The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-06-03
Friday, June ;, 1921
RICHIE PLANS IL BRANCHES
IN REIMBURSEMENT

Richie will submit to the COIL
mission he announced Saturday.
provides for IL departments.
These departments will be organ
lied from the IS administrative
which now make up the
State organization.
The plan will aid the Governor
in workin G out a method of put
ting the State on a business bas-
is, such as any private corpora
ton would employ.
Eleven of the IL departments
are to have an administrative
official, appointed by the Govern
or, at their head. These offic-
ials will be known as directors
and will be responsible to the
Governor for the conduct of their
departments
The twelfth department is to
be independent of the Governor
and is to be known as the office
of the State Comptroller. 1t is
to be an independent office OF
audit and financial control and
is to stand midway between the
administrative and legislative
branches of the State Govern
ment.
The heads of the II depart
ments responsible to the Govern
or would form the Governors
cabinet, but the head of the office
of the Comptroller would not be
a member of the cabinet, but
would be. responsible directly to
the General Assembly.
The head of the office would be
he State Comptroller, now elect
ed by the people, but it is sug-
gested that the Constitution be
amended so he could be elected
by the Legislature. In addition
to, the present force of the
Comptroller's soffice, the depart
ment would contain an audit div
lsion and the State Auditors
Department would be transfer
red to it.
1t is also proposed that the
laws be changed so that the At
torney-General, now elected by
the people, and the State Treas
urer, who would become the d.
rector of finance, and is now
elected by the Legislature, be
appointed by the Governor in
stead and made responsible to-
him.
The plan also provides for the
establishment. of advisory coun-
=efis for eight of the departments
and the tying in of certain ex-
l5tlng executive boards with ap-
propriate bureaus or branches of
the proposed departments.
The IL department subject to
the Governors control would be
as follows:
Executive department.
Department of finance.
department of law.
Department of militia.
Department of health.
Department of welfare.
Z Department of education.
Department of public works.
Department of commerce.
Department of labor.
Department of employment
and registration.
1t is provided that each major
department be made up of one or
more bureaus and an administra-
tive office. In this administra-
tive office would be concentrated
the administrative service work
for the department as a whole.
1t would have general control
and supervision over the prep
aration of departmental esti-
mates, expenditures, cost &C
counting and reports. For most
departments this office would
keep the controlling accounts for
the entire departments. Itl
would be under the supervision
of the department director and
in direct charge of a chief clerk.
There would be one or more
permanent executive officers in
each department, one at the
head of each bureau. It is sug-
gssted that the heads Of the
various bureaus should be placed
IN the classified service and
should be removable only for
cause. They would be the per-
manent expert executive heads |
as distinguished from the ordi-
narily transient policy marking
appointees of the Governor.
tits suggested that the COM
missioners at the heads of de-
partment should be full-time |
officials and adequately paid. |