The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-05-08
PLAN
OF U. s. BUDGET
MAKES SAVING
Director Dawes Report Says
Presidents Commission
Saves $1,6O0,OO0,OOO
DETAILS WORKINGS
Director Explains Plan by Which
Republican Administration
Plan Succeeds

Washington, May S.-Government
expenditures for the fiscal year 1922
will show a reduction of more than
$780, 100000 from the actual expendi-
lures for the preceding fiscal year. 1921,
Congress was informed today by Pres
ident Harding in transmitting the re-
port of Director Dawes of the budget
on economies and savings in govern
mental business.
Director Dawes estimated that gov
ernment expenditures for the current
fiscal year which were given, in tho
December budget estimates as $3,-
967,922, 1866 will be at least $3.50 1886
less or approx mately $3,922,372, ,OS0.
AS compared with 1921, he contin-
ued, there has been reduction of
1907, 500, 900 in expenditures for the
operation of the routine business of
the government subject generally to
executive control. OF this sum he at
tributed $25OO00, 900 to the imposition
of the executive plan and pressure on
the routine business organization Of
the gOvernm ent under the new system
inaugurated by the Budget System.
Report Of Director.
The report Of Director Dawes was
submitted to the House Appropriations
committee, by the president in con-
nection with "a pending resolution by
Representative Byrns, Democrat, Ten
nessee asking the president to in
form the house in what ways direct
savings of S32, 100000 and Indirect saw
ings Of $104, 100000, previously an.
nounced by the president as ac-
complished by the Budget Bureau dur
ing its first six months of operation,
had been made.
Director Dawes, presented in detail
with accompanying tables and state
ments the comparative expenditures
for the past and present fiscal years
divided into items representing those
which were charged ito executive con-
troll and others such as public debt and
Similar accounts which We're consider
ed at apart from the subject of routine
government expenditure. He also sub.
mitted exhaustive reports of the gov
ernment savings accomplished through
inter departmental tranfers of surplus
supplies and other economy methods
put into effect by the budget bureau,
thousands Of transactions in
volving ships, shoes, sealing wax and
all the many articles and commodities
utilized by the government together
with tho amount of saving realized In
each case.
Details Savings.
The budget director further reported
that the savings reserve against cur
rent appropriations of 112,OO0, 900 set
up by the departments and establish
ments in August, 1921, in response to
executive request, had been increased,
reappropriations by
Congress of more than $7,O00,000 of
this reserve for other purposes, to the
approximate sum of $196, 900, 900. Only
such part of these reductions as are
real savings, and not postponed expen-
ditures were included IN the general
estimate Of savings he added.
AS a still greater reduction, Direc-
tor Dawes declared that the present
estimated expenditures for 1922 for
the operation of the routine business
Of the government, after eliminating
expenditures Of $7,5Oo,ooo authorized
by Congress after the submission of
the budget providing for representa-
tiOn of the United States at the Bra
lillian centennial exposition, seed
leans, and fulfillment of the theaty
with Columbia, as compared with the
December budget estimates, showed
an excess of only s25, ,767 ,457, on to-
.al of $1,758.375.67 or discrepancy
of only about 10 per cent.