The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
Government Will Need Vast
Sums for Current Ex-
penses Next Year
PROPOSAL is MADE
FOR UPWARD REVISION
Fully S5o,o0o,o0o Additional Revenue
Will Be Required without Regard to
the Increased Expenditures for Ma
tional Defense.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2S.-The POSSIBLE
ity of a general revision of the tariff up
ward has been brought to the fore by
the disclosure from an official source that
the government must have for the current
expenses of the next fiscal year $4,000
600 more than will be provided by the
war and income taxes and the tariff act
even if the sugar duties are retained, as
is now planned by the administration.
This S50WO,0O0 additional revenue Will
be needed without regard to the increased
expenditures for national defence, for
which the administration seems practi-
cally to have decided to provide by issuing
bonds
1t became known yesterday that govern
ment officials after careful investigation
as to the total yield to be expected from
the revenue producing acts now in force
are convinced that next years income will
fall approximately $50,000,0O0 short Of
the needs of the government for its nor
NAL expenses and have so reported to
members of the ways and means commit
tee of the house
! Interest in this disclosure was increased
| by information that proposal which the
administration is understood to have con-
sidered to levy a special revenue duty on
wool will meet with opposition among
| Democratic leaders Of the house.
Secretary McAdoo some time ago in a
statement announcing his purpose to rec
ommend the reenactment OF the war reve-
nue. law and the retention of the present
duty on sugar said that later announce
ment would be made as to the steps that
would be taken to secure whatever addi
tional revenue might be needed.
Shortly after Mr. NcAdoos announce
IT01an hat o,,s
which administration officials were con
sidering for obtaining the revenues needed
to cover the shortage in government fund,
was the reimposing of a duty on wool. L
was learned that Mr.. McAdoo has dis
cussed this step with members Of con
gress, but no decision was reached as t,
the course that the administration woult
pursue
The belief here has been that Presiden
Wilson would throw his infiuence .dgains
any movement toward a general revision
of the tariff schedules and would try t
restrict the changes in the tariff act a
the forthcoming session, at least to tn
sugar and wool provisions.
Something of a surprise was created i
administration circles when it was dis
. closed that at least one prominent Demo
. cratic tariff leader in the house believe
l the party SHOULD sanction Il SIlEhJ genera
} revision upward rather than to make an
substantial levy on wool
, This influential leader believes that tn
government should provide for its norma
{ needs either by such revision upwar
or else by the issuance OF Panama cana
bonds He contends that the administr,
ton ought not to have any fear Of polit
cal disfavor on account of the issuance
i Panama canal bonds to meet current c,
e penses.
). The argument advanced by him is tn;
) the bonds were authorized to be issued
the discretion of the President to me,
- the expenses of constructing the Panam
canal, but that as matter of fact Il
Ipractice from year to year has been
pay these expenditures from the gener
: fund of the treasury, except when the ge
S eral fund ran so low a to make SUI,
i drafts upon it inadvisable. The Repub
cans, he pointed out, in 1911 and 191
had no hesitaney in marketing some
n the bonds
Il As for a slight revision Of the tariff IL
ward for purely revenue purposes, it
y the opinion of this important Democrat
leader that the party because of Il
changed revenue conditions now confror
ing the government could undertake su,
a course without repudiating the prese
+ Democratic tariff law.
The impression prevails here that t
President viii frown upon any propos