Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-11-09
TO
fARDU.S 5.
FINANCES

ahandling hnGTiii Funds q
Giving Way 70
efficiency
By !. Bart Campbell. H.,
shias;,SS"' 'l;,S the national purse
ls s,.u .sat i has had too many
d. (. budget system was was
y % ssoss strings either either
q ,oosely sse while the tazpay- :,
'd ss l0',Tsa was split in many d. a.,
nonsy z we're loosened by ,a1,S those
% = I ths capitol particulars, part, nnork
a = eye on the Local ~
,,.,ts Of President Hard
sl,vl, Rvdget DirectOr Dawes $40 TO
3 % ,Ss DsHS strongs are being aoiy
Zen inc panresentative Mar
"A as~ %.dieu Il Of chicago, the new
Pnsp Of the house appr0p''A
committee. Madden
" iIls y : effect af real economies in
lns ,,Ds - Of congressional ap,
aallns ia,,ous. He has permitted
|. l'''l0'cl to crowd him out Of the
I'm & = put that is the Madden
srsI He works better without
music. MS His modesty is at.
, hr the fact that his is the
! !. !, sketch in the congression-
''rsctOry, s,s where long-windea
.sUb,esp are the rule and not
exception. .oss,on-
- s.vs of Madden:
Basytjn B. Madden, republican,
|sIssgo, was elected to the
.nInth and each succeeding
kress.' ,ao, =,
msu who Is recognized as one
IN ablest and most potential
srs Of the house, and whose
NAL attainments caused him to
slscted to preside over its all
prtant appropriations commit
Madden Working Hard. /.
Madden has just effected not
complete reorganization or
committee, but. what is OF
Importance, Of the system or
hing out appropriations from
committee "hopper." Upon
house devolyes the constitu-
Ia prerogatiye Of originating
/ legislation, and upon Mad
and his committee rests the
cult and complex task OF
hing the different appropria-
bills for each fiscal year.
\ his efforts to effect real re-
hs and economies Madden has
Efficient and experienced assist
IN Marcellus c. Shield. who
been chief clerk of the COM
lee for number of years and
er a succession of committee
rmen. Madden frankly ad-
that Shield knows more about
8ropriations than any member
he house or even Director
YES can ever hope to know.
Madden has just reorganized his
tmlttee to enable it to consider
4 first budget which President
kding will submit to congress
Ter the new budget act at the
ping Of the regular session in
Fember.
Submit Two Budgets.
he act provides for the submis-
Of two budgets-one to follow
outline of the old book of esti-
es and the old appropriations
s and the other (the alterna-
budget to be made up ac-
ping to such arrangement as
budget director, with the ap-
|Fal Of the president, shall pre-
Ebe.
me house appropriations COM
|lee heretofore has been SUBJ
|laed into thirteen committees,
lor each Of the twelve regular
Paal appropriations bills and
lot all the deficiency appropri-
|bns bills.
nese bills, with few exceptions,
mol constructed upon any
defined, logical lines. Most
'sfhment departments and bu-
" sot part of their appropria-
e IN one bill and part in an
II 1t was impossible to ascer-
sne total appropriations for
apartments or bureaus with
"nsuitlng two or more of the
u The war department furn-
II an apt illustration of this
uslaesslike distribution of pub
'uneys' Army appropriations
sarried in the army, fortifi-
"A ~ aaa sundry civil bills. and
.eusi'ies over which the war
.,'nent y has jurisdiction were
r. scattered through the legis.
4 - sAecutive and judicial. riv-
'a' harOOrs and sundry civil
Bills Unbusinesslike.
= lnations bills were. in tbs
@eking in business sys-
r.. : be often confusing to
-. and the departments and
.D'.s..1a themselves, and utterly
= H.9t.eaensible to the puhIic