Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-09-17

was transmitted TO the senate commit
tee by Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon I'm response 10 a written request
for details of the administrations
economy program. General Dawes
said:
"In connection with the S45, ,OOO,O 900,
additional reduction which must be
secured TO bring the total to $35O,OOO,-
600, 1t will be noted that no esti-
mate Is made of any reduction for the
Navy department. This is still under
advisement and, as stated before, con-
hnuous executive pressure will be ap-
piled in this connection as we'll as
upon all other departments.
"This. and the better coordination
In the handling of departmental pur-
chases and sales and in the inter-de
partmental use of surplus supplies in
cident TO the central agencies created
by executive order and now in opera
ton, can be relied upon TO secure at
least the S45,OOO,OOO difference.
Both the secretary of the treasury
and myself feel it is possible to state
that there Is such reasonable asSur-
ance that the total reduction of $780,
100000 in ordinary expenditures dur
ing the fiscal year 1922, heretofore de-
termined upon, will be reached that
your committee may safely consider it
as a fixed amount In the determina-
ton of the legislative taxation pro
gram"
Cuts Shipping Board Saving. !
The saving of more than S1O0,OOO,-
900 i'm shipping board expenditures in
cluded in the estimates submitted to
the house ways and means committee
by Secretary Mellon on August 10 has
been reduced S6,0OO,OOO, General
Dawes said. The shipping board will
require S6,OOO,OOO to continue con-
struction of vessels upon which the
budget officers had contemplated stop
ping work. General Dawes said.
The revised estimG te of savings con-
templated in the economy program
was set forth by General Dawes as
follows:
War department, S6O,OOOOOO; ship
ping board. S1OO,OOO.OOO; in payments
to railroads. SS9,OOO.OO veterans bu-
100000.
The reduction in the War depart
ment appropriation from $3.50, 900, 900
to $500. 100000 was made possible by
cut of S5O,OOO,OOO in the cost of
maintaining the army and a reduction
of S10,OOO,OOO in expenditures for riv-
ers and harbors improvements. Brig
Gen. Fl. NJ. Lord. budget officer for
the War department, Informed the
committee in a letter attached TO Gen
eral Dawes statement
The National Guard was at once
| taken over by the U. S. Government
at it's entrance into the Great War
The well trained young men who COM
posed it's rank and file would have
made splendid officers. But they
| were marched off to Europe just
| after the regulars and raw material
largely with good family influence got
the shoulder straps. They deserve
some substantial recognition for their
| sacrifice-those that are alive.
The Chicago Bureau OF Public Eff
cheney deserves the thanks as well as
| the hearty support of good citizens.
| 1t truly describes itself as a citizen
| agency for promoting efficiency and
| economy in the organization and
management of public business and
| for furnishing the public with exact
| information concerning the expendi-
ture of taxpayers money.
Patrick J. Carr, popular County
| Treasurer will be reelected. Cour-
teous, able and painstaking. He has
| made an ideal public record.
John A. Carroll, the Hyde Park
| banker is the type of man who would
make an ideal Sanitary Trustee.