Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1910 — Government Appropriation May Be As Great As Last Year. [ARTICLE]

Government Appropriation May Be As Great As Last Year.

Although Chairman Tawney, of the house committee on appropriations, is trying tp carry out the recomniendations of economy made by President Taft, there Is such a howl for money from all departments will not be improbable if before the session ends the appropriations will be about as great as last year. It now seems probable that arrangements will be made for the public buildings previously authorized, but for which no money was provided in the estimates of Secretary MacVeagh. Tawney would discharge 300 clerks, thereby saving the government about $300,000, but this proposition caused a storm of protest. It has always been the policy of the government to employ extra clerks whenever a special need was apparent and then to adopt some scheme to keep them permanently after the special occasion had passed by. There are now some 30,000 clerks in the various “government departments.