Show why officials did not Sign Large contracts much u lins has teen been heard about cool ge idge e economy c but perhaps the largest single saving to the government goern ment it antedated rite dated coolidge by bv nearly neaily five years it was ft as made by judge walter winter warwick then cutup of the treasury one afternoon in it november IMS 1018 judge warwick was ns asked by general goethals to drop in at the war department warwick found Coet goethals hals and nn a bevy of other high officers seated around a huge table heaped with paper 1 those papers are contracts goe that explained they represent tile the result of months of negotiation w alth ith private none of them thein have been signed but we e have told the lie manufacturers fit i each ease case that we expect to sign them they cover munitions and other scup supplies I 1 lies and in each case the t buier aurer ins has gone ahead on the assumption that tile the contract would be signed since these negotiations flatirons flat ions were za started stalled however ho eer t alie armistice liaa has been signed now what we would like to know judge warwick Is vliet lier that makes pay any difference whether we cm call legally sign feign 11 judge War ivick lck looked at tile papers how flow much money 13 1 3 involved in fit those these contracts lie he asked oil oh I 1 suppose roughly lo a billion dollars goethals Goe thala replied well gentlemen replied judge ic 1 I cin can only siy say tills this if aou ou sign them thein every laboone last lab tone one of you ial ga to the lie penitentiary ile he walked out and the contracts were not signed one billion dollars more or less remained in the federal treasury colliers weekly |