Evening star., 1921-06-28
DAWES HAS BUDGET
| PLANS MAPPED OUT
Ready to Outline Campaign
at Meeting Tomorrow and
Start Reforms.


Start Reforms.
Like brOadside salvO from main
battery of the governments mightiest
Of dreadnaughts. Brig. Gen. Charles
&. Dawes, director of the budget. to-
morrow afternoon will set loose the
opening charge that will wreck the
more than century old system Of pro-
viding for government needs. Then,
with d force of pioneers with which
all military organizations are equip
ped. he will step in and begin the
building up OF the new system. with
economy and efficiency as the center
goal, and no flank movements.
In the directors Office, machinery
for successful campaign TO put the
government on an efficiency basis is
! moving with the rapidity and preci-
sion Of a military organization that
knows no defeat.
Campaign All Mapped Out.
Gen. Dawes. it was learned today
has mapped out his campaign. At III.
direction of President Harding he TO-
day went to the cabinet meeting. and
there laid it before the heads of the
ten government departments, prepara-
tory to presenting it in a forceful
for tomorrow afternoon in the Interior
Department auditorium. at which
President Harding. all members of the
cabinet, bureau and division chiefs
and assistant chiefs will be present.
Only the officials effected by the
order issued yesterday by Gen. Dawes
for the meeting and members of the
press will be allowed at the meeting
The general public will not be ad-
mitted to the auditorium during the
discussions.
The budget officials have only a
short time in which to complete the
budget plans for the coming year.
But. it was pointed out today. Gen.
Dawes will get the material ready
and the machinery perfected in as
effective manner as he got supplies
to the American forces at the front
during the war.
Cabinet Omeers' Aid Expected.
Cabinet officers are expected to
lend all their aid and to promptly
appoint the budget officers who will
have charge of the appropriations for
all are appointed. they will have
days and nights of work ahead of
them. for Gen. Dawes will have them
meeting day and night to perfect the
details There are but little over
fifteen days in which to perfect all
of the details.
In the plans for making up the
budget consideration will be given. it
was learned. to needed regroupng of
bureaus. These necessary changes
are expected to come up in the con-
ferences between the budget director
and the various departmental budget
officers On these matters the director
of the budgets Office will work in
harmony with Congress- it was said.
wi q tn Vyvft l.
governmental system on the most eff
cheney basis comparable to any we'll
organized corporation.
The budget plan will he applied to
appropriations for the fiscal year be-
ginning next Friday. according to a
statement issued at the White House
by President Harding Gen. Dawes
following presidential instructions
will make immediate plans for watch
ing these appropriations The in
auguration of the budget system prac.
tically means the end of Ihe general
or urgent deficiency bills which have
faced every Congress. for in making
up the estimates. it will be determined
that no officer cuts so close that he
will be compelled to ask for more be-
fore the year is over.
White House Statement
The following is he official White
House statement on budgetary re-
form:
The President does not assume. as
has been the custom under the old
system, with individual departments
that the minimum of governmental
expenditures in the year is the
priaions- This applies appropria-
amount fixed by Congress in its ap-
propriations. This applies to appro-
priations already made for the fiscal
year starting July c1.1921. He has
invited the director of the budget
to determine Immediately what is the
minimum under the budget machinery
with which the government can be
operated during the next year. AS
would be done in any ordinary bust
ness being confronted with the ne
cessity foeconomy. the President has
therefore directed the director of the
budget to prepare a ew budget for
the departments to work by during
the fiscal year ending June 3ol922
THE maximum of this budget is ex-
pected to be below the minimum
amount provided for in existing con-
gressional appropriations.
Budget Law INTERPRETATION,
The President also interprets sec
ton 2o9 of the budget law as author
izing the director of the budget to
prepare for his information an al
tentative budget for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1923. in which an ef-
fort will be made to estimate the
financial economies incident to the
general plan for the reclassification
and regarding of governmental activ-
tiles. as suggested by the congress
sional joint committee on the reor-
ganization of the administration
branch Of the government
1T is hoped that the new budget in
tentative form for the departments to
work by under existing appropria :
tions will be completed within thirty
days. AS a step thereto he has called
a meeting of the administrative or
ganization of the government, includ,-
ing the cabinet heads, chief clerks,
chiefs and assistant chiefs of bu-
reaus, at which his plan will be an
nounced in detail by the director OF
the budget"