The sun., 1919-04-04
WARDEBT JULY1
IS FORECAST AS
$24,OOO,O0O,OOO
Representative Good Warns
Congress and Nation of
Need of Economy.
AZ BILLIONS FOR WAR
Appropriations for Year to
End of June 30, 1920, to
BE $lO, ,6O5,W9.
INTEREST OVER A BILLION
New Ways and Means Chair
man Asserts Country Never
Will Go to Pre-War Basis.
INTEREST OVER A BILLION
Special DespdtcA 10 TIE Sex.


WASHINGTON, April 3.-Unless the
American people are aroused to the
need for q businesslike administration
Of public affairs and the strictest
watch over the Government purse
string even $4,000 .o0o.0o0 Congresses
will be nothing compared with the an
nual appropriations which will be nee
essary. This is the forecast made to-
day by Representative Good (1owa).
who will be chairman OF the House
Appropriations Committee when Con-
gress is convened.
In Mr.. Goods opinion the country
will never return to the basis OF pre-
war expenditures and appropriations.
This. he said. is largely due to the
necessary continuance Of some war
activities and the strong pressure GER
tain to be brought to keep in exist
ence many others whose usefulness is
extremely doubtful. Interest on the
debt Of the nation alone will amount
to more than 81, 600. 600. 900 also, he de-
clared
In a comprehensive review OF the ap-
propriations OF the Government during
the war period Mr.. Good says that the
total for tho next fiscal year, as nearly
as it can be figured before the appropri-
alton bills which failed at the last ses
sion are enacted by the next Congress.
will be more than SO. 200. 900. 900 and
that the net appropriations during the
war and for the fiscal year 1890 win
be just beyond $4,000. 100000.
Faces Debt of "a Billions.
Mr. Good estimates the receipts OF the
Government from customs and internal
revenue for the same period at sls,657,-
S23, 500 and the sale of bonds, notes and
War Savings Stamps at s25.sss,e54,4sS.
a total OF receipts OF s42.546.@7.969. He
says July ! will find the United States
with a war debt Of $4,000. 100000.
Tables given by Mr.. Good show ap-
preparations enacted by the last Con-
gress totalled 1,l93.s64.914 in regular
bills in miscellaneous acts Sl,ll7.713.-
4S6 and in permanent and indefinite
measures .s2,074.2s6,sso. lie says this
is the status OF appropriation bills that
failed of enactment:
Agriculture passed House) S31, .O22
Army ipsssed House, ..... l,0T0,S2s.oss
District OF Columbia (passed
Navy passed House, ....,... 72o. 7es. 900
sundry, civil passed Housel. s5l.lIl.s49
passed House, ..........r. cGos7 as5
Indian tconferencel... l1.0O6.5a
Railroad appropriation (passed
Houseb .......'.'.' 'Soouo'oo
Total Observation-Disclosures s3.4Te 264 522
Mr. Good points out that in addition
to these measures an appropriation of
sS29,375,2s3 is necessary to meet a de-
ficiency in the general appropriations in
the Quartermaster Depa and that
81. 500, 100000 will be needed for addi-
ticnai appropriations to discharge war
contracts and make loans already au-
thorized to the Allies This brings the
total for the fiscal year ended June so.
1920, up to slO,ls1. .5O6.049.
Estimates Of Revenue.
THE revenue out Of which those ex-
traordnary expenses must be met" said
Mr.. Good, "wll be obtained from our
internal revenue receipts, postal re-
ceipts and miscellaneous receipts in
GLIDING interest from foreign Govern
ments and canal tolls, which in the ag-
gregate should yield about $3.50, ,0o0-
900.
THE appropriations 10 supply de-
ficiencies in the various departments are
chargeable against the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1919. and when deducted from
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ferred to II will he found that the total
revenue will fall short OF meeting tho
appropriations for the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1920, by approximately <3,-
500, oO0,0 900. A part OF this deficit will
no doubt be made UP from war salvage
receipts and the balance must be met by
the sale of bonds.
"It must be remembered that under
the provisions Of the revenue act passed
by the last Congress income taxes are
payable In four instalments and only
two of tho instalments due and payable
In 1919 will be collected during the f.s-
cal year ended juno 30. 1919. Just what
promotion OF these taxes will he coll
lected in the fiscal year 1919 and what
proportion will come in during the fol-
lowing fiscal year II is impossible TO
state.
persons urging n return to normal
conditions must remember that the Gov
ernment will never return to a pre-war
basis OF Government expenditures That
is impossible Before the war our ma
tionai debt was less than 81 900 000, 900.
July / will find US with a national debt
of about $24, 600. .000.0 900. From the close
OF the civil war until 1916 our annual
expenditures never exceeded sl,150,00O,-
900. For the fiscal year ending June so,
1921, the interest on our debt alone will
amount to more than $1,05o. 100000, a
sum almost equal to the total annual
expenses of the Government prior to 1916
''The next Congress will face many new
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