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Show ECONOMY SQUAD RECOMMENDS CUTS Elimination of Number of State Boards Part of Efficiency Effi-ciency Programme. TO PRUNE PRINTING Committee Would Engage Fewer Employees and Apply Budget System. The elimination of a number of boards and commissioners now forming a part of the state's official organization and the consolidation of others were recommended recommend-ed to the Democratic general legislative committee and members of the legislature legisla-ture yesterday by the efficiency and economy committee appointed at the Oj Democratic caucus a month ago. First on the programme, the committee commit-tee proposes that all state offices, boards and the legislature engage only the number num-ber of employees necessary, by working full time, to do the required work. Next in line comes the suggestion that a purchasing agent be attached to the office of secretary of state, the duties of this official to buy when practicable the supplies for all state offices and boards. The budget system also fs approved. The committee suggests Lhat the budget , be prepared by the state auditor and approved ap-proved by the state board of examiners before being submitted to the legislature. Clerical Bureau. The establishment of a stenographic and clerlcaJ bureau In connection with the office of secretary of state is recommended. recom-mended. The bureau. It is suggested, should furnish all extra and occasional clerical help needed by ail state offices. By means of this bureau, the committee believes, all clerks and stenographers employed em-ployed by the state may be kept busy all the time. The committee's report follows in part: That the cost be reduced of unnecessary unnec-essary printing of state and other reports, re-ports, by printing in abstract only of all reports that are needed tn the full and that the printing be done through the office of the purchasing agent, who shall be particularly charged with the duty. of having this printing done at the lowest cost consistent con-sistent with good work, and in fairness fair-ness to alt the printers in the state. That the force of each office and board be organized to Been re the highest high-est possible efficiency and economy. One Board for Schools. That the state educational Institutions Institu-tions and the public school system be placad under the management and control of one board the state board of education, the appointive executive officer of which, shall be a commissioner commis-sioner of education. That juvenile courts as now organized organ-ized shall be abolished, except in cities of the first and possibly the second class, and that the state board of education be charged with doing the work of these courts in co-operation with county boards of education and school superintendents, principals and teachers. That a department of agriculture be established with a board of control and a commissioner as the chief executive ex-ecutive officer, tills department to have charge, In co-operation with the Agricultural college and the United States department of agriculture, of state activities relating to food supplies, sup-plies, and, in particular, to take over the work now done by the following: The dairy and food bureau, the dairy and food commissioner, the department depart-ment of livestock, the board of sheep commissioners, tiie state board of horticulture and the fish and game commissioner. Financial Department. That a department of finance be created, controlled by the board of loan commissioners, with a commissioner commis-sioner of finance as executive officer, to take over the work now being done by the land board, the state bank commissioner and the insurance commissioner. com-missioner. That the conservation commission be abolished and one-third of its present pres-ent appropriation be divided equally between the engineering experiment station at the university and the agn-cultural agn-cultural experiment station at t lie college, to enahle these stations to do the work of the commission In promoting pro-moting the development of our agricultural agri-cultural and mineral resources. That the state departments and boards maintain " close working relations rela-tions with the state educational institutions, in-stitutions, to the end that the work of an educational nature shall be done by these institutions, which institutions institu-tions shall also sustain the relation of technical advisers to the various state offices. That the state inspection work be so corr-ilated and grouped that the present large number of inspectors may be greatly reduced. The efficiency and economy committee commit-tee comprises H. T. Reynolds, Joseph F. Merrill, W. W. Armstrong, J. Alex Bevan, Isaac Blair Evans and Alma Greenwood. |