Show CONGRESS ASKED TO PROVIDE FUND A S i PRESIDENT SENDS SPECIAL IN BEHALF OF THE ECONOMY commission wants wants appropriation to continue investigation vesti gation into the executive department part ment of government believing it would save millions washington confess was asked to appropriate for continuing the investigation of tho the commission on economy and efficiency into the executive departments deport ments odthe ot tho government in a special message by tho the president the president points out nut that there 1 Is 6 no greater service that can be rendered to tho the country than that of continuance ti nuance of tho the work ot of tile tho commission until somo form ot of organization la Is provided for continuously doing tills this kind of work under tho the executive the president expresses the tha opinion that tho the technique and procedure of every branch and office or oc the government should be submitted to the same pal painstaking ns ng examination as that given those on which reports have cave been bean made to do this however president taft says bays that hat amplo ample funds must be provided and he asks that congress nako make tho the appropriation ty by march 4 for the incoming P president resi deni in my opinion says the president this la Is not a matter la in which the congress should assume that public money will ibe be unwisely spent As a total cost coat ot of about during the twenty one months covered by the work of the commission facts have been developed and recommendations have been made that followed up will result in savings of millions of dollars each year this has been under the handicap of lin uncertainty certainty of continuation which interfered with tle the making of plans which could not be completely executed within a few months it would be very much to the advantage of the administration if the president were authorized to spend whatever amount he may deem to bo be necessary within the next two years the only condition attached being that lie he render an account of the expenditures |