The Idaho recorder., 1922-05-19
SAVINGS AS CLAIMED
BY PARTISANSHIP
By Wallace Bassford.


in March of last year with seven mill
lions majority behind him is now so
uneasy as to the result of the coming
November elections his director of the
| budget, General Dawes, juggles ap-
preparation figures and boldly distorts
The facts in the efforts to fool the peo-
pie into again voting for the party of
special privilege. The Presidents
claim of saving 81 100000 in the |
past year was taken up in the House |
| the other day by Congressman Byrnes |
of South Carolina AMI shot full OF /
holes. Mr.. Byrnes said:
''The President announced to the |
country that we will this year reduce |
our expenditures 81 ,600,000,000 be !
low the expenditure for the last fiscal
year. Well, the expenditures for the
last fiscal year which were authorized
by the Republican congress were the
largest ever authorized in time of
peace in the history of the country. If
Inow, four wears after the war, there
was not a tremendous reduction IN eA-
penditures there would be little hcss,7
for the preservation Of the govern
nent.
"My regret is that the President in
issuing this statement did not call at
tention to the fact that for the year
1916, the last year prior to our enter
ing the war when we were engaged
in measures of preparedness, our ex-
penditures did not amount to more
than 81 ,115 100000, and that the esti-
mate he now makes as to expenditure
this year is S3,922, ,372,030, or $2,S07,-
SS1, 326 more than was spent under
The Democratic administration for. the
last fiscal year prior to the war.
81 regret that he did not call at
tention to the fact that while the bud
y get bureau claims these bogus savings
of $136, 700 900, the fact is that the
, same departments have to date Sc
d cured from the congress deficiencies
I or supplemental appropriations that
a amount to 1874 sol ,040.65.
: ""The Secretary of the treasury does
: not keep up with this political game.
e He issued a statement that we are
q facing deficit, and then along comes
q General Dawes, who says that we
/ have saved a billion and half dol
e lars. The President, if he has any
,confdence in him at all, ought to urge
the congress to declare a dividend tC
# The taxpaveFs of America, and We
y would all be entitled to q share.
4 favored the bureau of the bulge
1t There was real work for the drecto'
< Of the budget to dc, but the bureau o
l. the budget has never functioned a
congress intended it should. The bu
y reau submitted estimates for al
IS amount larger than the appropriation
le for the current year and before TIL
pt subcommittee of the committee on ap
< preparations no enc appeared to de
st ferd his estimates. The director con
st tented himself with these baseles
e. claims Of savings. 1t is nothing bu
,bunk-political bunk"
IN Mr.. Byrnes then went on to ahoN
ne some of the specific instances vher
is the President and General Dawes ha
on made claims OF saving-claims S
is. easily disprored that the PTesiden
er appears in chiidlike and ridiculou
Il attitude before ten country, is we as
ey sumo that he was so easily misled b
ne Dawes political smoke-screen. Nj
gs Byrnes said, in part:
OF "He says that $500 was saved Gu
Of an appropriation 70" the widow c
ISenator Proctor oI Vermont. Ava
nix back in 1905 when Senator Procto
died this money was appropriated fo
t0l his widow, She declined to accept i
to and the gaad lady has long since gon
st; to her reward II remained upon tn
ng books to her credit, but nobody els
ey 1ould get il, ana General Dawes say
oon he saved it this year: Who was tr'
MI ing - get it?
There is 100000 saved in eGlars
af ing the Capitol grounds. Do you T,
member in the distant past that al
10 Lropriation was made for enlargin
the Capitol grounds? 1t has been Q
les the books and it stays there. Their
to fore, it is saved out of the current al
proprialions this year. Nish N
nd friend from Kentucky, Ben Johnso
nd were here, because it would brIr
zee back memories of the past to hif
The trouble with this statement
RI that il goes throughout the counti
and some people are misled by
an They are misled into believing tn
there is a saving OF SIP, 100000, no
su increased to S135, 900 900, when the
Is not any saving, and. as 4 matter
ON fact. it is only a saving on paper.
m is nothing but political saving; L W
US never relieve the taxpayer.
Then there is the Panama can
ion WIZ. my friends, ne has a saving
er- here o. SI9.674 in the original a
lpropriati0n for digging a canal fro
gh- the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, q
ef- propriated when the proposition "
lf.rst urged fer digging the canal frt
sist the Atlantic 20 the Pacific ocean
AM saws it Is saved because it was J
spent this year. How could it
: Of spent? In what way could he dig
c. canal from he Atlantic to the Pac
the ocean for $4,000? The money Co
: by be spent for no ether purpose.
wears it has been on the books, anc
Iblic it is On the books, then he has sa'
cteo il this wear.
pose "Then We have censorship for
: at eign mails in the Panama canal 70
where We have saved S53,2O5
year. Evidt ntIy he has not he
that the espionage act Is no more,
v-a cnuld no. spend il. Because il