New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Harding Calls
Budget Makers
In Tomorrow
Dawes Will Outline Work
to Lessen Expenditures;
Estimate of Minimum
Must Be Made i'm Month
Insists ON Cooperation
]. r.. McCar,l, of Nebraska,
Gets Post as Comptroller
General of the Treasury
From The Trtbune.s Washington Bureau

From The Tribune's Washington, Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 27.-President
Harding's economy program took def
mite shape to-day when, at his request,
General Charles G. Dawes, newly ape
pointed Director of the Budget, sum-
moned conference for Wednesday
afternoon which will be attended by
members of the Cabinet, cAief clerks
and chiefs and assistant chiefs of
bureaus. President Harding will pre-
side and General Dawes will outline
the work of preparing the first budget
under the new budget legislation.
A statement was issued at the White
House impressing the necessity for
economy in governmental expenditures
and declaring that the tentative form
OF the budget, which the President to-
day asked General Dawes to draft,
should show the way to lessened ex-
penditures, "as would be done in any
ordinary business confronted with the
necessity for economy" The Presi-
dent does not assume, as has been the
y
dividual departments asking individual
appropriations, that the minimum Of
governmental expenditure in the year
is the amount fixed by Congress in its
appropriations.
Estimates of Minimum Fund
The Presidents direction to General
Dawes for tentative budget form calls
for the preparation within thirty days
of estimates of the absolute minimum
of government funds needed for the
fiscal year beginning July /. The max
imum of this budget is expected to be
below the minimum amount provided
for in existing Congressional appropri-
ations.
General Dawes, who is famous for
plain speaking, is expected to give
pointed advice at the conference on
Wednesday on how to reduce needless
machinery of the budget system. He
intimated he will assist in pruning ex-
penses to the limit.
We've got to get these people work
ing together" said the General to-day
after the conference call had keen
issued. "How would a corporation as
big as this government operate?
hope it would not be like the govern
ment has been operating. We want all
Z,
and the President of the government
corporation is going to preside. This is
business affair and it ought to be
done in business way"
The proposed reorganization of the
government departments, as suggested
by the Congressional joint committee,
also is expected to be discussed at the
conference, as the President feels that
this will offer fruitful opportunity
for economies. He interprets Section
209 of the budget law as authorizing
the Director of the Budget to prepare
for his information an alternative
budget for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1928, in which an effort will be
made to estimate the economies INCL
dent to the general plan for the re-
classification and regarding of govern
mental activities.
McCarl Gets $4,000 Post
The President to-day appointed J..
/ Raymond McCarl, of Nebraska, to be
Comptroller General of the Treasury.
The post, which is created by the new
budget law, is looked upon as one of
the choicest "plums" within the gift of
the Administration. 1t carries with it
a salary of $4,000 for fifteen years.
and the incumbent is ineligible for re-
appointment. Mr.. McCarl is forty wears
old and has been secretary of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee for
the last three years. He is graduate
/ OF the University of Nebraska and was
secretary to Senator Norris, of Ne
I braska, for several years.
AS Comptroller General Mr.. McCarl
assumes the duties formerly discharged
/ by the Comptroller of the Treasury a
position which has been done away
with. He will supervise government
finances, expenditures of appropria-
tions and the adjustment of ali claims
against the government. Postal ac-
counts are excepted. as they come
under the jurisdiction of q special
comptroller of the Postotfice Depart
roept ,Ipdar fha raw Iat.y