The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-06

with any uncertainty as 10 wha:
Will be the result as 1t effects effi-
cheney. The president OF the United
states, when he sends the budget to
congress. Is presumed to send 1t
with all the reductions In oxpendl-
lures which can be effected without
due Impairment of governmental
business processes. In the propa-
ration OF the budget he has had at
work an authorized agency In the
bureau not only In ascertaining the
reasonableness Of desired appropri.
auons, but in continually imposing
pressure upon the departments for a
reduction I'm the estimates wherever
proper and possible"
General Dawes says he feels that
the estimate for expenditures for
1928, upon which the budget is
based, will not be increased except
through appropriations initiated by
congress or by the executive as a
result Of emergency or Unforeseen
conditions arising after the prepa-
ration of the budget"
Reiterating his recommendation
that congress immediately repeal all
outstanding continuous appropria-
tons ond revolving funds" Gen
eral Dawes says the method of ap-
propriating money heretofore has
resulted In condition OF things
under which 1t is almost impossible
for either the executive, congress
or the secretary of tho treasury to
have before them a true pcture of
the fiscal condition OF the govern
ment at any particular time"
The whole habit OF making con-
tinious appropriations to which the
government has been committed in
the past he adds, lis only an en-
couragement to lack OF scrutiny
Of public work by the head OF the
department under which II IL car
ried on. and an announcement to
shiftlessness and carelessness on the
part of the subordinates more di-
rect.y concerned in It.. The system
of preparing the budget will con-
fine the attention of the executive,
OF congress, and OF the public TO
the one great important question.
the relation Of the money actually
to be spent by the government 20
the money actually to be received by
the government in any given year,
all its outstanding obligations and
Indefinite commitments, projects
and enterprises considered. This
will enable congress, with more in
telligence, to determine Mt any time
both the necessity for retrenchment
and the ability Of the government
tn engage in additional projects to
be initiated by congress outside of
the budgetary provisions"
Points out Faults.
Likenipg the federal government
to a business corporation, General
Dawes points TO these "fauits'
which he says existed:
The president of the corporation
(the presi ent of the United States)
gave practically no attention TO Its
ordinary routine business.
The ad ministrRtive vice presidents
(members of the Cabinet) were al
lowed to run their several depart
ments as IL each separate depart
ment was an Independent authority
in ell matters Of routine business.
Because of a lack of any outlined
business plan, no system existed for
making purchase or in selling ma
terial along business lines under a
unified policy.
No balance sheet of the corpora
tion as a whole was eyre prepared.
The treasure kept no accurate
account of the contingent oDnsa-
tons of the various federal depart
ments, thus resulting in money be-
ing drawn from him continuously
in excess of the estimated annual
running expenses.
The corporation, In effect. seldom
reconsidered an unwise project en-
cred into by any department.
The administrative heads OF the
departments were selected as a rule
with little reference to their busi-
ness qualifications and were com
PEELED to rely largely upon the ad-
vice of subordinates welded TO the
theory of the right of independent
operation OF the department"
Denfends Course.
Outlining the work of the various
agencies established
by presidential order Ito rectify
faults in the routine business OF the
government" General Dawes says;
They involve the delegation OF
no questions OF policy save that of
economy and efficiency.
They are simply agents by which
unified methods OF ordinary busi-
ness can be imposed by the chief
executive
They are created simply to give
the president of the United States,
the same agencies of contract and
transmission of authority as obtain
in any private organization.
They are nonpartisan, being
composed of men already in the
government service.
They are in effect simply a re-
grouping under an executive lead
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