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...Killing sparrows," Georgia's Senator Walter George called it scornfully. But Illinois' Paul Douglas and Michigan's Homer Ferguson doggedly went on setting their small snares for the bureaucratic idler and the freehanded spender. In the Senate last week, first one and then the other bobbed up to offer money-saving amendments to the $2,528,000,000 appropriation for the Federal Security Agency and the Labor Department...
There are too many Government automobiles, said Democrat Douglas. He asked that the Senate deny Labor and FSA any additional new cars for fiscal 1952, allow them to replace only half of those that wear out. Savings: 79 cars and $100,000. Republican Ferguson got the Senators to strike out pay for departmental chauffeurs, thus eliminating 53 full-time jobs and 101 part-time...
...what worried the two economizers more was the swollen Government payroll, which has grown at the rate of 1,448 civilians a day since the start of the Korean war. Ferguson offered an amendment cutting FSA-Labor payrolls a flat 10%, warned that he would try to make the same cut in all Government departments. The debate became sharper. New York's Herbert Lehman, a man who is always pleading to save something, pleaded to spare the payrolls of such public health activities as heart disease and cancer research. West Virginia's Matthew Neely gibed that Douglas...
...Homer Ferguson, U.S. Senator from Michigan LL.D...
...Hill in an old car to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. His most startling statistic: the 46 executive departments of the U.S. Government (not including Defense) operate 19,888 passenger cars, hire 1,380 full-time and 5,672 part-time chauffeurs. Commented Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson (who owns his own Pontiac, no chauffeur): "All the Senators are getting embarrassed by the number of large chauffeur-driven cars that pass them on the street...