The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-01-18


Congress 10 showing a disposition e
rave. OF course the efforts OF TN
lawmakers IN this instance are diree.et
at only one little leak between ths
r,ave@ and 10 FAR no disposition hai
aecn shown TO plug up the bunghoie
where the bis waste Is taking piace
Nevertheless congress SHOULD be given
duo credit whenever an inclination Is
shown to conserve the public money
eve though the pracsicing OF frugal.
iiy in the particular case AZ hand viii
not result in the savins Of uny stu
pendous sum when comparison Is
made with other sums that are belng
sauandered annually.
An estimated annual economy OF
sass. sss.se IN printing and binding Is
proposed in a bill now before the SON
ate. The bill was introduced follow
inE an investigation by the printing
committee as to the s~dvisabnity Of
snependins certain government publ
cations. az lepsi temporarily. In view
OF the enormously Increased cost Of
print paper.
The economy proposed to be ef-
fected BY Inc 6ii represents a re-
enction OF the congressional printlnr
hill OF more than 80 per cen since
the total cost for the fiscal yeas
1916 wac si.sS5. soe.s4. The repor,
states. The cost OF paper used IN
all printing for congress amounts to
one-sixth Of the total charge. On this
bnsls the saving &c the government IN
paper alone In the economics proposed
by the bin VIII be approximately tS3.i
900 a year"
The Joint printing committee OF
congress. the report staics, has tempo
rarily suspended the reprlntlng OF
documents requested by the senate and
the house folding rooms. tho esti-
mated cost OF which was ~s3i.s35.ss.
nearly half OF which was represented
by the cost % the print paper alone.
II is the opinion OF the committed
that a saving OF $780, 600 annually can
be made by excluding from the con.
e~resslonal record lengthy newspaper
and magazine articles not germane &c
the proceedings Of congress. The
American people never nave been able
90 understand why sSIs buncombe wa,
allowed 10 APPEAR In the record AM
be spread broadcast over the country
when very few ever read the actua.
proceedings OF congress. they Ger
tainiy are not going 20 take an intel
lectuai trip through a dozen pages o
siush. inserted merely 10 cater e
the within OF some senator or repre-
sentative who Is laboring under th'
mistaken idea hat his constituent
sent him 20 congress 10 fill up specs
In the record with speeches that n
delivered. and column after cot
umn OF clippings from newspapers an,
magazines. II has been stated by NJ
less an authority than Speaker Ciarl
that the congressional record could ~
dispensed with entirely. II this b
trno-and Champ ought 20 know
then by ali mean abolish II. ns thcr
Is no crying need for II on the par, o
the American people. hut II thi
IL 100 radical a step 10 suit the wise
acres who run the CAB mill dow a
the national capital, the by al mean
eliminate all superfiuous reading mat
ter.
Nearly $50 pages % the eougres
sional directory are to Ice eliminate
and one entire edition o., ms pun
iication Is 70 be suspended during ia
long session, u saving Of more tina
81 0eo.
The joint committee ma, require
msmbeis OF congresr 10 pay Tor en
posslng Their own letterheads and 81
ve,opes, a saving Of ti1,aif7S. an
That free ranked envelopes DE ,
manila stock, "a further economy
t27.gso. IL Is now proposed th'
franked envelopes and Sips used q
mailing speeches and other govern
ment publications be printed "a pa
vaie expense ssyiae ts5.0eo. a pr
vision vostlng The printing copmitt'
with authority TO prevent duplicatio
aud waste IN printing ami disiriAi
ton OF documents would save fe5
ana a. A. .ati,.ataa