Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-08
HARDING OPENS
BUDGET FARLEY
Promises New Era of Economy
in Expenditures of Pub
lie Funds.
is NATIONS GREATEST NEED
President Flags Extravaganza, Declar-
ing That Public Debt Is Menace
Dawes and Other High Gov
eminent Officials Present.

Washington, July 1. = President
Harding pledged his administration to
a new era of economy and efficiency III
opening first budget conference OF
cabinet and other high officers of the
government. He told his auditors
there was no menace in the world TO-
day like the tendency Of extravagant
public expenditures.
President Harding was accompanied
to the budget conference by Attorney
General Daugherty and George b.
Christian, the executives secretary.
Vice President Coolidge arrived few
minutes before the President.
The President presided. Charles q.
Dawes, the new budget director, out
lined the policies of his Office and said
it was the purpose Of the new govern
ment agency "to give the President All
opportunity to become, in fact as he
has been in theory, the head of the
business administration of the United
States government"
Mr. Harding addressed the several
hundred bureau heads as fellow works
ers" and outlined in short address
the purposes he hoped would be at
tained through the budget system.
81 do not know" said the President,
that there has ever been a meeting
like this in the history of the goFern-
ment of the United States. / am very
glad to come before you and stand
sponsor for this meeting. The pres
ont odroi ,iestro ri ON Of tbn fodpraI gov
eminent is committed to a period of
economy and efficiency in government.
This statement is not made with any
thought of criticizing what has gone
before. 1t is made in a new realiZa-
tor of the necessity of driving at the
loose, unscientific expenditures of
government.
''Hhere is not menace in the world
today like the growing public expendi-
lures There has seemingly grown up
a conviction that public treasures are
ineShaustible We want to reverse
this Congress has provided for bu-
reau of the budget, and it has been
my privilege and my responsibility to
choose the director of the budget
bureau.
after a conference with him it was
decrled that the way to begin was to
look to those who are in fact respon-
siblG for government economy and eff
ficieacy. Sometimes we overlook those
who really do things in the world. In
the public service there are tens of
thousands of persons who are giving
their best efforts of whom the public
never knows.
Sand so today with the heads of the
various departments of the govern
meat l have asked you to assemble to
present to you the new director of the
budget and to say to you that every
resolution, every commitment of the
administration is to join with you and
to have you join with us in inaugurat-
ing a new era of efficiency and econ
oIny in the United States"
1.-The permanent success of the bud
get system in the United States,' Mr..
Dawes said, depends upon certain
basic principles which at its inception
must be so firmly established both as
to concept and rules of action THAI
they never hereafter will be ques-
toned
"The budget bureau must be impair
tial, impersonal and nonpolitical.
1.-THE director of the budget in the
matter of governmental business adj
ministration has no responsibility I'M
der the laws. save in the adminstra-
ton Of his own bureau. He simply is
an adviser of the President and of
congress in the matter of correcting
business administration.
'The director of the budget, in gath
ering information for the use of the
President, acts for the President and
his calls upon chiefs and bureaus and
ether administrative officers for pur-
poses of consultation or information
take precedence over the cabinet head
of the department, or any head of an
independent organization.
'The budget representative in each
department, being appointed by the
cabinet head, will present to the di-
rector the views of the cabinet head
upon the wisdom of conclusions drawn
by the director of the budget, for the
use of the chief executive and con-
gress, but as in the case of bureau
chiefs and other officers, the call of
the director of the budget for their
presence and advice takes precedence
over the cabinet head"
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