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Show Democrat Rays Present Policy Of Department WASHINGTON, July 10. One of the sharpest attacks which has yet been made in Congress' upon tho policy pol-icy of the executive departments and bureaus to keep as many persons on the Korernmcnt pay roll at the expense ex-pense ot the taxpayers as possible, was mado by Senator King of Utah, one of the Democratic leaders. Senator Sen-ator King's statement bore out much that has been said with respect to the extravagent insistence or officials to employ practically as many people peo-ple as they employed while the war was on. Senator Kag declared some or tho heads ot bureaus ought to be Investigated Inves-tigated and perhaps suit ought to bo Instituted against them to recover expenditures illegally made. MOIIK THAN ItKQUIUKI) "When our country entered tho war, or course It became necessary to Increase the number or cmployecs,H said Senntor Kin;;. "The result wns that tens or thousands came, to Washington, many more, In my optn-tion optn-tion upon the part or departments, to me that thre Is a predetermination predetermina-tion upon tch part or departments, bureaus nnd governmental agencies to keep In Washington and in the service or the government all those who were brought hero roi nn emergency. emer-gency. Instead of there being an at-tmpt at-tmpt to separate some of these Individuals Indi-viduals from the rolls thore seems to be a determination to keep them upon the rolls as employees or the government. Only a row thousand have been discharged from the various var-ious departments and in many of tba departments and bureaus there ere more people employed now than there were at any time during tho period of the war.' CONTINUE TO SPEND "Instead of endeavoring to reduce expenses and practice economy many of these executive agencies are evincing evin-cing a purpose to continue upon a war basis and expend the same or larger sums than the necessities of the war called for. Inductions will only come when Congress enacts appropriate ap-propriate legislation and refuses to make the appropriations demanded by hucIi agencies and departments. Ab long as the appeals and demands of bureaus and departments and agencies ag-encies and instrumentalities aro controlling con-trolling this vast army of employes I In Washington and throughout the 1 country will be continued. I venture I the opinion that every department I and every executivo agency represent- 1 cd hero in Washington has submit- I ted many reasons for continuing the 1 war agencies and war'raachlnery and B war appropriations. There are out- V cries and walls of despair when Con- -J gres attempts economies and threaT tens to reduce the number or employes employ-es or the compensation which was based upon war conditions." |