New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
Harding Hears
Dawes Chide
Budget Forces
Cabinet Officers, With 500
Bureau Chiefs, Listen to
Demands for Economy
and Business Principles
All Told to Work Hard
Hughes and Daugherty Are
Reproved for Failure to
Lend Help 10 New Bureau
From The Tribume's Washin gton Bureau

from L ms 1reonne's W1shtngton Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 30 Former
Brigadier General Charles G.. Dawes,
Director of the Budget, with the Presi-
dent of the United States at his back,
made speech to-day to the members
of the Cabinet and 500 bureau chiefs
at a meeting the like of which, OBJ
servers here said, ehas never been wit
messed in their recollection.
The former brigadier general in the
A. E. F., who has been charged by the
President with creating a new budget
within five months, succeeded in bring
ing the President and his advisers to
the auditorium in the Department of
the Interior Building, seating them in
row on the stage, ana with the 500
heads of bureaus as an audience de-
livered a speech in which he did not
hesitate to say that certain Cabinet
members were delinquent in aiding in
the work of the new budget.
Several others talked for an hour,
while the President and his ad-
visers looked thoughtful, occasionally
worried. and at times smiling, as the
energetic Western banker hurled his
remarks to the four corners of the biz
hall.
First Economy Meeting
Director Dawes called it the first
meeting in the history of the country
when the "President and directors" Of
the biggest corporation in the world
met face to face with their direct sub
ordinates and discussed ways and
means to bring about economy.
The President opened the meeting
and presented General Dawes in a
stage and jumped down to the floor.
The President and his secretaries were
above him. On the floor every seat was
taken and there were 200 government
officials, including a score of w.men,
standing about the hall.
The General was literally intrenched,
and he Jumped off, without further
ado into speech that lasted nearly an
hour. His collar succumbed in ten
minutes and the perspiration appeared
through the collar of the light suit he
wore. His high pitched, rather rasp-
ing voice increased in volume until he
was fairly shouting. Frequently he
| pounded on q nearby table to empha-
! SIZE MS ISHdIhS, anu, like llSHLulOE,
whirled about, his back to the bureau
chiefs, and with arm extended and fist
clenched, addressed his remarks to the
President and the Cabinet, sitting in
| judgment above him.
No Check on General
| The effect of General Dawes's speech
on the bureau chiefs was notable In
| brief, he told them that he was out to
| get information, and that in order to
get it he would override any Cabinet
official He told of the days when he
was bureau chief and how he ap-
preciated their point of view. He in
vited their cooperation and suggestions
! in aiding in the herculean task of get
ting up the budget, and reiterating
| that credit for helping would go to
whom credit was dus.
AS the speech progressed the skepti-
| cal expressions on the faces of the vet
eran bureau chiefs and chief clerks
vanished. A number were seen TO nod
! their heads in assent with points made
by the General. They would be seen to
sit up and take notice, and from their
attitude indicated that perhaps the new
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