Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-08
Is Submitted To Con
sress By President Hard
ing In Connection With
Request Made In Resolu-
ton By Representative
Byrnes.

washington, May S.-ShipS, shoes
and sealing wax-as we'll as mucilage,
binding Irvine and miscellaneous gro
ceries-figure in the 81, 500. 000, 900
budget bureau. expects to pare from
the gross expenditures of the govern
ment during 1922 as compared with
those of 1921. The detailed report,
sent by President Harding to congress
today, comprised nearly one hundred
pages of closely printed items.
In computing the economy result.
ing from the transfer of surplus MA
,erial from one department to anoth-
err. Director Dawes is credited as say
ing only the difference between the
market price and the forced sale price.
thus a quantity of steel washers and
oil. transferred from the shipping
board to the public printer resulted
in net estimated savings Of exactly IA
cents, one army saddle sent from the
shipping board to the interior depart
ment saved $3.50 and a quantity Of
salt to the marine corps was credited
with $11.97.
Several millions of dollars in ships
transferred figured in the report.
ranging from launch No. 44sS, valued
at 5000, to oilers of the Ramapo Inc
Sapelo types entered at $635,00O each.
The replacement value of the oilers
was estimated at $1,000, 900 but Direc,
tor Dawes held that they would only
bring $4s4,000 at forced sale.
Cut $45,550,336.
Director, Dawes estimated that gov
eminent expenditures for the current
fiscal year which were given in the
December budget estimates as $3,967,-
922,366 will be at least $45, $50, 1856
less. o. approximately 1892. 372, $50.
Aa rod NTH 1901 ho nav
tinued, there has been a reduction Of
1907, SOC. 900 in expenditures for the
operation Of the routine business of
the government subject generally to
executive control. OF this sum he at
tributed $3.50, O00, 900 to the imposi.
ton of the executive plan and pres
sure on the routine business organiza-
ton Of the government under the new
system inaugurated by the budget bu-
reau.
The report of Director Dawes was
submitted to the house appropriations
committee by the president in onnec
ton with a pending resolution by Rep
resentative Byrnes, Democrat, Ten
n%esseee, asking the president to in
form the house in what ways direct
savings Of $4,000. 900 and indirect
savings of $104,0 00, 600, previously an
nounced by the president as accom-
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its first six months of operation, had
been made.
Presnts Details.
Director Dawes presented in detail
with accompanying tables and state
ments h comparative expenditures
for the past and present fiscal years
divided into items representing those
which were charged to executive con-
troll and others such as public debt
and similar accounts which were con-
sidered as apart from the subject Of
roNtines government expenditure. He
also submitted exhaustive reports of
the governmental savings accomplish
ed through er-departmental trans
fers of surplus supplies and other
economy methods put into effect, by
the budget bureau. itemizing thou
sands of transactions involving ships,
shoes, sealing wax and all the many
articles and commodities utilized by
the government together with the
amount of saving realized in each,
case. =
The budget director further report
ed that the savings reserve against
current appropriations of ~$11z. 00O.-
600 set up by the departments and
establishments in August, 1921, in re-
spouse to executive request, had been
increased, Notwithstanding reappro-
priations by congress of more than
$1,000, 900 Of this reserve for other
purposes, to the approximate sum Of
S136,00O. 900. Only sue part OF these
reductions as are real savings and
not postponed expenditures were in
cluded in the general estimate of sav-
ings he added.
As a Til 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 1850, 900 authorized
by congress after the submission Of
the budget providing for representa-
ton of the United States at the Brazil
ian centennial exposition, seed loans
and fulfillment of the treaty with CO.
lombia, as compared with the Decem-
Der budget estimates, showed an ex--
cess Of only $~25,767.457 on a total of
$1~.758,375,672, or a discrepancy Of
only about III per cent /,
h report was described by Direc.
tor Dawes as an effort to determine
what the real savings OF the govern
ment had been during the current fis-
ca year.
Director Dawes tabulated the esti-'
mated $25O,o00,00o' estimated econ
omies and savings in governmental
business for the fiscal year 1922 as
follows:
Transfers of .property-the war de-
partment, $11,5s7,594: navy depart
ment $~3,62S.687.. shipping board,
3z76, S54: ship transfers, $~11.151,461:
marine corps, $3.50; public road,
bureau, $49s,375.
Other co-oydinatnrs -.