Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-05 | Page 1 | Taft Criticised for Extravagance

Reprpsentatire Adair of Indiana Turns Loose on Government Expense Account. FIFTY THOUSAND YEARLY PLENTY FOR PRESIDENT Also Denounces Large Appropriation Appro-priation for Secret .Service, Declaring it "Wasted. "WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Had the president's presi-dent's daughter and son. Miss Helen and Robert Taft, remained ln tho house gal-lory gal-lory a few minutes longer today, tbcj would have beard their father roundly criticised by R'-presenlatlve Adair of Indiana, In-diana, for alleged extravagance, of the executive department. Mr. Adair said the president's salary should not have been increased to $"o 000 a year, adding that a president, "with practically no expense, who could not save from an income of ?50.000 a year a sufficient sum to live in ease tho balance- of his life, in my judgment, does not have sufficient business capacity to direct tho affairs of this great nation." Expenses Too Large. Attacking the president's allowance of $35,000 for vehicles, stables, etc.. Mr Adair argued that this was .'30,000 too much. He also asserted that one-third of tho ?P000 allowance for care of the 1 white house greenhouses, "would' furnish the. president with all the Mowers he can possibly use." Without depriving tho president of any of the comforts or luxuries that properly belong to the white house. Mr. Adah-said Adah-said the appropriations of the executive i department, 5:r'0. i'JO. last year, could bo reduced at least $75,000 a year. . Mr. Adair declared that, appropriations for all purposes could be reduced at loasr $100,000,000 a year without impairing any pari of the government service. Eoast for Detectives. Characterizing tho government detective detec-tive t-ervlec. a? the "'lumping-ground for those who had rendered political service," Mr Adair said that, outside of .benefits derived from the work of the mat mid pure food Inspectors, tho $7,126.000 . appropriated ap-propriated for that service last year had been wasted. "There Is more extravagance In tho armv and navy than In any other department de-partment of our government," aald Mr. Adair. "Il Is enough to bankrupt any government gov-ernment In the world to sjxud S25S.J3',;,-f.D.'i S25S.J3',;,-f.D.'i each year for ihe maintenance of Its army and navy, and that, too, in time of peace "