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Show I BUDGET U IS ADVOCATED BY PRESIDENT Taft Declares This System Would Be of Great Benefit Bene-fit to Congress. NOTES ADVANTAGES IN SPECIAL MESSAGE Best Way to Eliminate the Deficit Which Is Slowly Growing. WASHINGTON, Tab. 28. Praaidant Taft today a am to congreaa hit much diac listed budget" messag a. Ha roc om-andad the adoption of budget syttem of relating propoaad txpendi tor at to expected revenue t, and de cured that congratt would ba greatly ban all tad by having before It such a Utamant befort It began the annual grind upon appropriation blUt. The United Stataa, tha praaidant wrote, wat the only treat nation in tha world which did not dm tha budget system, and In consequence It "may be said to be without plan or program. Ha Indicated In-dicated that owing to the bate day at which he was able to transmit his met saga, he expected Uttlt legislation on the topic from the present concrete. Trie pretldent took full retponelblllty for the mettage upon himself. Oorurreet In tha laat tundry clvt) Mil directed the tecrttary of the trtatury to tubmlt eetl-matta eetl-matta hereafter In tha old way. Mr. Taft pointed oiit. how tvtr, that ha bad directed the tecretary of tha treasury to a ta with tha dlractloni of congress and alto to tend to him Information ror a budget meaaage. Ha raferrad oongreas also to the portion of tht constitution which requlrn him from time to unit to recommend surjh mtaaurtt at ha shall deem necessary and expedient. Enumerates Advantages Some of the advantages of the budget system, as pointed out by the preeldent, WAmeeni of locating responsibility for estimates In keeping with revenues A means of sllowlng congress to tee how much gross It will have to spend before be-fore It begins appropriating for each eel-art ment or detail of government ma- ChHscauee It would furrdth ouiejieea and the public with reedy reference to reports re-ports and detailed records of acooum. Because It would produos an adequate organisation for asesn-.blliig and eaajaen -lng Information to be ueed In telling tne country what has been done and of roe government s future needs. Xo aid in working with S well defined purpose in many bureaus hitherto organised organ-ised but directed under sn Inconsistent snd 111 defined program. -. ' . To cancel the nation s debt, tbrougn a sinking fund, snd to eliminate the deficit, which Is slowly growing. To carry out the budget plan, to reduce re-duce the deficit end the fixed chart sgslnst the government, the prssldsnl proposed at-nvtg Fund Oommlgalon' Pi opoato. To create a sinking fund commlatlor i to consist of ths chalrmsn of ths Bnancs committee of the tenets. he ohairrnan or the houte ways and meant com'1."; tht attorney general and the tteretary of the treasury, with ths comptroller of the treasury aa annual auditor of the sinking-fund tccount. I-egltlall on w hUh would "wipe out the national debt In twenty yeara after July 1 tH; congress thould tet aalde HS.OOO.-V't aniiuany lor that purpose That would be tli.000.OOC a year lees than the present amount required re-quired by law. That fund should be Invested In-vested in J per cent government bonds and in twsnty years the ll.HO.oat.ttt debt, the pretldent sajt. would bs re- The adoption of a definite theory la recommended for future proposals for In-ternal In-ternal Improvements to that tuch Improvements Im-provements would be in accord with a well thought out plan. In that connection connec-tion the pretldent luggetted the saving of the rent paid In Washington for buildings used by the government through ths construction con-struction of nsw buildings to cost shout 1100.000.000. to be peld for through a period of twenty years. Plan Suggested "Briefly stated.- wrote the Prssldsnt. "my suggestion Is thst the government first plan tor Its land purchases, buildings and public works, then borrow money to acquire snd to construct them, proportioning propor-tioning the cost ovsr a period of twenty years, snd making ths bonds Issued to msst ths cost payable out of sn adequate slnkliur fund." Of a reduction of the salary roll of the government, amounting to about H.0O0. -000 tnnually, two-thlrda. the pretldent declared, would be ssved by sdoptlng his scheme to clssslfy what are now presidential presi-dential appointments. Almost u.onu.sV tnnually could be kept In government coffers through pottofflce department changes. The sum of 12.000. 000 would bs cut from ths psyroll. Mr. Taft continued. con-tinued. If there were a oomplete executive execu-tive rsclasslflcslion of civil service employee. em-ployee. I'ndtr thit heed ths president wrnt. Would Readjust Official Salaries. "In tht pretent situation many men at the bottom are receiving larger salaries than would be obtained for slmllsr work in outside employment, whereae men In higher posltloni carrying greet responilbtllty responil-btllty snd tha tucctss of whose performance perform-ance depends on training and long experiences, ex-periences, are Inadequately paid. From the viewpoint of the rank and 01. there Is little hope of rswsrd for merit Ths foundation for reelaast Acstton of ealarlea already hat been laid. In my opinion tt would enable the government to pay higher salaries to those ot whom tapes 1-ence, 1-ence, trslnlng snd initiative ars required and make the saving of tl.OuO.Ooo ." Gllmlnatlon of waate in the distribution or public documents; reduction of the number of United Btatea assay offices and poselblv the number of mlntt and their cuntolldation Into ont, art other recommtndatlona. "With much hesitation," ths preeldent reoommends ths organisation of a budget commlttss of congress. It should act as s flnsl clearing houee through which all the recommendatlona of committees having hav-ing to do with revenuat and expenditures would pass before they take the form of bill ' System Handicaps Administration "The special1 reason I have for urging this committee." wrote the president, "Is thst at present the admlnistrstlon It terl-ously terl-ously hsndtcspped by not being able to lake up proposals for ronatructlve measures meas-ures effecting sny particular department with any one body or committee which will undertake to consider them In all their aspects " Uolng Xuitttw. aba Mtsidaul ilea hi n that appropriations should be In the following fol-lowing claaaaa: To cover overhead and operating; cost. For upkeep of property. For nxad c bargee, Including sinking fund. Rr Dermanant Improvements OotKdadlng, ha says: "Tha government govern-ment la not only In the position of having gone along for a century without a budget, but what la at this time even more to tha point, it haa not the organic means either for preparing or for con-aldeiina; con-aldeiina; one. I am rer-ommendlne; that congress make some organic provision whereby the admlntatrttttva and legislative legisla-tive branch may co-ordinate their efforts In the development of the future activities of tha government aa well aa for tha determination of the expenditures netted for tha current uaueactlon of its bUsi- |