The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-03
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INCREASED EXPENSES

INCREASED EXPENSES
Three years AFTER the war Il IL
costing over half . hEI1ion dollars
lore-or ss3sass.ss more. to be ex
2ea-for the legitimate expenses Of
the E0reTnme1t under President
Harding than II cost three years Be.
fore the war for the legitimate ex-
p'snsss 0f the g0verumeut under
Pressdent wnsOn-
This fact Is set forth IN minute de-
tail BY Senator Lee Overmzn. Demo
craft North Carolina in a public
statement Senator Overmzn Is the
ranking minority member Of the sen
ate apprOprSztiOls committee. and
his purpose in issuing the statement
is 10 refuts the distorted and un-
truthful statements sent out By Re
publican prOpagandists Of alleged
great savings and economies Of the
Harding administration These state
meuts are wflfnIly mendacfOus and
are designed not TO inform the pub
lie. but 10 deceive it, TO fool IT, to Try
to make monkey Of the average cit
izen whO has not the time OF incli-
nation to study OF znzlyze govern
meat finances
What Senator Overmzn means BY
legitimate expenses Of the govern
ment is the expenditures after elimi-
mating an expenditure resulting from
the war
In order to be perfectly fair to the
Harding administration. Senator Ov-
ernan deduets two billion six hun
dred odd millions from the total sp-
preparations for 1923. ss follows: The
Emergency Fleet Corporation. $780,
900. 900; Veterans Bureau. s41s. .000.-
600; U. s Housing Corporation ST.
100000; alien property custodian.
$4,000; internal revenue and public
debt service, $4,000. 900; bonus to
employees. s3s.O00. 900; public debt
funds. s1.2s0.O00. 900; federal reserve
bank franchise tax and debt retire
ment. $4,000. 900. This leaves s1.S2s.-
$4,000 for legitimate expenses Of the
government for 1923 as against $780,
O64 900 for 1915 under the Wilson ad-
ministration. difference of S53s.000.-
900 in favor of Wilson administration
economy.
Senator Warren, Republican, Wy
oming. chairman Of the senate ap-
committee. has stated 4
that the total appropriations for 1923
are ss1s.OOO.O00 less than for 1922. /
but the Republican chairman did not !
add that a greater part of it was on
account OF decreasing the army and /
navy and by charging the appropria-
tion for good roads to the postal ap-
which are not included
in the list OF appropriations, but
which are paid out OF postal revenue.
Senator Oyerman's statement. how
ever. gives the explanation which F.
Senator Warren's statement lacks.
II Democratic spokesmen followed
the same method OF deceiying the
people used by the Republicans, they
could assert with literal truth that
the appropriations for 1915 under the
Wilson administration were S1.1O7.-
309. 1858. and the appropriations un-
der the Harding administration for
1923 were sS.747.O35.3s2s4. thus
showing that the Harding administra-
tion has increased the cost Of gov
srnment s2.63s. .725.6s5.s1.
The bare truth. however. is when
these figures are explained that the
administration has increas-
ID the legitimate expenses Of run
ming the government. after deducting
made necessary by the
war, S53e,OOOOOO, while the Republi-
ian party spokesmen and the Repub-
ican press are trying TO make il ap-
pear that he is econOmizing and re
lucing expenses.
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