The Washington herald., 1920-05-10
SENATEBUDGET
PLAN
Much Better Than House
PROPOSAL Various News
papers Declare.
DIFFER ON BUREAU
Mccormick Puts 1t in Treas
ury Department-Good
With President.
DIFFER ON BUREAU

The vital point Of difference be-
tween the House and Senate budget
bills which are now in conference is
over the location of the proposed
bureau of the budget
, The House measure, fathered by
Representative Good, Of Iowa, sets
up the bureau in the office of the
President The Senate measure,
largely drawn by Senator Medill NC
Cormick, of Illinois, chairman OF the
select committee of the Senate for
the consideration of national
budget, would place the bureau In
the Treasury Department Further,
the Senate measure would make OF
the Secretary OF the Treasury a real
finance minister, as in the days OF
Hamilton, Gallatin and other great
secretaries
Senate Bill Praised.
Newspapers throughout the coun-
try, irrespective of their political
bias, have taken the view that the
Senate provision is the better of the
two and they are insisting, not only
that the budget system be estab-
lished Immediately. but that it be
created or the lines laid down in
The New York Tribune, Repub-
Iican, is for the Senate bin. 1t said
recently:
What IL needed is to crcate a
vigorous and fearless agency equal
to curbing extravaganza Tho place
for such an agency manifestly Is in
the Treasury Department. That is
tho rule with governments which
have brought the budget system to
a high degree Of efficiency. 1t is
greatly to be hoped that the McCor-
mick, or Senate plan. will be
adopted"
Wants BIZ Enacted.
The Atlanta Constitution, Demo-
cratic, likewise approves the McCor-
mick bill. 1T is absolutely nom
political, and its practicability and
worth are attested by the experience
of practically all the other great
nations of the world" said the Con-
stitution a few days ago. THE main
thing is to get the bill enacted-to
get the country on a budget system
basis"
The New York World. Democratic,
in discussing the differences be-
tween the two houses said:
The differences are not impor-
tant savein one respect. The House
bill creates I budget bureau which
is attached to the Presidential Office.
The Senate or Mccormick bill Gre
ates the same kind of a bureau,
which is made a part of the Treas
uTy Department, where ii obviously
belongs. 1t is enough to say on this
point that the President is already
Overworked. But it is Additionally
to be said that the duties involved
properly belong to the finance min
lister of the government. who is the
Secretary of the Treasury"
Says Superiority Is Clear.
Z The Chicago Daily News, Inde-
pendent Republican, says of the
Senate bill:
Its superiority over the bill
',hich passed the Lower House IL
clear"
The Kansas City Star, Indeper-
dent. says: The Senate bill en-
bodies the principles most generally
approved by the experts on bud
Setary reform and by the expert
cnce of other governments. Tho
country expects budget legislation
of some ind. A start should be
made this session and, in the best
opinion we have, it should be made
with the bill on which Senator Nc
Cormick's special committee has
spent many weeks of conscientious
study and labor"
Calls Senate Bill Best.
Tho New York Sun, Republican.
takes the same view. I'VE think"
said the Sun. ''the Senate bill is bet
ter than the House bill. The na-
tioral finances should be managed In
the Treasury Department"
The Minneapolis Journal says tkat
the Mccormick bill is "a consider
able Improvement" over the House
bill, while the New York Evening
Post says: THE Senate bill is bold
stroke, reorganIzing the financial
methods of the government at a
swoop and leaving no loose ends IN
obscurity. Every step in the proc
ess Of estimating ard establishing
government is made secure ir so
many words. The House bill went
half way"