The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-10

and the new State Police build ings in Hartford. Finally there has been created personnel de- partment under a director, placing appointments in the civil service upon merit irrespective of party connections, as determined by fair competition. The aim throughout all this legislation has been to give the state an administrative \struc- ture based upon business princi- ples in the interest of economy and efficiency and uniformity in procedure.
 Admirable as it is, the new ad- ministrative structure is not ccm- pletely integrated in several re- spects. But it is workable pro- vided a spirit of cooperation pre- vails among all who have a part in it. It is to be observed that the question of how far 1t is ad- visable to merge certain depart ments is left to the legislative council for recommendation to the next General Assembly. AS I canvass all the new legislation, I see that you have placed great re- sponSibility upon the chief execu- tive. I accept this responsibility so long as I am governor. I trust that shall not fail you.
 Particularly heavy is the re- sponsibility of the governor in connection with the maintenance budget which includes some capi- tai outlays. The budgets adopted by the General Assembly in 1881, 1883, and 1885 all proved when put into effect to be far out of bal- ance. If additions had not been made by the board of finance to the budgets of a number of de- partments and institutions during the. last six years the ordinary services rendered by these depart ments and institutions could not have been maintained in spite of material reductions all along the line. Often new services have been provided by the General Assem- bly, for which the appropriation has been almost fatally inade- quate. If, for example, the board of finance and control had not come to the rescue, the cigaret tax, now yielding more than two million dollars a year, could not have been administered at all. Another case in point, though less serious, was the appropriation for the Fairfield juvenile court. The result has been the creation of deficit now reaching nearly if not quite sixteen million dollars, which has to be taken care of by bond issue.
 Hereafter, under the reorgani- zation legislation it is designed that there be no deficit in the ad- ministration of the departments, or of any other budgetary agen- cies. As one of the means to this end there must be every three months a pre-audit of all depart ments and institutions. It is the business of the governor to see to it that there be no deficit. There is, however, placed at his disposal for the biennium two hundred thousand dollars to be used at his discretion in case of emergencies. Such in brief is the new fiscal set- up which imposes upon the gover- nor very heavy responsibility.
 "The new fiscal set-up also im- poses a corresponding responsible ity Upon the General Assembly. No one will deny, I think, that it is the business of the General As- sembly to provide by taxation or otherwise the funds necessary to cover such expenditures as 1t makes mandatory by legislation. The danger lies in the passage of bills outside the budget carrying appropriations certainly aggregat- ing more than 8 million dollars, perhaps nearer two million dollars. Most of these bills are of no mer- itorious character that am very reluctant to veto some of