The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-09
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 ment had been during the current ifs cal year.
 "The bureau of the Budget is an impersonal, and non-partisan business agent" said MT. Dawes. "In this par ticular report where it's estimates may become @ basis of contention in an approaching political contest, it's fig ures should be conservative and meet the test of examination, not only in the present but in the future when ex- isting partisan differences are for gotten and the record for impartiality and n-partisanship of the budget bu reau is considered in retrospect by the unDreiudiced mind of the government economist and student,
 "It will be noted * that the di- rector of the budget, out of total esti- mated expenditures Of $3.922,372 2O3O for 1922. classifies only $1,765,S75.672 as being generally subject to executive control in the operation of the rou- tine business of government. These figures compare with actual eXpendl- lures under the same categories ill 1921 of S2.673.435,079, segregated out of a total annual expenditure for 1921 Of S5.53S. .O406S9. The reduction in the ordinary expenditures for the opera tion of the routine business of govern ment generally subject to executive control in 1922 as compared with 1921 will be, therefore, in the neighborhood of $9O7, ,50O,O0O
 "As against this enormous total re- duction the estimate of economies and savings incident to the new imposition of executive control over governmental expenditures in 1922 is estimated by the director of the budget in this re- port at the lesser sum of $25O,134,ooo. He feels reasonably assured that this estimate of economies and savings at tributable to the new system is an un- derestimate, but that if effort has been made in this regard the savings and economies are still so large as to vln- dicate it, and will at the same time emphasize the indispensable policy of the budget bureau to have it's estl- mates conformable to the principles of business conservatism.
 "In these figures the director of the budget has found it impossible to make any reliable estimate of some indefinite general savings, such as those incident to the corrected system of purchasing which has been estab- lished in the government, by which competition between departments ana the overlapping and acquiring of un- necessary surplus has been avoided, On the basis of the original estimates made by the different departments and establishments there have been ellmln- ated, after due consideration of the facts involved in the neighborhood or S15O 100000 claimed economies
 Director Dawes tabulated the $25O,- 100000 estimated economies and saw ings in governmental business for the fiscal year, 1922, as follows:
 Transfers of property-The War De- partment, $11,597 594; Navy Depart ment, $3,629,6S7 Shipping Board, s275,S45; ship transfers, $$1, ,151, ,461; Marine Corps, 5,494; Public Road Blu reau, $4S9,375
 Other economies, co-ordinators re- port, $1,2O9,466; State Department S2SS,931; Treasury, $2,526,44S; War, s41 ,O22,OO1; Navy, $41,791,740; Inter- ior $2,162,955; Agriculture, $35,16O; Labor, $4S1,227; Justice, $25O,0O0; Post Office, $13,94O,O41; Library of Congress, $2,O20; Government Print l ing Office, $1,47S,O0O; Civil Service