The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
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amounting to $374,691 ,O4O.65.
THE Secretary of the Treasury
does not keep up with this political
game. He issued statement that
we are facing deficit, and then along
comes General Dawes, who say that
we have saved a billion and half
dollars. The President, if he has any
confidence in him at all, ought to
urge the Congress to declare divi-
dend to the taxpayers Of America, and
we would all be entitled to a share.
I favored the Bureau of the Budget.
There was real work for the Director
of the Budget to do, but the Bureau
of the Budget has never functioned as
Congress inteded it should. The Bu-
reau submitted estimates for an
amount larger than the appropriation
for the current year and before the
subcommittee of the Committee on
Appropriations no one appeared to
defend his estimates. The director
contented himself with these baseless
claims of savings. 1t is nothing but
bunk political bunk (Applause)."
Mr.. Byrnes then went on to show
some Of the specific instances where
the President and General Dawes had
made claims of saving-claims so
easily disproved that the President
appears in a childlike and ridiculous
attitude before the country, if we
assume that he was so easily misled
by Dawes political smoke-screen.
Mr.. Byrnes said, in part:
"He says that $500 was saved out
of an appropriation for the widow of
Senator Proctor, of ermont. Away
back in 1908 when Senator Proctor
died this money was appropriated for
his widow. She decline dto accept it.,
and the good lady has long since
gone to her reward. It remained up
on the books to her credit, but nobody
else could get it, and General Dawes
says he saved it this year. Who was
trying to get it? (Laughter). e..
"Thcre is 100000 saved in en-
larging the Capitol Grounds. Do
you remember in the distant past that
appropriation was made for enlarg-
ing the Capitol Grounds? 1t has
been on the books, and it stays there.
Therefore, it is saved out of the cur
rent appropriations this year. I wish
my friend from Kentucky, Ben John
son were here, because it would
bring back memories of the past to
him. The trouble with this state
ment is that it goes throughout the
country and some people are mislead
by it. They are misled into believing
that there is a saving of $4,000, 900,
now increased to $135,000,00O, when
there is not any saving, and, as a
matter of fact; it is only saving on
paper. 1t is nothing but political
saving; it will never relieve the tax
payers.
"Then there is the Panama Canal.
Why, my friends, he has saving in
here Of $19,674 in the original appro-
priation for digging canal from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, appro-
prated when the proposition was first
urged for digging canal from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He
says it is saved because it was not
spent this year, How could it be
spent? In what way could he dig a
canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean for $4,000? The money could
be spent for no other purpose. For
years it has been nthe books, and
if it is on the books, then he has saved
it this year.
"Then we have censorship for
foreign mails in the Panama Canal
Zone, where we have saved $53,2O5
this year. Evidently he has not
heard that the espionage act is no
more, and we could not spend it. Be-
cause it was not spent and could not
be spent, the Director of the Budget
says he saved $4,000. And the
worst of it all is he seems to have in
duced the President to believe it, and
he has given circulation to these alb
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