Show SAVE BILLION IN 1 GOVERNMENT WORK r I Washington Washing P. P C C. May 1 Character I Ize as oPo ope or of the tho greatest r reforms torms and measures to como up for tor con at this session or of Con Con- Senator Reed Smoots Smoot's bill con j providing pro pro- viding for tor swo reorganization or of tho ho c departments or of the government goV- goV Is s attractIng nation com com- Wido ido approval has been given tho thoI i Lill m by mcm members er of Congress s and I f till 1111 of the large go es ct tern news news- newspaper paper have characterized the meas- meas measure uro ure as one or of the greatest pieces ot of legislation ever by the party At a when profound the annual expenditures ox- ox were around ono billion dollars donars a y mr ar On that ba basis ls tho late Jato Senator AldrIch declared lL a competent reorganization would save savo the government govern govern- ment a l year ear on the sarno namo ratio the Smoot Plan would Savo the tho goy goy- ov- ov eminent a r round und Senator Smoot recognized RS as one ot of the tho foremost around all authoritIes In the government to use tho words or of the Now New York Sun and Herald purposes the tho appointment ofa or of a a. joInt congressional lon lon- three 5 appointed by Vice Vico President Pres Pres- Ident and three named by Speaker to survey tho whole administrative mo- mo and report a plan The resolution wont went to the approprIations appropriations committee and Senator Smoot Is makinG eT c every effort to get ct It reported And AmI acted upon at this session lIe anticipates wOrk will require from ono one to toa two wo years care Tho commission would recommend legislation Je necessary r nece to carry out Its reform program Bald Senator Smoot It Is a. a huge now absolutely necessary It need ho he no surprise It tho commission would find at the end endor or of a a. years year's ars ar's da day and night work that It could only present a tentative and andI incomplete report and a ark k for tor more mOlO I time So farA far n 9 J concerns the broad or of this organization the e system or of our government Eo not been fundamentally changed cd since It wt s devised by nl at the beginning or of constitutional govern govern- ment that hat were r m marvelously adapted to tb the ot of the country coun- coun tr try for lor which MI planned them and which heLVe have constituted ono one I I I or of his hia duet chIc claims to fame tamo among the great administrators of r all time I are archaic and now The government has added nearly I ss man many headed by cabinet cab cab- Inet officers as there were at al the cab I beginning be- be ginning of organization ou Everything has been ad added cd to the t I orl original Hamilton organization but instead in- in 1 stead or of being added in fn C a proper systematic i and efficient wn way now new features fea- fea t ures tures ot of th tha government have grown rown 1 on as exer excrescences and extravagant d There Then ThenIs Is duplication lIon of wort worl amonG departments and andeen even een In the tho same departments Can anybody i give Ilvo a possible rca reason on why wh the tho department of tho Interior should bo be running nn an Insano n or why there should bo be t twenty seven w nl engineering organization under our government Or why the tho governments government's efforts to encourage foreign commerce should be divided arilOn among the tho activities ot of four Cour or five departments perhaps more I ll It Is the same through all the government gov- gov functions and noW when the i burd n o of carrying oUr enormous debt If weighing on the wo we can no II longer neglect to give gi ft t consideration r |