Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-08
SENATOR ROOT
Lef
GUILTY OF BLUNDER
Made Public Secy. Macveagh's
Report Before it Had
Been Released.
he PRESIDED OVER SENATE.
Document Should Have Been Sent 10
Speaker OF the House and Not
To Vice President.

WASHINGTON, Dec 7-Scnator Root OF
New York, presiding in the senate to-
dav In the absence OF Vice President
sherman. created = sensation among
newspaper men. The effects were even
international. Copies OF the annual re-
mort of the secretary of the treasury
were In the HANDS OF newspapers
throughout the country and Europe TO
be held in confidence for publication.
The report Itself was still unsigned on
The Gesk of Secy. MacVcagh In the
treasury building BY some ineaps as
Vet uncertain two printed copies OF the
,.cno-t found their way to the desk OF
the president of the senate. Mr.. Root
IS n past master i'll the art of dispatch-
ing routine business in the senate ana
he deftlv handed the treasury report
over the desk with the routine an
nouncemcnt customary in such cases,
Instantly kcen-eared reporters on tne
senate floor flashed 10 the wires the
news that the report had become
public document and the release
clicked off to Chicago. to San Francis
co, to New York, 10 Europe.
II was two hours before the fact that
n bluncer mad been made was realizeo
Upon the secTetarys insistence an ell
fort was made 10 recall the release, put
he soon came to appreciate that the
mistake was irreparable and consented
to waive the technicallty and the re-
lease was confirmed.
An amusing feature of the miNup lies
I'm the fact that the report should not
have been handed down in the senate
at ALL since In accordance with law,
it is addressed TO the speaker OF the
house of representatives.
N nf thn SECRETARY of the
treasury is peculiarly gratifying
document at this time" said Represen-
tative Tawncy OF Minnesota. chairman
of the house committee on appropria-
tons. TO-DAY. THE exhibit shows a
reduction in tho estimated expenditures
OF the government for the fiscal year
1911 of S55 66S. .091.l9 as compared with
appropriations made for 1910, and re-
duction of $94, ,00l, .92 under estimates
submitted to Congress for that year
This result will tend to relieve Con-
gress in large measure of the burden
some duty that has occupied much of
its time heretofore I'm adjusting expen-
ditures to national revenues. In the
last eight years the sum total of cs-
Inmates submitted by the executive have
exceeded expenditures authorized i'll
appropriations made by Congress by
S27A, ,9iS ,65I.95
THE secretary states the total esti-
mates for 1917 as amounting TO sell
2SS.07521. In this sum he does not in
cludc $50. .935. .o00 that will be required to
met the requirements of the sinking
fund In the next fiscal year. nor is
there included in the sccrctarys figures
the amount estimated at S2S3, ,05S. .57237.
that VIII be paid In 1911 out of postal
revenues for conducting the postal
service.
Adding both sums to the s671 .2SS,-
075.21 stated by the secretary TO be the
aggregate estimated expenditures for
1911, we have in fact 1865, 26i ,647.0S to
be considered as total estimates for
1911
This last sum will approximate
closely the amount that win be used at
the close OF this session of Congress,
when the tables will be presented in
explanation of the total appropriations
actually made for the expense OF the
government for the fiscal year"