Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-11
TEREST IN THE RATIONAL BUDGET
 | REFORM GROWING
gement, Started by Presi. |dent Taft, Now Before Congress

\ >ss8fshoA uuuScldIS IeioTIH HoW Dc- ! &4 congress received it's first i'm Ess during the administration of Resident Taft Believing that gov du snental expenditures were in \. siHg out of all proportion to Ialeal needs, President Taft ob- a.omed permission from Congress in Sn to appoint Commission on Autnomy and Efficiency. The pur- M of the Commission was to in .truoigate into the organization of Bag United States government and raa rt to the president on what U could be taken toward reduc- aan the amount of annual expendi- n LIS.
 'Nn. fter three years of effort, the admission, of which Dr. Frederic aTriEleveland was chairman, made an
 mustive report to the President, recommended that an executive Tsget system be adopted by Con- aAk;tis to aviiod the many duplica- os of departmental effort that its q I}stigation disclosed. President dat was confronted with much Y anged Congress in 1913, however s1 M the report of his Commission, iE,,fh was approved by him and sub 1E sted to Congress, was not kindly dRtslived. The President did succeed k;ofocusing public attention upon rf,', need for economy in the na- Els fiscal affairs.
 f,,.l the last Presidential campaign Il the platforms of the Republi-
 Aand the Democratic parties con- F ed blanks pledging the adoption prh federal budget system. Last nat the Speaker of the House ap- Fa4ted Select Committee on the hh,asget to which was referred for Hnsideration several bills and res Ptsions introduced in the lowe,
 I'd the adoption of a budget sys-
 Representative James W Dtd of Iowa, chairman of the HWfse Committee on Appropria { Gs, was, named head of the Selec' Mdmittee Hearings were begun kaSeptember 22. concluded on Oc- Err 4 and on October s Chairman tatd Introduced his bill and re- lcded the result of the Select Com 7hipted on October 21 with only l1hnse votes recorded against it.
 he Good bill, although hailed Nhthe first move on the part O. setgress to give the nation an ex- h,sive budget system, did not re
 Ie widespread endorsement az pn effective budget measure. It.
 en provisions created Bureau of L Budget in the office of the sident, to which was transferred
 the present duties of the Sec try of the Treasury in collectinr \ transmitting to Congress the an
 departmental estimates of eX ! diture. and an independent aud \ werable solely to the fund 1g and accounting department 3nting body, Congress. The bill \ Afefore, did not attempt to imme !ely set up dudget system, but 1e the President the machinery {h which to work out two years Zee g system under which he ! id have not only the authority tc
 tive and collate departmental es
 Rtes but the much more needed
 fer to hevise or reduce and co \ inate these estimates.
 oincident with the introduction
 eeveral budget bills and resolu 6H1s in the House, bills and resolu t Ills of similar intent were intro
 ed in the Senate. A Select Com N tee of the Budget was likewise fl ointed in the Senate to whic} ' referred all of the bills ane II Wblutions introduced. Senator Mo nil mick of Illinois was named H irman of the committee.
 turing the first few days of th' M sent session of Congress, Sena Mccormick introduced new Ilget bill upon which the Senat aarings December 15. The hear Ills were interrupted on Decembe
 by pressing legislation then be
 voted upon by the Senate an' Ire adjourned until January 12.
 dshe Mccormick bill differs radi lily from the Good bill in that i 1uld immediately set up a budge 1stem and give the Secretary of tn 3easury full power to transmit t dagress, through the President, tn .nual executive budget, in whic spartmental estimates of eNpendi Ne would be presented by him, re He'd or reduced as he sees fit. an
 anced against available revenu, ne Mccormick bill accordingl
 1uld place the Bureau of tn
 fdget in the office of the Secre
 dSy of the Treasury and make hir
 Etrue Finance Minister by reliev
 < him of the supervision of al
 divities non-germanc to the act
 conduct of the nations fisca