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Show TAFT SECDS MESSAGE Oil ECONOMY ssassansmsssasaaasaaasmmi' Asks $250,000 for Continue ance of Economy, and Ef-. fldency Committee. SAYS WORK WILL SAVE MILLIONS YEARLY Thinks Permanent Organization Organi-zation Along Those Lines Should Be Divided. ' - WAJUOTCOTOlf, Jsn. . aWkmgraa wan eaked to approprtat gUM.000 f ot eontlnolng tha lnvestlgatloa of the commission aa economy and efficiency Into th exeontiv departments of tha government, to special moaaag today to-day hy the p reel dsns. . ' Tha : president points ant. that "there la no greater -eerrlca that can be rendered to th country than that af continuance af th work of th commission com-mission antil aom form of organisation organisa-tion la provided for continuously doing thla kind of work under the evocative." evoca-tive." , . , Tbe president expreaca tlie opinion that the technique and procedure of every branch and office of tha government gov-ernment should be asubmittcd to the same painstaking eiamiaatloa as thst civea those o which reports have been made. To do this, ho ever. Presi. lielit Taft say that ampl funds must he provided, nnd he asks that congress make the S'-'.'jii.ikx) appropriation, by March 4, for tbe iacoining president. Aarama Money Wisely Spent." "In my opinion," savs the president, presi-dent, "this is sot a matter la whieh the eongrea should assume that public money will be nawia.-'v rtent. At a total coot ot about ej.ld.Ots) during tb twenty-one months - eocrcd by the work of the commission, facts have heea developed and recommendation. have heea made that, followed bv, will result in savings of millions of dollars dol-lars each year. "This has been under thn handicap of ' uncertainty of eoutinnatian, whirs interfered with the making of plana nhire. could aot be completely in cjitrd vttbin a few morns a. .It wsuld. be very much to th advantage of th adminiatratioa if th are.td'nt wer authorised to epead whatever amount r-e may deem to lie neceasarr within the next tw v.srs. tha enlv eondl-tio eondl-tio attached being that k render aa account of expenditure." Referring to th fact that It ha got been possible for the commission to trsk fmsl detsiled reports on mor than a few of th hundreds of office la Washington, the pre.ident My the report submitted will servo to Illustrate Illus-trate th character of result which may follow an eitcnaiv investigation of office technique and procedure, OpportunlUaa for Baring. "It is further to be noted." continues con-tinues the president, "that tbe offices which have heea reported on are those which hsve been frequently under scrutiny. scru-tiny. From whst is knowa 'of tha of fines outsida of Washington, it I thought that it I in this field that the largest opportunities for economy a ill he found. "As illustrating tha relative Impor-tanc Impor-tanc of sorvire outside of Washington, Washing-ton, it is of interest to note that the cost of clerk hire at the New Terk postoffiee alone Is more thaa that incurred in-curred In tbe departmeats of war, navy, state, justice and commerce aad labor at Washington." - - The report of the commission contains con-tains a description of 310 subject, the result ef twenty-one months of work. Th change recommended by th commission com-mission 'carry defluite eetimstes of a yearlv taring of several millions of dullari. |