The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-09
BUDGET SYSTEM NOV SHOWS BIG
 ClJRTAILMENT IN EXPENDITURES

Commission, $7,500; Executive office, $21,953; office of superintendent, State, War and Navy Departments building, $151,8O5 Interstate Com merce Commission, $SS265; Veterans Bureau, $18,797 700; National Advis- ory Committee for Aernautics, $40 930; Shipping Board, 96,407, ,509; Railroad Administration, S56,584; Pa mama Canal, $1,85S,372; Employees Compensation Commission, $2,897, and Columbia Institution for the Deaf, $6,- 900.
 MT. Dawes paid his respects to the present archaic system of govern mental accounting" declaring that toe public can never be fully informed is to the business operation of the gov ernment until it is reformed. He c"iti- cized particularly "the present sys- tenn of government accounting which ] calls the loan of money to the rail roads on 'expense,' and the return of money loaned a receipt Such opera tions, he said, almost upset the esti- mated figures for this year to the ex- tent of about $393,OO0,OOO.
 "An accounting situation like this," he asserted, might be regarded as hu- morous in a small business It is noth- ing short of calamity in governmental accounting"
 1 The budget director explained in de- ! tail the relation of deficiency and sup mitted by the budget bureau, amount ing to $5O7, ,764 ,452, contain number of resubmissions - items which have been submitted in one estimate and not provided for in appropriation, were again submitted in later estimate. These resubmissions amounted to | $75,958,001, which reduced the net amount of the estimates submitted by the bureau to S431, ,S06,451, he asserted
 The. appropriations made by Con- gross during the period covered by the report-from July 20, 1921, to March 20, 1922, are shown to total S974, ,691 ,04O, of which $6,S42,431 in pay able from the postal revenues, and con- seuuently does not represent with drawal of money from the Treasury.
 "This reduces the total expenditures from the Treasury authorities by Con- gress in deficiency appropriations dur ing the period to $367, ,S4S ,609," said MT. Dawes. "The expenditures so au- thorized by Congress do not, however, represent a corresponding increase in the expenditures as estimated by the bureau of the budget in the December budget. since * of the amount so authorized $266, ,633,769 was included by the bureau of the budget in the es- innate of expenditures for the fiscal year, 1922, as shown in the December budget.
 "This leaves total of authorized expenditures from the Treasury in ex- | cess Of those eSClmateu III the DuuSet of S1O3,914,S12. Of this amount $60,- 100000 of the $SO,OOO,OOO provided in the highway act of November g. 1921, is expected to remain unexpended at the beginning of the next fiscal year, according to statements made by the Department of Agriculture, and deduct ing this from the S103,214,S12 leaves the sum of $49,214,S12, which repre- sents the possible amount by which supplemental and deficiency appro- priations granted by Congress during this period may increase the expendi- lures from the general fund in the Treasury during the fiscal year 1922, over the budget estimate of $3,967,- 922, ,S66, an amount more than offset by reductions in expenditures under other appropriations"