The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-02-03

journed March 4, 1919, there were
eight appropriation bills that had not
been passed. The government could
not function unless these bills were
passed before the first of July, and
it became necessary for President
Wilson to call the newly elected ses-
sion. The amounts carried in these
eight appropriation bills had been
defenitely decided upon by the Demo-
Gratis, and most of the bills had passed
on House. The Republican Congress
reviewed these eight bills and reduced
the amount agreed $939, 100000. The
Wilson administration then prepared
estimates for the next year, and the
Republican Congress reduced these
estimates $1,474, 000, 900 in the ap-
preparation bills as passed. Again, a
year later, the Democratic administra-
ton submitted to Congress the amount
it recommended as necessary for the
government to appropriate and spend,
and the Republicans in Congress, over
Democratic opposition reduced the
amount $1,000, 900 900 making a total
saving of $3,913, 600, 900, or more than
the total amount that will be neces-
sary to conduct for the next fiscal
year.
The Revenue Bill
The revenue bill recently passed
will reduce the present taxes approx
mately 5000, 000, 900. If the reductions
above referred to had not been made
in the estimated expenses of the gov.
eminent as substituted by the Wilson
administration, instead of a revenue
law reducing taxes by 5000, 0O0, 900,
there would be need for an increase of
$500, 00o, 200.
The first year of the Republican
Congress the total expenditures
were in round figures, 10 billions Of
dollars, which included great wa,
costs that fell due. The next yea,
the expenditures were reduced to IN
billions; the following year to 6h bill.
lions; this year ending June 30, 1922
the costs will be reduced to four bill.
lions, and appropriations for next yeal
will be cut to three and one-half bill.
lions.
Extravaganza has been stopped
The budget law recently enacted by
Congress is working we'll in eliminat.
ing waste and duplication. Unneces.
sary employees are being separated
from the payroll. In 1918 there wer,
$4,000 government employees a
Washington, and over 900 1000 tn,
country yer Today at Washingto,
the number has been reduced to IS, 900
and over the country the number j.
reduced to below soc, 900, and further
reductions are being made every day
Result of the War.
We have these fixed charges handel
down as a direct result of the war
Interest, 1915, 900, 900; sinking fund
1881 100000 compensation, hospital
cation, insurance and payments to de
pendents of dead or wounded soldier.
$489, 0O0, 900, making a total of 81,
845 900 900, not part Of which existed
before the war. Outside these wa,
charges, a billion and a half will cove
our expenses next year, as compared
with a billion and a quarter before thu
war. Congress is right now consider
ing the appropriation bills for mex
year and is continuing to reduce il
every place possible.
This record of saving by the Repub.
lican Congress will be ever more ap'
preciated when it is known that ours
is the only great nation that since the
war has reduced expenses year by
year, has all the time kept the outgc
inside the income, has been able to
reduce the national debt, while other
nations have increased their debts, and
has passed a revenue law, reducing
taxes nearly a billion dollars a year.