Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-18
SAYS ONLY TWO
1921 ESTIMATES
NOT TO Be PARED
House Majority Leader Mon
dell States Post Office and
Navy to Be Exceptions.

All general appropriations for 1921
will be pared 'fn accordance with
strictest economy" except the Post
Office and Navy departments. the es-
Inmates of which are less than Tor
the present year, Majority Leader
Mondell. Wyoming. told the House to-
day. when the first urgent deficiency
bill Of this session was brought up.
Greatest reductions would be made
IN the Army and Notifications es-
totaiing 1882. 100000 andsg the: latter
$117.793330, an increase gilmore than
$106, 100000 over the present appro-
priation. T.,
Sees Excessiveness i'm Estimates.
The balance of estimated liabilities
over receipts. Mr.. Monden said. is
s3.050.5Os,574. Estimates of expendi-
siveness. This. he explained, was
true. adding lat least, We must make
this excessiveness true when we write
our appropriation bills. make it true
by reductions of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
Total estimated receipts for the
year. he said. are $6,O35. $4,000
These officials estimates of the re-
ceipts. he added, ARE notable in that
they carry no estimate of receipts on
account of interest on our loans OF
nearly $4,000, 0o0. 900 to foreign gov
ernments. This interest, if paid, would
increase our receipts and tighten our
burdens for the year by nearly $500,
000. 900"
Funding of interest on foreign OBJ
legations for two or three years would
increase foreign loans at least two
billion dollars above the present fig
ure. Mr.. Mondell said.
The fact that such action has been
taken by the Secretary of the Treas
ury." he explained. reduces our in
comes or increases our OUTLAWS half q
billion dollars annually"
Congress should cut the estimates
at least a billion dollars and refuse
every request which is not Imperative
he added. No provisions for Increased
pay for officers of the Army or Navy
for loans. bonuses or development
projects in benefiting ex-service men
are made in any of the appropriation
bills.
Points to Employer Increase.
Nobody knows how many millions
of increased pay to civil employees
may be recommended by the joint
commission on Redistribution of sal
aries" said Mr.. Mondel. I'VE do
know, however. that the appropriat-
ing committees are constantly be
sieged with requests for increased
pay. which, if allowed even in part,
would increase the totals of expendi-
tUre many millions.
Proposals and suggestions of APP
preparations, on behalf of the men
recently composing our great armies,
run all the way from plan that
would involve the expenditure of per-
haps 500, 100000 per annum for some
years, to plans that would involve the
expenditure of several billions, and
one plan at least that would involve
obligations of tens of billions of dol
lars"
ut is for Congress to determine" he
continued, what is to be done in all
these matters, but in arriving at that
determination let us remember that
we have passed the period when. I'M
der the stimufant of war enthusiasm.
the instinct of self-preservation and
the determination to finish great
lob gloriously. we could spend billions
without a thought as to where the
money was to come from. who was to
nav it. or when it was to be paid.
..The coming fiscal year will witness
the elimination of the growing bur-
dens of the wars aftermath. 1t pre-
sents financial problems as serious in
their way as any we met during the
Deriod of the war. We cannot in
crease taxes. We should not issue
bonds. We have no alternative but to
aconomize to the limit