The Coconino sun., 1920-11-26
BUREAU REORGANIZATION
 PLANNED BY CONGRESS

WASHINGTON - Complete reOr- ganization of, the government execu- tive departments is contemplated by the incoming republican administra- tion as among its first moves for bet torment.
 Among the chief moves in bringing this about are the abolition of the de- partment of the interior and the crea- ton of department of public works and department of public welfare, with the head of each in the cabinet.
 For this great change Senator Me dill Mccormick, of Illinois, will intro duce a bill at the beginning of the final session of the present congress next month. He has worked out a comprehensive plan.
 The functions of the interior de- partment have become somewhat min imized if not obsolete. With the de- velopment of the west, the general land office is not what it used to be. It is the office of Indian affairs. The bureau of pensions has been somewhat superseded by the war risk.
 It is believed by Mccormick that the geological survey, the reclamation service and the bureau of mines should be transferred to a department of public works. To this he would add the river and harbor work now done by the war department.
 To the department of public welfare he would give the bureau of educa- tino, the functions of which would be greatly enlarged; the women's bureau in the department of labor, all units which touch upon the condition of women and children, and other and and newer functions. While it is true that all bureaus and departments of the federal govern ment are supposed to subserve the public welfare, and while the suggest ed name of department of public wei fare may be different when the law is
 finally enacted by congress, this de.
 partment will take over all the social
 work of the government, including the
 bureau of war risk.
 It is the idea of the republican par.
 ty leaders to develop good roads a.
 much as possible, and this would b'
 one of the chief duties of the depart
 ment of public work. The department
 which Senator Harry New, of Indiana
 had in mind for the development O
 aircraft, would probably be carried
 out in the public works end, thougl I probably reduced to bureau.
 With full power in the house, senat
 and presidency, the republicans in con gress are looking forward to a con structive program. During the pas year and half they have been handi capped by a majority of only two i the senate, and by president an cabinet wholly at variance with then , But after the 4th of March they wi , be able to carry their views into flu , effect. Thus one of the first meas , ures to go through, and, probabl , without change, will be the budge , bill. This was vetoed by Presider Wilson because it slightly diminishe 5 his power; that is it made subject , the will of congress, the taxing an . appropriating power of the goverT { ment.
 : It is likely, too that now that tn : republicans are coming into full pow 3 CT they will see that there will be a : entire reclassification of the govern g ment departmental clerks, and in fat k of all employees of the governmen e Some of the salaries paid are at th n same rate as in 1860. Then, too, u r departments are notoriously out - date in many of their methods. Tn d fact, together with the incompetence k waste and high-handedness of u a Wilson administration from top r bottom, has made necessary con plete reorganization, which will r forthcoming after March 4.