New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-16
STATE OFFICES TO
BE CONSOLIDATED.
GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES MANY
CHANGES IN DEPARTMENT
HEADS.
MOVE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON
THE APPOINTMENT OF
T. MUELLER

The state oil inspectors hereafter will
be under the supervision Of the dairy and
food commission, in accordance with
several changes announced Monday by
Governor j. A. A. Burnquist. This will
not affect the Office of Theo. Mueller OF
this city, who was recently appointed in
spector of oils for Brown county.
In putting into effect his proposed
consultations and examinations the
governor says there will be an initial
saving of $4,000 year. He also de-
clares that increased efficiency, the elm
nation of useless duplication and a
saving of space in the capitol building
will be other results. There will be
sweeping changes in the conduct of the
hotel inspection, fire marshal, boiler in
spection, surveying and inspection of
logs and lumber, besides the oil inspec-
ton department.
Take Effect in August.
The changes will take effect August 1,
1917, beginning the new fiscal year.
In announcing his plans to place the
surveyors of logs and lumber under the
state forestry board and specifying his
instructions, the governor says that the
changes in that regard were some of those
which would have been accomplished UNI
der the public domain bill, had it become
a law
The governor gives two significant
reasons, among others, for the changes.
One is ito be of assistance in determining
the advisability of future legislation
along the lines suggested and the other
is to eliminate as much as possible
opposition to such legislation on the part
OF those whose positions are affected
The Changes.
The changes made are as follows:
The oil inspection and hotel inspection
are placed under the supervision of the
state dairy and food commissioner. The
commissioner takes on the duties of the
heads Of those departments.
The insurance commissioner is given
the work Of the fire marshal and will head
the boiler inspection department.
The surveyors of logs and lumber are
to be appointed from members of the
state forester's force and are to report
to him.
The officials who take over the work
OF the departments eliminated will not
draw extra pay for such work. More
space in the capitol building will be OBJ
tanned under. the new arrangement. A
large force of extra clerks will be dispensed
with
Efficiency Bill Fight Mentioned.
In his statement, the governor refers
to the opposition to changes in the state
government suggested by the efficiency
and economy commission.
This proposed reorganization is not
intended to be put into effect contrary
to the wishes Of the legislature, or
if proved, to be in conflict with law he
says, .'but to be of assistance in determin-
ing the advisability Of future legislation
along the lines suggested and to eliminate
as much as possible opposition to such
legislation on the part of those whose
positions are affected
The change that caused the most sur
prise, chiefly because it had not been
talked of before, was that placing the
surveyors of logs and lumber under the
state forester: In this change, the COVER
nor admits that he is trying to put into
effect some of the things which the public
domain bill would have accomplished.