The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-19
Offices, Boards and Com
missions Discarded Under
Plan by Titus. 3
|CENTRALIZE POWER
Less Than Twenty Boards and
Departments Would Be Left
After the Reorganization.

Madison, Wis. - Only the duly con-
stituted state officials established by
the constitution and twenty other de-
partments and commissions of state
government would survive, under the
new plan of Wisconsin government
submitted in bill in the state legis-
lature by Senator William A. Titus OF
Fond du Lac. This schedule is based
on the Pennsylvania plan of re-organ-
izaaion, he said today.
The following departments are Great
ed or retained under the bill:
Adjutant General; Department OF
agriculture; athletic commission;
board of control; civil service commits
sion; conservation commission; execu-
tive board department of finance;
board of health; highway commission;
industrial commission; department OF
insurance; free, library commission;
board of normal regents; board OF
anniversary regents; mining school
board; prohibition commissioner; pub
lie utility commission; revisor of sta
tutes and superintendent Of public
property.
Many Boards Abolished.
All other state boards ard commits
sions are to- be abolished or consol-
idated with others, under the bill.
- The entire system OF state govern
ment under the Titus plan would re-
volve about the department of finance
which would be given unusual powers
Of direction and supervision over 9TH
er departments. The state executive
board also is given certain supervis-
ing powers, especially in the standard
izing of titles, wages and salaries of
all persons employed in administrative
departments and in systematizing the
business of all such boards and COM
missions.
Under the bill, the annuity board
and the public, normal and university
retirement boards are consolidated with
the state department of public instruc-
tion as is the state board Of vocational
education.
All examining boards of medical
character such is dentistry, medicine,
nursing and pharmacy are consolidated
with the state board of health, the bill
provides.
The railroad commission, bureau of
weights and measures and the state
board Of conciliation would be consol-
idated with the proposed public utility
commission, composed of three mem
bers appointed by the governor with
the approval Of the senate for term
Of six years.
The compensation insurance boards,
under the. plan is merged with the
department of insurance, headed by a
commissioner. whose term would run
four years.
Consultations with the department
of agriculture would include the live
stock sanitary board, state entomolo-
gist, dairy and food commissioner,
department of markets and grain, and
the warehouse commission.
Officers Made Appointive.
An adjutant general and a com
missioner of agriculture would be
appointed under the plan. The execu-
tive board, the bill states, would con-
sist of the government, secretary of
state, state treasurer, attorney gen
eral and state superintendent of
schools. This board would have power
in addition to that mentioned to ap-
prove or disapprove of the establish
ment of bureaus and divisions in any
department, to investigate duplication
of work in public department. Each
board commission and department
would be required to the executive
board periodically OF work accomplish
ing commissioner and director of the
Under the finance department, made
up of the governor, secretary of state
and state treasurer, ex-officio mem
bers and three appointive members to
hold titles of tax commissioner, bank
ed by inspectors and employees.
budget, the work suggested by the IL
ties with the addition of those of the
printing board, the treasury agent and
the state board Of accountancy would
be included. This board would be
charged with the work of accounting
in all departments.
The state board of control would
consist, under the bill lof three mem
bers, one of them woman, appointed
for six years with the consent If the
senate