Evening star., 1921-10-08
he Legislative. ETC., and sundry civil

the legislative. ETC., and sundry civil
bills.
The bill for the Treasury Depart
ment and the bill for the Departments
of Commerce and Labor will COM
prise items under these departments
heretofore carried in the legislative,
etc. and sundry civil bills
The bill for the legislative estab-
lishment will include only such items
as relate to the expenses of the Con-
gress, which will be assembled from
the Legislative and sundry civil bills.
in separate bill of the appropria-
tions for the executive and legislative
branches Of the government.
The bill for the Independent officers
will be composed of activities not at
tached to any of the regular execu-
such as the veterans bureau. the
Shipping Board. the Federal Trade
Commission, the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the CIVIL Service Com
mission, the tariff commission. etc 1t
will also include the Office of the
President of the United States.
Task More Evenly Divided.
The Encouragement of the bills. in
addition to its clear and business
like form, will also provide a more
even and equitable distribution. among
the subcommittee of the main COM
mittee of the gigantic task of con-
sidering the budget, and will permit
"a more effective and economical con-
sideration Of appropriations than has
heretofore been possible
The committee also has undertaken
a study of the so-called permanent
appropriations" with view of ar
riving at a policy for handling them
in the future. The permanent ap-
propriations" are those sums which
automatically. become. available for
expenditure to certain departments
upon them by Congress. Some of
them are of recent origin. but the
majority of them were established
years ago and the need for their be-
ing of this character was unneces-
sary at the time of their enactment
or has since ceased to exist. 1t is
believed that many of them could be
repealed and handled more efficiently
and economically in the annual bills
for the respective departments which
have jurisdiction over their expendi-
ture.
The. organization of. the committee
on appropriations into subcommit-
tees in the past has been based upon
the appropriation bills. each bill be-
ing assigned to subcommittee of five
members, for hearing. consideration
and report to the main committee. This
logical and convenient procedure
win be followed with the exception
will be composed of nine members.
principally the chairman and the
ranking minority members of the
other subcommittees.
1t is believed that this plan will
result in more satisfactory con-
to the deficiency subcommittee some
OF the members of the subcommittee
| which passed on the ori~inal annrc-
priat,on in which the deficiency 10
! Personnel Of Committee,
The following subcommittees are
announced at this early date in order
mat the work of studying the new
bills may be undertaken as soon as
possible and the committee work ad-
vanced in anticipation of the receipt
of the budget. The subcommittee
/ follow:
Treasury Observation-Disclosures. Mad
den. Ware. Magee. Byrns (Tennessee) }
and Gallivan.
District Of colambia-Messrs. Davis,
Evans, Tinkham, johnson and Buch,
anan.
War Observation-Disclosures ANTHONY,
Stafford. Slemp. Sisson, and Harrison.
Legislative Estab1ishment-Mess
Cannon, Anderson. Ware. Gallivan and
Post Office Observation-Disclosures.
Siemp, Ogden, French. Taylor and
Carter.
| Department of observation-disclosures
Anderson, Magee. Wason, Buchanan
and Lee.
Independent Offfces-Messrs. Wood.
Wason, Dickinson, Harrison and
Griffin.
Interior observation-disclosures Cram
ton. Elston. Carter and Byrnes {South
Carolina). -
Navy Observation-Disclosures. Kelly,
lina) and Oliver.
Departments, Of Commerce and
Labor-Messrs Shreve. Hutchinson.
Ogden, Oliver and Griffin.
Departments of State and Justice
Messrs Hustled, Tinkham, Evans, Lee
and Taylor.
Defficiency-Messrs. Madden. Can
Byrnes (Tennessee). sisson and Gal
lVan. -.as-;-i /. --..re.-.