The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-04-09
COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES

The senate has created committee on public expenditures
hereafter officers the Washington dispatches inform
are going give personal attention the matter OF making de
budgets the Lewiston Tribune Heretofore there
has been no committee in either house charged with duty
making survey the whole subject Of appropriations Each has
appropriations committee but the supply bills over winch that
committee has original jurisdiction only small part OF the whole
number and the Of their amounts only minor fraction OF the
appropriations separate committee makes the naval BILL
another the army BILL another the postofce Dill another the dpo
and consular bill in fact the appropriation committees prepare
only and Of these Of minor consequence The method is
economy There committee that has the
power responsibility Of adjusting expenditures to income
The system extravaganza If the naval committee hap
pens to have been generous ITSELF the military affairs committee
spurred by spirit of Jealousy grab rather larger handful
treasury thar otherwise would be enbodeed take
In reality the system tends engender kind Of rivalry eNpend
body the senate has created composed chiefly OF
The chairman Of the committees which have the making Of
appropriation bills ought to operate as restraint on tins spirit OF
The resolution Of the cabinet give personal superv
ion departmental budgets submitted to reform which
also ought work in the interest of economy Heretofore this work
has mostly by chief clerks whose ideas of their needs
repssed any OF accountability to the people who have
foot the bills
But whether these eecual not the mere TAX
ing hopeful sign indicates that congress becoming
sensible of its and coming to appreciate the inn
peraye economy And the need has become imperative
More billion dollars appropriated the last session This
nearly than for the preceding year. despite
sincere but feeble effort etrench and almost twice the annual
appropriations years ago The increase Of expenditures has been
greater greater than the Of population Our population
has increased perhaps than 20 during that time sol
that this business of expenditures increase of the burden which
every head of family has We should probably find the
could be calculated with approximation that
federal government takes $50 annually from every head of family
for its support That months wages for the average
aborer Add what extracted for county and municipal
and will be that close to the limit of
drance In of these circumstances does well to take
thought of the need of economy and if it shall succeed
ducng expenditures the actual requirements of the government
will have earned and viii the plauds of the people
Hon. Joseph Simon has been nominated for Mayor of Portland
by the Republicans Mr. Simon IS praccng attorney who at
time represented Oregon in the United States Many
ago he great power the politics of that being
the opponent of the late Senator Mitchell for the Repub
can organization In those days he regarded inscriptions
and Of the material Of which political bosses made He has
quired wealth and for several years has but little
politics Now that Mitchell died in disgrace following
been scattered Simon again endeavor become the leader
Oregon Republicans