Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1922-08-03
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
ELECTED 1918 STARTED
Sl.ASiI!NG EXPENSES

WASHINGTON July I3-- in review.
In the part which the Congress has
played In the financial retrenchment
and economy program of this admin
istration Martin B. Madden (Rep.), of
Illinois, chairman of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, cites the
fact that even before the Republican
party came into control of the excu-
tive end of the government, the Repub-
lican Congress elected in 1918 made
great savings to the country. This
was accomplished by its cutting down
the requests for appropriations made
upon it by the Democratic executives
In summing 1t up, Congressman Mad
den points out that the Republican
Congress elected in 1918 reduced the
requests for appropriations made by
Democratic cabinet officers and other
Democratic executives in the sum of
SO, SOC, 100000. This saving is more
than the tota! appropriations made by
the present Republican Congress for
the coming fiscal yeaar. To phrase
/ it another way, the Republican Con-
gress elected in 1918, by reducing the
expenditures of the Democratic ex-
ecutives, saved enough money to run
the government for the coming fiscal
year.
Representative Madden's statement
in detail is as follows:
Upon assembling in extra session
J in May, 1913, the new Republican Con-
gress was confronted with the .ask
of passing before the commencement
OF the new fiscal year On July l, 1919,
eight of the largest Of the supply bills
which the Democratic Congress had
! failed to enact into law before it
went out of power. Those bills at
the time Of their failure aggregated
$3,767, ,975,974. The total of the same
eight bills after their reenactment by
the newly elected Republican congress
was $2,828,283,432. The first leglisla-
tive action Of the new Congress result,
ed in the passage of these bills before
the fiscal year began and in the de.
crease OF the appropriations proposed
by the Democratic Congress for the
fiscal year 1920 by s939 ,692,541.
"The estimtes for the fiscal years
ending June 30, 1921 and 1922, res
pectively, were prepared by the Wilson
ADMINISTRATOR anu buuui lcu W tio
Republican Congress. The reduction
made by the Congress In those esti'
mates aggregate slightly more than
2,950, 100000.
.:The total redurtion which the Re.
publican Congress effected in the
amounts proposed to 1t by the Demo
cratic administration for the fiscal
year 1920, 1921 and 1922, reach $780,
100000, a sum which exceeds by nearly
Sl50, ,O00 900 the total of the appropri
atoms just made for the fisca. year
ending June 80, 1928.
"In addition to the reduction ef'
fected in the estimates of the Demo
cratic Congress, the Republican Con
gress, in connection with the prepara
tion of the appropriation bills for the
fiscal years 1920, 1921 and 1922 a.sc
brought about the repeal of appropri
ations totaling $1,14O, 100000.
1.-The reductions made by the Rep
ublican Congress in the appropriations
for the fiscal year 1920, 1921 and 1872:
are reflected in the following table:
Fiscal year 1920. ........ SO, ,454 ,596, ,64s
Fiscal year 1921. ........ 4,7S0,S ,S29.51(
Fiscal year 1922. ..... 4,066,316, 1864