Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
DEMOCRATS BRAND
EXPENSES AS HIGH
Greater Than Under Wilson,
Says Committee-Madden
and Wood Optimistic.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Differences of opinion about Gov
eminent economy and other political
topics We're brought into sharp con-
trast today with publication of views
expressed by the Democratic national
committee and by Chairman Madden
OF the House appropriations commit
tee and Representative Wood of Indi-
ana, chairman of the Republican con-
gressional campaign committee.
Citing figures intended to show that
comparable peace-tirle appropriations
were greater under the Coolidge ad.
ministration than under Wilson, the
Democratic committee concluded that
constructive economy is evidently
the sort that saves at the spigot and
wastes at the bunghole"
Mr.. Madden, after comforting on
Government finances with President
Coolidge at Paul Smiths, y. Y. esti-
mated that proposed expenditures for
the fiscal year 1928 would be perhaps
quarter of a billion dollars less than
actual expenditures in the current
fiscal year. Representative Wood. who
also conferred with the President,
stressed prosperity as the issue in the
of-year elections, and calculated that
the Republicans would wind up with
working ma jority of at least 25 in
ent. Democratic leaders have pre-
dicted considerably larger gains for
their forces
1927 Figures Cited.
In reaching its conclusion. the
Democratic committee placed the to-
tai appropriations for the fiscal year
1927 at s3.567. O54,543. Included in
this were items totaling $1,913.9 96.972
Tor interest on public debt. sinking
fund and other debt funds. Veterans
MISUNDERSTANDING compensation. in
surance. adjusted compensation hos
pitalization and hospital construction
and for the Shipping Board and
f1eet Corporation, which were insert
ed in the Congressional Record by
Representative Madden as showing
the causes for much of the 1927 an.
Preparations total.
recalling that SS3,713, 900 was an.
propriated in 1916 for interest on the
public debt and for the sinking fund.
the committee arrived at 81 1880, 283. 972
as the net amount of current appro.
nrlationS properly attributable to the
world War. To this it added $41,713,-
JOG for prohibition enforcement and
Slo6. 900 for highway construction
In cooperation with States and for
forest reserve roads. which did not
confront the Government in 1916.
by subtracting this grand total. ST.
sIS.6I2. o1S, from the 1927 appropria.
tionS figure the committee fixed 81
6S8.3S2.465 as the amount comparable
with the 1915 appropria tons of $780,
245,039, and found "peacetime appro.
priations greater under Coolidge than
Wilson by $7SS.137 .426."
Further Increases Seen.
with postal service counted in"
the Democratic statement continued.
appropriations for the fiscal year
1927 are $4,409 ,377.454, or S470,SS6.681
greater than for 1926, and now execu-
tive budget estimates for 1928 show
$55,000,000 more than for 1921"
Chairman Madden, in predicting a
heavy decrease in 1928 expenditures,
attributed about 100000 of this years
burden to the postal pay increase, sol.
diers' bonus and other special items
which either will cause a smaller
drain on the Treasury next year or
will be eliminated altogether. He in
dictated that he expected the maximum
annual expenditure in the $165 .000, 900
public buildings program to be limited
to $4,000, 600. although no provision
for this undertaking has yet been in
cluded in budget figures.
At the Strozzi Palace in Rome
there is a book made of marble. the
leaves being of marvellous thinness