Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-25
four CONSOLIDATION
BILLS TO BE BROUGHT
UP monday SESSION
Will Create Departments Of
Agriculture, Labor, Health,
And Institutions.

-Four consolidation bills will be in
troduced in the house Monday. These
bills will embOdy the principal pro
lgram of the consolidation committee,
but they will not be introduced by the
lcommittee. 1t was decided at a meeting
lof the committee yesterday afternoon
ito have Representativ Weeks introduce
two and Representative Idleman two.
John Oarkin, member of the state
consolidation commission, is preparing
the bills and he was requested to have
them ready Monday. As soon as the
bills are introduced an effort will be
made to rush them through the legisla-
ture before the opposition can gather
tits forces.
The Importance of doing this was i'm
pressed upon the committee by Repre-.
sentative Cross, who also suggested
that two other bills, which the com
mittIee has had under consideration,
might be introduced merely to "keep
the other fellows busy while we put
the bills through. y
One of the additional bills would
consolidate the insurance, corporation
and banking departments, while the
!, other would consolidate the depart
ments having to do with the forests,
water and mines.
Members of the committee recogniz-
ed that the corporation, insurance and
banking departments was TOO strong
combination to go up against with
any hope of getting the bill passed.
"This bill might jeopardise cur 9th
er bills, warned Senator Thomas.
Another Consolidation
There was also discussion as to
whether it would DE wise to leave the
industrial accident commission with
three or only one commissioner
ut may be good business to cut it
to one commissioner, said Thomas,
but it would not be popular.
Sentiment is ripe for putting over
this consolidation stuff" insisted SEN
ator Dimick. "With the report of the
consolidation commission just out, now
is the time to put it over if we are
ever going to do it,
"Well, let s 60 to it,'' said kepre-
sentative Cross.
g DO you imagine there are Is men
in this legislature who favor this re.
port - asked Senator Eberhard.
Senator Dimick said they did not
favor all of it, but parts of it,
1--WE have to rush these bills thru
or we will get hit from all sides,p ad-
vised Cross.
Mr.. Carkin said he did not think
there would be as much opposition as
the members looked for. He said j. D. |
Mickle, the dairy and food commissions
er, would not oppose consolidating his
department if he was left at the head |
of the bureau, while Representative
Gresham did not look for any opposi-
tion from the state fair board, and 9TH
er members advanced the opinion that |
the Social Hygiene society woulo not
object to being consolidated with the
state board of health.
W. +. Allen and II. P. Myers, two
professors of the medical department !
of the University Of Oregon, appear
ed before the committee and urged the
Of the various health lab
oratories.
Create Departments
The four bills to be introduced next
week create the departments of agri-
culture, labor, health and institutions,
and group many existing bureaus and
departments under these heads.
The department of institutions will
be headed by a commissioner, who is