The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-05-19
1922 OUTLAY CUT
$1,600,000,000
President Informs Congress in
Transmitting Budget Direc.
tors Final Report.
COST REDUCED seo7,500,0oo
$3.50, ,o0o, 900 Of This Is Accredited to
More Efficient and ECONOMIC Ad-
n1jnistration of the Govern.
ment's Business.

Washington.-Gove expendi-
lures for 1922 will be approximately
81 SOC, 100000 less than the actual out
lay for the preceding year, Congress
is informed by President Harding in
transmitting the report Of Director
Dawes of the budget on economies and
savings in government business.
The report of Director Dawes, made
public by the White House, is for sub
mission to the House Appropriations
Committee in connection with pend
ing resolution by Representative
Byrns (Dem., Tenn.), asking the Presi-
dent to inform the house in what ways
direct savings of $32,OOO,OO0 and in
direct savings of s1O4,OOO,OOO, as pre-
viously announced by the President to
have been accomplished by the Budget
Bureau during its first six months OF
operation, had been made.
Actual cost of the routine business
of government, the President declared
in his letter of transmission to Chair
man Madden, has been reduced by
$9O7, 500, 900, of which sum $25O,OOO.-
600 may be accredited to more efficient
and economic administration of the
governments business.
Sees Helpful Results
Presenting figures that ''will fully
convey to the Congress the helpful re-
suits attending the Inauguration of a
more efficient business SYSTEM" the
Presidents letter said:
cit will be noted that in the expen-
ditures of the government for the cur
rent fiscal year, ending June 30, 1922,
after eliminating the estimates for the
public debt, operations in capital
funds and similar accounts, all of
which tend to confuse our understand
ing of the actual cost of the routine
business of government, there has
been a reduction in the expenditures
of administration over the outlay for
1921 of $9O7, 100000. These highly
gratifying figures relate to reduced ex-
penditures which come under the In
fluence Of executive pressure, and do
not include $7OO,OOO,OOO of other re-
ductions which are not related to the
routine business Of government.
Compared with the reduction Of
1907, SOC, 600, the director of the budget
detailed $25O,134, ,S35.03 as the sum
representing the savings and econo-
mics which may be fairly accredited
to the new system of administration
and the widespread commitment
throughout the various departments
to effect q more efficient and economic
business.
Less Than Estimate
"Of this sum about $12,OOO,0OO rep
resents postponed construction and
maintenance which will probably be
unnecessary under the reduced pro-
gram of next year.
SIT affords an interesting compari-
son to note that the expenditures for
the current fiscal year were estimated
last December by the director of the
budget at $685., ,922, 1866, and that the
actual expenditures will be $45, $50, 1886
less than that estimate. With this re-
duction the expenditures for the year
will be $3,922, ,372, 2,O3O, which is ap-
proxImately $l,6OO,OO0OOO less than
the actual outlay for the preceding
fiscal year.
"It is not dependable to estimate
savings and economies wholly on the
figures presented to Congress in max
ing it's appropriations. Economies and
savings must of necessity be brought
about through administration.
"The pressure for reduced expendi-
lures and increased economies result
ed in an estimated reserve last August
out of the appropriations for the cur
rent fiscal year of over $112,0O000O,
and continued pressure since that time
mately $136,OOO,OOO, notwithstanding
reappropriation by Congress of over
100000 of the original reserve"