The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1910-03-04
NOTHING NEW IN
IDEA Of ALDR|CH
Inquiries Similar to One He Asks
Have Been Made Before.
BROUGHT FORTH NO RESULTS
Reports Concerning Economy General.
ly nholed-President Taft Not
Worrying Over Roosevelt's Re-
turn-lnterest Over lnVesti-
cations.

turn-lnterest Over lnvesti-
cations.
Washington.-Senator Aldrich's bill
to create government busines,
method commission" is measure
somewhat similar to others that have
been introduced in the past in con
gress. There have been inquiries
aforetime into the business methods
of the departments with view to dis
covering ways and means to save
money, but the reports which were
turned in were pigeonholed as rule
or, If action was taken, 1t had no ade
quate result in reducing expenses.
Years ago the term, billion dollar
congress" was used merely for the
purpose of getting the effect which
sometimes comes from a picturesque
exaggeration No one dreamed %
years ago that at any one session OF
congress there would be appropriated
for the expenses of the government
sum of money reaching anywhere
near the billion mark Last year
however. congress appropriated ST.,
100000 600, and this year it will ap
propriate in all human probability
about the same amount
The government work constantly Is
expanding. AS the people grow. their
expenses grow, and therefore II
IN 1910. the appropriation bills
are Just the same as they were
in 1909, it of necessity marks
a saving after all The fact
that there is not likely to be any
growth in the appropriations this
year over that of last year is due
largely TO the pruning methods which
have been adopted in the committees
of congress which scrutinize the sup
ply bills
Clever Political Work.
IT is regarded In Washington as 2
bold, and it may be a successful party
stroke for the leader of the Repub
ncans in the senate to come out as he
has for reduction of the expendi-
lures of the government. The Repub.
ilcan party has been charged with ex
traVagance. The Democrats say that
even If Mr.. Aldrich's bill becomes a
law. the business mems commission
find out real money can be saved
and money finally is saved, this will
not clear the Republicans of the
charge of extravaganza In the past.
Inc Democrats also say that If the
commission shall find that It has been
costing $140000,00 to run the navy
department, for instance, and Il can
De shown that the same results could
nave been reached with an expendi-
ture OF one hundred millions, the ma
1orlty party is bound to suffer.
Desire for True Economy.
It is possible and perhaps entirely
probable that economy in government
work can be secured without any way
affecting the pay of the government
employees. The government spends SO
much money in building battleships,
III putting up public buildings and in
contract work generally that it will
be found that the three hundred mil
lions which Mr. Aldrich thinks can be
saved every year under the applica-
uon of business methods. may be
saved without the necessity of going
outside of the greater bills which
Uncle Sam has put up to him every
year
President Not Worrying.
There is no evidence that Pres
ident Taft is worrying in the least
about what Col Theodore Roose-
welt may say concerning the progress
or the lack of progress of the policies
OF the present administration. 1t is
apparent that the president holds to
the belief that Mr.. Roosevelt will be-
heve in his absolute sincerity of pur-
pose, and that even though congress
does not put through all the advanced
legislation which the president has
recommended Mr.. Roosevelt will real
lie that the fault Is that of congress
and not the administration.
1t is curious from how many view
points the return of the strenuous one
TO this country is looked at There
are those advanced Republicans, who
are so progressive that their fellow
party members call them radical. who
seem to think that the instant the
former president sets foot on this soil
ne is going to issue an edict of dis
approval of everything that Mr.. Viii
ilam Howard Taft has done since he
entered the White House. Then there
are the Republicans who are progres
sive without being markedly SO. who
say that Mr.. Roosevelt will give ex
pressions of approval to some of Mr.
rats acts and of disapproval to some
or his other acts. Then there are the
Old line Republicans who believe that