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Show POWER OF BUREAUCRACY. Much against the judgment of the senate, congress passed an appropriation ap-propriation of $100,000 to be expended by the president in the direction direc-tion of securing a plan for economy in the administration of govern ment and especially in the conduct of the great departments at Washington. Wash-ington. .No one doubted that there was a need for reform ; there were many incredulous as to any good results from spending this little fortune. for-tune. It has been done time and time again; many excellent reports re-ports have been made and filed. That there is need for economy in government is proved by the statement of Senator Aldrich that he could save the country $300,000,-000 $300,000,-000 if allowed to run public affairs on a business basis. . He is not an imaginative man and no one has arisen to dispute his figures. .But when it comes to using the pruning knife, there is always a vast deal of trouble. To make drastic and desirable reforms involves the discharge of thousands of government employes, suspension of many activities now carried on in the name of science, scaling of many salaries, consolidations con-solidations of bureaus, reformed methods of bookkeeping and a decided de-cided fall in the demand for red tape. .Yet this is what the president is determined upon and his commission has been put at work spending spend-ing the money and preparing complete plans for reforming our system, sys-tem, while the country awaits results. |