El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-05

IF CONGRESS goes ahead and enacts providing for
national budget It VIII be doing something to help
me people Of this country more than anything except
lowering the cost Of living Close students Of the budget
system claim it possible for saving Of 81 600 100000
year be made in the administration Of govern
ent without reducing the number OF scope Of things the
government is trying accomplish An aggregate saving
Of that much would mean burden Of SO year lifted
from every nan, woman and child in the country
The budget system plan in the formative state
There little chance Of its failure to be enacted It may
be sdetraoked, unless there is strong public demand
it. order pass other legislation which attracts
attention and arouses more public interest Congress
has way Of doing first those things which it feels the
people are most insistent upon.
Unless sidetracked whatever budget plan finally drawn
up is practically certain Of passage The Republicans
who control both houses committed and could
pass 1t all the Democrats opposed They not
President Wilson has the good that could from
the adoption Of budget system Of administering govern
mental expenditures and only the pork barrel congress
Of both parties II congress would like to oppose It
Barrel rolling beng IN bad form now II IS unhkey mat
any member Of congress would oppose the budget system
unless could think Of plausible objection where
with to cameuflage the desire for polk
Unless budget system IS adopted there viii continue
to be vast OF public funds drawn from the pockets
Of the people and the squanderng Of money will be fol-
lowed, at present by occasional disclosures and these
revelations wiz followed BY investigations and the prob
ings VIII featured by charges and counter
charges and viii be ended by everybody passing the buck
and nobody being to blame
This affects everyone In these days every individual
IS taxpayer whether not he owns taxable property
Every increase in taxation, due to extrsvagant use OF
public money higher taxation and that increases the
Of living Conversely, every big economy n govern
uent expenditure makes less sufficient That
points to Of of the muittudnous taxes
reduction Of others and decrease the cost Of
living is the result the Of budget fund
ought to appeal to all Of
Just because We only nov beginning to work for
budget system must not be supposed that such system
would be IN the nature Of experiment On the
trzy United States Is the only great government
the world without a budget system Furthermore many
states them and finding them satisfactory money
savers.
The Republican majority II the house has created
special subcommittee study budget plans and the Re-
publican majority the senate has selected special com
nttee for the purpose The latter committee has
gone to work to gather and figures The task is to
md the best budget system tested out BY the expert
Of states and Of other countries It IS declared to
be the expectation Of the committee 10 recommend bill
the regular session Of congress which eonvenes next
December and the hope Of every advocate Of budget
that legislation wiz be put through to have the
system working order by the beginning Of the next
fiscal year July !, 1920
There appropriations before congress that Illus
rate the need Of budget system The president recently
addressed congress the high cost Of living Various
departments eaped the fore with requests for
appropriations to carry effort to lower the cost
Of living The departments Of justice, agriculture and
commerce were among them All wanteds money and the
aggregate millions Congress win either grant
those appropriations OF urr them down and would be
hardy congress that would dare reject them in the face
ensuing complaints about bnding the hands that would