Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-12-19
kONDELL MAKES
|PLEA FOR CUT
| IN ESTIMATES
I Government Should Hold Ap'
preparations to Impera-
tive, He Says

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-All gen
n eral appropriations for 1921 Will
he pared down Gin accordance
with strictest economy except me
postoffice and naval departments,
the estimates of which are less
than for the present year, MAORI
tv Leader Mondell of Wyoming
told the house today when the first
,aurgent deficiency bill Of this SEES
3sion was brought up. Greatest
reductions would be made in the
army and Notifications estimates,
he said, the former request total
ling $9S2,SO0,020 and the latter
SIT, 1893 $50, an increase OF more
than $106, 100000 over the present
appropriation.
The balance Of estimated liablll l.,
ties over receipts, Mr.. Mondel.
said, is S3,050,574. Estimates Oh
expenditures, he said, would sug-
gest excessiveness. rms, ne ca.
claimed, was true, adding lat least
we must make this excesslveness
t,11e when we write our approprla-
lion bills, make it true by reduc :
Hons of hundreds of millions OF
dollars"
Total estimated receipts Tor the
wear, he said, are $6,035, ooo'oeot.,
:"These officials estimates OF 1ne
receipts," he added, care. notapie
in that they carry no estimate VI
receints on account Of interest on
o,,r Ioans of nearly $4,000 O0,-
u 600 to foreign governments. inns
M :ntorest if paid, would increase
ls onr receipts and tighten our bur
sSssdens for the year by nearly $780,
100000"
NH Funding of interest on foreign
@ obligations for two or three years
@ woul dincrease foreign loans at
W lease 100000 above the
Nj present figure, Mr.. Mondell said
a "The fact that such action has
III been taken by the secretary Of the
u treasury" he explained, Produces
II our incomes or increases our out
n lays, half a billion dollars annual
d ly."
Congress should cut the esti-
mates at least billion dollars
and refuse every request which is
not imperative, he added. No pro-
visions for increased pay for of
ficers of the army or navy CIR the
nurses corps, nor. estimates for
loans, bonuses OF development
projects benefiting ex-service men
are made in any of the appropria
ton bills.
Proposals of appropriation on
behalf of. men recently composing
great armies run all the way from
plan which would involve the ex-
penditure of perhaps $100,000,-
600 annually for some years, to
plans which would involve ex-
penditures of several billions, and
e one plan at least which would in
}, volve obligations Of tens of billions
of dollars" he said.
' at is for congress to de-
tedmine," Mondell continued
"what is to be done in all these
matters, but in arriving at that
determination let us remember
that we have passed the perioc
when, under the stimulant of wa,
enthusiasm, the instinct Of self.
preservation and the determination
to finish great job gloriously
we could spend billions without E
thought as to where the money
was to come from, who was to pay
it, or when it was to be paid.
'The coming fiscal year will
witness the elimination of the
growing burdens of the wars aft
ermath. 1t presents financia
problems as serious in their way
as any we met during the periot
of the war. We cannot increas,
taxes. We should not issue bonds
We have no alternative but t,
economiZe to the limit"