Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-04-30
EXPENSES FOR 1921
NEAR 5 BILLION
No Leeway For Deficiencs
Bills Unless Congress
Calls Halt
1922 BUDGET GROWING
Little Prospect In Sight for Easlr.'
Burdens Of Taxpaye.s-Sure t
Reach Level.

Washington, April 3O.-Deficiency
estinaites for the current fiscal year
ant supplemental estimates canInat
in for the fiscal year that Starts july
! Indicate that Congress must be or
it's guard to prevent the total e! this
year from reaching the $5,O0O.C00 ,Wo
mark. :,
i, must also keep the tota., for the
next year from getting so close te
PRESIDENT Harding's $4,000 100000
mark at once that there will r. no lee
way for the inevitable deficiency bills
i. that win come next winter.
The total appropriations for the
current year, as compiled lately, are
s4.673 ,a95. .27S. That figure e in ex-
cess of. the sl,5O0, 900, 900 figare uset
hy President Harding in his address
to Congress as the appropriations fo1
this wear. Today the House A2propr1a
t;ons Committee began hearings or
deficiency estimates that approximate
100000, 900. If granted thrs" esti-
T, mates will bring the tctal for the cur
Srert year to within about 500, 0,o0O,-
coo Of the $4,000, 600, 900 mark. And
the understanding rs that. the emu is
not yet.
ALI Of the talk among the fiscal ex-
perts is of "whale" deficiencies, and
Chairman Good has been talking o5n-
(, irsousry of millions that mus be a..
lowed the Railroad Admin ;sts>ssson to
clean up claims and such matters that
accumulated during the time The rah-
roads were under Government control,
and are now pressing for pay n'ent. Il
allowance for any considerable sum is
given the Railroad Administration for
the current year, the total eNpeuoi-
tures may run we'll over the five-oii-
lion mark.
For the 1922 fiscal year, starting
July /. Congress already has appro-
priated, or as gooa as appropriated.
s35aO,773,S42. Of that sum, all Is ceE-
tain except the army and navy appro-
p.Sg-ion bills. The first was given
pocket veto by President Wilson, and
1he second failed in the Serab. be-
cause of Senator Borah's f::Nousfer'
The assumption IS that both viii pass
,c this session Substantially Us they
ca,ns from the Senate comm htae. II
so. the total will be about the figure
o. $3.50, ,773 642.
But already cries are coming tor
more money for the next year. Inc
supplemental estimates filed thus lar
amount to sl53, 100000. The Shipping
poard alone wants supplemental ap.
nropriation of sl34,O00,00O, md the
Navy Department asks over S>s,0oo,-
600 additional, Should these calls be
met, the tots! Of appropriations for
the neNt fiscal year will b, within
$500 900. 900 of the Presidents Limit
before the year starts and tie spec1a:
calls for money and the Deficiencies
begin to appear.
If Chairman Good is right at out the
::ituaticn in the Railroad Adm:nistt'a-
ton and half Of it's needs are put on
the next fiscal year's accounts, the
Presidents $4,000 100000 le,e? may
be reached before single deficiency
estimate is made, and that there WI!
be deficiency estimates next winter
and spring, running into many mil
lens, no one in the Government SER
vice doubts for one minute,
Comparison of the appropriation;
thus far made for the mex: fiscal yeal
with those already made for the cur
rent year-elimlnatirg def;ciene:e
and sunplementals in ooth cases
shows that the reduction ir genera
expenditures for the next fiscal yea
IS almost negligible. The two year
run about even, SO far as the rtgula
obligations Of the Government g:
hat being true, it may be dedu:a
that the deficiencies for the next yea
viii not oe much under those for tn
current year, SO that when ehe fins
total is made for next year It is quit
likely that the taxpayers wiz be caHe
upon for practically the same smou1
Of money for general purposes.
The one thing that reduces thus +: