Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-26
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washington. Sept. Is. Economy
viils the aschwoEd everywhere
about the government departments this
fail "a preparing the estimates for APP
pt1prietions which will be submitted to
congress ct the beginning Of the next
regular session. In the nrst place. Pres
i6ent Taft 10 desirious Of making a
eood showing Of economy. In the sec
sond placs. under the law. the president
ID required either to have the estimates
Kept within the probable revenues or
advise convresS what course to take to
raise the additional revenue needed. "A
third and extremely potent reason for
economy In the estimates this year -
that for the 1lfSt time In years In q reg
ular session = republican administra.
tion ID confronted with the problem Of
getting it, estimates acted fayorably
upon by : democratic house.
The result Il that the heads OF bu-
renus and divisions and Of independent
Bureaus who are preparing or having
prepared the estimates which they need
afe being. directed 20 pare to the bone.
Evidence They Ars Justified.
And. quite As important as holding
down the estimates, will be the matter
% backing them up with evidence that
they are justified. II IL we'll realized in
department circles that the democratic
leaders in the house this winter are go
ing to do their utmost to make q show
Ing OF economy. They want. to go into
the campaign and BE- able to say that
the expenditures Of the government
have been cut below what they have
been IN recent years. In order to hold
down the appropriations. It IL expected
the house appropriations committee
will haul the republican officials who
come before It to explain estimates
over the Goals pretty roughly. This
Will he done - Q, part Of the game to
Set advertising Tor the democratic
economy proeIan.
ktDesaJtty Whers Needed.
y democfatic committee on appfopri-
attons, bent on joustins at extrava-
saHcs, can; curtaii expenditures consid-
erably but. ~ = republican official re-
marked today. the democrats can not
refuse to give enough money to rum the
fg0vegnmAnt.s y - believed the demo-
cxAts NH appr0priate freely enough In
every. caAe Wbers the need, = clearly
shown Aad ,tlAss result g thAt every of
nciai ~ chafBs OF estimates Will be ex-
pected 70 be prepared to fortify his
case, 20 back up the need Tor the esti-
mates with necessary evidences. Quite
as much attention will be given to the
preparation Of evidence to back up the
esSimates - TO the cutting Of estimates
OF to holdng them in check.
Treasury 60 % More CUTTING.
The treasury department 10 one OF
the departments which has done much
pairing In recent years and II will not
do much cutting. In fact, It will prob
ably Ark Tor some increase for the reas-
on that tour or I'VE new vessels for the
revenue cutter service are needed.
Many Of the vessels Of this service are
old and almost useless and It 10 neces-
sary to replace them with newer ana
better ones. About thirty vessels are
in the revenue cutter service. Some Of
them are out OF date and unseaworthy
Or 90 nearly SO that it Is easy to dem-
sonatrate they should be replaced. One
OF the facts that will probably help In
getting money allowed to build new
cutters . that the revenue cutter SER
vice 4, the recent storm along the
Atlantic coast did remarkable work and
saved much property. It seldom fails
to rive 3 Eood account OF itself.
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n mona az the departments. in fact.
VIII il 3bo admitted that material reduc-
lions en- 50 made IN the estimates.
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