The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-12-10
PRESIDENT ASKS FOR
ECONOMY IN MESSAGE
Budget Plan Urged, Caller
les Packed AS Clerk
Reads Document.

Washington, Dec. Both houses
: az Congress were in brief session to-
day TO hear President Wilson's an
nual message. II was read by the
clerk, Mr.. Wilson having needed the
advice of his physician not to appear
\ in person to present his recommended
tions.
Galleries in both Senate and House
were crowded. Both those drawn by
the chance that the President might
appear in person or by the possibi-
lily that his message might touch up
on the League of Nations question or
his own approaching retirement to
private life were disappointed.
Mr.. Wilson confined himself al
most wholly to domestic questions.
Only by inference did his message re-
fer to the nearing close OF his adj
ministration, and that was in the con-
GLIDING paragraph. The proposals
he presented. the President wrote,
were not so much a series OF recon-
mendations as a confession 'of the
faith in which was bred and which
1t is my solemn purpose to stand by
until my last fighting day."
Urges Budget System.
The industrial situation also found
a place in the Presidents message.
Recovery from war effects gave prom
Use of early completion "only in our
own country" Mr.. Wilson said, and
even here "halts and is impeded at
times" A telegram of Immediately
serviceable acts of legislation" to aid
that recovery "and prove the indie
structible recuperative force of
great government of the people"
should be undertaken, Mr.. Wilson
said, adding:
zone of these is to prove that a
great democracy can keep house as
successfully and In as business-like
fashion as any other government.
First among the recommended
steps, Mr.. Wilson placed enactment of
workable budget system" He said
ne had vetoed the budget bill passed
at the last session reluctantly and
because OF a constitutional objection"
but as 1t was later revised in the
House, he believed lit would. with
other measures. furnish foundations
for a national budget system"
Mr.. Wilson cited figures as to the
national debt and urged rigid econ
omy in which all branches of the
government should cooperate.
F, 81 can not overemphasize, he said
"the necessity of economy In gov
eminent appropriations and expen-
ditures and the avoidance by Congress
OF practices which take money from
the Treasury by indefinite or revolv-
ing fund appropriations"
Favors Armenian Loan
This years estimates "strikingly"
illustrated the importance OF specific
appropriations, the President added,
the transportation act having dis
turbed'' the relationship between cur
rent receipts and expenditures to the
extent of over a billion dollars.
at is obvious" the message con-
tinued. that these large payments
have already seriously limited the
governments progress in retiring the
floating debt"
The President renewed some of the
recommendations he made at the
opening of the last session and add
ed:
81 do not feel II my privilege at
present to suggest the detailed and
particular methods by which these OBJ
jects may be attained, but have
faith that the inquiries of your sew
eral committees will discover the way
and The method"
The only communications for 9TH
er than domestic matters was that
for loan to Armenia to be admins
tered thru American commissioners
to avoid further tempting opportu-
mites" to revolutionary tendencies in
that country" and for granting indie
pendence to the Philippines, ito keep
our promise to the people of those
islands"