The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11

snlidation OF all approprialiug au-
thurity In ono master committee, OK.
rcpt that There iH q further dlsiri-
/ button in the senate, where the pen
/ sion bill go"s 90 tho pensions COM
mittcc, while In the house it wa'
/ handled by tho general nppropra
tions committee. Rule t6 Tor the
s'nate procedure provides Tor the
distribution Of appropriation bills to
specific committees as follows: Agri.
cultural Till, to the committee ON
agriculture. army and navy, TO tho
. military aud naval committees. dip-
/ lomatic. TO foreign affairs; Indian. to
/ the Indian affairs committee, pom
hons to pensions; post office, tu post
office and post roads committee. and
rivers aBd harbOrs. TO the commerce
! committee.
Curtis Has Resolution.
Senator Curtia Of Kansas. chair
man NJ tlyn senate rules committee,
ana member OF tho appropriation.
finance and Indian affairs commit
tooH has introduced a resolution
calling Tor centralized control OF an
appropriations by single committee
Even when this is done there must
ho a subcommittee rcoroEanlzation
along the samo departmental lines az
mas boon affected in the house.
As matters now stand. II the house
sent across an appropriation bill to
the NCnuto there would he no COM
mittc" to which It could be properly
referred. For example one sub
committee uf the house npproprin-
lions committee VIII draft u hill for
an the activities Of the interior dc
phtlW"nt There is no senate COM
Imiiicc with broad enough turisdlc-
iIbn To tNlg fhuTU0 f,F
Heuntc rules call for sending pen
slnns appropriations TO the pensions
committee and Indian appropriations
lo the Indian affairs committee, hut
D both pensions and Indian approprin-
lions are only a part OF the interior
department bin. The senate rules
& can for sending the sundry clvil np-
. preparation bill to the general ap-
! appropriations committee. but there
Is 90 be no Fundrv ciyii hill sent over
, by the house, because items previ-
ously carried In this bin are to lie CO.
- "rdinhted with other dcpJ 'tmcnt ac-
d ivitcs with which they are closely
related. SO the senate rules are
b knocked to smitherccns.
This Is all on the suppusition that
the appropriation measures are to
go To the senate as separate bills
hut they may go as one big co-or-
dinated bin, ana In that event there
would be even more need for cen
tralizntion of authority in our senate
appropriations committee.
T A Balancing System.
f. Bills carrying all tho appropria-
,. uons FOR any one department of the
! federal service are to be handled ia
p me house by special subcommittee
u In urged that IL they are reported
IN hnTInnnlptIa zUhAl.. I.s q
proprlations committee the relation
attn OF appropriations for each de-
partment can be balanced against
those for other departments, and
with reference to tho total To be an
propriated, so that every phase ~
tHo governments myriad activities
can he given it's relative importance
and proportionate share OF the total
Uncle Sam haa "a sptnd II thls co
Iordinatcd budget gocB to the senate
ana Is split up among uino different
committees without consideration OF
the relationship y these activities.
tho balance of the budget could not
he preserved, because theae commit
toes, acting Independently OF each
other, would not consider tho rela-
tlonship Of tho departments to ono
another and to the budget as
whole.
Forward looking leaders In both
tho senate and house feel that if all
appropriations can be doyatailed into
one CO-ordinatcd bill real budget
will he achieved--and not until then
viii there be n real budget system.
The Necessity for reorganization
In the senate is meeting with many
difficulties. In the house there were
oniy seven appropriating commit
tees, with total membership ot i47
out OF 43b members OF the house. A
careful checking up In tho senate
p shows that there are now only eight
r senators who are not ou some ap-
. nronriating committee. and some oi
T. them are on two and three such ap
,, propiinting committees. These men
V naturally are aVcrse to losing any
J. Of their prestige as members Of sp,
n propriating committees. with tive
y vacancies. this leaves eighty-six sen
T, ators on the present committees that
q have jurisdiction over money bills
Q There are sixteen members OF the
= present senate appropriations com
. mittec. This leaves seventy senators
Pc who reorganization would stand TO
's lose some Of their prestige
'- The way the house appropriations
y committee is divided into aubcoT-
= mIitccg 10 handle tho supply meas
~ urpH for the various departments.
.s and which II is hored and eFperi"d
y tbc senate win follow is ~ follows
subcommittee ON the treasury do
. nariucnt. District ot Columbia, war
q is.Ca-tmcnt, legislative establish
. nent ooI' office department, de-
, nartfppnt % Agriculture, independent
3D. I6ffice. interior dcp5 "tmcui, navy dc
pgrtmrnt. departments ~ commerce.
and labor. departments Of s'st0 ana
Justice and deficiencies.