Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-31
NOT WORK TOR SOLONS
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ExPEN-
DITUREs WILL BE BUSY DUR
ING WARM WEATHER..
PLAN TO PUT. GOVERNMENT
ON BUslNEss-LIKE BASIS
cummins Gets Place on Sub Commit
tee Which Will Have Real Work Of
lnausuratins Economy and System
in Biggest Business Institution on
Earth-other News of the Day.
Especial Correspondence

washington, May, 29.-The creatio
of the new senate committee on pub
lie expenditures has made a fine piec
of work for group of statesmen VIII
Will have to remain in Washington af
ter the tariff is disposed of, and per
spire thru the heated term over III
problem of carving down the govern
ment's expenditures.
Senator Bourne of oregon is the orig
inator of the scheme of naming thi
committee, and back OF it he has a!
elaborate plan of systematizing tn
governments business He believes
and many others agree with him, tha
1t is possible to effect numerous i'm
portant economies by applying to thu
governments business the metho l.
that would govern it if the government
were private corporation.
The business of Unc, Sam has Z q
VeloEed at a II tremendous rate in recen
Years. New departments aud bureaus
ard divisions AMI commissions have
been created from time to time with.
on much thought to correlation O.
their efforts. The result IS a good dea
of duplication of effort. The interior
and agricultural departments get theil
wires crossed at various points. The
navy authorities are now at work OF
a n'an by which they hope to save
s1O,O00,000 pear without injuring eff.
hclency, simply by eliminating lost mo.
tlon in the bureau oTE2liza ton Thu
general staff of the army is alleged tt
be unnecessarily expensive and numer-
Gus, and it is likely to be cut down
The department of justice, the bureau
of corporations and the Interstate
commerce commission are declared &c
have repeatedly thrashed the same
straw in various of the government.
supervisory relations to corporations
Congress itself frequently accuses it,
self of being unduly expensive. Every
body knows that it costs more to do a
given amount of business for the gov
eminent, in the way the government
does business, than it would for a pr-
waite concern. Problem: How shall. the
business of the government be put in
basis that shall most nearly approx
innate to the efficiency and promptness
OIL private management!
That is the problem whose solution
Senator Bourne had in mind when he
suggested a budget committee He
would have revenues and appropriations
considered together and in relation
one to another. He proposed the idea
and it was liked. The result was the
addition to the senates list of stand.
ing committees of that on public ex-
penditures.
This committee, it is now announced
is getting ready to take UP its huge
task. To that end subcommittee
will be named to hold sessions and re-
port to the senate. Senator Bourne, as
the father of the scheme, will be chair
man of the subcommittee and the
other members are to include Aldrich
Carter, Cummins, McLaurin and
Hughes. They will be authorized tc
sit when the session is not in session
and when it is as we'll; and the SEN
ate contingent fund will pay the bills
This fund is useful for a marvellous
number of purposes. The money used
from it nowadays would have paid a
good share of the expense of the gov.
eminent in the days of Washington.
1t is expected that in the beginning
of their work the members of the com.
mittee will be given different depart.
ments of the government to investi.
gate. They will meet together from
time to time and talk over the things
they are learning about the machinery
Of the government and particularly
will they compare notes as to methods
and Implications of efforts. Some.
thing in the way of preliminary repor'
may be expected at the long session
next winter; but the committees task
will keep it busy in all probabilities fol
two or three years.
The vice presidential establishment
under the present regime is proving
quite az popular socially as 1t was
when the Fairbanks family did its
honors so gracefully. Mrs. Sherman is
one of the easiest and most skillfu
hostesses in the official set,while hel
husband is one of the most popular
of the men.
Mrs. Sherman is quite as democrat
ic as is her husband. The latter viii
frequently be seen riding in the troll
ley cars on his way about town. Mrs
Sherman goes to the big Central mar.
ket on occasion to do her own house.
hold buying, and few women go there
who know better what they want OF
how to buy. She makes personal in
spection Of the meats and fruits anG
vegetables she buys, and the approach
of function at the Sherman home will
be the signal for the vice president:
wife to appear at market, very bust.
nesslike, selecting the articles for hel
table. Mrs. Sherman plans all hel
own dinners and lunches in much de.
tail, and in order to be assured of get.
ting just what she wants to serve, she
buys it herself.
Mrs. Sherman is by no means the
only one OF the women Of society wilt
have this most sociable weakness fol
the best that is in the market. Brigh
and early of morning it Is quite the
comon thing to see the wife Of the
vice president at the center of a grou1
of women, chatting as they go amont
the stalls picking out their viands. or
inspection it will be discovered that tn,
women are wives Of senators, repre-.
sentatives and officials of rank. Mrs
Cortelyou used to be one of the occa.
sional marketers. The fad Of doins
ones own buying is growing in popu.
larity, and it is one of the most de.
lightful Of the democratic customs O.
the capital.
New York city's Proud Boast.
| New York city leads IN tho ,,u,,t.,