The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-07
BY JACK ZAIMAN

Hartford, Conn, March 7-(UP)
State Tax Commissioner Charles
j. Mclaughlin is proceeding with
a quiet reorganization and re-
classification of his division.
The state budget department
has just completed survey Of the
tax division set-up and has made
several suggestions to McLaugh-
lin whereby the state can save
money and achieve greater eff
cheney by a reshuffling Of en-
ployes.
Employees are being transferred
from one division to another, pro-
cedures are being changed, and
reclassifications Of employees are
underway.
One notable change, expected to
save $4,000 yearly, provides for
a shift of all surplus employees in
the department into the new mu-
nicipal audit division, created
when the 1889 general assembly
passed the audit law. Instead OF
having to hire employees to fill the
new bureau, Mclaughlin Is saw
ing the state money by transfers.
The reorganization has the APP
proval of State Finance Commits
Sioner o. Glenn Saxon.
First reports on the reorganiza-
ton of the motor vehicles division
now are available. This was the
first major state department to
come under the scrutiny of the
budget investigators, and an even
tual cut in personnel or more than
100 persons was predicted.
About q or % persons already
have left the department, and
have not been replaced, it was said
authoritatively. About $4,000 will
be saved in the current fiscal year
and $4,000 in the next one, relia-
Die estimates showed.
Assistant Budget Director Claude
Taylor is in charge of these sur
veys. The probe into the insur-
ance department will be COM
pleted in about a fortnight, and
some bureaus in that division
may be consolidated under
plan now being discussed. The
reshuffling there, however, will
not be too great, 1t was reported.
Taylor plans to begin an in
quiry into the state education de-
partment anytime now. He has
as assistants Henry Schenck,
Stamford, budget examiner,
and James P. Purcell, Waterbury,
a special aid. A representative
from the state personnel division
also will sit in.
The education survey will be
difficult one, it was said, because
of its far-fiung agencies in all
parts of the state.
Don't be at all surprised il Re-
publicans soon begin to ask this
question:
what is holding up the ap-
pointment of a federal Judge in
the Connecticut district"
Leading Republican strategists
think they can make political cap
;tal from the delay in the naming
ct a successor to the resigned Ed
win S. Thomas. 1t has been a
year now since Thomas quit, and
one Republican gleefuIly told the
writer:
I'VE will be able to show that
Democrats are just playing poll
tics on that appointment, which
has been hanging for a year. They
are willing to let politics inter-
fere with operation of our. courts.
We could even go to the extent
IF asking why appoint judge at
all. If we got along with only
one regular federal judge in the
past year, then we only need one.
We could save the extra judges
salary.
SO far as can be learned, the
administration Is not going to re-
ply to recent criticism OF its claims
Of industrial improvements In
Connecticut. Not right away.
Republicans are confident the
present recession Is merely sea.
sonai, and that they will have the
last word when the spring uptuTn
occurs.
II appears their strategy will be
silence until the economic sItua.
ton reversHs lis trend.
Some Of the members Of the
personnel advisory committee o.
i've state employees and eemmis.
sl0nefs were q little peeVed about
their lack Of information eeneeTns
Ing The resignation Of merit syss
lem director Harry w. Marsh.
The hFst thls COMMITTEES heard
abenG the resignation was from
iieNhpapefmen elamerlng feF q
statement fFefn Marsh, who wms