whether it be the state or a municinaI ar n1-i.