Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-05 | Page 1 | Borah Would Cut Jobs on Ship Board

:borah mm GUT JOBS ON I SHIPSBOARD ildahoan Denounces Pay- ment of $12,000 Each to Seven Members WASHINGTON. July 5. The ship-I ship-I ping board would be reduced from ' seven to throe commissioners under a bill introduced today by Senator Borah Bor-ah Republican. Idaho. ! "To pay seven men ?12 000 each to preside over tho decrepit day s according ac-cording to their own showing, of this money leasing, money squandering affair, af-fair, is sheer waste of the taxpayers' I money." Scnavor Borah said. In a Statement. But the shipping beard is onlj in illustration of the situation in Washington I venture to say a million dollars could he saved annual-lv annual-lv by cutting down and cutting out I commissions md unnecessary offices.' I Not only would we save money, but I we would have more efficient and I more respectable Republican service- 'T Invite the budget commissioner to i 'investigate Ihebe overloaded commas- j Islons and the?e sinecures. The Ship- j ! ping hoard Is not the only scandal In I ithe matter of waste of public funds."