The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-31

BOISE, March 81 Forty-eight
Idaho state departments and offices
went out of existance today and re-
organization of the state government
into nine divisions, each headed by
a commissioner directly responsible
to the governor, took place. A bill au-
thorizing these changes was passed
by the recent legislature at the re-
quest of Governor D. W. Davis.
The nine commissioners will COM
prise governors cabinet, thus
bringing to the chief executive CEN
tralized control of the state, admin
istrative civil offices, which hereto
fore had been loosely coordinated.
No attempt had been made by legis-
latures in creating new offices to
modify the original scheme, of gov
ernment adopted at statehood to abb
sorb the new branches without over
tapping of responsibility and func-
tions, so that the governor was pow
erless to prevent, it was argued to
the legislature. sai~ ".
New departments are: agriculture,
commerce and industry, finance, i'm
migration, labor and statistics, law
enforcement, public investments, pub
lie welfare, public works, reclamation.
Work of many Of the abolished offices
are assumed by bureaus under the
commissioners.
Opponents of the new plan-dem-
ocrats who forced the republican ma
jority to make it party issue-con-
tend that too much authority would
be centralized in the governor. Gre
alton of state constabulary by an
other measure, to be supervised by
the law enforcement department, was
held to be a toe" drastic delegation of
police authority, as. it will give the
constabulaFy members powers of
county sheriff.
The powers. and duties of the new
are:
AgricultureAlTo exercise rights,
powers and duties vested in the board
of agriculture, director of farm mar
kets, horticultural board and horti-
cultural Inspector and kindred of
fices, state livestock board, veterinary
surgeon and assistants, recorder of
brands; to collect and publish agri-
cultural statistics, to cooperate with
other government agencies, both edu-
cational nd federal; to investigate
cases of reported losses of profits to
live stock men and farmers in sale of
their products and to prosecute Of
tenders, and to establish standards of
grading and scaling of agricultural
products.
Commerce and industry-To exer-
else rights, powers and duties, of
state bank department, insurance de-
partment, bank commissioner; and to
industrial accident fund.
Finance.-To exercise duties of
state examiner, depository board; pre-
scribe forms for conducting state
business, supervise accounts of all de-
oartments and institutions, designate
state repositories, and supervise
of state budget for each
the budget system hav-
ng been adopted as an administra-
ion measure.
To collect information relating to Ia
,or conditions, inspect shops and mer-
antile establishments, establish rules
md regulations for safeguarding
lealth of employees, collect and COM
,ile data to induce population and
apital to come to Idaho.
Law enforcement.-To supervise
tate constabulary, exercise rights of
oe'cC iiiSu SOtliiilSSiOtl III ItSlS-
ration of motor vehicles, exercise
lowers of board of medical, dental,
steopathic, pharmacy, optometry,
.raduate nurse, veterinary, account
ncy, embalming, and architects ex-
to enforce penal anil regu-
atory state laws in same manner and
With same authority as sheriffs of
ounties.
Public investments-To control and
nvest permanent state funds, man
ge sales and lease of state timber
nd agricultural lands and to make
objections.
Public welfare-To exercise powers
+ directing boards of state charit-
bic institutions, of state sanitary
and state board of health.
Public works.-To exercise powers
state highway commissioner, en-
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