Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-11-28

appointiye capacity make reports.
send thousands Of specimens of their
handiwork in printed form to their
constituents. and occasionally they do
aot limit the production to the fields
OF their immediate districts.
Change Will Be Unpopular.
This change in the old free-for-all
mailing system probably will be ex-
ceedingly unpopular, and 1t seems
likely that quiet attempts will be
made TO induce the party members
who are responsible for its sugges-
ton, and the party leaders who have
given it their sanction, to change
their minds and to prevent the pro-
vision from coming to a vote. It is
virtually certain. however, that il the
proponents of the plan stick to their
intention there will be few members
of congress, Democrats, Republicans
or Progressives, who viii care, OF
mayhap dare. to vote against it.
1t will be put forward by the com
mittee with the sanction of the post
master general. who it is understood
will make favorable reference to it
in his annual report, and with such
endorsement, coupled with the word
that it is in line with the Democratic
policy of economy, 1t probably will be
enacted into law
To Cut Printing Bills.
Side by side with this plan to abol-
ish the Thanking privilege, it is the
intention to introduce bill which will
cut the printing expenses of the gov
eminent The joint committee OH
printing of house and senate will rec
ommend that rule or a law. which
ever is necessary to accomplish the
end, shall be enacted which shall for
bid the wholesale printing of docu-
ments for which there is likely to be
little demand. There are thousands
of government reports turned out by
the departments every year to say
nothing of the thousands of congress
sional reports and documents.
1t is never known in advance how
great demand there may be for the
publications, and so in the absence of
definite knowledge on the subject it
has been the custom to print large
numbers of everything which the off,
cial pens produce. Hereafter it is
the intention to have an estimate
made of the probable popularity Of
written reports, and the orders for
printing them will be shortened or
heightened accordingly.
VIII Debate NAVAL Holiday"
Shortly after congress meets in
regular session it will have brought
before it for debate and perhaps for
passage a resolution introduced by
Representative Hensley of Nilsson
ri declaring readiness to cooperate
with Winston Churchill, lord of
Great Britain's admiralty. in an at
tempt to get the great powers of the
world to agree to stop all warship
building for one year. If this resolu-
ton shall be sanctioned and if other
governments join with the United
States. and Great Britain. the Ameri-
can administration plan for three
battseships this year will be kept on
the shelf for another twelve months
at least.
What the Carnegie endowment for
national peace, known to the hippant
as the Peace trust" because it dom
mates the peace endeavor organization
of the world, will say about the Hens
ley resolution no one yet knows. 1t
seems as if so simple method of saw
ing money and at the Sc me time pre-.
venting one nation from getting ahead
of another in armament ought to ap-
peal to the proponents Of the cause
of the dove and the plowShare. Since
this matter of calling of the big ar
morers and the big gun makers for
one year was brough; before the
house the members have been interest
ed in looking up the armament budget
figures. Mr.. Taft's ecor0my and eff
cheney commission, which was legis-
lated out of existence last year, made
report and it is now being consulted
by congressman who thought the com
mission was of no particular service.
Nearly Half for Defense.
The members of the commission fig.
ured out on the basis of she estimates
for the year 1918 that fine total gov.
eminent expenses were $3.50, 7S3, 261
and that of this sum $4G2 ,918.347 was
voted for purposes Of national defense,
leaving $436, 6S6.961 for the civil func-
lions of the government 1t will be
seen from these figures that the ex-
penditures for preparations for war
fall little short Of the sums needed
for the activities OF government along
the lines of the cormom welfare
which run at right angles to those
leading to war.
If the Hensley resolution does not
pass and if the plan of Winston
Churchill shall fail, the expenditures
by the United States next year for
national defense purposes will be far
larger than those which were voted to
meet the requirements of the last
gear. There seems to be justification
in the figures for the blunt words of
Speaker Champ Clark when in sup
port of his fellow Missourian's naval
holiday resolution he said: