Arizona republican., 1922-05-08


ment expenditures for 1922 will be
approximately $500, 900, 900 less than
the actual outlay for the preceding
year. congress will be informed to-
morrow by President Harding in
transmitting the report of Director
Dawes. Of the budget, on economies,
and savings in governmental bust
ness.
The report of Director Dawes, made
public tonight by the White House
is for submission to the house ap-
propriations committee in connection
with a pending resolution by Repre-
sentative Byrnes. Democrat, Tennes-
see, asking the president to inform
the house in what ways direct saw
ings of $50, ,000,00 and indirect saw
ings of $104 100000, as previously an
nounced by the president to have
been accomplished by the budget bu-
reau during its first six months OF
operation, had been made.
Director Dawes estimated that
government expenditures for the
current fiscal year which We're given
in the December budget estimates as
$3,967, ,922, 1866 will be at least $45,-
350,3S less, or approximately 1892,
$4,000.
AS compared with 1921, he contin-
ued, there has been a reduction of
1907 100000 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, 900, 900 to the imposition
- i've s.fa o nj
the routine business organization OF
the government under the new sys-
tenn inaugurated by the budget bu-
reau.
The report Of Director Dawes was
submitted to the house appropria-
tions committee by the president in
connection with a pending resolution
by Representative Byrns, Democrat,
Tennessee, asking the President 10
inform the house in what ways direct
savings OF $32, ,000, 900 and indirect
savings of $104, ,000, 900, previously an
nounced by the President as accom-
plished by the budget bureau during
its first six months Of operation, had
been made
Presents Detailed Report
Director Dawes presented in detail
with accompanying tables and state
ments the comparative expenditures
for the past and present fiscal years
divided into items representing those
which were charged to executive
control and others such as public
debt and similar accounts which were
considered as apart from the subject
OF routine government expenditure.
He also submitted exhaustive reports
of the governmental savings accom-
plished through departmental
transfers of surplus supplies and
other economy methods put into ef-
feet by the budget bureau, itemiZing
thousands OF transactions involving
ships, shoes. sealing wax and all the
many articles and commodities utl-
lized 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 $l12,0O0,O0O
set up by the departments and estab-
lishments in August, 1921. in re-
sponse to executive request, had been
increased, Notwithstanding reappro-
priations by congress of more than
$7.000,000 Of this reserve for other
purposes, to the approximate sum OF
$136, 100000. Only such part of these
not postponed expenditures were in
cluded in the general estimate OF
savings, he added.
AS a still 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 $7,500,000 authorized
by congress after the submi sSion OF
the budget providing for representa-
tion of the United States at the Bra
lillian centennial exposition seed
loans. and fulfillment Of the treaty
with Colombia, as compared With the
December budget estimates, showed
an excess of only $25,767,457 on a
total of $1,75S, S75,672, or ,isccep-
ancy of only about liz per cent
Determines Actual Savings
The report was described by Dl-
rector Dawes as an effort to deter
mine what the real savings of the
government had been during the cur
rent fiscal year.
THE bureau of the budget is an
impersonal and nom partisan business
agent" said Mr.. Dawes. In this
particular report where its estimates
may become a basis of contention in
an approaching political contest, its
figures should be conservative and
meet the test of examination, not
only in the present but in the future
when existing partisan differences
are forgotten and the record for i'm
partiality and non -partisanship of
the budget bureau is considered In
retrospect by the unprejudiced mind
of the government economist and
student.
1T viii be noted that the di-
rector of the budget, out of total esti-
mated expenditures of $3,922. .372,030
for 1922. classifies only $1.765, ,S75,672
as being generally subject to execu-
tive control in the operation of the
routine business of government.
These figures compare with actual
expenditures under the same cata-
gories in 1921 of $2.673,435, orc, seq
regated out of total annual expendi-
ture for 1921 of $5.53S,040,6S9. The
reduction in the ordinary expendi-
lures for the operation of the routine
business of government generally
subject to executive control in 1922
as compared with 1927 will be. there
fore, in the neighborhood of $9O1,-
500 600.
AS against this enormous total re-
duction the @M.ssHnkA * economics