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Show New State Financial Depart-1 ' ment Established As Provid- ecTGy Lawmakers SALT LAKE. Feb. 19. The first. ! big step toward carrying Into effect 'the program of reorganizing the state, ', government on a mor,. business-like' b&Slfl was iut ititn effect with the ! 'signing by Oovernor Mabey of eight ! bin relating to the establishment of 'a State department of finance and purchase. The bills as passed by the. state legislature are in forco on ap-! ap-! proval, with one exception, which has , no particular effect on tho general program. Legally, therefore. the, il its deportment Of finance and pu'r-i chase took form with the signing of i thi governor's name on the engrossed j bill. TO S VMi: DIRECTOR However, It was announced lii the governor's office last night that the ; governor has not yet appointed the ; director of finance and purchase, and I In all probability would not abounce I his appointment until the completed" list of appointments was sent to the ' senate for confirmation further along in the present legislative session. Tho director of finance and pur-! chase, whose salary in fix. d at $3000, ! per annum, will not be the only occupant occu-pant of the new structure. Tho law provides that he may have an assistant as-sistant director, and also such clerical and Stenographic holj jls the director. I with the written approval of the go-' j ernon may from time to time require! Th director I - given charge of his de-' partment, save that the compensation of the assistant director is to be fixed I with the approval of the governor, t BOND IS 1L I )) j The amount of the director's bond is to be fiv. d by the governor at not . less than $.".000. and the bond of the im-!m iri director is to be fixed by the director. The premiums on 1 IjoiiJs are to be paid bv the state. ii Is explained that the department of finance and purchase will not In any way displace the state board of examiners which now is leg.-iiiy and by the constitution required to approve ap-prove all claims against the slate he-fort he-fort they are paid. The board of examiners ex-aminers will have approval or claims presented, or, in oilier words, to see that they are for services actually peifornx-d or supplies actually furnished fur-nished to the si.tte The department of finance and purchase, on the othet hand, will give the governor power to prevent I he incurring of '..! iga 1 1 n whuh are likely to cause department depart-ment to exceed i he legislative appropriation. ap-propriation. Another duty of the department of finance anil purchase is to prepare the biennial budget, a duty that now Jails on th.. governor's office unaided, at a time when ii Is unusually busy with yie crush of other work in connection connec-tion with the meeting of the legislature, legisla-ture, and. at every alternate blennlum, with the Installation of a new state administration. The budget, of course, will not be presented to legislature legis-lature until It has the approval of the govt rnor. The department also- becomes tho purchase department of the stale, and in that connection Is expected to place the work of supplying the necessities of the state's offices and Institutions on a more coordinated business basis. While the explicit mention was not made In the daw. It is expected that the department Of purchase Will operate op-erate largely on lie- sealed hid system, at least for all Important aoH-. and that l.ids will he Opened In public, after competition has been invited by advertisement or otherwise. BEDS ri LLETINS Othet .i.itiH-- ,.f the department are to publish bulletins for the information informa-tion of the departments and of tho general public of the work of the gov ernment, and to inv estigate 'duplication 'dupli-cation of work of departments and the efficiency of organization and administration admin-istration of the departments. t is also required to formulate and put UjtO effect plans for the bettor coordination co-ordination of work, eliminating duplication dupli-cation and overlapping of functions. Some sort of a standard schedule of; hours of work of stale emidoyes and of salaries for like clerical and nicno-. graphic services will le flxel bv the department, under the terms of the! bill which has now become a law. . The department of finance and purchase pur-chase is copied from the Illinois law, where such a department Is said to have worked very effectively. It is' said thai Governor Frank p L&wden declared this department to be the keystone of the governmental struc lure, which in the large state of II-llnolSi II-llnolSi with Its complicated and some-J What overgrown machinery of ad-; ministration, was able to save many thousands of dollars annually nnd t cut practically in half, tho tax rate In that state. What the effect will bo In Utah can. its is said, only be determined by experience, ex-perience, and those In closest touch With the state administration have j been the most careful to abstain from an definite promise a"-, to the amount of money, ft any. tha will be saved. ill has been claimed for the proposal, 'that, in any event. It will serve to i justify lis existence by the greater ef-t Iflciency and smoothness with which' the slate government will operate. i |