Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
ECONOMY SURVEYS
ORDERED FOR MORE
FEDERAL BRANCHES
Hoover Requests Treasury,
Post Office and Agriculture
Departments Studies.
$1,000, 900 is SEEN
AS CUT FOR INTERIOR
Presidential AK to Be Felt Heav-
lest on Hoover Dam
Work.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover has instructed
Treasury, Post Office and Agriculture
Department officials to survey their re-
spective fields with a view to cutting
down expenditures.
With economies laid down for the
War and Interior Departments, the
President will choose from among these
three the governmental branch that
will be taken up at his next week end
meeting.
The $l7.000.000 savings to be effected
by the Interior Department between
now and July, 1888, under the program
adopted at the Presidents mountain
camp Saturday, will be virtually all
achieved through postponement of nom
essential capital OUTLAWS.
Hoover Dam Work Cut.
The efficiency of each branch OF the
department will be kept absolutely in
tact. Secretary Wilbur said today, and
no vitality important work will be post
poned. None of the officials would dis
cuss details of the program, but it was
indicated some of the $1,000, 900 saving
would be shown In Hoover Dam con-
struction
Appropriations for this work for 1891
and the next fiscal year have amounted
to about $25,000,000, which is more
than the engineers of the Reclamation
Service believe can be spent efficiently
during that period.
To secure absolute safety in construc-
thpU q ffVraa
be given the concrete TO set and cure.
Indications were that the general
policy would be reduction of projects
under pro rata system rather than
| outright elimination of any.
Both the Park Service and Geological
Survey have considerable funds appro-
priated which may be spent only when
matched by local communities or pri-
! vate initiative. Because of present buSi-
ness conditions. it is considered unlikely
| that much of this money will be
matched Immediately.
| For the Park Service this represents
funds for land purchases to round out
| existing parks and monuments. The
! survey has ma tchable fumes for stream
| gaugfng and similar activities. The
| Park Service also has considerable road
and trial building which may be UNDER
taken at a slower rate.
Work to Provide Jobs.
All BUREAUS of the department which
have construction programs have been
urged by the President to push work in
the communities having the most un-
employment.
War Department economies are to be
effected largely through abandonment
of obsolete posts to save not orly the
amount necessary to keep up tha posts
but by the concentration of troops in
a few places to economic in buying and
in freight costs.
A number of the posts which Presi-
dent Hoover plans to abandon are To-
Gated in climates where it is possible
to train troops only about six months
As part of the program, President
Hoover has asked the Agriculture and
Justice Departments and the Veterans
Bureau to study the possibilities of using
the abandoned camps
No Large Items.
The Interior Department officials, who
had found no unusually large items they
believed could be stricken, presented
their savings outline at conferences Sat-
urday and Sunday. They expect to save
$4.000,0 900 this year, $4,000, 900 to $1,000
600 next year and 100000 to S8.000,-
600 the following year by restricting
some activities and deferring other work.
The Indian Office, which received
for the fiscal year 1882, net appro-
priation of $25,000,0o0, was not ex-
pected to provide much of the saving,
for Secretary Wilbur and his aides
have inaugurated a new policy in that
branch calling for first-clasS personnel
at substantial salaries. Material cut
would hinder the work. officials hold
On his trip to Virginia, the Presi-
dent was accompanied by Mrs. Hoover :
his son, Herbert, jr., and the latter's
wife, 1t was the first time the
younger Hoover had been to Rapidan
since he went to Ashville, N. c., last
year for treatment for incipient tuber-
culosis. Secretary Wilbur and other
Interior Department officials also were
present.