The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-17
AfAKI2SGSG


MAKISa
reportsof ii spirecto sBudgetSo
Tinted States governm emit has been InadeSto
Congress, and no can IND cause g
with the economic ad q tne
can party as set forth in the report.
During the fiscal year July - I 90 70 June = y
1921, the actual cost Of running the government
was s5.538,o4O,6Ss. During inc months OF TINS
period the administrative agencies OF the govern
%ment were wholly in the hands Of the Democratic
party
Il last and ends June 80 next it will cost $500 2,
$4,000 10 run the government. During this
period all the executive agencies OF the govern
1neut have been under Republican control.
This is a saving Of s1,6oo,o 100000 which this
Republican administration has made in one year
as compared with the last year Of Democratic
rule.
These figures are not guess work They are
taken from the books OF the government. They
are set down item by item even the last penny
in report Just made to Congress BY the INre:,rz
of the Burget. They answer concluslvely and most
emph atically the charges Of the Democratic party
tina tRepublican claims 70 puDhc economy ase "ot
based upon fact.
Going into details. the report shows hat the
ordinary expenditures tor operation OF routine
business conducted by the executive agencies q
tile government amounted to 61o,43o.ot3 hur-#
ing the fiscal year July J, 1920, to June 81 1871,
during nine months o. which all the executive
Offices were filled by Democrats
so next. the ordinary expenditures for the opera
ton OF the routine conducted by the execu
tive agencies viii be s1,7s5,s75672 During AZ
this period these executive Offices have been hled
by Republicans.
This is direct and very concrete saving OF
seo7.559 4o7 which must be credited to the poll
cies OF Republican executives Al OF these e1-
penditures are wholly subject to the control OF
the executive officers in charge Of the several de-
partments, bureaus and commissions which made
the expenditures
This saving Of over 100000 900 in the conduct
Of the executives agencies is not as the Democrats
charge a bookkeeping saving. The saving is
actual; it is concrete it is espressbe only il terms
OF dollars and cents; it is a saving which means
s907,0OO,o0O less money to be taken in taxes from
the pockets Of the American people. 1t is saw
ing which is set forth the report Of the Director
of the Budget to the last details in dollars and
cents. 1t is not imaginary; it is not estimated
it is there: it has been made; it is as concree as
a grindstone
The other $40 .OOO, 900 saved by this admins
tration as compared with the expenditures during
the last year of the Wilson administration is &C
counted for largely by the abolition Of the United
States Railroad administration. the United States
Grain Corporation. the Sugar Equalization Board
and other activities which the Republican
Congress elected in 1918 made an end OF as
rapidly possible.
This is 100 per cent, plus, fulfllment of the
1920 campaign pledges of the Republican party
put more business in govern ment' It is the
first and most important step in the program OF
reconstruction. Getting expenses down and put
ting into systems and methods hat will per
manenly keep them down is the first and most I'M
portant duty Of every government today. Since
March 1921 the United States has made more
drastic reductions in public. expenditures and
greater reductions public than any nation
in the world With the exception OF possibly two
Others it is only nation which has made any
reductions public expenditures and taxes
All this done under a Republican. admins !
1ration.
The Republican Congress made it possible by
the early enactment of the budget law.
The Republican executives, from President Hard
ing down made the possibility glorious reality by
taking every possible advantage of the budget act
to install and compel economies