The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-18
BYRNES DISPUTES
REPUBLICAN CLAIM
CALLS ON DAWES TO SPECIFY AS
AS TO SAVING.
EFFORTS TO DECEIVE.
Director of Budget Asked to Tell How
He Saved Hundred
Million.

house today by Representative James
F. Byrnes of South Carolina.
The South Carolina Democrat
charged that the Republicans and
Gen. Charles Grosvenor Dawes are
3'attempting the futile pastime of
trying to fool all the people all the
time"
In other words, Mr.. Byrnes does
not believe that Gen. Dawes has saved
SIP, 100000 in authorize tions of
congress during the present extraor-
dinary session of congress.
But in the event that Mr.. Byrnes
is incorrect, General Dawes may spe-
city for Mr.. Byrnes introduced a res
olution calling on General Dawes to
tell the country exactly how he has
made saving of s112, 100000 in the
expenses of the government.
That there is very much fake in
the claim of General Dawes and the
Republicans in general, Mr.. Byrnes
intimates in the following excerpts
from his speech today.
Others Write Letters.
Director Dawes wrote President
Harding on July 19 that he would
save SIP, 100000. The largest item
was an alleged saving in the treas
ury department of s30,000,000. On
the same day, July 10, the budget
officer of the treasury department.
wrote to the heads of the various
bureaus complaining that in their re-
sponse to the request for cuts in ex-
penditure the department showed a
maximum saving of only S2,000,000
and that the reports showed estimat-
ed Deficiencies of $40, 100000. If this
was true why did Director Dawes on
the same day advise the president
that he was going to save S30,000,-
600 in the treasury department? If it
was true that he was going to save
s30,000,000 in that department, then
why was the budget officer writing
to the various bureaus that the total
savings amounted to only s2,000,-
600?
can analysis of the other alleged
savings offers the same evidence of
an. effort to mislead the people. The
president was informed that S16,-
534,523 would be saved in the war
risk bureau out of it's current funds.
On the same day the budget officer of
the treasury department stated in
writing that there was an estimated
deficiency in the war risk bureau.
Somebody is being fooled ...
s'In the war department, by reason
of the reduction in the size of the
army, am told there will be an ac-
tual saving of the SIS, 100000 esti-
mated.
May Be Carried Over.
''In the navy department Director
Dawes informed the president he
would save s10,00O,0O0. I am salts
fed that this does not represent an
actual saving, but simply means that
though this amount is available for
expenditure this year it will not
be spent until next year. l would
like to know whether along with
these estimated savings, Director
Dawes did not receive estimated de-
flciencies, and if so, why ne did not
tell the whole story.
THE estimated savings in the de-
partment of agriculture of $780,
600 is partly a paper saving. A con-
siderable portion is fund carried
from year to year for use in case
there is an epidemic of foot and
mouth disease among cattle. If there
is no epidemic it will not be spent, if
there is one, it will be spent. 1t has
been available since 1915 and with
equal justification could have been
regarded as saving each year since
that time.
Absurd as are the claims of saw
ings, the figures given to the presi-
dent by the Republican leader, Mr.
Mondell, this will not make General
Dawes a "piker" in the economy
game. He is going to save three
times as much as General Dawes.
Among other things Mr.. Mondell
claims that instead of saving s1,600,-
600 in the agricultural department,
he is going to save s25,O0O,000. AS
the total appropriation for that de-
partment is only 33,OO0,000, the ab-
surdity is apparent. By some it is
claimed that it is meant to save this
amount out of the federal aid funds.
But there was no appropriation for
roads this fiscal year, and the money
available for the last fiscal year was
allotted to the states in accordance