The Washington herald., 1921-04-09
Business in Government,
COP. Policy, Says Writer
Sullivan Cites Framing of Budget Bill as First
Use of Vast Power by Party; Tells
Other Vital Needs.

ard courageous leadership, can af-
ford to ignore a temporary unpopu-
larity and do what is sound and far
seeing in the sure confidence that
time will justify il.
What. now, does the Republican
party plan to do with its powert
Every epoch like the present, in
which one party or the other comes
strongly into power after a lapse or
years, is marked by legislation of
such importance as to constitute
shift in the direction OF our national
history.
In 1896 it was the revision of the
tariff in favor of the manufacturing
and other propertied classes.
In 1912 the Democrats took the
direction of revising our banking
and currency laws in the interest OF
the borrower and adopting the Fed
eral farm loan Law in the interest
of the borrowing farmer.
This present Republican Congress
is going to mark IT'S begfnsfngs
with legislation in the direction of
what may be called better house
keeping by the national government.
One of the first acts Congress
will pass and which the party will
! depend upon for the approval of
the public will be the budget bill.
This bill has been described as the
most important act in the field Of
! government business and finance
since the civil war, excepting only
the Federal reserve banking act.
Cites Advantages Of Bill.
In brief. the budget bill brings
TO the business of the government
the same compactness. economy
and centralized responsibility that
have been discovered to be essen
tial in private BUSINESS.
The bill picks Out the Secretary
of the Treasury and lifts him oyt
of and above the rest of the Cabi-
net and makes him responsible for
all requests for money made to
Congress and for the spending of
that money. Other incidents of the
bill being a corresponding compact
ness and centralized responsibility
10 the appropriation of money by
Congress.
The budget bill was first passed
over a year ago.
President Wilson, while heartily
indorsing the spirit of IL and the
escee SeAn VI Alc oGldllcs NcAOCu IL
because of what he conceived to be
the details OF the bill. After this
veto the Lower House of Congress
made the requested change and re-
passed the bill.
In the Senate, however, the sec
ond passing of the bill was pre-
| vented by filibuster on the part
of one man. Senator Reed, Of Mis-
souri,
Now, however. the bill will be
passed by a Republican House and
Senate and signed by a Republican
President and will be given to the
country as the first performance of
an administration dedicated to
more business in government and
less government in business"
VIII Wipe Out Bureaucracy.
The second measure to be passed
in this field will be known as the
government reorganization bill. This
is meant to be supplement to the
budget bill and has the same object
of compactness, economy and CEN
tralixed responsibility in the gov
ernment's business.
The bill will cure that utterly
slipshod, archaic and incongruous
distribution of bureaus and heads
Of the departments, which results.
for example, in the publication Of
sixteen different books by sixteen
different bureaus" or. as Mr., Hoo
yer put 1t, in the Commerce Depart
ment having charge of polar bears
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