Government in the United States, National, State and Local

Government in the United States, National, State and Local is a book by James Wilford Garner. The preface says its aim is to present in an elementary way the leading facts concerning the organization and activities of national, state, and local government in the United States. The preface says the author has given rather greater emphasis than is customarily done in textbooks of this character to what may be called the dynamics of government, that is, its actual workings, as contradistinguished from organization.

The book says the county-township system has developed into two different types: the New York or supervisor type and the Pennsylvania or commissioner type. The book gives the appropriations for 1916 as the unprecedented amount of $1,637,583,682, and those for the period of the war (1917-1918) as $32,427,000,000, including $9,000,000,000 loaned to European allies. The book says that in 1921 the committee on appropriations was enlarged and again entrusted with the preparation of all the various appropriation bills.