The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-01


ing their associates day by day that
the governments estimates for the
fiscal year beginning the first day of
next July must be cut to the bone.
Thus there are good intentions every
where.
The difficulty is to locate the spots
where the cuts are to be made. This
is primarily the business of the house
and the senate committees on apprO-
priations. These committees are TAX
Ing hold of the task in earnest, and it
seems reasonable to assume that If
congress as a whole will stand by the
committees, expenditures will actually
be reduced. AS nearly as the govern
ment experts can estimate the reve-
nues for the coming fiscal year they
will amount to $4,000 600. This
estimate Is based on the existing tax
laws. The revenues from the postal
service for The coming year are esti-
mated to be something over $4l5O0O,-
600 which. added to the revenues from
taxation sources. will give the govern
ment little over $600000 0,000 in rev.
enue. Congress has thus far during
this fiscal year appropriated S7,272,-
800 II Is evident. therefore, that
If the appropriations for the coming
fiscal year shall approach the appro-
priations for the present year there
will be large gap between the money
available and the money appropriated.
On War Basis This Year.
The estimates for the regular an
nual supply bills and the permanent an
nua appropriations exceed the apprO-
priations Of last year by nearly n
half billion dollars The estimate for
every one of the l3 appropriation bills
excepting the post office and naval
bills is in excess of the appropria-
| tions for 1920. The estimate for the
post office appropriation bill is less
by something over $2OOOOOOO0 and the
estimate for the naval appropriation
bill is less than that Of year ago by
$43 100000. The governments bust
ness for the present fiscal year was
by the very nature of things on war
basis.
The war machine was going so
strong when the armistice was signed
! that it was impossible for the govern
mcnt authorities to put a sudden
check on expenditures. There was not
very much complaint about the appro-
| priationS for the present fiscal year.
but the prevailing view In congress Is
that the time has come to get away
from the war basis The war added
enormous sums to the permanent APP
! preparations Of the government. BY
this are meant appropriations that are
| fixed by statute, for which congress
must provide each year, whether 1t de-
/ SireS to do II or not, so long as the
/ laws that call for the money stand.
1 These annual permanent appropria-
tons last year reached the enormous
sum of $2,OO0,OOO00O.
Hope for Treaty After Holidays.
I II seems reasonably certain that
the treaty of peace with Germany
will be taken up by the senate
after the Christmas holidays ana
eventually ratified with reservations.
As time goes on there are indications
of better feeling in the senate with
respect to the treaty situation. The
three or four factions into which the
! senate divided over the treaty still
/ exist, and each faction is inclined Ia
stand its ground, but there is mora
and more talk among senator's repre-
/ ~ruting the various factions that rerI
giatpSmanship must eventually have