The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-02
The Governors Cabinet.

State Engineer are eliminated as cleo
tive officers.
The Governors Cabinet.
The Governor Is TO have a Cabinet. APP
pointed by him with the confirmation OF
the Senate. composed OF the heads OF ex-
ecunve departments to be known as fol-
lows:
Department OF State.
Department of Taxation and Finance.
Department OF Public Works.
Department OF Health.
Department of Agriculture.
Department OF Charities and Correc-
tion. Z
Department of Banking and Insurance.
Department of Labor.
Department Of Conservation.
In addition there is to be a Depart
ment OF Justice. the head OF which will
be an Attorney General. elected for the
same term as the Governor, which, after
1918. will be -four years. lie Will have
charge OF all the legal business OF the
State for all the departments. including
those which now have big lega! STATS.
independent OF the Attorney-G Generals S
Office. like the Excise Department.
Then there will be a department Of
audit and control. the head OF which
will be the State Comptroller, who also
will be elected for the same term as the
Governor. He will he exclusively an
auditing officer and will have nothing
to do with the assessment and collection
OF taxes, as now II will be his main
duty TO audit and verify the financial
transactions of the State and no eNecu-
tive or administrative duties shall be
conferred upon the Comptroller except
to accomplish such purpose
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departments will be first appointed with
the consent of the Senate. the Governor
may remove them without the sanction
Of the Senate. The Legislature will fix
their salaries.
Forms Depa rtment of state.
The Secretary OF State will be the
head OF the department of State and he
will perform practically the duties OF the
present Secretary OF State. except that
the automobile bureau will be taken
! from him.
The head of the department of taxa
I ton and finance will be the Treasurer
| Of the State, and he will take over most
of the duties OF the Comptroller. lie
will have charge OF the receipts and dis
bursements of the State treasury, in
cluding the corporation. inheritance.
automobile and all other taxes. He will
have also the inspection and supervision
o! any State board of tax commissioners
which may he provided for by the Legis-
lature. Gov. Whitman has Just estab-
l.shed a new State tax commission.
which will be practically wiped out by
this plan.
A superintendent OF public works will
be the head of the Department of Public
Works and he will have charge of the
canal and good roads construction and
maintenance work and the construction
of all public buildings, thus doing away
with the State Engineer. the State
Architect and the state Highway Com
missioner.
The Depa rtment OF Health is practi-
cally left as II is and it's head will be
the Commissioner of Health as at
present. A Commissioner of Agricul-
ture will continue to be head of the De-
partment of Agriculture AS at present.
Work Of Charities Department.
/ A secretary of charities and correc-
ton will be head of that department
which will have the power of inspection
and supervision of institutions for the
feeble minded and insane and reforma
tories, reform schools. prisons and
charitable institutions. This secretary
will have charge of all expenditures for
these institutions. The powers of the
fiscal supervisors and the state Super
/ intendent of Prisons. both of whom are
| Democrats, whose terms have several
years yet to run, are transferred to the
secretary of charities and these two
offices are abolished. The State Board
of Charities, the State Hospital Com
mission and the State Prison Commission
are continued to supervise and inspect
the institutions under their control now,
and the boards OF managers of the insti-
| tutions are continued unless otherwise
changed by the Legislature,
A Secretary OF Banking and Insurance
will he the head Of that department,
under which are consolidated the present
separate departments of insurance and
banking, the Superintendent OF Banks
being Democrat whose term does not
| expire for two years yet.
An Industrial commission will direct
the activities of the Department of
Labor, which Is the situation now, and
this department will have the enforce
ment OF all labor laws and the work.
mems compensation law, as at present.
There will be a board OF nine mem
bers. one from each judicial district, at
| the head OF the Department OF Conserva-
ton. as outlined in the plan just adopte d
| by the Constitutional Convention COM
mittce on conservation. and this hoard
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