Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-05-23
GOV. 1URNQulsT ACTS
Discusses Changes Made In Depart
ments In the Interests Of
Economv

Discusses Changes Made in Depart
ments In the Interests of
Economy.
Legislation tending to consolidate GER
tain departments has been advocated for
several years, but very few measures
along this line have been enacted by the
After considering this mat
ter and making a personal investigation
thereof, I find it feasible and advisable |
to make consultations of different de- !
partments insofar as can legally do so
In order to secure more available space |
in the Capitol and to eliminate as many
unnecessary positions and as much un
necessary clerk hire and incidental ex-
penses as possible by appointing one Of
ficer to such positions as are not incom-
pattble but will tend to saving and efti-
cheney in the management of the states
affairs.
Most of the changes referred to here
in will not go into effect until August l.
1917, as July 81, 1917, is the end of this
fiscal year, but the announcement there
of is made now in order to give the pres
ent incumbents sufficient time to make
up their records for said fiscal year and
also to give them sufficient notice SO that
those whose positions are eliminated by
the change will have ample time to Sc
cure other employment.
portion of the Dairy and Food De-
partment is now doing it's work at the
Old Capitol. The whole department
| ought to be located at one and the same
place. The Dairy and Food Commission
err should in my opinion, be appointed
| Chief State Oil Inspector, receiving,
however, no salary for holding the lat
FOL 10 o01111 how ar
| his control the Oil Inspectors of each
county as we'll as the Dairy and Food In
spectors. There is no reason why the
same official should not also be the Hotel
Inspector and have charge of superin-
| tending that work by having under him
| the deputy hotel inspector, who could,
| for the purpose of. aiding said deputy in
the inspection Of hotels and restaurants,
secure the cooperation of the oil in
| spectors who, together with other en-
| plOyeS in these departments, are about
100 in number. Much could thereby b.
saved in travelling expenses because the
oil inspectors are local officials residing
as rule in the county for which they
are appointed. These men, without in
juring their own department and will
scarcely any inconvenience to them
selves, can be Of much assistance il
/ checking up the different hotels and res
taurants against which complaints ar
made. 1t is apparent that it is impos
) sible for the two men, who are now hav
ing charge of this work under the pres
ent law, to do what could be done thru
5 the cooperation of the other employee
= herein referred to.
. The saving by the consolidation o
e these three departments will be the ST.
: 400 salary Of the Oil Inspector, the 81
: 500 salary of the Hotel Inspector, tc
e gether with reductions in travelling es
oil hi %1e
f needed in the Capitol building.
A branch Of the Insurance Departmer
is at present doing considerable work .
the same nature as is done in the FIJI
Marshars Office. To expedite the wor
in both departments it is advisable ths
5 they should have the same head and fl
that reason the Insurance Commissions
will be appointed Fire Marshal witho,
l. salary, thereby saving $4,000 per yea
il In addition thereto there will be a sa'
e ing of $4,000 now paid deputy in tt
IS Insurance Department for work of tn
# nature in addition to that made possib
lie thru elimination of clerk hire and redu
e ton in the amount of space needed.
t. The Insurance Department should ais
have charge over Boiler Inspection b
l. cause of the elimination of insured boi
d ers from state inspection. One Weakne
10 OF the present boiler inspection syste
Al has been the lack of head and it
t; therefore requested that the Insuran,
r; Commissioner be the head of said d
s. partment and that the two department
r; cooperate to the greatest possible e.
l. tent.
r; In order to secure greater cooperate
t; between the Forestry Board and Surve
er ors General of Logs, l have decided
t. appoint as Surveyors General of Los
n, three trained and competent men no
e, employed in the Forestry Departme]
m condition. "a ortor
Re given the State Forester, which the la
N does not now require, as to timber Ct
t; on state land and with the further Vi
l. derstanding that these appointees sha
m work under the supervision of the Sta
Forester and that scalers shall be a
r. pointed by them from men in the Fore
try Department who know their duti
and can be relied upon to perform the
work properly instead of appointing me
who must work for the companies
whom the timber is sold part of IL
year and for the state a part of the tim
1t is impossible to determine what tt
losses have been in the sale of state tin
- Der because of our inefficient system, b,
y it is thought that the rearrangeme,
IS herein made, which carries out, to SON
v, extent. the provisions of the Public D.
d main Bill, will result in more efficie,
# scaling than heretofore and thus give II
state its proper share in connection wit
. the sale of the state forests which r.
IS main.
II 1t is estimated that the direct savin
r. in salaries, clerk hire and travelling e,
I, penses that can be brought about by tt
# changes herein referred to will be a,
proximately $4,000, exclusive of tt
r. saving of space and supplies, for tt
- next two-year period and if the state ha
lost as much in its timber transaction
l. In the past as claimed by some thru tt
a hiring of men who have also been in tt
). employ of the companies buying fro1
J. the state it is estimated the indire<
l. saving for the next biennium will /
many times the amount saved in salarie
and other expenses.
= This proposed reorganization is not il
i tended to be put into effect contrary
e the wishes of the Legislature or if foun
e to be In conflict with law, but to be {
e assistance in determining the advisabi
n ity of future legislation along the line
suggested and to eliminate as much a
possible opposition to such legislation O
the part of those whose positions ar
, affected.
n J. A. A. BURNQU1sT.
Senator Lobeck 8til on the Job.
e Senator E. E. Lobeck, one of the bes
). known dry campaigners in the Unite
: States, has begun campaign tou,
a which will last a month snoa ,,p1o