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...stage for renewed international negotiations. He gave up his customary weekend fishing trip, called in Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to learn what progress U. S. experts were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...
...delinquent budget pledges must be paid before the college year ends. To facilitate the work of the committee, it is urged that these tardy payments be cleared up at once...
...special vote of the Council the positions of treasurer and chairman of the Budget Committee, hitherto held by separate members of the Council are now merged into one office, the duties of preparing the budget falling upon the shoulders of the treasurer...
...Student Council budget system which Hoyt will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past three years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate the distribution of these funds...
This was meant partly as a crack across the knuckles for U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, who, as chief of the General Accounting Office, stands at the outgoing end of the U. S. budget system. Never a harmonious team, the Messrs. Dawes and McCarl took hold of the newborn budget and accounting system simultaneously in 1921.?Said General Dawes: "The Comptroller General . . . has thus far failed in carrying out the accounting purpose of our present law. We have in the U. S., therefore, only the old-fashioned and entirely inadequate cash accounting system...