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Show qitahf)eleqation (FROM CONGMillONM RICOR.D) Reform In the administration of government and effort to reduce expenses ex-penses to the minimum caused Senator Sena-tor Reed Smoot to say in the course of running debate, as reported in the Congressional Record, that "it Is going to be next to Impossible to make any reorganisation of the depart menU of our government unleaa congress con-gress passe a bill authorising somebody some-body to do it without having to refer back to the congress for action." "In 1822," continued the senator, "I spent months and months, together with others, in preparing a plan of consolidating bureaus ana reorganising reorganis-ing departments of our government But Just aa soon a we reported a bill to carry out the plan it became evident that we could not pas such a bill through the senate or the house. There was not an employe of the government gov-ernment who would have been affected affect-ed In any way who did not appeal to his senator and his representative to see that the legislation wa defeated. NO QUICK CHANGE "If that legislation had been passed we would never have had the agencies which today exist In our government There would be the great departments depart-ments msde by consolidation at that time and I think the result ot the consolidation and the saving of money would have been so easily seen by every senator and every representative representa-tive as well as the people of the United Unit-ed Statae generally that the law would not have been changed very quickly. "I hope the day will come when congress will pass a measure reor-1 reor-1 gsnising the department of thic gov ernment and the president of the United State will sign the measure. I say without a moment' hesitation that we will be able to save 10 per sent of all the expense of our government govern-ment Just a soon as that action is taken. "That is one thing that I will not be here to help In, but I would have liked very much to be In the senete and to have seen that accomplished, because there I nothing more necessary neces-sary if wa are ever to cut he expense of government" KINO AGUES Senstor William H. King agreed with Senator Smoot In the matter and in the course of the debet said: "My colleague has referred to the feet that 20 par cent could be saved by a proper reorganisation of the government Senators will recall that a number of years ago an able senator on the other side of the chamber. Senator Aldrlch ot Rhode Island, declared that by proper economies and administrative reform there could be a reduction of $300,000,000 annually m the expense ex-pense of government That was a time when expenditures of the government were not much more than five or six hundred million dollars annually. an-nually. Now they are practically $,000000,000.- Senator King' advocacy of economy econo-my in government brought out this remark from Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: Massa-chusetts: "No man in this chamber haa more persistently and more consistently con-sistently advocated economy In government gov-ernment that the distinguished senator sena-tor (King) who haa just yielded to me" |