New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
Z. S. Can Save
ll2 Millions.
Dawes Finds
Budget Chief Gives Detailed
Report to the President
Showing How Expenses
for Year May Be Cut
Praises Bureau Directors
Dclares Department Heads
Are Cooperating Fully
in Program of Efficiency
From The Trlbume's Washington Bure,

q 'o"l L nc L TfOUne'S WdShinOtOn Bureau
WASHINGTON, July ia saving
of $112,512,62S.32 on government ex-
penditures under appropriations avail
able during the current fiscal year is
estimated by Director of the Budget
Dawes in a letter TO the President
made public to-day.
Here are the amounts General Dawes
says can be saved in the various gov
ernmental organizations:
State Department, s1,171 1882. .s4.
Treasury Department, s3O,342.149.41;
War Risk Bureau, $16,534,523.73;
War Department, S15,0OO,000; Navy
Department, o47,89125; Interior
Department, 9,s27,191.37; Depart
ment Of Agriculture, 81 ,687, ,SO2.14; Post
office Department, s35,5Oo; Postal
Service, s14,92o,421; Department of
Commerce, s2.eo3, $685. 66: Department
of Labor, $1o,66O; Department of Jus
tice, $4,000; Government Printing
Office, SLIPS, 3,536.7o; Smithsonian In
stitution, $1,000; Federal Trade Com
mission, $4,000.
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, $4,000; Federal Power
Commission, 100000; Arlington Memo
rial Amphitheater, $500; Civil Service
Commission, $500; State, War and
Navy buildings, s90555.
The report showed that the EN-
i ployees' Compensation Commission
would require S489,600 and the Comp
troller Generals Office s43,4GS58 more
than had been appropriated. This would
MAKE total net saving of $112,512.-
628.32.
Reviews Budget Progress
| In his letter Director Dawes reviews
! briefly the progress made thus fan
under the new budget laws. compli-
ments the bureau chiefs for the splen-
did cooperation given him, and gives
III detail the figures showing the esti-
mated saving in every government de-
| partment. Of the amount named
tlnuous appropriations and involving
for the most part building and con-
struction, will be postponed for ex-
penditure in future years unless other
wise stipulated by Congress- General
Dawes points out that whatever may
be the relation of total expenditures
tc total revenues at the end of the
current year, which for various rea-
sons, including possible new legisa-
ton, the operations of the Shipping
Board, the railroad administration and
f1uctuation in current receipts of the
Postofice Department, cannot be predi-
Gated at this time, the above amount
is that much Of a contribution to a
more favorable relation The letter
to the President read:
"The Honorable the President Of tb a
United States.
"Sir:
"The budget and accounting act, 1921,
provides for the presentation by you
of regular and alternative budget of
the United States to Congress on the
first Monday in December, 1921, cover
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, 1928.
Recognizing in the budget machinery
created by this law an agency through
which Executive policy and pressure in
volving better business administration
could be exerted, you assembled on
June 20, 1921, for the first time, the
heads of departments and Independent
organizations and bureau chiefs and,
after announcing government policy
OF economy and efficiency, directed that
an immediate attempt with the budget
machinery be made to reduce eXpend
ltures under the appropriations of the
current year ending June 30, 1922.
Reports Estimated Saving
Il have, therefore, the honor to re-
port $112,512,6 ,628.32 as the estimated
savings in expenditures reported to me
by the heads of departments and inde-
pendent organizations, in compliance
with your directions to all concerned
| to secure reduction in expenditures
under appropriations and balances
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