The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-12
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TEXT OF MESSAGE.
 The text of the presidents messa ge to Congress is as follows:
 Members of Congress:
 ou have been called in extra ord mary session to give your consider ation to national problems far too pressing to be long neglected. We face our tasks of legislation and ad- mln1Strat1on amid conditions as diff cult as our government has ever con- templated. Under our political syS- tenn the people of the United States have charged the new Congress and the new administration with the so- lution-the readjustments recon struction, and restoration which must follow in the wake of war
 '1t may be regretted that we were so lilly prepared for wars aftermath, so little made ready to return to the ways of peace but we are not to be discouraged. Indeed we must be the more firmly resolved to undertake our work with high hope and invite every factor in our citizenship to join in the effort to find our normal on ward way again.
 The American people have ap- praised the situation, and with that tolerance and patience which go with understanding they will give to us the influence of deliberate public opinion which ultimately becomes the edict of any popular government.
 
 stern necessities, and will join in the give and take which is so essential to firm re-estabEshment-
 First in mind must be the solution of our problems at home, even though some phases of them are in- separably linked without foreign re- lations. The surest procedure in every government is to put its own house in order.
 ''I know of no more pressing prob lem at home than to restrict our na- tional expenditures within the limits of our national income, and at the same time measurably lift the bur dens of war taxa ton from the shoul- ders of the American people.
 'One cannot be unmlIdful that economy s much employed cry, ton appeals, but is ours to make it an outstanding and eVer-imp polling purpose in both legislation and ad- ministrauCn. The unrestricted ten dency to needless expenditure and the attending growth of public indebtness extending from Federal authority to that of state and municipality and including the smallest political sub division, constitute the most dangerous phase of government today. The na- ton cannot restrain except in its own activities but t can be eNemplar in a wholesome reversal.
 ''The staggering lead of war debt must be cared for in orderly funding and gradual liquidation. We shall hasten the solution and aid effective ly in lifting the tax burden; if we strike resOtutely at expenditure.
 Our current expenditures are run ming at the rate of approximately i've billions a year, and the burden is unbearable. There are two agencies to be employed in correction: One is rigid resistance in appropriation and the other is the utmost economy Tn administration. Let us have both. I have already charged departm ent heads with this necessity I am sure Congress will agree and both Con gress and the administration may safely count on the support of all right-minded citizens because the burden is theirs.
 The estimates Of receipts and eX pend;turRs and the statements as to the condition of the treasury which the secretary of the treasury is pre- pared to present to you will indicate that revenues must be provided to carry on the governments business and meet it's curren requirements and fixed debt charges. Unless there are striking cuts in the important fields of expenditure, receipts from internal axes cannot safely be permitted to faii below S4,s5O. .O0a, 900 in- the fiscal years 1922-23. This would mean to- tai internal tax collections of about