Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-08
Expenses
of N alton
Are Slashed
Report Of Dawes. Sent to
Congress by the President,
Shows Cut Of 81. .60O,.
100000.
Much Saved on Routine

Washington. May 7.-Goyerumsn,
expenditures Tor the fiscal year 1922
will show reduction OF more than
N.oO00OO,0OO from the actual ex-
pendi,ures for the preceding fiscal
year, 1921. congress was informed
by President Harding IN transmitting
the report OF Director Dawes OF the
budget. on economies aud savings IN
governmental business.
Director Dawes estimated tha, gov.
ernment expenditures for the current
fiscal year. which were given in the
December budget estimates as S..
9o7,922,Jo6 will be at least S4S.ss0.-
$50 less, or approximately 1922
$1,000.
As compared with 1921. he con,in.
ued. there has been a reduction OF
500, 100000 in expenditures for the
operation OF the routine business oi
the government subject generally TO
executive control. OF this sum he
attributed s250.000.OOO to the inposi-
iion OF the executive plan and pres
sure on the routine business organi-
zation OF the government under the
new system inaugurated by the bud.
get bureau.
The report OF Director Dawes was
submitted to the house appropriations
committee by the president in con.
nection with pending resolution BY
Representative Byrns, democrat, OF
Tennessee, asking the president to
inform the house in what ways d.
rect savings OF S32.0OO.OOO and indi-
rect savings OF $l04, 4,OO0, 900. previous
ly announced by the president as ac-
complished by the budget bureau dur
ing its first six months OF operation,
had been made.
Accompanied by Tables.
Director Dawes presented in de-
tail, with accompanying tables and
statements the comparative cXpcndi-
lures for the past and present fiscal
years divided into items representing
those which were charged to cxecu-
tive control and others such as pub
lie debt and similar accounts which
were considered as apart from the
subject Of routine government cx-
pcnditure. t He also submitted ex-
haustive reports OF the governmental
savings accomplished through the in
tcrdepartmcntal transfers OF surplus
supplies and other economy methods
put into effect by the budget bureau,
itcmizing Thousands of transactions
involving ships. shoes. sealing wax
and all the many articles and commQ-
ditics utilized by the government. to .
gether witt. the amount realized in
each case.
The budget director further re-
ported that the savings reserve
against current appropriations OF
Sll20O0,0O0 set up by the depart
mcnts and establishments in August.
1921. in response to the executive re-
quest, had been increased, notwith-
standing appropriations by con-
grcss OF more than $7,000.000 of this
reserve for other purposes. to the ap-
proximatc sum Of $l36,0OO,0O0 Only
such part of these reductions as arc
real savings and not postponed ex-
pcpditurcs were included in the gen.
cral estimate Of savings, he added.
, As a still greater reduction. Di-
rector Dawes declared that the pres
cnt estimated expenditures for 1922
for the operation oil the routine busi-
ness of the government. after elimi-
mating expenditures Of $500. 1000 au-
thorized by congress after the sub
mission OF the budget providing for
representation of the United States
at the. Brazilian centennial exposi-
ton. seed loaps. and fulfillment Of
Tie treaty with Colombia. as eompar-
cd with the December budget 'esti-
mates. showed an excess Of only
S25.767.4s7 on total of Sl.75S,375.-
G72. or discrepancy of only about
l-2 per cent.
Effort to Get Facts.
The report was described by Di-
rcc,cs Dawes as ar effort to de-
terminc what the real savings OF the
government had been during HE
current fiscal yea.
The bureau OF the budget is an
inpersonal, and nonpartisan bust
ness agent said Mr.. Dawes. In
this particular report. where its esti-
mates may become basis OF con-
tcntion III an approaching political
contest, its figures should be conser-
vative and meet the test of examina-
tion, not only in the present but in
the future, when existing partisan
differences are forgotten and the rec
ord for impartiality and nonparti-
sanship Of the budget bureau is con-
ssdered in retrospect by the I'M
prejudiced mind of the governmen,
economist and student.
1t will be noted that the director
OF the budget, out of total estimated
expenditures Of $5.922.372,O3O for
1922. classifics only $l,765.875.672 as
being generally subject to executive
control in the operation Of the rou-
tine. basness OF government. These
figures compare with actual expendi-
lures under the same catagories in
1921 of $2,673,435,07o, segregated out
OF total annual expenditure for 1921
of $5,S38,040,689. The reduction in
the ordinary expenditures for the op-
Grafton of the routine business OF
government generally subject to cx-
ecutivc control in 1922 as compared
with 1921 will be, therefore, in the
neighborhood of 1907 500, 900.
As against this enormous total
reduction the estimate of economies
and savings incident to the new i'm
position OF executive control owe,
governmental expenditures in 1922 j.
estimated by the director of the bud.
get in this report at the lesser sum
OF 250,154,S2S. He feels reasonably
assured that this estimate of econo-