The Power of the Purse—How Congress will Cut Expenses There are three places in which Congress is expected to make great saving. In the first place, Congress will not provide nearly as much money for the Army or Navy as is asked. In the second place, there are not going to be so many improvements of rivers and har-hours as are requested. In the third place, Congress is 421g to deny' money for the continuation of bureaus and commissions which have been and are now duplicating work, Much of the labour in preparing the appropriations would be saved and a great deal of the labour would be more intelligent if _the United States had a proper National budget. At present executive branches and_ special bureaus, many in number and great in variety, submit estimates to the Secretary who of the Treasury, passes them all along to Congress. here ought to be a central agency to ce-ordinate all the estimates to prevent, duplication-in work and save to the taxpayer a vast unnecessary expenditure,
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