Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
NOT ALL ESTIMATED
TaWney Says This Will Be a
BiIIion-DolIar Congress.
TWO BIG ITEMS LEFT OUT
Applauds Cut in Figures of Depart
ment Heads for Expenses
of Government.

This Will he billion dollar Congress
after ALL declares Chairman Tawney OF
the House appropriations committee.
despite the apparent cut of about one
hundred and ten million in the govern
ment estimates for 1911.
This is due to the fact. he says in a
statement issued today, that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury omitted two Items
one for sixty-one million and the other
Of about one hundred and thirtythree
millon-which should have been in
cluded.
His statement follows:
THE report of the Secretary OF the
Treasury is a peculiarly interesting and
gratifying document at this time. 1t evil
dences the efficiency and good faith of
Mr.. Taft's administration I'm interpreting
the purpose of the law enacted
by Congress the last sundry
| civil appropriation act, intended
to require that the estimates for appro-
priations made by the several executive
departments should be pared down and
reduced to a sum within the revenues or
| the government before their final sub
mission to the Congress
Responsibility Upon President.
THAT law. in terms. requires that when
all the estimates are in the hands of the
Secretary of the Treasury he shall es-
innate as nearly as may be the revenues
of the government: and if the former ex-
ceeds the latter, 1t is made his duty to
submit a statement thereof to the Presi-
dent to the end that he may advise the
Congress how such estimates may be re-
duced with least injury TO the public
service: or. if reduction can IN his
| Judgment be made, then what loans
should he negotiated or new taxes lev
lT ttfrnl &c
revenues
1.-The real purpose of the law, and the
| one most apparent in the very first year
| of it's application, was TO concentrate III
the executive primarily the responsibility
| for proposed drafts on the Treasury for
support of the government, and to re-
uuire of the heads of the several execu-
tive departments more thoughtful ana
careful consideration of the details of the
annual estimates in their respective de-
partments before their transmission 10
Congress.
1.-The exhibit Of the Secretary of the
Treasury shows a reduction In the est.
mated expenditures of the government
for the fiscal year 1911 of So, 1858, u3l. ID
under the appropriations made for i'l"
and "A reduction OF S9,ool, 5!-9. unuef
the estimates submitted to Congress TOT
that year.
This result will tend to relieve the
Congress in large measure of the bur
densome duty that has occupied much
of it's time heretofore, through commit
tees and otherwise in adjusting expendl-
lures to the sum of national revenues.
During the past eight fiscal years the
sum total of estimates submitted by
the executive has exceeded expenditures
authorized in appropriations made by
Congress by S274,94S 657.e5
Omissions From Budget.
ut will be observed that the Secretary
of the Treasury, in his report, states
the total estimates for 1911 as amount
ing to s671, 2Ss. O75.o1; in this sum he does
not include $50 $4,000 that will be re-
ouired under the statute to meet the re
auirements of the sinking fund during
the next fiscal year, nor is there included
in the Secretary's figures the amount,
estimated at Sob 05S, 51231, that Will he
paid during the year 1911 out of the pos
tai revenues for conducting the postal
| service The first sum is an exact one,
under the provisions of law, and while
| il may not be applied In Its entirety our
| ing the year to the retirement or the ma
tional debt it should. for purposes OF
compa rison, be considered The amount
| to be paid from the postal revenues Will
| have to be met by appropriations and
proba bly will not be materially reduced.
adding both sums to the $611, eSS. 015..1
stated by the Secretary of the Treasury
to be the aggregate estimated expendi-
lures for 1911. we have, in fact. the sum
of 1865. oS1 647.OS to be considered as
total estimates for 1911. This last sum
will approximate closely the amount that
will be used at the close of this session
of Congress when the tables will be pre-
scented in explanation of the total APP
preparations actually made for the eN-
penses of the government for the next
fiscal year.