Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-13
|ral Per Capita ax Five Times
 the 1916 Figure

;noton. Feb. 12.-In an effort
 .oss upon the people of the
 the necessity of strict na--
 economy through the medium
 nodern system of budgetary
 re in determining federal ex-
 res annually, those leading
 Form movement in Congress
 nea rthed volumes of figures
 inc comparative cost of run
 government as far back as
 10 of Jefferson. Representa-
 mes W. Good, chairman of the
 |committee on Appropriations,
 bairman of the House Select
 tee on the Budget and author
 budget bill adopted by the
 last october, has agreat many
 se figures compiled for use
 sdyocacy of an executive budg-
 bo his figures on estimates
 d from the various executive
 ments for the next fiscal year,
 tentative Good says that the
 nita tax for the next fiscal
 Kill be SAT, which Congress
 educe by cutting estimates to bne. This amount is nearly
 mes as much per man, woman bild-in the United States as it | 1916 when Congress reached rh water mark in appropria- king with the administration komas Jefferson, comparative s of Mir. Good show that the
 expense of the War Depart averaged twenty cents per cap khe annual expenses for the Department twenty-three cents kpita; the average expenses of |ostoffice Department averages |ents per capita; and the total i expenditures for the federal hment during the four years 'ner a.' canita.
 enses jumped during the four period covered by the Civil The annual expense of the War tment during the Civil war av- + $19.99 per capnta; the an- of the Navy Depart averaged $2.31 per capita; the SC of the Postoffice Depart averaged four cents per capita; the total annual expense of overnment was $25.01 per cap owing the Civil war expendi-
 decreased substantially for years. During this period the average expense of the War tment fell from $19.99 to $3.94 'pita; the expense of the Navy tment decreased from $2.31 to two cents per capita; and the expenditures of the national lment were reduced from $25.01 .02 per capita. ual expenditures never reached illion dollar mark until 1916, the total appropriations for 'ar aggregated $1,116,118,1 1885. ditures for the years of 1914i 915 were so close to the bill ollar mark, however, that the e annual expenditure for the year period 1914-16, inclusive, 062,930,372.76, or $10.63 per vas during this period when futures were soaring MT. Good on. Joseph G. Cannon pointed hat the present mult-headed ng committee system became of the House, appropriating
 being taken first from the ittee on Ways and Means and to the Committee on Appropri-
 and then later distributed
 the Committee on Appropria- and seven other committees eport out the thirteen regular
 appropriation bills at pres Six other committees, however, the power of recommending tion that may call for appro- n.
 ng the fiscal years 1918 and he total expenses of the War ,ment while we were engaged
 World war amounted to $14,- l,211.22, the expenditure of Department during these two amounting to an average an- 'er capita charge of $70.26 on 'ople of the nation. The ex- lres for the Navy Department ese two years aggregated $3,- ,lS2.37, or an annual average expenditure of $15.98 per cap Tor the fiscal year 1919 the 'apita cost of operating the flee Department alone was or more than twice the per of all the departments of the al government during Jeffer- administration.
 Navy Department for <he next year has requested an appro- n of $573,131,254.80, which tS to a per capita cost of