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Show ' I THE CITIZEN 14 HOW THE REPUBLICANS SLASHED DEMOCRATIC EXPENSE ESTIMATES. j i i f In reviewing the part which the Congress has played in the financial retrenchment and economy program of this administration Martin B. Madden (Rep.), of Illinois, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, cites the fact that even before the Republican party came into control of the executive end of the government, the Republican 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 it up, Congressman Madden 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 $3,890,000,000. This saving is more than the total appropriations made by the present Republican Congress for the coming fiscal year. To phrase it another way, the Republican Congress elected in 1918, by reducing the expenditures of the Democratic executives, 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 in May, 1919, the new Republican Congress was confronted with the task Congress, in conection with the preparation of the appropriation bills for the fiscal years 1920, 1921 and 1922 also brought about the repeal of ap- of passing before the commencement of the new fiscal year on July 1, 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,-97The total of the same eight bills after their reenactment by the newly elected Republican Congress was propriations totaling $1,140,000,000. The reductions made by the Republican Congress in the appropriations for the fiscal years 1920, 1921 and 1922 are reflected in the following table: .$6,454,596,649 Fiscal year 1920 4,780,829,510 Fiscal year. 1921 4,066,316,366 Fiscal year 1922 4. The first legislative action of the new. Congress resulted in the passage of these bills before the fiscal year began and in the decrease of the appropriations proposed by the Democratic Congress for the fiscal year -' CONSERVATION OF GAME. (By D. H. Madsen, State Game The estimates for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1921, and 1922, respectively, were prepared by the Wilson administration and submitted to the Republican Congress. The reductions made by the Congress in those estimates aggregate slightly more than $2,950,000,000. The total reductions which the Republican Congress effected in the amounts proposed to it by the Democratic administration for the fiscal 1920, 1921 and 1922, reach-$3,-890,000,00- a sum which exceeds by nearly $150,000,000 the total of the appropriations just made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923. In addition to the reductions effected in the estimates of the Democratic administration and the bills of the Democratic Congress, the Republican Do YOU Want a 1 Protective Tariff U on 1 SUGAR, WOOL, LEAD and FARM PRODUCTS? 1 These are Utahs basic Industries and to save them from ruin and to make the people of this state prosperous, they need TARIFF PROTECTION i The Republican party has championed the protection of American labored industry from the first and will do so to the last. Smootas has a Senator. service entire his constructively for the tariff during Bamberger, if sent to the Senate, and Colton and Leatherwood, if returned to the House, will continue to strive for Utah'sejfare by keeping the protection of the tariff on the law books oPthe nation. WHAT COX SAID: Elect a Democratic Congress to undo the tariff I " As the Democratic leader in the last presidential campaign he voiced the policy that has always .been followed by the Democratic party and always will. Senator Kings Work: Has always been against the tariff and that means against the best interests of the State that sent him to the Senate. His vote is always against the tariff always against the prosperity of his own people. t I i I il jj Sill ,1 voters of Utah want protection? f so do Vote the Republicas Ticket AND VOTE IT STRAIGHT. The question is: Do you d n jj , Com- missioner. 1920 by $939,692,541. years ana wnicn nas oeen a game for a number of years, will rem closed. The same thing is true of game preserve in Salt Lake coms which extends from the road in leys canyon to the ridge on the aT side of Big Cottonwood and back the head of the water-shedrains into Salt Lake county. Aso Cache valley game preserve, BMsh game preserve, Dixie game pregeJ Heaston game preserve, and paroi game preserve will remain closed The limit will be eight birds in session and not more than twelve the season. The season for doves will open September 1 to 15, under federal ulation. In the conservation of game it is essential that the habits of all game birds and animals be carefully considered before open seasons for shooting are established. This department has for some time past studied the condition of our native upland game birds of which we have four varieties: sage hen, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, blue grouse or pine hens, and ruffled grouse, comomnly called pheasants. These birds, while differing greatly in their habits, are in some seasons quite similar in appearance and in some instances inhabit the same territory. Past experience has proven that it is not good policy to open the season on these birds at different times, because of confusion that is thus created. In many Instances birds that are not included in the open season are mistaken for birds that may be legally shot and serious damage has resulted thereby. With this thought in mind it is the purpose of the department to have one open season which should be entirely satisfactory if all the birds are taken into consideration. The sage hen nests in comparatively low altitudes and therefore matures quicker than other varieties of grouse, and, in the normal seasons these birds may be sufficiently developed by August 20 to justify taking them. On the other hand, on August 1, there are thousands of young grouse that are not more than two or three weeks old, and these birds should not be taken before the middle of Setpember. vThe spring of 1922 was late and as a result the birds are not as well developed this year as would be the case in a normal season. The reports from various counties in the state indicate that even sage hens are not yet half grown. In view of these facts the department has decided that in the interest of the conservation of these birds, which in the end means the interest of the sportsmen as well, the most satisfactory season for this year will be from September 1 to 10, both inclusive. The season, therefore, will be declared open on the above dates in the following counties: Beaver, Boxelder, Cache, Carbon, Weber, Summit, Wasatch, Davis, Daggett, Uintah, Duchesne, Grand, San Juan, Piute, Wayne, Garfield, Morgan, Kane, Iron, Utah, Washington, Emery, Millard, Salt Lake, Tooele, Juab, San. peie and Sevfer. In Summit county all the territory north of the Weber river, between that river and the Wyoming line, will remain closed. Rich county will be closed owing to the fact that during past years great numbers of sportsmen from both Utah and Wyoming have visited this section and as a result the birds have been nearly exterminated, and it will require at least this year to bring them back .in sufficient' numbers to Justify hunting them. The Strawberry valley, which includes the entire Strawberry watershed that drains into the reservoir, THE AGE OF MIRACLES. Sometimes the miracles of modi genius are brought home to us ford We live in a truly enlightened and things are done today that 1 regarded as impossible a hundz years ago. For instance there is almost inst taneous communication between old world and the new world tween America and Britain. At mendous cost of money, labor thought, a submarine cable was across the bed of the Atlantic, so t persons on one side of the ocean mi communicate with those on the otl The average rate for such comma cations is a shilling a world or am ter of two bits for each unit of spee News associations, because they sei the public on both sides of the get a discount, so it costs them six five cents a word to transmit imp ant happenings. Bearing this in mind, then consh this two dollars and forty-fivca a I a 1 se e worth : London, July 21 (By the Associa Press) Londons social season rea ed its climax this afternoon with royal garden party, the largest e held at Buckingham Palace. Th were 10,000 guests, of which Am cans numbered at least 100. All es were represented. King Geo cli and Queen Mary walked about, u gling with the guests like ordin hosts. Who will say this is not the age miracles? First we heard about here the same day it happened, then we are told that the king queen walked about mingling f the guests like ordinary hosts. How different from the old d 1 1 when the queen sat on a dias vl ever that is and the king stood and snorted when some courier app ed in the royal presence in pm pants, and the monarch bawled Ho, captain of the guard get that varlet in them vile breeches draw me his gizzards out. Maybe the news is worth five as a word, after all. But it seems foolish use to put a perfectly P cable to. 01 BOOZE LAW ENFORCEMENT. of The story goes that booze sleuths who c. nie up J Salt Lake last week, who "after search and diligent inqu ry" fajlefl find the least trace of booze J w city, had no whatever in finding a n'l live ' law-abidin- ty-on- e g game, in whicl he sat, played, and lost every penny tn in addition to considerable a borrowed. He was skilled to zle, as it were, and a revers phone call was made to his l in the metropolis to for ard get home on, according i' the Jj one of the players. And thene us wonder why laws arc not Park City Record. ft |