Show governmental ECONOMY C 0 N 0 M Y DRIVES from the national republican another study of the governmental departments will be made at the order of the president by the budget commission to ascertain whether there cannot be further reductions of expense which will be reflected in the tax reduction program next year the president is said to believe that it will be possible to bring the budget down below the three billion dollar mark which has been set for the next year the budget director is said to have told the president that the number of employed emp loyes now on the payroll at washington is entirely too large Tand adrid that reductions in the personnel have not been made as general as they should have been in line with the present program of economy the largest forces are arc now carried in the navy and war departments and inthe in the shipping board it is said the study is being made not only for the next fiscal year but for the entire period of the coolidge administration the order sent to the heads of departments calls for reports on what can be reduced for the next fiscal year and for the period up to december 1928 the director of the budget feels that some of the cuts possible can not mot be made peremptorily and he has furnished the different heads of departments part ments with an estimate of the amount their appropriations might be reduced at once and for the entire I 1 period of the coolidge administration in some cases it is said he has gone so far as to point out specifically where the reductions might be made for the good of the service president coolidge will make an other economic address and take occasion to point out to the taxpayers what can he be accomplished in way of tax reductions if the executive departments part ments reduce radically and congress keeps down its expenditures for i i local appropriations and matters in intended to aid members of their home districts i this will be on june 22 at the semi semiannual I 1 meeting of the budget committee committe when the heads of the departments face the president and give a report of their stewardship and justify their estimates As the reports and what the president and director I 1 lord have to say will be broadcast throughout the country the administration hopes to be buttressed by public sentiment in its economy drive without promising anything at this time president coolidge is hopeful i that the coming meeting may show such a condition as to warrant tax reductions in excess of the estimates of the fiscal authorities he feels that before the fiscal year in 1927 begins the foreign governments ought to be paying interest on their debts and this will be helpful in the tax reducing program |