The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
|OTH|kG NEW IN
 IDEA IF ALDR|CH
quiries Similar to One He Asks
 Have Been Made Before.
OUGHT FORTH NO RESULTS

t Pigeonholed-President Taft Not
 Worrying Over Roosevelt's Re- | turn-interest Over lnvesti- gations.
 hington.-Senator Aldrich's bill xcreate a government business Bthod commission" is measure meWhat similar to others that have len introduced in the past in con- less There have been inquiries |bretime into the business methods . the departments with view to dis |vering ways and means to save |pney, but the reports which were med in were pigeonholed as a rule ! if action was taken, it had no ade- late result in reducing expenses. Wears ago the term, billion dollar |ngress" was used merely for the |rpose of getting the effect which |metimes comes from a picturesque |aggeration. No one dreamed 20
 ars ago that at any one session of |ngress there would be appropriated "a the expenses of the government
 gum of money reaching anywhere lar the billion mark Last year, }wever, congress appropriated $1.- |0s000,000, and this year it will ap- |opriate in all human probability |out the same amount.
 The government work constantly is handing. As the people grow. their |penses grow, and therefore if
 N 1910, the appropriation bills |e just the same as they were
 1909, 1t of necessity marks saving after all. The fact 'at there Is not likely to be any
 owth in the appropriations this lar over that of last year is due fgely to the pruning methods which i've been adopted in the committees congress which scrutinize the sup tsbills.
 Clever Political Work.
 Tt is regarded in Washington as
 M, and it may be successful party |roke for the leader of the Repub- bans in the senate to come out as he $s for a reduction of the expendi- |Fes of the government. The Repub-
 an party has been charged with ex- Rvagance. The Democrats say that ten if MT. Aldrich's bill becomes a .w, the business mems commission hd out real money can be saved, &d money finally is saved, this will bt clear the Republicans of the large of extravagance in the past. he Democrats also say that if the Emission shall find that it has been 3sting S140.000,000 to run the navy kpartment, for instance, and it can Shown that the same results could Rve been reached with an expendi- |re of one hundred millions, the ma
 rity party is bound to suffer. 3 Employees in Protest.
 Any scheme for the investigation the departments with a view to cut hes down expenditures is bound to
 snet with opposition from the fe1f force of government employees. |me 30,000 in number, who are on eslabor rolls in Washington A great |ang of these small officials, clerks, |essengers, stenographers, doorkeep-
 2 md laborers have families depend kt@s upon them and with their |miiies they make up a large frcentage of the population of
 e Capital city. If economy means
 ctitting down of salaries or a |smissal of part of the work 'g {orce employed, the reason for the Pp0eition of the clerks and others |adAy can be seen.
 Desire for True Economy.
 ltsis possible and perhaps entirely Sob4ble that economy in government |prk can be secured without any way fecting the pay of the government |npDyes The government spends so |uch money in building battleships.
 pntting up public buildings and in Sntfact work generally that it will Nund that the three hundred mil pnsswhich MT Aldrich thinks can be
 wed every year under the applica- pn#of business methods, may be
 ved without the necessity of going Rtaide of the greater bills which 'hcle Sam has put up to him every lar.
 Italways has been said that there |uld be great saving in government <penditures if absolute business 'ethods were applied. and it is very f0bable that this Is true. If there ahchance to save three hundred mil Pn dollars, perhaps the expenditure the few thousands that a commis- |on of inquiry will cost will not be
 wise
 President Not Worrying.
 There is no evidence that Pres lent Taft is worrying in the least bout what Col Theodore Roose- l It may say concerning the progress
 the lack of progress of the policies the present administration. It is parent that the president holds to |e belief that MT. Roosevelt will be- kve in his absolute sincerity of pur- $e6, and that even though congress 'ee5not put through all the advanced 'gts1ation which the president has Eommended Mir Roosevelt will real
 that the fault is that of congress, Sd not the administration.
 1ta4s curious from how many view 'intS the return of the strenuous one
 th1s country is looked at There |e those advanced Republicans, who
 e 10 progressive that their fellow