The sun., 1918-11-08
Total of S57,OOO,O 100000 for
War and Allies Calls for
Quick Economy.
MARTIN SOUNDS WARNING
Suggests Clearing Canton.
ments Once Peace Is Sure
and Stop Housing Plans.
Special DespatcA to THr sU".

thorough. complete. Tar reacnlns' muSs
be the policy OF Congress Immediately
the certainty Of peace arrives. accord
ing to Senator Martin tva,), the Demo-
cratic leader in the Senate.
Last year the American budget, Ill.
Guiding loans to our allies and the ciNIl
and military expenses. totalled VIZ
600, 900 0Oo," said Senator Martin VINO
had called group OF newspaper men
to the quarters OF the AppTopriat'o''
Committee for a conference to-day.
This year these same appropriation
including the loans to France, Britain,
Belgium and the other members OF tvs
Entente alliance. will reach the STU,
pendous total OF $4,000. 100000, and
this totals for the two years OF tho
present Congress s57.000.o00,ooO. only
slightly less than one thousand TN .
the appropriations OF the entire Coz
crosses prior to the time Of James
buchanan.
Impossible to Continue.
at Is impossible for such a state Of
affairs TO continue. The halt must re
called the day assurance Is received
that peace has been reached The re-
trenchment must be as drastic as the
appropriation Of moneys and the 3utho--
izations Of expenditures have hereto
fore been generous.
THE flood gates must be TANNED
shut now. The waste which In time %
war we cannot consider extravagancs,
but simply the necessary letting down
OF the bars Of caution. must stop short"
Senator Martin expressed this opin-
ion not alone for himself but for he
colleagues without regard to party. he
said. IIe evidently was in earnest. Az
ready there hid appeared In the Conn
mittee on Appropriations he said. dis.
position to begin closer scrutiny OK
appropriations He had prepared
tabulation of the war time legislation
which under terms OF Its enactment
shortly will cease to function. Some %
the war time legislation. like the fed
eralization OF the railways. continues
in effect after the war. Other enac.-
ments cease to apply the day peace 10
proclaimed by the President.
For example," said Senator Martin,
"the appropriation of millions for nous
ing war workers must end now. l have
already given notice to the officials WHO
have had housing OF the shipbuilders n
charge that nothing more could be e.
pected by them from theC Treasury.
Within sight of these very windows
are being erected blocks Of build nss,
dwellings for workers which will prob
Thousands OF Useless Clerks.
There are tens Of thousands OF u7-
necessary clerks and Government of
hcials In Washington and throughout the
country who must be divorced from the
Federal payroll and given opportunity
to enter productive pursuits and begin
adding to. rather than subtracting from.
the sum total OF national wealth.
III this country Is not to face Atty
years of Industrial slavery while we are
discharging this stupendous war debt,
action by the Congress in the matter OF
curtai'ment not only Of future expendl-
tures but so far as possible the es
topment OF present appropriations fer
the vast stores of a military sort VIII Oh
will not be necessary. Whether by ac-
ton Of the Executive or by Congress.
1t will follow, one way or the other
surely"
The Senator pointed out that there
were to-day 100000 men in canton
n2ents who under hardly any ina gina BILE
circumstances ever would cross rhe sea3
to fight These men, in the opinion OF
many legislators. should be demohilizeI
at once and sent back to normal eal-
pioyment.
The sooner the men In the camps anu
cantonnents are back home the soones
will Americas productive power be re-
sumed." the Senator said at is only
through that resumption that we are &C
Ing to begin catching up with this hide.
Gus extravaganza OF war. It is only
through stopping the overseas transfer @
soldiers once hostilitles have DEFINITELY
ended, releasing the men from the can
comments and restoring as nearly az
possible normal conditions that Amer
lea is going to catch ug,"