Deseret Evening News | 1908-04-29 | Page 1 | Retrenchment in Philippines

RETRENCHMENT IN PHiliPPINES Assembly Committee on Appropriations Appropriations Proposes Series of Sweeping Reductions SALARIES MUST COME DOWN Will 11 I Oppose tho hi Ic IcCI CI bilges s on III roll tnt Will 1 Impair 1 iii eminent 1 II 1011 April Arll 29 The hc assembly n committee on appropriations proposes a Series merles of or weeping reductions In iii II gen j n vial cial expenses tOld and ld salaries reducing l thie 1 budget roughly from 1101 pesos 11 to Plans have havo been boen made mate to cut tho salaries of commissioners with port folios follos folo to pesos a II ii year and tUtu com corn commissioners commissioner missioners missioner without wll portfolios to pesos Reductions Is the pay Y ot of Justices of th supreme court members of or the this as assembly lS tho thu speaker and zuid 11 other are urt tr also alto proposed It In Is II planned to combine tho the bureau of o audits and tho the civil civi service commis commission alan sion and reduce the constabulary force to It t Is 11 expected that the tho Philippine commission will wi oppose these sweep loep Int Ing reductions on the tn ground that they the eminent will wi impair tho the of or tho the gOY cov H It t is anticipated that this will pro pre I r ro oke o the tho first serious differences be bt between tween tho the appointive and arni tho the election branches of or the tho government govern men I