New Britain herald., 1919-02-13

ernment was going to meet this and other largely increased expenditures.
 1T cannot answer the question: re- piled Senator Penrose. The whole situation is so chaotic and so charac- terized by lack of system that l am un- able to answer the senator's query un- less the majority party and those III control of the executive departments lend a helping hand to check this wasteful extrava gance."
 Extra Offices Created.
 The multiplication of government offices and increase in the federal per sonnel to a degree hitherto unknown or undreamed of in the affairs or the United States governm ment turnlsht'l Senator Penrose with another topic for criticism "New extra orlceS have been created he said.
 "I suppose they were neces'"4 during the war, but we have ohlS ~ go through and along the sloeS oA these great temporary bu1ld1neS oi So through the departments anu 0eo number of employees croWdills corridors and encumbering the IooiA0 and in many cases actuallE HUI +1,e for something to do to real1ze '1lo ,,rosan+ waste This political congress in the first session created S2,1l9 ne" offices requiring $47,371,231 to Day tho salaries. and in the secohd seo sion 191.307 new offices fequlrins s11n oo5429 to defray the expenses ,,olxine a grand total of new ollice9 o73 O26 recurring $159, ,o96.
 rhe list of bills embodying the ap- nroprfations recited by Senator Feh- rose included Senator Cores plll TOT s1.OOO.O00 to suppress cattle tlck, senator Kenyon's S100,000,OOO bill for public works to provide agalhsI unemployment during the demoolllza- ton period and the bill approprlatlng ,25O,O00,000 to stabilize WheaC prices through government control of markets. which is pending in the house. Of the Kenyon bill Senator Penrose said:
 s'rhis bill starts off with $1O0,o ,ooo'- oOO and there is further provision for S3O0,0O0, 0,000 more to provide for ad- vances, making O,000,000 ill all that under a plausible argument IS separated frosn the public treasury
 Calls Expense Needless.
 "As regards the lack of employment +his is S4OO, 900, 900 for what, in my opinion, is a needless purpose. The ex- tent of unemployment is greatly exag- perated. I understand from the report of the Department of Labor thls week that there are some 250,000 or 3Oo,- 900 men unemployed. That IS very small number in a country With nearly 11,OO0.O00 wage earnerS.
 Senator Penrose said the bills pend inc in the Senate aggregate over Sz,- OOO.OOO,OO0 T really think, sald Senator Penrose, "now that the war is over some auditing and accounting of these lump sums ought to pc oo- tained, and that hereafter expend1- lures be made under authority of law and not under the whim of the auto crat of a bureau OF of a Cabinet ofn- cer or even of the President.
 Senator Penrose spoke of about SlS,- 000.OOO,O0O appropriations that he said he had not yet touched on and which had been asked for by some body" He spoke of bills in the House for education of negro illiterates with a s13.O00,OO0 appropriations; joint resolution asking S100, 100000 ito re- lieve the stress among wage earners.' Another with an appropriation of $2OO- 100000 to improve roads, and still an- other with s100, 100000 to reclaim swampland.
 A Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania, he said, had offered a bill in the House for $,loOo,ooo with which to distibute war trophies.